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- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: CH 3: a priori categories of moral understanding.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 117
Re: CH 3: a priori categories of moral understanding.
Imo bottom-up and top-down approaches to morality are both insufficient, they have to be combined into one system. That's probably the broad topic of Ch4 or Ch5. I haven't really dsecided what thing comes next yet but that's a stop along the way for sure. We need top-down restrictions like: let's n...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:40 am
- Forum: Gender Philosophy
- Topic: Going 50/50
- Replies: 29
- Views: 424
Re: Going 50/50
You are a sex tourist who rents wives. Of course you pay for everything.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 592
- Views: 28200
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
Huh? There have been Empires that were not Monotheistic (Rome for the first 600 years, Egypt, Babylon and more). There have also been Empires with diverse religions (the Mongols, who had the largest empire of all time and adopted a variety of religions from their conquests). Of course all of these ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9652
- Views: 853340
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
A person can most definitely predict without knowing, there is an entire gambling industry predicated on exactly that. If his prediction were ever to be 100% guaranteed to be correct every time, as God's is, then it's certainly a form of knowing. There would be no important distinction between know...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9652
- Views: 853340
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
You always have to explain everything to IC twice because he likes to leave the first explanation out of what he quotes and pretend it wasn't written. I don't think I've ever seen himn argue in good faith.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:35 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9652
- Views: 853340
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
Actually, that's not the case. If, say, there are multiple possibilities or routes that one could choose, it makes no difference at all what God knows about that. Unless he's "rigging the game," you still get to make your choice, you still don't know which one you're going to choose, in a...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:02 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9652
- Views: 853340
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
No, that's true. You're right...it didn't explicitly say that. But it assumes it. It assumes that prediction (which is a form of knowledge, obviously) entails predetermination (which entails the arranging or engineering of a result). That's what's called, "assuming the conclusion," and it...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:47 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9652
- Views: 853340
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
Well, that sort of form, maybe...but the obvious error in premise 1 would make that syllogism invalid. It does not follow that God has to make things happen deterministically in order to foresee them, since seeing is not the same as making happen. So the amphiboly error that Harbal made would simpl...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:41 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9652
- Views: 853340
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
Well, that sort of form, maybe...but the obvious error in premise 1 would make that syllogism invalid. It does not follow that God has to make things happen deterministically in order to foresee them, since seeing is not the same as making happen. So the amphiboly error that Harbal made would simpl...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:23 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Objective/Subjective
- Replies: 13
- Views: 264
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9652
- Views: 853340
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
syllogism If the future is not predetermined, God could be mistaken when predicting future happenings. God cannot be mistaken when predicting future happenings. Therefore the future is predetermined. Something like that? Well, that sort of form, maybe...but the obvious error in premise 1 would make...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:08 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Objective/Subjective
- Replies: 13
- Views: 264
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:47 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9652
- Views: 853340
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
If the future is not predetermined, God could be mistaken when predicting future happenings.
God cannot be mistaken when predicting future happenings.
Therefore the future is predetermined.
Something like that?
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:04 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: CH 3: a priori categories of moral understanding.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 117
CH 3: a priori categories of moral understanding.
Part 1: Continued rambling preambling (Skip this if you don't like long posts) This is a continuation of a very sensible effort to construct a moral-KFC-Bucket-Thing that is less shit than the morality-proper-KFC that VA has been serving up for a decade or so, and in so doing, perhaps we might also...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Objective/Subjective
- Replies: 13
- Views: 264
Re: Objective/Subjective
Say what you like about Advocate, but at least his version of that would fit into a fortune cookie with nothing of significance lost.