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    Thread: Moscow Terror Attack
Post: RE: Moscow Terror Attack

(3 hours ago)mordant Wrote: (03-26-2024, 10:28 AM)epronovost Wrote: I don't think Russia is a fascist State because a fascist State seeks the mobilization and the indoctrination of the people in t...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 38 442 3 hours ago
    Thread: God can Ground Objective Morality
Post: RE: God can Ground Objective Morality

(03-26-2024, 04:22 PM)SteveII Wrote: In other words, God's maximal goodness has no content other than being a qualitative perfection of goodness. Something that is qualitative is reducible by defini...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 89 877 03-26-2024, 04:35 PM
    Thread: God can Ground Objective Morality
Post: RE: God can Ground Objective Morality

(03-26-2024, 02:20 PM)SteveII Wrote: Not quite. (1) I proceed from a recognition that God, being in essence maximally good, is the standard of morality. (2) Where we have direct revelation, we ca...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 89 877 03-26-2024, 03:05 PM
    Thread: God can Ground Objective Morality
Post: RE: God can Ground Objective Morality

(03-26-2024, 12:53 PM)SteveII Wrote: You are saying that maximal goodness is quantifiable and therefore reducible. That misunderstands the philosophical use of "maximal." In this context, maximal go...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 89 877 03-26-2024, 01:57 PM
    Thread: Moscow Terror Attack
Post: RE: Moscow Terror Attack

(03-26-2024, 02:51 AM)Fireball Wrote: (03-26-2024, 02:22 AM)epronovost Wrote: There is a moratorium on capital punishment in Russia and nobody has been condemned, officially to death, since 1996 I...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 38 442 03-26-2024, 10:28 AM
    Thread: Moscow Terror Attack
Post: RE: Moscow Terror Attack

(03-25-2024, 10:30 PM)pattylt Wrote: They will be executed and Putin will claim that Russia is once again safe except for Ukraine.   There is a moratorium on capital punishment in Russia and nobody ...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 38 442 03-26-2024, 02:22 AM
    Thread: God can Ground Objective Morality
Post: RE: God can Ground Objective Morality

(03-25-2024, 06:31 PM)SteveII Wrote: (03-25-2024, 05:08 PM)epronovost Wrote: I don't think you understand the critique that was levied against your argument. If God's nature can be described as j...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 89 877 03-25-2024, 06:47 PM
    Thread: God can Ground Objective Morality
Post: RE: God can Ground Objective Morality

(03-25-2024, 03:14 PM)SteveII Wrote: You misunderstand what it means for something to "ground" morality. In philosophical terms, grounding morality in God's nature doesn't imply that God's nature is...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 89 877 03-25-2024, 05:08 PM
    Thread: Moscow Terror Attack
Post: RE: Moscow Terror Attack

(03-24-2024, 02:44 PM)Dexta Wrote: According to the BBC IS have released "gruesome" bodycam footage of the atrocity, complete with cries of "Allahu Akbar!" Do you have a link to the article discussi...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 38 442 03-24-2024, 02:46 PM
    Thread: Moscow Terror Attack
Post: RE: Moscow Terror Attack

(03-23-2024, 10:27 PM)pattylt Wrote: Has ISIS ever claimed responsibility for something they didn’t do? The Las Vegas shooting would be the only instance I can think of. Though it would be surprisin...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 38 442 03-23-2024, 11:27 PM
    Thread: Moscow Terror Attack
Post: RE: Moscow Terror Attack

(03-23-2024, 05:53 PM)Astreja Wrote: Any chance that these "terrorists" were actually Putin's doing? It would not be the first time Putin would be suspected to use a false flag attack like this to h...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 38 442 03-23-2024, 05:59 PM
    Thread: Greetings from Nova Scotia, Canada.
Post: RE: Greetings from Nova Scotia, Canada.

hello
epronovost Introductions 22 237 03-23-2024, 04:57 PM
    Thread: Is Prayer Ethical?
Post: RE: Is Prayer Ethical?

