1) Objective ethical theories can accommodate subjectivity. Subjective evaluations of what well-being consists of don't vitiate the objectivity in a moral code which, at the normative level, posits that it is objectively good to maximise well-being. What I suggest you are looking for, is some...
For one thing, these aren't my assumptions. I'm explaining, not my own moral beliefs, but how different species of secular morality can be called objective. For a second thing, I'm nowhere claiming that any particular ethical theory makes all those assumptions at once. Thirdly, you haven't even...
Accepting atheism doesn't necessarily entail the denial of an objective moral order. In fact, most secular morality embraces moral realism. To say that if we were to posit a God who is the source of all morality, then that morality is objective and universal (as Scogo has done) is not to say...
I didn't remotely miss your point. Systems of laws and the very idea of a society exist in order to constrain divergent conceptions (or a lack of conception) of morality. Without them, it is likely that very many more people would go out and rob others at gunpoint, the fact that, as it happens...
That is actually quite interesting, the logical notion it's based on is called the principle of explosion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion), in case you're interested.
I think it trades on an unfairly arbitrary definition of what polytheism is, or isn't 'claiming that only...
The argument is a little more sophisticated than that. The chain of causes and effects that constitutes the course of the universe must terminate in an uncaused cause, an unmoved mover, if the universe had a beginning - so the argument goes. An entity that could function as such a cause must be...
I alluded to the same point some time ago (and was not given an answer). If you take the question 'is it possible to define truth?' and give it a definite, relevant answer, i.e. 'no', then what you have is logically equivalent to the statement, 'it is not possible to define truth'. Using 'Is it...
Re: Beating Descartes
I similarly don't understand this part. What allows you to answer 'no' to the question, 'is it possible to define truth?'.
What I'm trying to make sense of is the sleight of hand you've used in order to give your 'absolute truth' the form of a question; your claim that...
Re: Chester Bennington, Linkin Park's singer took his own li
The logic was fine. I did not claim that money was, by any means, a complete substitute for a father, and I'm not trying to totally exonerate him either, what I meant was that his children are probably provided for. Obviously, I have...
Re: Chester Bennington, Linkin Park's singer took his own li
You did start off by literally saying hell awaited him.
I'm sure you're aiming at a more general point, but in this instance, it is six children by two wives, and he will no doubt leave a large estate behind (he likely acted in full...
How do people consume Age of Empires now? They watch games live on twitch, they use the spectator feature, or they watch VODS or youtube videos. They discuss the games in twitch chat. Five years ago there were far fewer streams, people would download the recorded game file and comment underneath...
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