Fri 18 Nov, 2011 09:54 am - I agree with your assertion on Utilitarian/Consequentialists. I think they are much more realistic and conceive of morality as not some abstract measure which we are to reach through maxims. That... (view)
Tue 15 Nov, 2011 07:17 pm - I think Utilitarians/Consequentialists are more responsible and realistic with issues of morality. Deontological/Virtue based individuals are always trying to say up an absolute code or maxim of... (view)
Fri 11 Nov, 2011 09:10 pm - Its absurd though to say you can perceive the passive fleeting nature of reality which "determines" our free will in respect to our "biology." It is something which can be... (view)
Fri 11 Nov, 2011 11:42 am - Yes I suppose so. I mean I can't be positive that I am truly in control consciously of things as I "perceive" them to be. For all I know is my brain through the apparatus of my... (view)
Fri 11 Nov, 2011 09:38 am - The problem is that you are trying to lay a premise down where you can not prove without a doubt that it is true. A premise must be true before you can make a conclusion based off of it. There has... (view)
Fri 11 Nov, 2011 08:53 am - No one else can prove it though the best you can do to prove it is for your mind to unconsciously validate it for you. You could be self-deceiving yourself by saying you are conscious of typing... (view)
Fri 11 Nov, 2011 05:30 am - Our options are "limited" by the unconscious determinations of the mode of our will respecting both the rational and moral implications of future acts. This means that we can develop a... (view)
Fri 11 Nov, 2011 05:16 am - This is true but that very faculty which is responsible for creating the illusion we have free will is the neutrality which is constantly negating free will as a subjective or personal experience.... (view)
Fri 11 Nov, 2011 05:10 am - The subject of freedom in essence is posited by the our mind and sensibilities. Its not something which is any sense truly differentiates itself from our mind and sensibility. We just have this... (view)
Fri 11 Nov, 2011 05:00 am - I don't think we can deny that free will is connected in some obscure yet self-evident way to the internal mode of our being. The question would be though how do we gauge or measure the... (view)
