Which philosophical issue is the toughest to resolve?
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Re: Which philosophical issue is the toughest to resolve?
How to get humans to love each other without fighting and killing one another. How to get humans to fairly share the worlds gifts of life. It is first all about humans so the other riddles can be worked on as if playing together.Philosophy Explorer wrote:There's a bunch of them. Free will versus determinism, can we create consciousness?, how did the universe begin? Etc.
What criteria should we use in judging which philosophical issue is the hardest to resolve? What makes them so hard to solve? What have you to say?
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I concur!Philosophy Explorer wrote:I'm going to add this thought because there's some truth to this. The toughest philosophical issue to resolve is to have consensus for any issue among philosophers. Now there's an issue worth thinking about.
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I don't think that will ever happen.Theophane wrote:Consensus among philosophers would kill philosophy. Think about it.
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Aside from it being the obverse of my somewhat sarcastically stated...Philosophy Explorer wrote:I'm going to add this thought because there's some truth to this. The toughest philosophical issue to resolve is to have consensus for any issue among philosophers. Now there's an issue worth thinking about.
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...in response to your OP, consensus of any kind has been a rare phenomenon among humans and when it does occur it's usually due to externals forcing conclusions which, in effect, have no alternatives. Even for things clearly upon us and visible like global warming there is still no real agreement that it's happening or what's responsible if it is. Virtually every assumed fact seems to have a different cause depending on who's scrutinizing it and the word "skeptic" is not even properly understood.Why nothing ever gets resolved in philosophy
In philosophy which ludicrously restates the same problems regurgitated ad infinitum, where boundaries are much further afield, the room for depositing opinions is so much greater and therefore diverse. Since the internet, philosophy has become a joke, nothing more than a computer game when the real lack of consensus on so many critical issues is precisely what's tearing the world apart.
I may be wrong but it seems to me that actually "communicating" with others as opposed to merely "talking or texting, etc" has become more difficult with technology than it was without it.
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