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10-10-2009, 06:34 AM
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Don't get me wrong. He's a genius.
And...
Don't get me wrong. He's a genius.
And yeah, so is Trudeau!
I can understand anybody feeling that way, but I think it's a little pessimistic. I know a lot of scientists, and despite...
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09-18-2009, 06:52 AM
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09-18-2009, 06:16 AM
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09-18-2009, 03:58 AM
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09-18-2009, 02:01 AM
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Forum: Philosophy
09-17-2009, 11:29 PM
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Despite my quoting Singer, I'm not inclined to...
Despite my quoting Singer, I'm not inclined to dismiss MacIntyre's Aristotelianism. I think the concept of a tradition of virtue, and of categories of living that reflect character and a moral...
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09-17-2009, 12:39 AM
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09-16-2009, 11:52 PM
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09-16-2009, 02:33 PM
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09-16-2009, 02:31 PM
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09-16-2009, 02:15 PM
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When Singer says it is the refusal to accept...
When Singer says it is the refusal to accept killing that, in some cases, is horrific (Practical Ethics, 2nd edition, Cambridge, 1993, pp. 175-217), he makes it clear that his views on killing are...
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09-16-2009, 01:39 PM
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09-16-2009, 01:24 PM
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Yeah, he seems pretty reasonable to me.
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Yeah, he seems pretty reasonable to me.
Personally I think religious sloganeering around the 'sanctity of life' is little more than a fetish. Keeping somebody in a persistent vegetative state...
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Forum: Philosophy
09-16-2009, 06:26 AM
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I can't pretend to be a student of Singer, or...
I can't pretend to be a student of Singer, or philosophy for that matter. I've read vanishingly small quantities of both.
But I'm interested in what Singer has to say about 'expanding circles' of...
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09-15-2009, 11:06 PM
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09-15-2009, 03:51 PM
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09-15-2009, 03:20 PM
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09-15-2009, 03:11 AM
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09-15-2009, 02:02 AM
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09-15-2009, 12:35 AM
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Forum: Philosophy
09-15-2009, 12:33 AM
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It means that Singer the man is not identical...
It means that Singer the man is not identical with Singer the philosopher. As you pointed out in your other post.
And you still haven't suggested any rational basis for an ethics besides the...
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