Archive for February 25th, 2009
Politicians
The main job of politicians and government officials of all kinds is to deceive the public. Therefore, do not bother listening to what they are saying. What they are saying is almost always a lie. Instead, watch what they do: what legislation they introduce, how they vote, whom they imprison and kill, whom they rip [...]
Posted: February 25th, 2009 under Politics.
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Supervenience, Non-Naturalism, and Cognitivism
Supervenience of moral on natural properties is a kind of conceptual consistency. If a state of affairs a can be described by natural properties N and is evaluated morally as M, then any state of affairs b, if it is also described by N, must also be evaluated to M. In other words, supervenience is [...]
Posted: February 25th, 2009 under Ethics, Philosophy.
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Emotivism and Subjectivism
According to Miller, emotivism differs from (moral) subjectivism. When a subjectivist says: “Murder is wrong,” he might mean (a) “I hate/disapprove of murder.” It’s a proposition, a report of his own attitude. But when an emotivist says: “Murder is wrong,” he means: “Murder, boo!” which is not a proposition, has no truth value, and is [...]
Posted: February 25th, 2009 under Ethics, Philosophy.
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