(03-23-2024, 01:46 PM)Dexta Wrote: (03-23-2024, 01:17 PM)brewerb Wrote: Why would you expect them to be responsible to begin with? Maybe I'm a just a goodie two shoes and am just projecting, but d...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 40 391 03-23-2024, 03:17 PM
    Thread: Moscow Terror Attack
Post: RE: Moscow Terror Attack

The death toll of the attack on Moscow's theatre is now at a 133 with many more injured. Putin claims his forces to have captured the perpetrators as they were trying to reach the Ukrainian border whi...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 38 442 03-23-2024, 03:11 PM
    Thread: God can Ground Objective Morality
Post: RE: God can Ground Objective Morality

(03-23-2024, 08:28 AM)Alan V Wrote: So the basis of moral universalism is truth or facts, not God per se?  I assume Steve does not understand why atheists therefore could also be moral universalists...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 89 877 03-23-2024, 02:39 PM
    Thread: Moscow Terror Attack
Post: RE: Moscow Terror Attack

(03-23-2024, 02:36 AM)AutisticWill Wrote: (03-23-2024, 01:48 AM)epronovost Wrote: Russia's troops in Syria have fought IS in numerous bloody battles, including the liberation of the city of Palmir...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 38 442 03-23-2024, 02:49 AM
    Thread: God can Ground Objective Morality
Post: RE: God can Ground Objective Morality

I also noticed that Steve made a simple error of logic in his syllogism. P1: Objective morality is based on unchanging, inherent principles that are not dependent on personal opinions or preferences....
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 89 877 03-23-2024, 02:42 AM
    Thread: Moscow Terror Attack
Post: RE: Moscow Terror Attack

(03-22-2024, 10:26 PM)Minimalist Wrote: I would have thought that IS and Putin's goons would have been natural allies. Russia's troops in Syria have fought IS in numerous bloody battles, including t...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 38 442 03-23-2024, 01:48 AM
    Thread: Moscow Terror Attack
Post: Moscow Terror Attack

An attack claimed by the Islamic State has caused over 40 dead and hundreds of injured people when a group of terrorist attacked a concert room in the suburbs of Moscow. Of course Ukraine and pro-Ukra...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 38 442 03-22-2024, 09:49 PM
    Thread: God can Ground Objective Morality
Post: RE: God can Ground Objective Morality

This argument seeks to draw a fundamental difference between God's nature to God's opinion of things. One's nature can be determined by one's deeply held opinion and behavior. That's why someone can s...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 89 877 03-22-2024, 09:18 PM
    Thread: Is Universal Basic Income a good solution for the future?
Post: RE: Is Universal Basic Income a good solution for ...

I think some form of UBI is inevitable as we leave capitalism as an economical system behind.
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 6 75 03-22-2024, 06:55 PM
    Thread: Who's dead now?
Post: RE: Who's dead now?

(03-21-2024, 12:54 PM)Gwaithmir Wrote: Sr. Edward Marguerite, the meanest, most abusive Catholic nun I ever had to study under. I recently ran across her name on the internet and discovered that she...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 2,230 129,793 03-21-2024, 01:50 PM
    Thread: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion
Post: RE: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion

(03-19-2024, 01:26 PM)SteveII Wrote: How is any 'objective' anything but an ought?! Objective morality has nothing to do with normative claims. Moral objectivity/ moral realism is the idea that mora...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 763 12,311 03-19-2024, 01:50 PM
    Thread: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion
Post: RE: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion

(03-18-2024, 01:59 PM)SteveII Wrote: Regarding objective morality, all atheist are in a single bundle: a method for grounding objective morality requires a transcendent law giver--something atheist ...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 763 12,311 03-18-2024, 02:13 PM
    Thread: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion
Post: RE: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion

(03-18-2024, 12:29 PM)SteveII Wrote: As I have listed in detail in my last post on the article, the three most popular naturalist metaethical views fail because they can't solve the normative proble...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 763 12,311 03-18-2024, 01:52 PM