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Ethics
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RE: Ethics
(March 30, 2015 at 4:03 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: You have given no reason whatsoever to suppose that the truth or falsity of "Health and wealth are the greatest goods" depends on the attitudes and feelings of the person assessing it.  Where is your evidence to support such an assertion?  
Is the "greatest good" an object of knowledge that can be defined by a set of observable facts and interlocking connections to which the substance ("the good") is said to exist prior to my conception of it? No. We don't presume the existence of an individual man to begin only when I arrive at the definition "man," or that a differentiation between "colors" or "numbers" depends on the actual names designated "red" or "3." Yet with any definition of goodness, the opposite is the case, because all we are talking about is an intention or attitude towards an object measurable only by other intentions or attitudes. Can one claim privilege on that account? Not if they wish to justify their claim, as they cannot establish superiority in their statements of truth or falsehood by the measure of successful demonstration through which we typically judge such inquires about objective fact.

If you think I'm wrong, I'd sincerely like to know how.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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Ethics - by Mudhammam - March 28, 2015 at 4:16 pm
RE: Ethics - by Pyrrho - March 28, 2015 at 10:42 pm
RE: Ethics - by Mudhammam - March 29, 2015 at 1:57 am
RE: Ethics - by Pyrrho - March 29, 2015 at 1:22 pm
RE: Ethics - by Mudhammam - March 30, 2015 at 3:14 am
RE: Ethics - by Pyrrho - March 30, 2015 at 3:06 pm
RE: Ethics - by Mudhammam - March 30, 2015 at 3:41 pm
RE: Ethics - by Pyrrho - March 30, 2015 at 4:03 pm
RE: Ethics - by Mudhammam - March 30, 2015 at 4:58 pm
RE: Ethics - by robvalue - March 29, 2015 at 2:06 am
RE: Ethics - by bennyboy - March 29, 2015 at 3:01 am
RE: Ethics - by Dystopia - March 29, 2015 at 11:04 am
RE: Ethics - by Mudhammam - March 29, 2015 at 11:45 am
RE: Ethics - by Mudhammam - March 29, 2015 at 11:46 am
RE: Ethics - by Dystopia - March 29, 2015 at 11:50 am
RE: Ethics - by bennyboy - March 29, 2015 at 3:47 pm
RE: Ethics - by Pizza - March 30, 2015 at 2:49 am
RE: Ethics - by Brian37 - March 30, 2015 at 3:51 pm
RE: Ethics - by Pizza - March 30, 2015 at 4:00 pm
RE: burden of proof hot potato - by Pizza - March 30, 2015 at 4:13 pm
RE: Ethics - by bennyboy - March 30, 2015 at 5:07 pm
RE: Ethics - by Pizza - March 30, 2015 at 10:24 pm
RE: Ethics - by Brian37 - March 30, 2015 at 4:21 pm

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