I'm sorry, I still don't get it. Humanity has sub-conscious norms or somethnig, is what your your saying. Seems like your dressing a banal observation up in a lot of fancy words.
I also don't see how it effects my point. Humanity has norms, awesome.
http://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/ ... MPL23.html #Part I, Essay XXIII, OF THE STANDARD OF TASTE
(there is another far more pertinent one on morals, im just having a f**k hell of a time finding it. HE WROTE A LOT OF f**k LETTERS, OK!)
Humian framework as i'm constructing it, has zero problem with that. It doesn't however, afford it much importance beyond a set of divergent phenomenon to be explained.
Also protip: I do not think he is 1:1 correct.
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Re: Boris Johnson's Philosophy fun-time. Part:1
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by Boris Johnson » Sat Dec 15, 2012 12:27 pm
Moar relevant hume.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4320/4320-h/4320-h.htm
Still having a nightmare finding the bit i'm thinking of, this is all relevant however. Here he's trying to show a link between utility of a action to a group and ideas like justice appearing in a society.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4320/4320-h/4320-h.htm
Still having a nightmare finding the bit i'm thinking of, this is all relevant however. Here he's trying to show a link between utility of a action to a group and ideas like justice appearing in a society.
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by Stratego » Sat Dec 15, 2012 12:35 pm
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Sigmund Freud defined four parts of a psyche; the id, the ego, the superego and the stratego. The Stratego being the highest form of morality and scientific thinking.
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Re: Boris Johnson's Philosophy fun-time. Part:1
by Boris Johnson » Sat Dec 15, 2012 4:05 pm
Please, please. In plain English, your objection to my thesis thus stated.
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