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Nick

@m966021

Virtue Ethicist and Early Church History Nerd

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Joined June 2025
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Nick@m966021Oct 16
Christianity doesn't need souls! My new article on Christian Physicalism briefly sketches my view here. 🔗⬇️
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Economy so bad even free will has a price now
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Philosophical thought experiments be like: If five brain in a vats were tied to a trolley track would you push a fat man through a teletransporter to see if he is a P-Zombie?
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If you want someone to sound like a Pelagian, bring up universalism.
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Thinking about this argument for universalism.
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Did GE Moore ever consider his hand argument wouldn't work if he didn't have arms?
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For this Remembrance Day / Veteran's Day, let's remember to give peace a chance!
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'Philosophy is hard, I'm here to help' >Doesn't read it
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I wouldn't say I'm good at philosophy, let alone able to help others understand it, but I at least put in an effort to understand different positions.
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Philosophy was invented to sell more armchairs.
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Imagine saying this like it's a bad thing Anyway, read Noddings and Baier.
Thomistic Disputations (@TDisputations) profile pictureThomistic Disputations@TDisputationsNov 9
Modern morality is very female coded. Empathy, being nice, caring, etc.
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History major. I'm an empiricist. Kinda tracks.
Ball (@basedball_) profile pictureBall@basedball_Nov 10
Its very interesting how historic philosophers coming out of mathematics and hard-sciences were mostly Platonist-adjacent and rationalists. And most philosophers coming out of sociology, history, and economics were empiricist and positivists
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Guy who read is-ought Wikipedia page so thinks moral naturalism is debunked.
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If only there were books about defending normativity as a natural phenomenon....
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Elliott Not-So-Sober (@Leophilius) profile pictureElliott Not-So-Sober@LeophiliusNov 10
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If it's rooted in biological facts then “goodness” is descriptive, loses its normative force, and there is no notion of “goodness” left. Goodness is an intrinsically normative term. This is not begging the question. This is just understanding basics about evaluative language.
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Rough sketch for an argument that we can do good without grace.
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Intermediate logic Test! Is this valid?
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Phew. Good thing my worst heretical take is universalism.
Pope St. Leo the Great's student (@cappadocianist) profile picturePope St. Leo the Great's student@cappadocianistNov 10
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This is EXACTLY the intellectual hubris and heresy we dislike about DBH and universalist archheretics and reprobate blasphemers like Jordan Daniel Wood
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'Moral relativism is false.' 'Ah, so you believe in objective, universal moral laws?' No bro, that's a whole new sentence. What are you talking about.
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Many people misunderstand this line of critique. The issue is that the truth value of something doesn't depend on who is looking at. If that were the case, it could be simultaneously true and false, and this incoherent.
Nick (@m966021) profile pictureNick@m966021Nov 9
According to moral relativism, the premise 'Murder is wrong' can be true and false simultaneously, it just depends on the person/culture. But it cannot be true and false simultaneously! Thus, relativism is incoherent.
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Another problem related to this is that belief in propositions require justification, but any culture or person can believe moral propositions arbitrarily yet be right. But this is hard to justify as it seems like either irrational or non-rational 1/
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But if we want to have rational justification for our beliefs, that seems to require something beyond our cultural experiences or even arbitrarily held moral beliefs. As such, morality is not merely relative.
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