It seems like, and correct me if I am wrong, you ground rationality purely in ethics and not epistemology (and I do the opposite). — Bob Ross

Moral facts are useless.

He hears the silence howling
Catches angels as they fall
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls
Oh, he picks up Gideons bible
Open at page one ...

I think that, in light of this, “rationality”, in the sense of “acting in a manner that agrees with reality”, can be objectively grounded insofar as the hypothetical imperative (of reducing suffering (i.e. species defects)) is a presupposition of ethics (ecology, medicine) and thusly not within it; and so “rationality”, which in the sense defined (above) is deeply rooted in ethical (ecological, medicinal) principles, is grounded in the objective ethical (ecological, medicinal) norms.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing. — William Faulkner

Only the questions are eternal. — Elie Wiesel

I am 100% certain that I am conscious but it is not possible for me to know with 100% certainty that my body, other humans, non-human organisms, the Earth and the rest of the Universe actually exist. — Truth Seeker

What do you think about the evidential value of these conjectural examples? — ucarr

1) Intelligence is motion organized; — ucarr

2) Motion organized within sentients is adaptation;

3) Adaptation is sentient control of environment;

4) Sentient controlled environment selects for mutations that improve adaptation to environment

It really doesn't matter if we call it 'philosophy' or 'fundamental ontology' [or] 'big picture synthesizing talk.' — plaque flag

1. NYC felony indictment
31Mar23 :up:
"34 counts of Business Documents Fraud Crealing and/or Covering-up Felonies", etc

https://apnews.com/article/trump-indictment-full-document-640043319549?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=RelatedStories&utm_campaign=position_02

2. Miami, Federal indictment
8Jun23 :up:
re: 37 counts "Mishandling Documents, Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice, Violating Espionage Act, Making False Statements to Federal Authorities, Witness Tampering" etc

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/08/donald-trump-charged-retention-classified-documents

9Jun23 Federal indictment unsealed ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/trump-indictment-unsealed-pdf-text-criminal-charges

2.1 Miami, Federal Superceding Indictment (1)
27Jul23 :up:
+3 felony charges (+1 Espionage (32), +2 Obstruction), etc
+ new exhibit – "Iran war plan" documents (audio, July 2021)

3. Washington, DC, Federal indictment
1Aug23 :up:
re: 4 counts
• Conspiracy to Defraud the U.S.;
• Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding;
• Obstruction of and attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding;
• Conspiracy to Deprive Voting Rights

1Aug23 Federal Indictment unsealed ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/01/trump-indictment-full-text-2020-election-jan-6 — 180 Proof

I would ask simple questions:
1. Why does one human wish to be more powerful and have more wealth than any other? — universeness

Are such drives/motivations, 100% connected to our 'survival of the fittest, jungle rules, beginnings?'

If so, then what does the notion of 'civilisation,' really mean to humans?

2. Do you think 8 billion humans, fully co-operating, could achieve more than 8 billion humans competing under the control of an elite global few?

3. Can the human species find common cause, when we consider the scale of the universe and the resources available within it?

4. Consider unfettered capitalism in permanent action, forever unchallenged, what would you predict,
would be the main result of such a permanent global system, for our species?

I've never read any of Schopenhauer's works, but [ ... ] — Gnomon

Btw, DJT will be stricken from some key state ballots due to provisions in US 14th Amendment, Sec. 3 because of the findings of J6 Committee and subsequent state & federal indictments, so the fat old orange fascist fuck won't be able to run again in '24 (though he'll still be a player / spoiler of some sort.) — 180 Proof

And on and on and hosanna. That is to say apparently gaslighting seems to be the answer. — schopenhauer1

The only deity consistent with a world (it purportedly created and sustains) ravaged by natural afflictions (e.g. living creatures inexorably devour living creatures; congenital birth defects; etc), man-made catastrophes and self-inflicted interpersonal miseries is either a Sadist or a fiction – neither of which are worthy of worship. — 180 Proof

rationality itself is god — plaque flag

In this conversation, I want to examine whether or not positing evolution in place of a creator amounts, in the end, to the same thing as ... — ucarr

... positing a creator in place of evolution.

So there's an existential decision to live in a beautifully impersonal way, which I understand as maximally social. — plaque flag

I want to be us and not just me.

I want to strive heroically against my own petty finitude, toward the relative infinity of Feuerbach's species-essence.

a kind of horizon — plaque flag

Reality apart from human personality is a useful fiction. — plaque flag

What is this reality ? — plaque flag

Zapffe himself pointed out that his produced works were the product of sublimation.
— Wiki

Becker and others make the same point. Life has a horrible aspect, and we meet it with narratives and symbols that mitigate that horror. The first heroic task as a child is ceasing to shit one's pants. A 'spiritual' being is a cultural or sublimated being — plaque flag

What does the game of philosophy always presuppose ? — plaque flag

The living breathing ontologist has a certain kind of personality. To what degree is philosophy a personal quest for honesty that leads toward a self-consciously critical and fallible conversation ? — plaque flag

Does the true scientist (I include, controversially, a person like Husserl) take science personally ? How else could it be taken?

I don't think it's an accident that we understand one another and ourselves as total characters, nor do I think literature is far from ontology.

I'm saying for my own self, not quoting scripture, that the ego is and must be flesh. No doubt a mystic can claim otherwise — plaque flag

What can the philosopher offer ? — plaque flag

We probably have passed the point of no return in some ways ... — universeness