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Aristotelian Analysis of Forgiveness?
I am in the process of responding to one of the latest Reading Comprehension Questions in my Ethics course. This week we were reading from pages 27-33 of Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (2nd Ed.) ...
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If someone lacks the will to live, can there still be anything he is willing to pursue?
After reading some posts such as What is the motivation of all individuals to stay alive? and Why care for anything in life? , we'd like to pose a question in a different (perhaps more accurate) way:
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Philosophy vs. Real Life
I read and listen to learn about life, existence, and consciousness. I find it comforting and interesting to realize how much I don’t know. However, in a split second, one of my children yell for me, ...
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Kant, suicide, and the unalienable right to life
Recently, after taking an introductory course in Kantian ethics — I am now familiar with the concepts of free will, duty-conception, the categorical imperative —, I was writing an essay on his ...
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Is the meaningfulness of life a relative measure of the absolute suffering we could bear?
I have come across many ways of philosophically explaining the "meaning" of life, such as the one put forth by Camus saying that life is inherently meaningless, and it is by living that we ...
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Plato or Aristotle on trading lives
I am sure I remember either Plato or Aristotle saying that most people, if a god approached them with an offer to trade their life for someone else's, would run away. But I have been wrong before ...
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Life as a formal system
I am curious if there is some existing work on viewing life as a formal system.
In formal system we have:
axioms
and rules of logic (like in math AND, OR)
then we derive and prove theorems
I see ...
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Could NIetzsche be read as saying Aufheben is the meaning of life?
It is unclear what the 'will to power' means, and if it is about the world
The will to power doctrine seems to claim that everything that exists
rests fundamentally on an underlying basis of “...
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How do we determine the line of life that is acceptable and not acceptable to kill?
My question might be worded funny, but I don't know where to start. I'm looking for help. I understand each of the following situations should be approached individually, but I am more concerned about ...
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The timeline of everything
My friend (catholic) and I (atheist) were taking about religion. We bare both scientists and therefore wanted to look at it scientifically.
After discussing, We have stopped at the question about ...
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What is the difference between letting someone die and not creating someone?
Imagine, for a moment, that you are emergency medical personnel. You are working on the victim of a car accident, who is unconcious, and has no pulse.
At that moment - to the person you are working ...
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Is murder wrong accross the board? If not, when?
Is it wrong to murder anything, in any circumstance?
If sometimes its justified, based on species, circumstance, self defense, ideology, when is it considered wrong?
What is the justification for ...
