Philosophy Now Forum

Plan C and plan D... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/opinion/putin-zelensky-ukraine.html 'I say “maybe” because Putin may feel he cannot tolerate any kind of draw or dirty compromise. He may feel that anything other than a total victory is a humiliation that would undermine his authoritarian grip...

Nuclear options? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/science/russia-nuclear-ukraine.html 'In destructive power, the behemoths of the Cold War dwarfed the American atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Washington’s biggest test blast was 1,000 times as large. Moscow’s was 3,000 times. On both sides, t...

Is your body yours? Is your mind yours? Is your life yours? Yes or no. Note to others: Is henry to be taken seriously here? Is he actually making a sophisticated philosophical point that I keep missing? Or is he basically just in his own little world posting opinions that only really make sense to ...

Is your body yours? Is your mind yours? Is your life yours? Yes or no. Note to others: Is henry to be taken seriously here? Is he actually making a sophisticated philosophical point that I keep missing? Or is he basically just in his own little world posting opinions that only really make sense to ...

Is he actually making a sophisticated philosophical point that I keep missing? - Yes. - Henry’s point is to pinpoint when a person is eligible for human rights, by defining when a person becomes a person. Ah, defining personhood into existence. He thought up a philosophical argument comprised of de...

biggy, if your moral font of choice is, say, the Christian God Sorry, I can't help you in your vendetta: I'm not Christian or a theist, and -- in this discussion between you and me -- God is not relevant. You asked for a universal font: I gave you a universal commonality. And how is this not merely...

I have a few objections here: 1) God cannot know the future since we are free to choose. Yes, that's a point I often raise myself: how to reconcile an omniscient God with human autonomy. But those like IC here, confronted with the "for all practical purposes" implications of that, "t...

Religion does not determine your morality From The Conversation website So where do our morals come from, then, if not from religion? That’s a complicated question: There seem to be genetic as well as cultural components. These cultural components are influenced by religion, to be sure. Yes, but whi...

Determinism is bollocks when it gets to the point of conscious life. Again, beyond having this intuitive, visceral "I just know this is true" about determinism reaction, how exactly would you go about demonstrating that, given the laws of nature, you were able to freely opt not to react a...

Now, given your own intellectual assessment of human identity derived from your own intellectual assessment of the Christian God, I have to say here that I am very deeply amused by your continual attempts to get us to discuss any other topic but the main, which is "dasein." And to wave in...

Determinism is bollocks when it gets to the point of conscious life. Again, beyond having this intuitive, visceral "I just know this is true" about determinism reaction, how exactly would you go about demonstrating that, given the laws of nature, you were able to freely opt not to react a...

Is your body yours? Is your mind yours? Is your life yours? Yes or no. Note to others: Is henry to be taken seriously here? Is he actually making a sophisticated philosophical point that I keep missing? Or is he basically just in his own little world posting opinions that only really make sense to ...

Me, I'm not interested so much in the answers people give, but in the extent to which they can demonstrate that what they do believe about God and morality [or No God and morality] is in fact that which all rational men and women are in turn obligated to believe. As I reckon it: the only thing you'...

Science and Morality Science doesn’t give us a script for what to value or believe in, but it helps us write that script Jim Kozubek at Scientific American In 2008, the President's Council on Bioethics released a 555-page report, titled Human Dignity and Bioethics, which fielded essays by wide array...

Biggy, actual evidence...that (abortion) is as immoral as it can be? The only evidence I can offer is what you, for example, know about yourself: that you belong to you , that your life is yours ; that it would wrong for another to snuff you without just cause. What applies to you , applies to that...