Does religion perpetuate and promote a regressive worldview? — Art48

It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats.

Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid.

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion – its message becomes meaningless. — Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Prejudices are what fools use for reason. — Voltaire

I spit on all notions of aristocracy, no matter how you try to dress such a category up, to make such seem clean and attractive. — universeness

Thus, my metaethics is Ethical Naturalism (i.e. "good" is agency (i.e. capabilities – virtues, habits – for nonzero sum caring for the functional defects of self, others & commons) optimized by praxes of preventing and reducing harms & injustices, respectively); my normative ethics is Negative Hedonic Utilitarianism (i.e. "right" judgments and conduct which prevent or reduce harm); and my applied ethics is Negative Preference Consequentialism (i.e. "right" policies-practices which prevent or reduce injustice). — 180 Proof

It seems a bit like projecting one's own tastes as matter of fact masked in the form of an intuition. Likewise, if there really are non-natural moral facts (that are something akin to platonic forms), then what faculty do we have to intuiting them? It seems, to me, like we don't. — Bob Ross

... re-situate the basis of objectivity within intersubjectivity. Not just human intersubjectivity but the intra-agential relations within non-human nature. — Joshs

Neoplatonism? — Count Timothy von Icarus

Stupidity: n, thinking philosophy can be found in a dictionary. :wink: — unenlightened

The fact that quantum physics appears to undemine the concept of objectivity — Wayfarer

Is this because they are dumb, or has the American system (education / media / corporate influence) failed people, making them rubes and willing victims of a demagogue? — Tom Storm

We can't use CBT for political stupidity can we?

The whole point is that 'what it simulates' is an unknown. — Wayfarer

The implications of the nature of the wavefunction are significant. — Wayfarer

I would think an atheist is simply anyone who denies the existence of God ... — Count Timothy von Icarus

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. — Betrand Russell

... an incapacity for sound judgment. — Tom Storm

Nevertheless it is indisputable that 'the nature of the wave function' is among the great unresolved issues in philosophy of physics. — Wayfarer

So stupidity would be not desiring to correct one's own deficits. — Pantagruel

Stupidity is extreme bias — Christoffer

That looks like stupidity to me. A pervasive refusal to try to learn. — fdrake

And at long last I've finally realized that it's stupid to tell stupid people that they are stupid. — 180 Proof

It is here that the nature of propositions themselves may be flimsy because they are based on interpretative understandings and hermeneutic assumptions. — Jack Cummins

For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else. But we know too much to content ourselves with surviving, reproducing, dying—and nothing else. We know we are alive and know we will die. We also know we will suffer during our lives before suffering—slowly or quickly—as we draw near to death. This is the knowledge we “enjoy” as the most intelligent organisms to gush from the womb of nature. And being so, we feel shortchanged if there is nothing else for us than to survive, reproduce, and die. We want there to be more to it than that, or to think there is. This is the tragedy: Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are—hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones. — Thomas Ligotti

Metaphysical "propositions" are indeed propositions - but they are higher order propositions about theories, as opposed to being first-order propositions that are expressed by those theories. — sime