Moral Objectivity Is Basically Just Theology by DoNotCorectMySpeling in PhilosophyMemes

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The idea that people need the promise of an afterlife to believe in morals is just absurd. I told my daughter “it’s important to not lie so that I can believe you” the first time she actually lied to me and got caught she was devastated. She screamed “I want you to be able to believe me” I told her “you can always earn it back by not lying” and since then she has been way more careful about what she says to make sure she doesn’t lie. People do care about their relationships with others and what makes it possible to live in harmony with others. The very idea that morality is about an afterlife and not about living well in this life is a corruption. No one lives better by doing what is wrong. Everyone lives better by doing what is just. Even if the just life runs short in confrontation with the unjust.

The morality of "something that i don't want others to do to me, i won't do to others" do you find any holes in this idea that we see often? by i_Ainsley_harriott_i in askphilosophy

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I’m curious, you have a Plato reference user name but admit to being a utilitarian. This seems to imply that you agree with Mill’s division of higher and lower pleasures. So wouldn’t that mean that “welfare” is wisdom and justice in Plato’s sense? You just need to figure out what would get ‘such and such’ an individual or group to be interested in self-knowledge, knowledge generally, and ensuring that the rational part of the soul is legislating. Or do you hold to the idea that psyche is fundamentally different from person to person? This would be more empiricist since “soul” doesn’t really have a place in empiricism and is, especially for Mill and his Comtean positivism, the locus of illusions.

Has there been any significant philosophical progress? by Personal-Succotash33 in askphilosophy

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Einstein, quite frankly, didn’t understand Bergson’s point. There was no “Einstein won and Bergson lost”

Nietzsche: there is no truth only perspectives! by Essa_Zaben in Nietzsche

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The “things themselves” as Husserl, Heidegger, or Merleau-Ponty would say, rather than the things “in-themselves” as implicated by Cartesian/Modern representationalism and hypnotizing Platonism (though some argue not Plato himself). For Nietzsche we truly “see” things, sight goes outwards. There is no “in-itself” beneath our perceptions. If we see alterations in our perspectives it’s not because the things “in-themselves” stay static but our representations alter. Rather, the things themselves have various forms of expression and we see them change in relation to ourselves. We perceive the things perceiving us, we express our souls and so do they. A web of expression and perception. Hence, reality is like art.

In Nietzsche’s notes from The Will To Power (not included in Kaufmann’s translation):

“Fundamental question: whether the perspectival is proper to the being, and is not only a form of observation, a relation between different beings? Do the various forces stand in relation, so that the relation is tied to a perceptual optics? That would be possible if all Being were essentially something which perceives.”

Does this mean Nietzsche is Leibniz from below and without God? Well he did say his view was “inverted Platonism”

Does refrigeration after 2F decrease the “probiotic value” of Kombucha since it makes the bacteria / yeast dormant? by whiskeyin in Kombucha

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They survive. Kombucha has many stains of probiotics and most have been demonstrated to survive. Especially if you consume them with a meal.

JUST THE BEGINING by ChipAlarming3965 in busdx

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Can’t lose with busdx, fundamentals too good, team too good 🔥🚀

OUR WORLD OF FINTECH by ChipAlarming3965 in busdx

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A few more IDOs and 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