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I'm trying hard to understand how a discussion about hard consciousness is related to the topic. What ever way we might perceive - whether described as mental representations of the "real " world does not move this question forward. We can only access our experience to address this question. On the...

I'm trying hard to understand how a discussion about hard consciousness is related to the topic. What ever way we might perceive - whether described as mental representations of the "real " world does not move this question forward. We can only access our experience to address this question. On the ...

When I debate with philosophical realists [an independent external world exists objectively as real] on the reality of the noumenon aka thing-in-itself , they always insist that, Kant had argued the b]noumenon[/b] aka thing-in-itself exists as a real thing[s] objectively within an independent exter...

As communications increase the world gets smaller and the population gets bigger. In all cases in the human past where this has happened it has been met by one of three things; 1,Annihiliation of one culture by another, 2, the enslavement of one culture by another, 3, or the absorbsion, integration ...

A Lucubration Down the Rabbit Hole 1 We humans co-create the reality of which we are part. 2 Therefore, we humans co-create ourselves. 3 Then who creates or co-creates the 'us' (the humans) who do the co-creating? 4 It must be some sui generis thing. Ah - it must be a god. (5 Btw, why do we need to...

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 6:43 am Real Physical Moral Drivers are Independent of 'Moral' Judgments, Decision, Opinions, Beliefs and related views.

There is no way to come back from that heading.

It is so bad, that as scientists say about babble; you are not even wrong.

And I've already explained to him that "ought" in the sense of a "prerequisite for x" or "precondition for x" doesn't work anyway, because while it's certainly the case that there are prerequisites or preconditions for consequent states to obtain, there's no objective prescription for a particular ...

uwot wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:14 pm

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 7:49 pmNot for me to say.

Then don't put yourself forward as someone for who it is to say.

touché

WHY do 'you' PRESUME and SAY this? What would you like to put forward as being NOT NATURAL? Oh, and by the way, a LOT of what 'you', adult human beings, have said throughout human history IS MEANINGLESS. So, in other words, you will NOT elaborate on YOUR CLAIM that, "Rights are not natural", correc...

What are some basic human rights that we can all agree to? For example, can we all agree that anyone accused of a crime should receive a fair trial? Can of worms number one. Indeed, however... What is and what is not a crime is no always easy to agree upon, and anything defined as a unfair crime, c...

Besides the FACT that there is NOT a single 'thing', in the WHOLE Universe, that is 'not natural', what do you mean here by, "Rights are not natural"? If everything in the univers is natural, then the word is utterly meaningless. WHY do 'you' PRESUME and SAY this? What would you like to put forward...

I had opened the following threads; ... As usual those who opposed will argue the above is absurd because they interpret that I am claiming humans literally and physically created the whole universe like humans created physical objects like furniture, motor vehicles, airplanes, ships, trains, build...

Ayn Rand is such a bad philosopher she barely deserves the title.
After her - all the other theologians.

If a good philosopher could cope with Real Politik, then could make a good leader.

e.g. Marcus Aurelius

What occurs naturally, does not necessarily need enforcing. RIghts are not natural Besides the FACT that there is NOT a single 'thing', in the WHOLE Universe, that is 'not natural', what do you mean here by, "Rights are not natural"? If everything in the univers is natural, then the word is utterly...