The reason why I have not replied to this thread so far is that I think the perfect questions should be reserved for creating threads. Throwing all the ideas into this one, without even exploring them properly seems a bit futile, — Jack Cummins
The perfect answer is apparently ‘yes’. — Possibility
There is a deliberate ambiguity to my question that gives freedom to the faculties of imagination, understanding and judgement. — Possibility
"Hateful" being synonymous with harmful (as I reflect), the latter was neither stated nor implied to be an effect of the former. — 180 Proof
Harm (I posited that answer to my question). — 180 Proof
Answer: Harm.
Question: What is - do I/we find - "hateful"? — 180 Proof
And as my first post makes clear from edits in quoting your OP, Bretr, my concern with positing and then answering a 'philosophical question' is for living presently rather than, according to your premise, "making a better future" (which, to my thinking is a category mistake: philosophy is not comparable to politics, or vice versa). — 180 Proof
“So what would that be: a Higher Power, an objective morality, wisdom or something you think would convince us not to harm?”
You're moving the goalposts. The OP makes no mention of having or trying to "convince" anyone of anything or to accept anything they do not already accept. — 180 Proof
my experiment" consists in examining that ancient maxim only for clarity's sake, focussing on the key word "hateful", which when examined closer, translates as synonymous with harmful (if substituted for "hateful" in the maxim), or more concretely, with harm; and, only then, the ancient maxim can be more reliably applicable to everyday living. — 180 Proof
To state the question is to limit it to concepts in a grammatical structure — Possibility
Who’s to say this ‘High Power’ is done creating perfection? — Possibility
what is to be learned from suffering? Endurance. If suffering is a necessary element of life, then what better than that morality offer us a virtue to combat it? — Todd Martin
Once the conspiratorial mode of thinking is adopted, the believer can no longer be reasoned with. — hypericin
IMO suffering often does have a purpose and it can teach us important lessons. — BitconnectCarlos
If you want an existence with absolutely no suffering you're talking about non-existence, — BitconnectCarlos
I was saying that even if we managed to eliminate these social problems suffering is still intrinsic to the human experience. — BitconnectCarlos
If I was to chose a Higher Power it would be because that power was perfect; it could not be anything but perfect.
I can’t think of any reason such a Power would find suffering to have any purpose. And if it did I could not accept a world like from such a Power.
If I’m to chose a question that leads to a better future then there has to be less or no suffering at all in it. So I’m back to rejecting my choice of a higher power. — Brett
The question "Is morality objective?" — 180 Proof
is there a higher power and is there an objective morality? — Brett
We should be wrong all the time. It's boring to be correct; nobody has anything to say about a sound argument. — Garth
The point I'm making isn't even relevant to the OP in the first place. Your criticism of me is invalid, there's nothing to argue about. — Judaka
So we’re not going to reach an agreed statement that defines creativity, because if we’re honest, we’d recognise that what we’re talking about (in its purest sense) transcends the relational structure of language. — Possibility
What? You believe it is rational to believe something to be true when it's demonstrably untrue because...? Your logic? Or what? You also don't care about rationality? — Judaka
I complimented my fact-based argument with anecdotes, there's nothing wrong with that. — Judaka
If you just go out and do some social sport or dancing, your "unlikely" will become a "certainly" at least anecdotally. — Judaka
What you're saying is akin to saying you can eat whatever you want provided you're physically active and that's just not true. — Judaka
Inactivity would be a large contributor to obesity. — Brett
Also, overweight is NOT the same as obese, I am saying overweight as in 25-30 BMI or something. — Judaka
If you just go out and do some social sport or dancing, your "unlikely" will become a "certainly" at least anecdotally. — Judaka
lot of things don't make sense to us, but maybe when you consider the bigger picture things change a bit. — BitconnectCarlos
What would compel us?
Moral habit (i.e. judging). — 180 Proof
Not only is it possible to play sports or dance and still be overweight but inactivity is not the cause of American obesity, so there's really nothing here for you at all. — Judaka
Businesses are paying stars like Michael Jordan millions because they know he'll inspire people to buy what he uses because they want to be like him. — Judaka
People do not tend to get together and do things without a reason. Traditional culture creates these reasons. But the purpose of traditional culture is to help everyone in the community provide for each other. If we turn everything into competition and put it on the market, economies of scale will dominate and most of us will no long even have a reason to be excellent. — Garth
A lot of things don't make sense to us, but maybe when you consider the bigger picture things change a bit. Sure a baby might die a terrible death, but who knows that baby could be spending an eternity in eternal bliss. Maybe his death was necessary, who know are you to say it wasn't? — BitconnectCarlos
Question: What is - do I/we find - "hateful"?
and then strive to live by the ancient maxim:
What you find hateful, do not do to anyone. — 180 Proof
And now the question arises: "How is metaphysics, as a natural disposition, possible?" In other words, how, from the nature of universal human reason, do those questions arise which pure reason proposes to itself, and which it is impelled by its own feeling of need to answer as well as it can?....” — Mww
In other words, is the existence of a higher power necessary for there to be objective morality, or is it possible for such morality to exist without there being a higher power to insure its existence? — Todd Martin
"What is the answer to all possible questions?" There ya go. You answer that, there is no need for any other question. — Philosophim
But, there’s always a but, would morality come from wisdom or wisdom from morality?
— Brett
wisdom is defined as both the true AND good.
— TheMadFool — TheMadFool
"Does the God of Abraham and Isaac exist?"↪Brett — BitconnectCarlos
I'd say the perfect question is, "how do we gain wisdom?" — TheMadFool
Some of these questions will have multiple answers, because they are context dependent. — Garth
What makes you think these is a best? — khaled
That doesn't follow. A "beginning" is an event whether or not it is causal or acausal (e.g. vacuum fluctuations) — 180 Proof
The post is not about nothingness; I thought I made it clear it cannot exist. — Daniel
The question that'll have to remain unanswered is whether our universe is the handiwork of the first cause or that of someone who appears at some other point in the long line of creators. Does it even matter now that there's a first cause, the simplest of the simplest "creator"? — TheMadFool
The people come to expect more and better forms of performance and entertainment, so that only the specialist or the highly trained person can meet these demands. — Garth
By demanding and pursuing some perfect and excellent way of understanding the world, we really do nothing but discourage our ignorant friends from participating. — Garth
Should we even do philosophy at all? — Garth