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- November 17th, 2007, 12:55 am
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Human rights
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2279
Re: Rights
With regard to duties, moral philosophers often say only someone (thing) who can be said to have the capacity for duty can have rights, they go together, it is reciprocal. I never got to the bottom of this when I studied such things years ago (it related to my professional field which includes poli...
- November 13th, 2007, 10:36 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Human rights
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2279
The notion of rights, whether moral or legal, can take a bit of sorting out.
I've always found Hohfeld a useful starting-point. Simple version here:
http://personal.bgsu.edu/~roberth/hohfeld.html
Wet-towel-round-the-head stuff here at 2.1:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights/
I've always found Hohfeld a useful starting-point. Simple version here:
http://personal.bgsu.edu/~roberth/hohfeld.html
Wet-towel-round-the-head stuff here at 2.1:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights/
- November 12th, 2007, 12:05 am
- Forum: Culture Club
- Topic: Scotland's Music (three threads merged)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3579
Excellent! Lady Muck and I are stalwarts of the Festival Club.Maria wrote:This seems a good place to remind folk that Celtic Connections is coming soon.
- November 8th, 2007, 8:38 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: The earth is 6,000 years old.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3497
Alan H wrote:Yes, but what'll be their next tactic (assuming we don't think they'll just give up!)?gcb01 wrote:This was simply an unsuccessful ruse to get round a US Supreme Court ruling.
Nice warm words like diversity:
http://learning-together.org.uk/docs/called16.htm
- November 5th, 2007, 1:44 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
- Topic: Should Ian Blair resign over De Menezes shooting?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2795
- November 5th, 2007, 1:08 am
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: The Achilles Heel of Atheism
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1465
- November 5th, 2007, 12:48 am
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: The Achilles Heel of Atheism
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1465
Re: The Achilles Heel of Atheism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aETl0oALYxg I can't work out if this is a weak attempt at humour or the guy is actually serious. He's all dressed up in a suit and tie and standing in front of a book case - is he taking off someone or genuinely trying to give himself an air of gravitas? If the latter...
- November 4th, 2007, 6:54 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: The Achilles Heel of Atheism
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1465
There are several modern versions of the Ontological Argument. As that cove mentioned Norman Malcolm, I imagine this is what he had in mind:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/o/ont-arg.htm
Section 4, about two thirds of the way down the page.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/o/ont-arg.htm
Section 4, about two thirds of the way down the page.
- November 3rd, 2007, 12:00 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
- Topic: Why exactly do hospitals need to know...?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2365
- October 27th, 2007, 2:11 am
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: How to shut an atheist up
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1780
"1. When the prissy anti-Christs tell you the Bible stands in the way of science, inform them that the greatest scientific geniuses in history were devout Christians-and scientists from Newton to Einstein insisted that biblical religion provided the key ideas from which experimental science could de...
- October 21st, 2007, 12:55 am
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Don't you wish there was life after death, though?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 6385
Can't really say whether it would help me contemplate death if I thought I could survive it and go on to Paradise or something of that sort. But that's because I think the notion is incoherent: talk of life after death is simply talk of life going on- only in a rather odd way. So that thought isn't ...
- October 19th, 2007, 12:20 am
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Capital punishment and war
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2061
Re: Capital punishment and war
If I am opposed to the restoration of the death penalty because of the possibility of wrongful conviction and someone innocent being executed, to be consistent should I also be opposed to all war because of the possibility of innocent people being killed? It has been suggested elsewhere that I shou...
- October 11th, 2007, 7:47 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Religion-erasing magic wand?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5497
- October 9th, 2007, 11:29 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Are you a humanist or what?
- Replies: 456
- Views: 92587
I don't mind atheist, secularist, humanist, naturalist.
But above all I'm a Resistentialist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistentialism
But above all I'm a Resistentialist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistentialism
- October 8th, 2007, 7:34 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: most overused bible verse
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4381
- October 8th, 2007, 7:29 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Religion-erasing magic wand?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5497
- October 8th, 2007, 12:15 am
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Religion-erasing magic wand?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5497
DD, Sorry for the delay. Let me deal with the CofE joke first. The clergyman is a stock figure, who finds himself in a quandary when he is challenged about eternal suffering in Hell. He can't deny the dogma without impiety, but his natural kindness rebels at the thought of such suffering. So he reso...
- October 2nd, 2007, 11:22 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Religion-erasing magic wand?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5497
- September 29th, 2007, 2:35 am
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: A cool site that explains the evidence for creation.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 794
- September 29th, 2007, 2:17 am
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Religion-erasing magic wand?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5497
If we are to say instead that using the gas is objectionable but using the wand is not, we need to find a relevant difference. One way is to say that religious belief is erroneous and irreligion is not. And it could be said that no excuse is needed to change erroneous belief by coercion: error has ...