Philosophy

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1. Are looks subjective or objective?

   By Jot, October 16, 2016   

   • looks
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   • Kikker
   • October 18, 2016

2. Property Rights; Concept or Ideal?

   By RichardY, October 2, 2016
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   • dsayers
   • October 12, 2016

3. Going back to the basics - Question

   By NigelW, February 28, 2014
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   • NigelW
   • April 15, 2014

4. Mathematical aid for UPB-based ethics

   By crafn, March 14, 2016
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   • crafn
   • March 18, 2016

5. The Glossary of Virtue

   By MysterionMuffles, February 20, 2015
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   • Alice Amell
   • March 26, 2015

6. Help a Skeptical Moral Nihilist?

   By LogosBronte, October 28, 2016
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   • neeeel
   • January 12, 2017

7. What is goodness?

   By Mole, January 24, 2017   

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   • ethics
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   • Siegfried von Walheim
   • January 29, 2017

8. Inflexible Logic

   By Ravate, November 19, 2014
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   • Level_One
   • January 17, 2015

9. Columnist calls for gun confiscation, death of gun owners

   By Alan C., January 2, 2013
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   • Rusty
   • February 8, 2013

10. An good introduction to philosophy?

    By doc911, August 13, 2015   

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    • beginner
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    • jason_
    • August 14, 2015

11. Universally Permissible Interactions, or how I think about ethics.

    By Will Torbald, January 23, 2016   

    • morality
    • upb
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    • Will Torbald
    • January 23, 2016

12. Blood from a stone?

    By DoubtingThomas, June 29, 2013
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    • DoubtingThomas
    • July 4, 2013

13. Temporary Foreign Workers

    By TruthKillSheep, April 22, 2014
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    • tasmlab
    • April 29, 2014

14. Reselling ski lift ticket theft?

    By aleles, February 18, 2015
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    • aleles
    • February 21, 2015

15. Was I immoral today?

    By Josh Takacs, March 26, 2015
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    • wdiaz03
    • April 29, 2015

16. How should we introduce what we "believe" in?

    By Armitage, December 16, 2015   

    • philosophy
    • ideology
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    • shirgall
    • February 24, 2016

17. What is the Philosophy to life?

    By Freedom4TheVirtuous, April 22, 2015
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    • Nathan Metric
    • June 23, 2015

18. Simplest Explanation of Metaphysics

    By David Ottinger, October 16, 2014   

    • Metaphysics
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    • PatrickC
    • November 13, 2014

19. Responsibility for indirect certain effects of our actions

    By square4, March 3, 2014
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    • abcqwerty123
    • March 6, 2014

20. What do you think of Kant's categorical imperative?

    By labmath2, April 13, 2014
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    • greekredemption
    • April 16, 2014

21. Stephen Hawking tells Google ‘philosophy is dead’

    By Ashton, July 28, 2014
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    • AncapFTW
    • March 9, 2015

22. Removing the possibility of error.

    By Magnetic Synthesizer, October 17, 2015
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    • bugzysegal
    • October 20, 2015

23. Land ownership versus self-ownership

    By square4, May 4, 2015   

    • ethics
    • 12 replies
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    • Nathan Metric
    • May 10, 2015

24. "Country" and rebel freedom fighters

    By gwho, November 15, 2013   

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    • Existing Alternatives
    • December 16, 2013

25. Help Me Understand UPB

    By David Foster, September 2, 2013   

    • UPB
    • Morality
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    • TDB
    • December 30, 2013

26. UPB - A Scientific Approach to Evaluating Moral Propositions

    By EclecticIdealist, April 27, 2016
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    • EclecticIdealist
    • May 8, 2016

27. An Earnest Approach, a campaign to search for answer and

    By Burn Giordano, January 16, 2013
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    • TruthahnDerRuin
    • March 3, 2013

28. Accuracy compared to what?

    By NigelW, September 20, 2014
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    • NigelW
    • September 23, 2014

29. Could the Natzies have won the War ? (hypothetical)

    By aFireInside, May 22, 2014
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    • aFireInside
    • May 25, 2014

30. God said take what you want and pay for it .

    By RichardY, May 5, 2016
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    • Des
    • May 6, 2016

31. Winning & Losing

    By jpahmad, April 9, 2014
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    • jpahmad
    • April 11, 2014

32. NAP -- Prescriptive vs Descriptive Distinction

    By David Ottinger, October 29, 2014   

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    • NAP
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      • non-aggression principle
      • is-ought
      • Humes Law
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    • dsayers
    • October 30, 2014

33. Moral Absolutes, Slippery Slopes, Two-Headed Horses...

    By onyomi, July 11, 2013
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    • Hugh Akston
    • July 24, 2013

34. Voting, the initiation of force?

    By Duart, March 1, 2015   

    • voting
    • force
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    • Jer
    • March 6, 2015

35. Drowning Child Example

    By LovePrevails, September 19, 2016
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    • Boss
    • October 15, 2016

36. The Reality Of Universal Love: Darwin and Christ reconciled

    By PillPuppetPoet, September 11, 2018
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    • Jsbrads
    • October 3, 2018

37. The Prime Directive

    By flazak, April 24, 2016
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    • Lars
    • April 29, 2016

38. Succinct/Practicle UPB/Do Unto Others

    By Patrick Stephen Mangan, June 22, 2014
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    • Patrick Stephen Mangan
    • July 10, 2014

39. A Little Truth

    By Zerubbabel, December 11, 2014   

    • UPB
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    • Zerubbabel
    • December 13, 2014

40. Difference between Ethics and Morality in UPB

    By orodriguez, October 19, 2013   

    • ethics
    • morality
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    • orodriguez
    • November 4, 2013

41. Core point of view test. 1 question poll (anonymous)

    By A4E, April 13, 2016
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    • EclecticIdealist
    • April 26, 2016

42. Everybody is Normal Until You Get to Know Them

    By MysterionMuffles, December 13, 2013
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    • MysterionMuffles
    • December 24, 2013

43. Animal Abuse

    By Philosphorous, March 20, 2014
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    • PatrickC
    • April 17, 2014

44. Morality: Objective or Subjective?

    By Jamesican, April 28, 2015   

    • Morals
    • Morality
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    • Lars
    • April 30, 2015

45. "why are you so unreasonable"

    By cab21, February 25, 2014
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    • Kevin Beal
    • February 26, 2014

46. Epistemological Hierarchy

    By Donnadogsoth, October 5, 2016
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    • Donnadogsoth
    • October 27, 2016

47. Why is the word "Liberalism" being conflated with "Egalitarianism" in America?

    By Arsene, May 16, 2016
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    • AnarchoNEET
    • May 21, 2016

48. The Nature of Being and Substance Theory.

    By RichardY, April 20, 2017
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    • RichardY
    • May 21, 2017

49. The concept of Alphas and Betas in humans AND wolves is incorrect.

    By NameName, August 30, 2014
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    • luxfelix
    • September 6, 2014

50. What is human qua human?

    By Donnadogsoth, September 13, 2015
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    • Magnetic Synthesizer
    • September 14, 2015