From Penrose’s claims we can only conclude that consciousness is not actually conscious; the observer is utterly irrelevant because he does notactually perceive anything…that is, he does not actuallythink. Wh
Quote: "We recognize," they wrote, "that the Church's teaching authority does not carry the same force when it deals with technical solutions involving particular means as it does when it speaks of principles or ends." With regard to abortion, the American bishops have had to weigh Catholic...
] In short, in both vectors, the mirror does not present us with what would be a bodily face-to-face. I hope to use this phenomenon to at least indirectly get at a non- mirror perspective on Verbeek's book. Verbeek and Postphenomenology I now return to Moralizing Technology which ...
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If the guidance above does not smell to you as garbage, then I apologize. But please don’t tell us that “Well, this is politics.” I hope we all expect more of our politicians than people who ignore authenticity and integrity to score cheap points in a debate. Nevertheless, this is ...
For us, however, the term law does tend to be limited to what "government" does, to the statutes and decrees that governments issue. We have noticed the most conspicuous way, drawn upon at the end of the Ethics, in which morality is dependent on law. It should be added here that not...
not potent enough to shift the incentives faced by strong individuals, these will tend to communicate more false things and less true things – whether we like it (as Nietzsche does) or not (as the rest of us don’t). What I strongly object to, however, is when Nietzsche clearly ...
the primitive man. He, therefore, continues to act in accordance with the rule which prescribes it, or the habit from which it proceeds. And, in like manner, if he finds from experience that the action does not promote that object, and he is free to exercise his own choice, he desist...
do it. Some are doing it at this very moment. And not that it would be a sin if they did. God does not insist on political neutrality. But because it is the judgment of the bishops, and most of us Catholic laypeople, that it is not wise for prelates and politicians to be too clo...
Law and morality are too vague to understand. It must be added here that the notions of law and justice can't be captured and presented before us within a few sentences. These notions are too vast that even words are not sufficient to define them. Many jurists from the ancient Greek per...