Post No.: 0646 Fluffystealthkitten says: Will we ever be able to objectively describe and convey what it’s like to feel love, depression or other emotions or feelings, or to objectively describe what it’s like to see the colour … Read More
Post No.: 0632 Furrywisepuppy says: Is justice ever absolute or is it bound within the relative and particular values that happen to prevail in a particular society at a particular time and place? One view is that … Read More
Post No.: 0614 Furrywisepuppy says: In ‘everyday’ life nowadays, many people take drugs in the hope of losing weight, fighting ageing, improving their sexual performance, and now increasingly to hopefully enhance their productivity or academic performance. ‘Nootropics’ … Read More
Post No.: 0601 Fluffystealthkitten says: Any technology that can be utilised for admirable objectives can probably be utilised for nefarious objectives too. And the more potentially powerful the benefits then the even more potentially powerful the harms that … Read More
Post No.: 0590 Furrywisepuppy says: Philosophies that believe that everybody gets what they deserve are strongly arguably untenable according to the conclusions that can be derived from scientific research and empirical evidence. This universe, which includes us and … Read More
Post No.: 0585 Furrywisepuppy says: Let’s get deep! What makes you ‘you’ from one moment to the next? Personal identity is a key question in philosophy. (Some other big questions in philosophy concern God, knowledge and justified … Read More
Post No.: 0568 Furrywisepuppy says: It isn’t unscientific to view organic brains as essentially physical, biological machines. Computer software is also ultimately material when you break it down. Programming – whether via computers or DNA – is a … Read More
Post No.: 0556 Furrywisepuppy says: What is art? Well Marcel Duchamp was arguably the first to blatantly demonstrate that it’s contextual – stick a urinal in an art gallery setting and suddenly it’s considered art(!) Some, though, will … Read More
Post No.: 0540 Furrywisepuppy says: We shall jump straight back to continue from the end of Post No.: 0533 and our analysis of equal opportunities, and move onto whether people deserve even the fruits of their own natural … Read More
Post No.: 0533 Furrywisepuppy says: It’s been a while since Post No.: 0458 but let’s get back to exploring the thoughts of John Rawls, the ‘veil of ignorance’ and his concept of liberty and equality. …Both Immanuel … Read More
Post No.: 0517 Furrywisepuppy says: The best decision-making strategies are said to involve the application of rational logic. It’s about avoiding the cognitive traps, biases and errors that could cloud more objective and fair thinking. But ‘bounded … Read More
Post No.: 0498 Fluffystealthkitten says: There are a vast array of bioethical quandaries related to medical matters – some are rare situations that few will ever face but some will affect many people one day sooner or later … Read More
Post No.: 0484 Furrywisepuppy says: Philosophers differentiate between sentience (being receptive to one’s surroundings and acting in an intelligent way), wakefulness (not being asleep or incapacitated), access consciousness (thoughts that guide our actions) and phenomenal consciousness (subjective feelings). … Read More
Post No.: 0458 Furrywisepuppy says: Let’s now look at what John Rawls – a social or egalitarian liberal – thought… John Rawls was against utilitarianism and extended on Immanuel Kant’s thoughts by believing that if the principles … Read More
Post No.: 0416 Fluffystealthkitten says: Bioethics relates to the ethical issues arising from, the ever-increasing, advances in biology and medicine. There are innumerable dilemmas when it comes to bioethics. These include issues related to informed (or misinformed) consent, weak/soft … Read More
Post No.: 0391 Furrywisepuppy says: Morality doesn’t just differ between different cultures but can differ between different individuals within the same country – often to suit individual people’s own particular worldviews, lifestyles and aspirations! There seems to be … Read More
Post No.: 0381 Furrywisepuppy says: Most Christians didn’t see slavery as something that was immoral at one time. A minority of Muslims don’t consider suicide bombings immoral today. Murder can be seen as immoral, yet the extra-judicial killing … Read More
Post No.: 0366 Furrywisepuppy says: We took a look at liberalism, mainly according to what John Locke believed in, in Post No.: 0357. Let’s now take a brief look at some of Immanuel Kant’s thoughts… Immanuel Kant … Read More
Post No.: 0357 Furrywisepuppy says: After exploring libertarianism in Post No.: 0315, we can compare it with liberalism. John Locke is commonly known as the father of liberalism. Liberalism is a political and moral ideology based on liberty, … Read More
Post No.: 0331 Furrywisepuppy says: We’re all ‘pre-wired’ or ‘pre-programmed’ regarding our basic propensities, drives, emotions, instincts and behaviours. In some cases we might even be considered ‘hard-wired’. Although we may think we’re each unique, individual or totally … Read More
