woodandsteel

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by woodandsteel 11y ago
A foundational-axiomatic view implies a philosopher king because the vast majority of citizens lack the intellectual ability, much less motivation, to understand it and apply it to political decisions. Anti-foundationalists, in contrast, th
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
Looks interesting, I'll have to check it out.
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
You're right, it wasn't. However, people who propose a single, absolute moral principle generally believe, I think, that one will use it to freely overrule anything determinate that might be opposed.
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
I strongly disagree. As human beings, we have a moral obligation to make life good as it can be, and the only way we can do that is to understand people"s basic motives and try to use them to motivate good behavior. Do you really disag
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
The article includes active listening. That means giving the other person your full attention, and saying back to them their key thoughts and emotions. I just want to add that if there was one thing that I could do that I think would make t
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
A little background for the non-philosophers. In the history of Western philosophy, there is a great debate. On one side is the foundational-axiomatic position. According to this general view, philosophy correctly done is like geometry. You
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
Parfit thinks we need an absolute proof for goodness because humans have only desires. But lots of science shows that human beings also have many inborn moral instincts, such as for fairness, group loyalty, and the concern for the well-bein
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
Maybe when a social gathering starts you could just ask everyone if they would like to have a no-screens norm. People who want a screen ban would say why, and so would the ones who are opposed. I am thinking that this might work because so
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
It's crazy how expensive science journals are. Philosophy journals are much more reasonable, typically 35-50 dollars a year for an individual subscription. That gives you some idea of what it actually costs to produce a journal. Unrel
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
My impression of Trump is that he thinks he never made a mistaken decision, and has never felt guilty about anything he has done or failed to do. That's pretty frightening.
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
I have a couple of questions for you. But first, when the bubble was happening, conservatives said that prices were sound, would never crash, and this was because they were the product of market forces. But then the bubble burst, and overni
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
This is a perfect job for ipfs.
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
You're right. As soon as oil returns to $100, we'll be seeing coal-powered autos.
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It occurs to me that the Middle East is very well endowed with both petroleum and sunshine, but the latter is far more evenly distributed.
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
You know, I bet the immense refined carbohydrates industry is shitting in its pants (or will be soon) over the fear that soon the population will realize that this sort of diet is the way to lose weight and keep it off. And that means the r
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
Excellent article. I came up with a similar approach, and lost 50 lbs. My basic principle is to eat all I want, but make sure it is mostly food that is moderately low in calories, and avoid processed carbohydrates. I call it "the low w
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
The article says the process requires molecular hydrogen, so that is where the energy comes from.
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
I don't know about government regulation in general, but what happened in this country from Reagan on was the extensive New Deal regulations of the financial industry were taken down, piece by piece.
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Exactly. Think of how many space million-person space colonies orbiting our sun we could make from materials from asteroids.
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That was my point, which I should have made more clearly. There is a good deal of research going on into what causes aging, and it seems likely it will pay off sooner or later in ways of delaying it.
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
I find the idea that we are not going to see any more life-changing technological advances quite unpersuasive. New technology usually comes from scientific advances, and science in many fields is advancing rapidly. I can think of at least
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
In the case of refined carbohydrates, there is abundant evidence that they are bad for us.
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I think it would be helpful if critics of Dailymail would explain what specifically is inaccurate about this story, or what important was left out.
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Then there is Danica McKellar from The Wonder Years, who really did get a degree in mathematics, and has written several books on the subject for young girls.
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by woodandsteel 11y ago
This is an excellent article. It occurs to me that it would be good if someone put up a web site where pairs of people could publicly or privately practice the sorts of respectful interviewing and dialogue that he is advocating. Let me add
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Islamic Libertarianism in the Quran(darwinianconservatism.blogspot.com)
21 points by woodandsteel 11y ago|3 comments