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Forum: Philosophy 10-10-2009, 06:34 AM
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Posted By sean
No, not told, churched. I have deep but informed...

No, not told, churched. I have deep but informed arguments with religion. Of the Christian virtues --faith, hope and charity-- only charity comes anywhere near a virtue in my estimation. Faith and...
Forum: Home Base 09-20-2009, 04:47 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 5,028
Posted By sean
Earlier I posted a link to a discussion of the...

Earlier I posted a link to a discussion of the Rind et. al. controversy. This paper is a much better read in the context of this thread:

When Worlds Collide: Social Science, Politics, and the...
Forum: Home Base 09-20-2009, 06:21 AM
Replies: 39
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Posted By sean
I didn't know that. :mad:

I didn't know that. :mad:
Forum: Home Base 09-19-2009, 03:59 PM
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Posted By sean
Don't get me wrong. He's a genius. And...

Don't get me wrong. He's a genius.

And yeah, so is Trudeau!



I can understand anybody feeling that way, but I think it's a little pessimistic. I know a lot of scientists, and despite...
Forum: Home Base 09-18-2009, 03:42 PM
Replies: 39
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Posted By sean
Nor is medicine a science, a fact that routinely...

Nor is medicine a science, a fact that routinely evades notice.

It's interesting to me that both medicine and engineering have well defined methods of their own, and benefit from not being...
Forum: Philosophy 09-18-2009, 06:52 AM
Replies: 97
Views: 17,021
Posted By sean
Yep. Same thing really. It's complicated. I'm...

Yep. Same thing really. It's complicated. I'm patriotic in a way, but I put people before flags I suppose.
Forum: Philosophy 09-18-2009, 06:16 AM
Replies: 97
Views: 17,021
Posted By sean
And I should also add that my attitude to...

And I should also add that my attitude to religion is not personal. I have no sense that religion motivates the kind of prejudice of which I've been a victim.
Forum: Philosophy 09-18-2009, 03:58 AM
Replies: 97
Views: 17,021
Posted By sean
I should add that Aristotelian arguments stemming...

I should add that Aristotelian arguments stemming from the social forms of the telos of the polis are machinist, in that they honour the human superorganism, the city-state. This organism does not...
Forum: Home Base 09-18-2009, 02:01 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 5,028
Posted By sean
Nice site. Does this have anything to do with...

Nice site. Does this have anything to do with the triumph of professionalism over amateurism?
Forum: Philosophy 09-17-2009, 11:29 PM
Replies: 97
Views: 17,021
Posted By sean
Despite my quoting Singer, I'm not inclined to...

Despite my quoting Singer, I'm not inclined to dismiss MacIntyre's Aristotelianism. I think the concept of a tradition of virtue, and of categories of living that reflect character and a moral...
Forum: Philosophy 09-17-2009, 12:39 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,789
Posted By sean
Thats reali-funny.

Thats reali-funny.
Forum: Philosophy 09-16-2009, 11:52 PM
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Views: 3,789
Posted By sean
Thats really funny.

Thats really funny.
Forum: Philosophy 09-16-2009, 02:33 PM
Replies: 97
Views: 17,021
Posted By sean
Thanks classicman! I'm touched that you're...

Thanks classicman! I'm touched that you're touched, seriously.
:blush:
Forum: Philosophy 09-16-2009, 02:31 PM
Replies: 97
Views: 17,021
Posted By sean
I'm despising an ideology, you a person. I think...

I'm despising an ideology, you a person. I think that's the difference.
Forum: Philosophy 09-16-2009, 02:15 PM
Replies: 97
Views: 17,021
Posted By sean
When Singer says it is the refusal to accept...

When Singer says it is the refusal to accept killing that, in some cases, is horrific (Practical Ethics, 2nd edition, Cambridge, 1993, pp. 175-217), he makes it clear that his views on killing are...
Forum: Philosophy 09-16-2009, 01:39 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,789
Posted By sean
Heh, well, thats how it works where I live. :)

Heh, well, thats how it works where I live. :)
Forum: Philosophy 09-16-2009, 01:24 PM
Replies: 97
Views: 17,021
Posted By sean
Yeah, he seems pretty reasonable to me. ...

Yeah, he seems pretty reasonable to me.

Personally I think religious sloganeering around the 'sanctity of life' is little more than a fetish. Keeping somebody in a persistent vegetative state...
Forum: Philosophy 09-16-2009, 06:26 AM
Replies: 97
Views: 17,021
Posted By sean
I can't pretend to be a student of Singer, or...

I can't pretend to be a student of Singer, or philosophy for that matter. I've read vanishingly small quantities of both.

But I'm interested in what Singer has to say about 'expanding circles' of...
Forum: Philosophy 09-15-2009, 11:06 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,789
Posted By sean
I'd keep the extra and give it to the poor, as...

I'd keep the extra and give it to the poor, as your cash distributing client is obviously operating under the radar of the IRS...
Forum: Philosophy 09-15-2009, 03:51 PM
Replies: 97
Views: 17,021
Posted By sean
Have you read "The fates of nations" by Paul...

Have you read "The fates of nations" by Paul Colinveaux?
Or, in a similar vein, Jared Diamond's "Guns, germs and steel"?
or Manuel de Landa's "War in the age of intelligent machines" ...
Forum: Philosophy 09-15-2009, 03:20 PM
Replies: 97
Views: 17,021
Posted By sean
Natural philosophers! ;)

Natural philosophers!

;)
Forum: Philosophy 09-15-2009, 03:11 AM
Replies: 97
Views: 17,021
Posted By sean
Gotta love those scots! I'm a big fan of Richard...

Gotta love those scots! I'm a big fan of Richard Holloway. But yeah. I can see where you're coming from.

But I think somewhere between 'Virtue' and 'Duty' there's actually room for a humble...
Forum: Philosophy 09-15-2009, 02:02 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,789
Posted By sean
if you'd turned the money over to the police and...

if you'd turned the money over to the police and not the store, they wld have returned it to you if they failed to find the owner.

the store had no right to it, and you could have challenged them...
Forum: Home Base 09-15-2009, 12:35 AM
Replies: 1,071
Views: 333,538
Posted By sean
I don't think I'll ever get past the way Lennon...

I don't think I'll ever get past the way Lennon died...

But yeah. Point Break rocks. Best movie of all time.
Forum: Philosophy 09-15-2009, 12:33 AM
Replies: 97
Views: 17,021
Posted By sean
It means that Singer the man is not identical...

It means that Singer the man is not identical with Singer the philosopher. As you pointed out in your other post.

And you still haven't suggested any rational basis for an ethics besides the...
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