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What are your philosophical positions?

keda
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Posted 07/01/09 - 04:54 PM:	#11
Ethics: Kantian Metaethics: objective moral realist Epistemology: Coherentist Metaphysics: Kantian Philosophy of mind: agnostic Philosophy of science: realist Philosophy of biology: teleomechanist philosophy of math: constructivist Ontology: mereological nihilist Economics: somewhat austrian Political philosophy: somewhat unconventional libertarian
All about making money Free Europe Now How to fix your country In thought, men distance themselves from nature in order thus imaginatively to present it to themselves--but only in order to determine how it is to be dominated - Adorno and Horkheimer

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Posted 07/01/09 - 05:11 PM:	#12
My beliefs: Ubermensch, Ubermensch, Ubermensch, bier!

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Posted 07/02/09 - 12:49 AM:	#13
Hanover: "Dualist, absolutist, metaphysical libertarian, objectivist, strict constructionist, contemporary federalist, old school, unapologetic, flag waving suburbanite". You forgot one. Honest. We probably agree on next too nothing, but I appreciate your honest replies. Meow and Respect! GREG
I am not one to attribute that which I cannot understand immediately to be god(s)-perhaps I will never understand, but god(s) are not defined by my lack of understanding-this is the foundation of dogmas, the pressing of connotative values into the realm of dennotative meaning. - MOS

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Posted 07/02/09 - 12:53 AM:	#14
keda: "Economics: somewhat austrian" I sure hope you don't mean the current Austrian Economic System. We are like a land of "how not too invest, down-size and privatize". The current situation here is hiddious! Meow! GREG
I am not one to attribute that which I cannot understand immediately to be god(s)-perhaps I will never understand, but god(s) are not defined by my lack of understanding-this is the foundation of dogmas, the pressing of connotative values into the realm of dennotative meaning. - MOS

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Posted 07/02/09 - 03:33 AM:	#15
In sum, I'm a Pyrrhonian Spinozist. (see post no. 5)
The question isn't "Which explanations do I believe?" but rather "Which explanations do I least disbelieve?" Absence of evidence THAT MUST BE THERE (i.e. implied by any claim, concept, or (its) predicates, that affects changes in/to the world) entails evidence of absence. [What cannot be done?[What cannot be hoped?[What cannot be known?]]]

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Posted 07/02/09 - 04:12 AM:	#16
mayor of simpleton wrote: keda: "Economics: somewhat austrian" I sure hope you don't mean the current Austrian Economic System. We are like a land of "how not too invest, down-size and privatize". The current situation here is hiddious! Meow! GREG If you could find one, I would move there. Too bad I can only see huge private central banks sitting on top of the planetary economy sucking us dry.
All about making money Free Europe Now How to fix your country In thought, men distance themselves from nature in order thus imaginatively to present it to themselves--but only in order to determine how it is to be dominated - Adorno and Horkheimer

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Posted 07/02/09 - 06:24 AM:	#17
Nihilism , existentialism , and Representative Realism or Rationalism I think I am not sure.
To criticize is only to establish that a concept vanishes when it is thrust into a new milieu, losing some of its components, or acquiring others that transform it. But those who criticize without creating, those who are content to defend the vanished concept without being able to give it the forces it needs to return to life, are the plague of philosophy. All those debaters and communicators are inspired by resentment. They speak only for themselves when they set empty generalizations against one another. Philosophy has a horror of discussions. It always has something else to do.

Aetixintro
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Posted 07/02/09 - 11:33 AM:	#18
Is it possible to hold the position of Utopian in Philosophy of Politics? If it is, then I'm an Utopian, more accurately, both Activist and Utopian. Is this consistent with literature in that field? I have read very little of Phil. of Pol. I've heard you can be Liberal, Socialist, Communist, Conservative, and Fascist among many(?). I tend to equate Philosophy of Politics with Philosophy of Religion and I may look down on them both! Eh...,
Efficacy of "for since it is at present manifest to me that even bodies are not properly known by the senses nor by the faculty of imagination, but by the understanding alone" - Descartes, Meditation II I'm always wanting more, Anything I haven't got, Everything, I want it all, I just can't stop - The Cure, Want

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Posted 07/02/09 - 11:52 AM:	#19
Aetixintro wrote: Is it possible to hold the position of Utopian in Philosophy of Politics? If it is, then I'm an Utopian, more accurately, both Activist and Utopian. Is this consistent with literature in that field? I have read very little of Phil. of Pol. I've heard you can be Liberal, Socialist, Communist, Conservative, and Fascist among many(?). I tend to equate Philosophy of Politics with Philosophy of Religion and I may look down on them both! Eh..., Surely such a thing is possible. The question is, what sort of utopian are you?

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Posted 07/02/09 - 07:13 PM:	#20
I have very few positive positions that I can name according to categories. Ethics: Prioritarianism I don't agree with all the conclusions one can derive from prioritarianism. I simply think it is moving in the right direction. I share Parfit's view that ethics is a very fertile field for new developments. Epistemology: Epistemological Anarchist, Foundherentist Pragmatism. This depends on what we mean by "epistemology." If we want it to be some mathematical symmetry of life and a pure language, I am skeptical. If multiple languages can reflect the same neutral reality, I will agree. In that case, I think foundherentism is pragmatic. Political Philosophy: Anarcho-Communism

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