Tue 31 Mar, 2009 05:09 am - The problem is in differentiating what you believe in and what you would want to believe in. Every person is complex, some more than others admitably, and to create let alone adhere to a code... (view)
Tue 31 Mar, 2009 04:32 am - Time is a tricky thing, and one must separate the experience of time by sentient life and the phenomenon itself, if it even exists, to lead a coherent discussion about it.
Starting with the... (view)
Sat 5 Jan, 2008 01:35 am - Oh yes, cause Good is something set in stone by humanity...
Lets not go too far from the subject, lets even simplify it. Lets observe it biologically...
Why does any organism have to perform any... (view)
Wed 5 Dec, 2007 07:55 am - [quote=Didymos Thomas]But even voluntary actions are not necessarily selfish, or self-interested, or self centered (other than, perhaps, in that the individual considered the decision). Simply... (view)
Tue 4 Dec, 2007 12:50 pm - [quote=NeitherExtreme]I guess the short version is this: I think that some decisions are made for the benefit of others more so than for the benefit of self.[/quote]
Well possibly, but as you... (view)
Sun 2 Dec, 2007 09:08 pm - The logic used here is the following:
Any observable voluntary action somehow benefits the agent. Therefore all actions are self-beneficial, therefore for an action to be done it must atleast... (view)
Sat 1 Dec, 2007 09:21 am - [quote=kennethamy]The question is why you seem to think that because I want to do something that I do, that the action is selfish? The fact that I want to help someone in distress at a cost to... (view)
Fri 30 Nov, 2007 04:34 pm - Wow, you guys certainly didn't make this thread easy to read. If you intended to help other forum users by your posts kennethamy, you failed.
Anyhow, lets first solve the problem of... (view)
Thu 29 Nov, 2007 05:05 pm - Thanks, I was interested in starting off somewhere too. I'll check out "The Problems of Philosophy", hopefully it'll help ease me into Philosophy better. (view)
Thu 29 Nov, 2007 04:50 pm - Hi everyone, my real name is Sasha Zlatanovic but Harby (abbreviated from Harbinger) will do nicely too. Some of you might know me from unrelated forums and such.
I'm 18 and I live in... (view)
