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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...

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...

I dunno ya'll, but I think Ukraine might be kickin Russia's ass. Perhaps then prompting Putin to issue an ultimatum to Zelensky: He has 24 hours to surrender or Kyiv will be obliterated by nuclear bombs. Then, afterward, he falls back on Truman's justification for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And, if it...

Yet another opinion piece cautioning against going too far in confronting Putin... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opinion/ukraine-russia-war-nato-iraq-policy.html 'The extraordinary actions of the Western powers are a natural and proportional response to Vladimir Putin’s reckless resort to force...

What I owe you. You owe it to everyone, not just me. When you create a whole discussion thread, and write a title you don't understand, and cannot even define your key term, what is to be said about that? And around and around and around we go: your accusation, my explanation. Note to others: Again...

1] a demonstrable proof of the existence of the Christian God 2] addressing the fact that down through the ages hundreds of Gods and religious/spiritual paths to immortality and salvation were/are championed...but only one of which [if any] can be the true path. So why the Christian God? 3] address...

No more so than IC skating furiously to avoid bringing his definition of, say, the Christian God out into a world where the discussions revolve around, say, these factors: 1] a demonstrable proof of the existence of the Christian God 2] addressing the fact that down through the ages hundreds of God...

What is Dasein? by John C. Brady Epoché Philosophy Monthly The Ego Heidegger criticises Descartes for not thinking the sum of the Cogito ergo sum. We can think of the concept of Dasein as aiming at this Sum that creates the context such that there can be “I”s and “thinking” in the first place. Takin...

It doesn't get blunter than this... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opinion/america-military-ukraine.html Why America Should Not Deepen Its Military Involvement in Ukraine By Tom Z. Collina Mr. Collina is an expert on nuclear weapons, missile defense and nonproliferation 'Given the stakes, the Un...