Quite why he said that, I don't know. :chin:everything is countable — Marzipanmaddox
Quite why he said that, I don't know. — Pattern-chaser
Why would you say that morality is based on flourishing when all you really mean is that you think that it would be useful to think about morality in terms of flourishing? — S
Morality is a set of codified rules of behaviour. All such rules are subject to the individual(cultural, societal, social, familial, and/or historical) particulars. — creativesoul
By the standard you describe, child sacrifice is moral, so long as the community agrees to this and enforces this law. — Marzipanmaddox
If you define morality as "maximising personal pleasure at the expense of others" that makes clear what is moral and what is not too. It just means that several community benefit actions I take are now defined as immoral. So what? — Isaac
Logically? Look, words have definitions, and the word, "life", has a definition, and an acceptable definition can be found in the dictionary. — S
You're delusional. You're also trying to reinvent the wheel, which is a foolish endeavour. — S
Basically, once you start to count things, you can tell that everything is countable. — Marzipanmaddox
Consider the difference between "less" and "fewer": There are fewer cows in the field, so there is less milk. The concept of countability is this basic. Cows are countable; milk is not. — Pattern-chaser
Think of a rock falling from a person's hand towards the ground. This may not seem numerical, but even if it does not naturally appear this way, we can still represent and describe it numerically. — Marzipanmaddox
No we can't. We can develop and assign numbers to something like a falling rock. These numbers might predict the rate at which the rock falls, but that's as far as it goes. There is much more to be included before we can say that our words "represent and describe" it. — Pattern-chaser
If it was not selected for or against, then it would not be so prevalent — Marzipanmaddox
That's an assumption, not the conclusion of a logical thought process, or at least not one that you've offered in this discussion. — Pattern-chaser
I'm saying philosophy is not reliable method of deriving truth because it deviates from the scientific method. — Marzipanmaddox
Ah, so the only reliable method that exists for "deriving truth" is the scientific method? — Pattern-chaser
Not that I agree with the math fetishism he's espousing, — Terrapin Station
everything is countable — Marzipanmaddox
Quite why he said that, I don't know. — Pattern-chaser
By the standard you describe, child sacrifice is moral, so long as the community agrees to this and enforces this law. — Marzipanmaddox
Not at all, because CS is in this culture, not the Moloch. So by the standard he describes child sacrifice is immoral because we think that it is immoral. — Isaac
By the standard you describe, child sacrifice is moral, so long as the community agrees to this and enforces this law — Marzipanmaddox
But in their society, in the Canaanite society, Child Sacrifice was a moral action? That's what I'm trying to get at. Regardless of our own society, within the Canaanite society alone, it would be considered a moral action? — Marzipanmaddox
You live in an explicitly finite world, there is nothing that exists within it that is not finite — Marzipanmaddox
Infinity is an idea, not a physical thing. Just like seven is an idea, not a physical thing — Pattern-chaser
based on the idea of benefit vs harm, i.e. flourishing vs languishing. — Janus
What about ideas that do not possess electrochemical properties?
What about ideas: not felt, not imagined, not pondered, not spoken, not heard; lone, floating somewhere, somehow? — Shamshir
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