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Here is abstract from Timmermann arguement, why Kant's Ethics is not deontological; What's Wrong with ‘Deontology’? Jens Timmermann https://www.jstor.org/stable/44122587 Abstract The way we use terminology matters. There are words, ordinary and philosophical, that we should do without because they a...

Here is the abstract from Timmermann's paper; What's Wrong with ‘Deontology’? Jens Timmermann https://www.jstor.org/stable/44122587 Abstract The way we use terminology matters. There are words, ordinary and philosophical, that we should do without because they are ill-defined, ambiguous or confused....

Arguments against moral objectivism 3 The subjectivity of goals That a goal for our actions is morally right or good is a matter of opinion, which is subjective. Our choice of goal – such as well-being, happiness, pleasure, fulfilment, or pleasing my team’s god - is a matter of opinion, which is su...

How to be suckered by Kant To say there is no such thing as a thing-in-itself (Kant's noumenon ) is to fantasise that there could be such a thing, but that it happens not to exist - and then to castigate philosophical realists for claiming that it does. This is the fashionable straw windmill tilted...

P1 is false. The universe does not depend on a human framework and system of evolved/emergent reality and cognition. Cutting the crap: the universe does not depend on humans. It existed for billions of years before humans evolved. It would have existed had there been no humans. And when we're gone,...

P1 What is a real universe is contingent upon a human-based FSERC. P2 Since it is contingent, a real universe cannot be absolutely independent of the human conditions. C Therefore, if there were no humans, then there would be no [absolute independent] universe. P1 is false. The universe does not de...

Notes: KIV

Notes: KIV

In an OP I stated Kant's Morality & Ethics is not deontological. In this case, deontological as it is commonly understood at present by the majority which is taken to meant strict compliance with rules like those from God. There are a wide range of meaning from the history of the term 'deontolog...

In the OP I stated Kant's Morality & Ethics is not deontological. In this case, deontological as it is commonly understood at present by the majority which is taken to meant strict compliance with rules like those from God. There are a wide range of meaning from the history of the term 'deontolo...

To repeat, in my opinion, much of the analytic movement constituted a wrong-turn to language. Because what do analytic philosophers analyse? Thought, ideas, concepts? And, if so, are those things amenable to analysis in the way that physical reality is amenable to scientific analysis? And if so, wh...

Btw, at present I am reading the book 'Against Facts' by Arianna Betti who argued your concept of what is fact is a sham. Nuff said. Deep incomprehension. Of what do reality and its 'entities' (revealing obfuscation) consist? I have read the preface and part of the intro. At present just take note,...

This is staggeringly stupid. Suppose there were no humans, but there was an alien (ie non-human) species somewhere in the universe. Those aliens would experience and know reality. Would reality then be 'not independent' from the 'alien conditions'? Or suppose there were no life, sentient or otherwi...

:D :D :D :D It is very evident and testable. Any humans who is fed excess calories especially from carbs will turn out to be like these people. It is also evident these people will suffer from one or a combination of the critical illness. This is evident of objectivity, i.e. independent of any subj...

This leads us to the categorical imperative . The categorical imperative just means the thing that you have to do all the time regardless of circumstance. It's an imperative an order which applies categorically. I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also Will that my maxim should be...