But maybe we can use an assumption about purpose—why are there human affective phenomena? 🤷🏻‍♀️—as a #teleological principle to guide 🧭 the construction of a common set of 🌟 metaphysical & 🔗 mechanistic assumptions: a #framework for human affective research! 🧮 {3/12}

Thought of the day:

#Solutions are inherently #teleological and that’s probably why there are no perfect solutions to problems with physical elements.  (Including living systems that depend on physical elements, whatever we imagine the nature of life is.)

Most people are unaccustomed to considering moral issues, at all, in any sort of systematic, scientific, logical manner, but that is, after all, what the study of #Philosophy entails, and #Politics is merely "Applied #Morality", so the terms "deontology" and "teleology" are unfamiliar to them.

A #deontological morality determines rectitude by logical derivation from axioms and postulates, whereas a #teleological morality is one which determines rectitude by intentions or consequences.

150 (or so) Arguments for #Atheism

"A popular view in contemporary #analytic #philosophy of #religion is that while there are many arguments for #theism -- #cosmological, #ontological, and #teleological arguments; #moral arguments; arguments from #consciousness; etc. (...) -- there are only one or two arguments for atheism, viz., the problem of #evil and (more recently) the argument from #divine hiddenness.

This is a misconception. Here are well over 150"

http://exapologist.blogspot.com/2022/06/120-or-so-arguments-for-atheism.html

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