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You do strike me as arguing as a Kantian ... Though sure I might well be wrong here. You are. It's big of you to realize that possibility. As I noted on another thread, over the years I have been a devout Christian, a Unitarian, an Objectivist, a Marxist, a Trotskyist, a Democratic Socialist, a Soc...

We make our own meanings and purposes. The justification is existential not essential. I agree. But, in regard to our communication in the is/ought world, I root this in dasein. As encompassed in the points raised in the OP of this thread from another philosophy venue: https://www.ilovephilosophy.c...

For me, the existence of the Christian God has never interested me as much as, in assuming He does exist, the question of theodicy comes up: That a "loving, just and merciful" God would allow even one entirely innocent child to suffer grievously is unacceptable to me. He must be either, a...

For me, the existence of the Christian God has never interested me as much as, in assuming He does exist, the question of theodicy comes up: That a "loving, just and merciful" God would allow even one entirely innocent child to suffer grievously is unacceptable to me. He must be either, as...

Again, the only way I am able to interpret this is that, even though "standards of behaviors" have varied in radically different ways over time No they haven't. There is a continuous thread. A perpetuating set of goals/objectives. A prevailing focus (despite changing words) on the illegal...

Back to what Ross Douthat noted above: "Like we will fight absolutely for Lithuania. But we will not intervene for Ukraine. We will arm people killing Russians. But we will do nothing that seems to threaten to kill Russians ourselves. "But all of that line drawing was absolutely essential ...

From the NYT: "Lulu Garcia-Navarro: Overhanging all of this, of course, is that this is a nuclear power that we’re talking about. This is to all three of you. Fiona Hill, the Russia expert and Trump impeachment witness, said, and I’m summarizing here, we are already in World War III, we just ha...

But this is what it is really all about, isn't it: No. That's the fourth point. Fourth point, first point, tenth point. Rank it wherever you will. But for many the question regarding free will that most intrigues them is this: am I responsible for the behaviors I choose? And, in particular, am I mo...

Age wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:04 am

iambiguous wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 2:42 am By definition it creates tension. Without tension there is no life.

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ANOTHER PRIME EXAMPLE of one who will say just about ANY thing, in order to 'try to' "justify" their currently held BELIEFS.

Just for the record, I did not write that.

Of course you left this part of my argument out... It wasn't logical or correct. I'm not a Kantian. And it does not have any relevance to the present argument. It seemed tedious to me to deal with it, and impolite to point that out. Well, in that case, I will allow others to decide for themselves t...

The 'modern' in 'postmodern' refers to the age of enlightenment or reason, or perhaps Renaissance. What followed modernism was doubt about enlightenment of reason. Here, the distinction I make is between the either/or world encompassed in the laws of nature, mathematics, the empirical world around ...

In other words, from my frame of mind, I continue to refuse to accept your frame of mind -- your point -- about the relationship between human interactions and that which you claim objective morality to be. I am not claiming it to be that. It is that. Standards of behavior. Again, the only way I am...

I understand criminologists sometimes can and do tease out the natural man from the tangles of learned beliefs and attitudes. On the occasions when criminologists can do so the criminal individual concerned is deemed to be educable.The natural adult man does not seek to be parented, led by an ideol...

Religion does not determine your morality From The Conversation website I’m going to use Christianity as my example, not because it’s representative of religion in general, but because there’s a lot of research on Christians, and because many readers will likely be familiar with it. Christians will ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/opinion/ukraine-russia-putin.html THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The battle for Ukraine unfolding before our eyes has the potential to be the most transformational event in Europe since World War II and the most dangerous confrontation for the world since the Cuban missile cri...