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Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:46 am

by Joel Marks

https://philosophynow.org/issues/75/Tak ... _Seriously

It seems to be more about taking his ego seriously..

In the first part of our mini-series on moral education, Michael Hand considers whether schools should be involved in trying to make children moral. https://philosophynow.org/issues/127/Making_Children_Moral Perhaps a good start would be to make philosophers moral. For it certainly seems to me that...

Hi Everyone, I just joined the forum. My name's Logan, and I'm a PhD candidate in evolutionary theory. Is anyone familiar with Fallibilism, the philosophy that states that all knowledge is conjectural? It was basically founded by Karl Popper and later expounded upon by David Deutsch. So inductivism...

Hi guys, I just clicked on a link from Facebook to a Philosophy Now article and got this message: "You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month..." This paywall may never be a problem for me, and I understand that publications need money to exist and flourish. But there are pe...

I guess the question then becomes – how do the more enlightened humans of the world convince others that their actions are immoral without coming off as trying to impose their own personal morals on the other? _______ People only do what they want to do. So if you want to convince others of anythin...

henry quirk wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:57 pm

One of the purposes of 'education' is to indoctrinate.

Indoctrination necessitates the telling of lies. Lies sow the seeds of evil.

Indoctrination has no place in a civilised school.

Anja Steinbauer says Don’t Trust the Ethicists (too much). https://philosophynow.org/issues/26/Ethics_versus_Morality The following is taken from the conclusion of the article: Constructing moral theories may be up to the philosophers, but assessing them, and rejecting or implementing them is up to...

Anja Steinbauer says Don’t Trust the Ethicists (too much). https://philosophynow.org/issues/26/Ethics_versus_Morality The following is taken from the conclusion of the article: Constructing moral theories may be up to the philosophers, but assessing them, and rejecting or implementing them is up to...

Anja Steinbauer says Don’t Trust the Ethicists (too much). https://philosophynow.org/issues/26/Ethics_versus_Morality A nice article. Over the years professional philosophers/ ethicists have made no significant contribution to the domain of morality. It would seem that morality is more of an empiri...

Are you saying that human conscious action is the same as animal computerized reaction and limited to worldly influences and that the core of knowledge that Tesla wrote of doesn't exist? Yes that would make sense. A nice simple explanation that fits the facts and doesn't need any supernatural hypot...

Unfortunately your post makes no sense. It is as though you are stringing words together in a semi-random way, the result is entirely devoid of meaning. I guess I can try again. First - there is the prescriptivist vs descriptivist distinction ( https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/descriptivi...

You can get rid of the first 3 of your listed 'properties', they are surplus to requirements of an axiomatic and logical system. How one can determine whether an axiomatic system is consistent or not is a moot point. Observe that while my argument was entirely descriptive (enumerating the various s...

Happiness We may all walk about the world with silly grins on our faces while the earth collapses in ruin. Happiness is an emotional state and it is not an ethical value. It would be excellent if all people were justifiably happy, but that would require a world managed in a way beyond imagination. ...

Any axiomatic system cannot be the following 4 things simultaneously: 1. Recursive (e.g algorithmic/computable) 2. Sufficiently powerful to prove anything about the natural numbers. 3. Complete 4. Consistent You can't have your cake and eat it to so, a choice exists: Which of the above properties a...

Hi You might find this paper interesting and controversial . It proves http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/All-things-are-possible.pdf 1)Mathematics/science end in contradiction - an integer= a non-integer. When mathematics/science end in contradiction it is proven in logic that...