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Quote by: Livemike Is the act I just witnessed moral or immoral? Is the person I might be about to deal with someone who generally acts morally or not? It's real useful to know this. If you can't figure out why you're not too smart. Hint: the immoral/amoral person might not screw
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Fine then, name a philosopher that one should listen to in regards to morality?
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Sure it has a way to check it's philosophies against what's real. It's called "logic".
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And you think that I am not too smart? Logic is not a check against reality. At best all it can do is indicated if a given philosophy is self consistent with itself. That doesn't mean that the philosophy has anything at all to do with reality.
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I'm not sure if that's true but if so, so what? They're wrong.
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So dang funny. You have no idea if they do or don't. Apparently it is important to you that they do but it never occurred to you to see what they actually do to try to test their philosophies against actual reality.
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Only if the philosopher is deeply stupid.
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As far as I can tell they are all deeply stupid because in the field of philosophy they all are still being taught all the philosophies from over two millinia ago. It would be as if you were still studying the basic humors in a biology class. Science has moved on because it has methods to prefer one theory over another, but philosophy has not moved on because there is no such thing in philosophy.
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That's not even close to true. Did St. Thomas Aquineas say "what he said" and point to Aristotle? No.
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You are such a moron.
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So your "most astute" philosopher couldn't give a definitive answer to whether killing to protect your child from a murderer is more moral than the murderer killing your child? Well I can. So obviously I'm more astute than him.
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No argument from me. Philosophy is for idiots.
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