What is your view on free will.
I am a bit on the fence on free will on the moment and am currently going through research of it as I am trying to depart the emotional aspect from free will.
As for my current and most substantiated stance I am a hard determinist and find no reason to believe in free will. I find free will in conflict with the Big Bang Theory and also with the initial premise of the Teleological Argument and the badly worded Kalam Cosmological argument.
If we as humans are created by a singular or multitude of causes them any set of interactions that sucede after it are all calculable and measurable as a result of initial occurrence. Whether you remove all gods, only have one god or any number of gods the same conclusion can be reached.
What is your view on morals i.e. right vs wrong.
I am a strong support of virtue ethics and Stoicism and I am a staunch opponent of care ethics and consequentialism.
Care ethics promotes coddling and a normative to cater to all groups and appeal to external forces that although may not be immoral but become dangerous psychologically or socially taxing. It would be like catering to a delusional person and ensuring his delusions no matter how ridiculous seem real.
Consequentialism does not lead one to any form of universality and ultimately does not hold weight when one is by themselves and free of moral obligations to external forces be it people or the state.
Virtue and Stoic ethics when dismantled promote an ethical system that is inward and promotes the uplifting of an individual and the withdrawal of external factors completely. To denounce unproductivity and promote positive character that can only exercise the mental faculties that will posit benefits without relying or altering external ones. Under this ethical viewpoint everything from murder, masturbation, and wedlock becomes immoral as one is not reaching the ethical minimum to ensure positive results towards one mental fortitude and production of moral reciprocation.
Posit the fact that a child is born out of wedlock and without the institution of marriage one cannot ensure at least a minimum effort to ensure one is not afflicted by responsibility and also more successful at achieving responsibility. Marriage would be more beneficial as it would ensure stability for the child and provide responsibility for the parents as responsibility is a virtue and gift in of itself as it leads to productivity. Indeed if the maximum is not achievable then the very minimum given the circumstances must be made. Under such a system forgiveness would be charity and anger would be akin to murder making minimums and maximums of ethical behavior more defined and absolutive in conceptions of facing morals dilemmas.
Topics I like like, so what topics do you like to discuss?
I like philosophy and politics mostly. I spend a lot of my time going through this and you are asking great questions my friend
. If you think I gave an inadequate response please tell me until you get the response you are satisfied with. I do believe it is your right to understand the people you have discourse with.
