If an author's work is greater, it's so on the basis of ethical logic. — TheWillowOfDarkness

What in the world?

This one was really tough, I voted for Hume out of personal preference, but seeing Kant at top seems justified.

You can say that you do, but since those are merely opinions held in an intellectual context where their opposite is always possible; I simply don't believe you. If you truly believed such things without possibility of doubt outside of the context of revelatory experience, then I would say you are merely given to blind faith, and not manifesting a knowing based on a revelation so profound as to make doubt impossible.

I know you will disagree, but that is only because you lack the kind of experience I am referring to. You lack that kind of experience because you are so mired in your mere opinions that you could never accept it. You would always reject it as being "just a psychological experience". That is exactly how the pedestrian mind levels everything out.

That is exactly how the pedestrian mind levels everything out. — John

Is the pedestrian mind given to pederasty? :-O

Are you actually disagreeing with anything i said?

I don't know; are all pedestrians pederasts? Does 'pedophile' refer to one who loves walking or to one who loves children?

May be 'pedophile priests' are really quite innocent just like the peripatetic philosophers. :s

Does 'pedophile' refer to one who loves walking or to one who loves children? — John

I think it refers to one who loves walking children :B

Is that like walking the dog? Do they use a leash? >:)

Is that like walking the dog? Do they use a leash? >:) — John

I think, by analogy, whether a leash is used or not depends on where one is walking the dog to ;)

And a leash might be used even then...
:-O

Any world. To claim that empirical states amount to an ethical value is logical incoherent-- "is" is not "ought," "presence" is not "value."

Yes. You suggested you might be wrong about the empirical not amount to the ethical. This is not true. It not possible of empirical description to be a telling of ethics. You're letting Terrapin's argument of the hook, treating it as something which might be true when it's impossible.

OK, I wasn't aware I had done that, Could you identify the sentence or passage where you think I did that?

In any case, in relation to what you say; i think it should be borne in mind that there may be either empirical or ethical descriptions of the the same events. I agree the two are not commensurable; but it is not the case that one or the other has ontological priority.

Comfortable lead for Germany here with 61%.... :)