This is the legacy of the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. — Punshhh

I am unaware of any hostages held by the Israelis. — tim wood

Destroy all oppression — Moses

Funny how they never demand a Palestine free of Hamas’s occupation & oppression. — Moses

1) What do you say should be done now about the hostages? — tim wood

2) You added to the video you reference above, "Free Palestine!" What exactly do you mean by that?

I don't know enough ... — tim wood

... representation that Gazans are simply innocent victims and responsibility-free.

Palestinian [oppressed] kills Jew = Resistance. Jew [oppressor] kills Palestinian = war crime.
— BitconnectCarlos

That's how it works when one party is oppressed and the other is oppressed. That has nothing to do with identity. — Benkei

Is harm thought to be synonymous with justice? — Leontiskos

For example, if someone enters your house with a gun and you sneak up behind them and knock them unconscious in order to incapacitate them, would the negative utilitarian say that you have harmed them? If this does not count as harm ...

I don’t follow your objection. — Leontiskos

The desire for what is good does not mean that the good will be found in our practices. What the good is remains highly problematic.

Reading Aristotle as if his work is not dialectical makes it hard to see that he is guided by unanswered questions rather than dogmatic answers. — Fooloso4

Revolutionary Jews From Spinoza to Marx: The Fight for A Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights by Jonathan Israel — Maw

I am surprised no one has started a thread on this — Manuel

He just died. Surprised there was no mention here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/books/daniel-dennett-dead.html

RIP — fishfry

No more 'resting in peace' than there would be for cars cut up for scrap. — Wayfarer

Our interpetations are constrained by the nature of the world including ourselves, so it's not right to say that we create the world. — Janus

The bodymind interprets what is given to it precognitively. It doesn't create what is given ... — Janus

One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.

Like many other natural wonders, the human mind is something of a bag of tricks, cobbled together over the eons by the foresightless process of evolution by natural selection.

Philosophy is to science what pigeons are to statues.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valéry once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.

The mind is the effect, not the cause. — Daniel Dennett, d. 2024

I'd wager less than 10k civilians killed. — BitconnectCarlos

open supporters of terrorist groups — BitconnectCarlos

You're an atheistic materialist. No? The universe has no real meaning/value save what we choose to impose? — BitconnectCarlos

I am a moral realist[naturalist] who disagrees with both theses — Leontiskos

Thesis 1 and thesis 2 represent two categorical claims:

All human acts are moral acts
All interpersonal acts are justice acts

What is the breadth of the moral sphere?

Some human acts are not moral acts

Some interpersonal acts are not justice acts

What are your thoughts on self-sacrifice in this instance? — BitconnectCarlos

I do not see how "the afterlife" is a primary motivating factor. — 180 Proof

Do you understand the scenario? — BitconnectCarlos

structure and function — bert1

Consciousness is not structure and function. — bert1

So, if I've understood your question properly, consciousness abstracted from any functioning system is indeed impersonal, in that sense. — bert1

All true. But what of self-sacrifice in an instance where, according to the social reality, it would seem completely futile? [ ... ] Do we still self-sacrifice here? — BitconnectCarlos