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Philosophy

Fortinbras Armstrong

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24. First, the paragraph is your friend, and even more the reader's friend

Reply to Sweeney (Reply #22)

Sat Nov 29, 2014, 08:11 PM

Nov 2014

Second, your blanket statement "Reason does not get you to moral, but immoral." I find frankly insulting. You are saying that I have been wasting literally years in an effort to make my actions more moral; indeed, you are saying that my effort has made me less moral. I KNOW you are wrong. I am a considerably more moral person than I was, say, forty years ago. I have trained myself to act in a more moral way, by simple force of habit, if nothing else.

To you, morality is only innate. Well, it's not true of everyone. Simply put, you're full of crap.

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I don't see how there can be a goal, in philosophy. [View all] delrem Jun 2014 OP

To the sages of old, TM99 Jun 2014 #1

That's very well said. nt delrem Jun 2014 #3

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What you wrote does not contradict nor correct me. TM99 Nov 2014 #18

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When I read the OP Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2014 #2

I would take your questioned ethics/morality delrem Jul 2014 #4

You seem to be saying that I am bigoted against myself. Fortinbras Armstrong Jul 2014 #5

I was only questioning your language. delrem Jul 2014 #6

It appears that you did not understand me Fortinbras Armstrong Jul 2014 #7

You aren't alone. I don't understand many people. delrem Jul 2014 #8

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I like your posts! delrem Nov 2014 #16

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All I can do is repeat what I said before. Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2014 #17

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First, the paragraph is your friend, and even more the reader's friend Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2014 #24

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language - Wittgenste Jim__ Jul 2014 #9

I'm not a fan of Wittgenstein. delrem Jul 2014 #10

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To defeat a goal? Expat in Korea Oct 2014 #11

I like this answer. nt delrem Nov 2014 #12

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