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My love is limitless (i.e. self transcending [i.e. Que?]).

I am inclined to think so. There are many practices which are best made sense of in terms of the cultural traditions, moral codes, philosophies, religions, etc., which play a central role in enriching and providing meaning to our lives. Before we ban practices because they don't promote a...

Haute.

Often it seems that the division is more sociological than scientific. Nonetheless, yes, if good evidence is obtained for some form of treatment then it will generally be taken up as part of modern medical practice (note, historically, that many medicines have natural origins - e.g. aspirin was...

Firstly, a problem emerges if you want to demonstrate that the proposition is unfalsifiable, for unless the relevant concept of 'god' entails that the existence of god is unfalsifiable I can't see, intuitively, how you could possibly demonstrate unfalsifiability by empirical means. Note that...

I agree with the distinction that BradCube is trying to push. It is possible to deny the proposition 'God exists', i.e. to disbelieve it, without then believing or otherwise accepting its negation 'God does not exist'. To use a couple examples - I do not believe that 'the number of hairs on...

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Do note the two different problems here - the first being one of interpretation, or exegesis, in which you must ascribe a given meaning (or set of meanings) to the bible, and the second being one of verifying the claims that are made once your interpretation has been fixed. In particular note...

God says 'jump'.

Where did the values portrayed in Christianity come from? If you cite some kind of cultural manna from heaven I may be forced to consume you.

It can probably be blamed for some of them. Do note that biblical readings which view Eve as a being a subordinate companion to Adam and as the locus of original sin have been used to marginalise women. Take, for example, Patriarcha (c. 1680) by Robert Filmer which attempts to derive the supreme...

That's a terrible argument. The social forces that are at work in the corporate environment are far more numerous than christianity alone.

It is in cases where it is impossible to know that I think burden of proof is most interesting. More correctly, we know that proof is impossible either way in such cases so it is not a matter of burden of proof so much as intellectually responsible assumption. One might then ask whether it is...

I think that this is fairly reasonable, though I would still be inclined to add: 1.1) Or if e is such that, if it existed, it would not provide evidence of its existence You could certainly argue that this is more properly a criterion for an agnostic stance (versus a positive belief in...

The problem of whether we are justified in seeking efficiency at the expense of equity tends to be the underlying issue in these debates. Some free marketeers deny that it is an issue while others argue that there will be greater equity issues in alternative systems. I disagree with both...

While I'm being lazy and posting quotations I also remembered a quote from Habermas on Hegel in which he recites Hegel's claim that in the schism of the statewe have suffered a separation from certain communal ethical dimensions (just as with the split of the church): Whereas the [ancient...

Decision makers, however, attempt to manage these clouds of sociality according to input/output matrices, following a logic which implies that their elements are commensurable and that the whole is determinable. They allocate our lives for the growth of power. In matters of social justice and of...

I'm quite happy with this:

No, it depends on the nature of their religious beliefs and of the philosophy that they endorse (hence the qualifer 'for me'). In my case it is simply a mismatch - the two will not gel together. Note also that I was using 'naive' in the way you might talk about naive set theory (i.e. prior to...

People can determine their own version of the Good, Beautiful, and so on, within limits (noting certain biological constraints on health and psychological tendencies). Nonetheless, I think that there are core dimensions to our respective life words - social, aesthetic, moral - within which...