I have a proposition for you all: All morality is entirely self-serving Its consequences, moral behaviour and actions, may be for the benefit or the detriment of others, but its the morality itself I'm talking about. The rules we make in our head to determine right and wrong. My theory in short is t...

Liberty doesn't mean anything, that's a nonsense word. You can't have degrees of liberty - you either have it or you don't. Therefore what is total liberty? It is never having another being impinge on your life in any way you don't like. Impossible. If you were the last man on earth, you could stand...

Ideal for what purpose? I see no government at all as being my personal ideal. A world where people cooperate rather than struggle. Or where any struggle may be worked out by individuals and groups without leadership. Where every man, woman and child self-governs and revels in their autonomy. That i...

Faith and knowledge are the same thing as belief, there is no different. They are all words for the same operation. The word knowledge confers accurate belief, faith confers instinctive belief, but the adjectives are unnecessary as they are simply value judgements. They all carry out the same operat...

I don't understand how you've arrived at this conclusion at all. In an infinite amount of time the roulette wheel will repeat 30,000 times. There is no divine pattern governing its randomness, only physics and the design of the roulette game. It's an insufficient example because it is not designed t...

Humans cannot know anything. What we believe about the universe we have received through sensory data, which may well be erroneous. But, for argument's sake, let's say our senses are working fine. We cannot receive information without interpretting it. We do not see a collection of atoms in time and...

Art's just a concept. I follow the Wittgensteinian approach in that we associate certain traits with it and the term is, like all words, purely defined by its context and use. The artworld debate makes sense if you exclude the concept that it can exclude certain pieces from being considered art. It ...

The link between the described behaviour and mental illness is open to debate. Many actions humans commit are nonsensical, dispassionate and pointless but don't necessarily indicate insanity. I'm not sure if the focus of your proposal queries the nature of sanity or justice but I'll try to answer as...

You touch on a good point with your final question, Bini. We tend to label thinking in line with our own as 'logical' and that which contradicts our own as 'illogical'. The distinction we make is based on the conclusions of the logic, however, rarely the logical process itself. For example, the scie...

Perhaps you've misread my post, I did state that I'm looking to become accustomed towards the type of debate you favour, that is, to reach a better understanding of the topic rather than to appear the victor. I'm suggesting the goals and method of my current style of debate will not cut it at degree...

Hey guys, I'm startin a degree in Phil very shortly and thought I could do with broadening my familiarity with the subject, acquiring a more specialist understanding of those areas I'm interested in and also becoming accustomed to debating in what one might deem a 'philosophical' manner. The latter ...