Timeline for What is the core argument for anti-natalism in this paper by Jiwon Hwang?
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| Mar 14 at 23:38 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | Sadly, we all seem to have no choice but to think things through for ourselves. Off the shelf answers never quite fit. | |
| Feb 12 at 22:52 | comment | added | Dcleve | For the second comment -- thinking pragmatically and empirically, rather than rationally is a key alternative "box". So is treating moral theories as engineering approximations rather than as absolutes. See this answer for how to apply 5 different moral approximations to a moral question: philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/78826/29339 | |
| Feb 12 at 22:49 | comment | added | Dcleve | @Rayyankhan -- As an empiricist, I disagree absolutely with a premise your first comment: "post-mortem existence is not a state of affairs anyone can be". That is an empirical question, and asserting absolutes is always going to be invalid. Meanwhile, ghost investigations and spontaneous past life memories are fairly strong evidence for non corporeal existence. | |
| Feb 12 at 10:49 | comment | added | Rayyan khan | Also you said that the author has self declared mental boxes that one should rather opt out from, I would really like to do such but can you give me an example of such a self declared mental box? | |
| Feb 12 at 10:46 | comment | added | Rayyan khan | An objection may be raised, that because post-mortem existence is not a state of affairs anyone can be, earlier death cannot prevent suffering or better (instrumentally good) for anyone.[27] This requirement can be called existence requirement or two-states requirement, and there are extensive arguments rejecting existence requirement or two-states requirement. One of notable such argument is Fred Feldman’s[28]. Are there really any rational arguments for rejecting the existence requirement? That seems rather unlikely but I'd like to hear your take, Thanks. | |
| Feb 11 at 17:04 | history | answered | Dcleve | CC BY-SA 4.0 |