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August 1st, 2012, 10:51 pm
Good point, Elubas. Living in society is, in a way, a contract. The problem is, of course, when society accepts things that are wrong. But I guess we're already kind of doing that with the wars in the middle east, etc. I suppose the only way to retain belief in moral realism would be to refute natur...
July 31st, 2012, 11:14 pm
Exactly, but my main concern is what happens when ridiculously unethical people take power-guys like Hitler, Stalin etc. There is obviously no way to convince men like these to be moral because, in their minds, their obsessions are more important than the qualms of their unimportant citizens. Even w...
July 31st, 2012, 8:54 pm
Morality seems to resemble religion in many ways- it appears to be a collection of traditions enforced by society, without any scientifically valid reasons for being accepted. It seems to me that moral realism can only be valid if there are certain metaphysical leaps are made- belief in God,etc. But...
July 28th, 2012, 11:01 pm
Parinobodycular- That is an interesting response. Are you actually a solipsist? Even skeptics like Hume weren't solipsistic. It seems to me that a non-solipsistic explanation of the world is far more likely than a solipsistic one.
July 28th, 2012, 10:39 pm
There have been numerous cases of people becoming religious due to NDE's, but I'm highly skeptical of any subjective experiences.IMO experience tells us that "natural" explanation should always be assumed over a supernatural one.If there is indeed a "soul" I would say it would ha...
July 6th, 2012, 7:59 pm
Okay, invictus, if you insist: The fact of the matter is that there is that there is no actual "free will". An action is simply one more event in a long chain of events dating back long before you ever born. Yet, evil things still happen-why? And you seem to have completely ignored the top...
July 6th, 2012, 4:56 pm
It seems to me that belief in objective morality is just like belief in God- an act of faith with no tangible evidence to support it. Doesn't the very fact that, in a deterministic universe, evil acts can be committed prove that there is no objective morality? However I have read that most philosoph...
June 11th, 2012, 9:10 pm
Philosopher pickup lines: Thales: “Can I buy you a drink of water?” Parmenides: [singing] “Don’t go changing, to try and please me. I love you just the way you are.” Cratylus: [Says nothing. Waves his finger flirtatiously.] Pyrrho: “Are those real?” Plato: “I couldn’t help noticing that you particip...
June 8th, 2012, 8:19 pm
The concept of invidivual objects seems to be a product of language. Take a table, for example. A wooden board with four legs can be a single object- a table. Or It could be a wooden board with four legs- 5 objects. Or it could be a copious cluster of molecules-many objects.
June 8th, 2012, 6:41 pm
Yes, recall Hawking writing something about having shown how God was unnecessary because the universe had a beginning but was still "eternal" or something. Can someone please explain this?
June 8th, 2012, 6:36 pm
Scott is correct-the article seems to refer to far-right social conservatives(racists, etc). It is also worth noting that even racism may not be correlated to low intelligence-only the dumbest racists would actually admit to being racist.
June 8th, 2012, 3:22 pm
Universal, I have made no assumptions. If there exists simulation, then that simulation is in a physical wrorld. If solipsism is the case, then that simulation doesn't exist.
June 7th, 2012, 10:28 pm
Okay, if we are in a simulation then that simulation is in a "physical world". In this situation, a physical world is assumed to exist. If a physical world is assumed to exist, we do not assume we are in a simulation for the same reason we do not assume that God exists- lack of proof. If t...
June 7th, 2012, 9:54 pm
Thank you all for your replies Scott- I liked your reply! Miracles are perhaps meaningless. I once read something by Wittgenstein( I cannot find it, unfortunatley) about this. In his thought experiment, he imagined a lion(or something) breaking into the lecture hall and speaking. Is such an event oc...
June 7th, 2012, 9:43 pm
It's a bit difficult to respond to this since you seem to be switching your stance. In your first few posts, it appeared that you were criticizing the existence of an external world on philosophical grounds- perhaps the idea of "physical" is meaningless, etc. Now, it appears you are critic...
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