New peer-reviewed publication by my favorite #philosophistorian Richard Carrier:
„#God is therefore unnecessary to ground #moral facts, and moral facts derive fundamentally from the conjunction of #rationality and the situational facts of any potentially moral decision, and therefore are empirically discoverable as such.“
📝 https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/8/1061
✍️ Blog-post: https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/37458
Some #guys are really #creepy and, apparently, they don't realize it. My first/intuitive reaction is to block them, but my rational says that they have said/done nothing that justifies it.
I'm in a dilemma: Should I follow #rationality or #intuition?
A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
The Church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. Tyranny likes courtiers, flatterers, followers, fawners, and superstition wants believers, disciples, zealots, hypocrites, and subscribers.Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #Christianity #church #freethought #rationality #religion #superstition #thought #tyranny #freethinker
A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Thou art not bound to believe any one positively against thy Reason, which God hath given thee to be thy Guide.Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2019 (1727)
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #belief #divinegift #God #intellect #makesense #rationality #reason
@sz_duras The technopromise of slavery, #Nietzsche's #littleReason, constitutes the axiomatic basis of the modern relationship to technology, to man and to #nature, and in this the greatest of #dangers because it has become, in a few millennia, a #greatUnreason. The rhetoric of the technoprophets must be breached by #rationality (#Spinoza #Adorno). Traditional Chinese #culture is freed from any #humanFinality, it seems to me (François #Jullien).
SciTechDaily: Are We Truly Rational? AI Challenges a Long-Held Scientific Belief…
Scientists have long studied how people and animals make decisions, often looking at how recent experiences and trial-and-error shape behavior... #technology #ai #rationality
👆In addition to the free audio paper and (corrected) #preprint above, this 2-factor account of reflection article now has a DOI. 👇
The journal's version: https://doi.org/10.5840/resphilosophica2711
The full issue: https://pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=resphilosophica&fq=resphilosophica%2FVolume%2F8898%7C102%2F8997%7CIssue%3A+3%2F
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"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" - per the twisted 'mind' of #TrumpVirus & his #disinformation #cult
Independence - from #democracy - #compassion - #rationality - #rights - #justice - #childcare #healthcare - #reason -#civility #respect -- for starts! :-(
Spinoza, the Dialectic of Reason, and the Critique of Instrumental Rationality
#Spinoza is not a #critic of #reason, but its greatest defender: he anticipates the #DialecticOfReason (#Adorno & #Horkheimer) by advocating for an immanent, liberating, and joyful #rationality. Unlike Ayn #Rand’s view, he does not reject reason, but seeks to save it from #domination and #utilitarianism. #philosophy The critique of reason by Adorno and Horkheimer in the Dialectic of …
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