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"ontic's advice is good re: problems approaches, which are much more popular now (that's how I've done my degree). If you want to go for a more historical route, start with the following. For Greece, read Plato and Aristotle. You can buy Plato's..." [
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"you don't have to look far to find morally corrupt clergy members.
But the very fact that we recognize them as corrupt undermines your point." [
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"Morality is, to them, by definition, a Holy-owned subsidiary.
*swoons*
In actual fact most theists do not take their moral beliefs directly from scripture, and in practice have very similar moral beliefs to most atheists, which further shows..." [
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"Yeah, this question is a mess. Suffice it to say that there are a lot of issues raised by your question. This, for example, is fallacious:
Obviously our sense of morality has changed through out history, so what reason is there to believe that..." [
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"From Korea: jeong. It's hard to describe, but this pdf does a decent job of it." [
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"*wants an RSS feed of Pater Aletheias' comments*
Seriously, folks, it's good reading. If, like me, you skip the "lol xians" threads, take another look...." [
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"“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”
-Aeschylus (via Robert F. Kennedy)..." [
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"Take your persecution complex to a less sycophantic website.
...after which Saucy Intruder goes on to complain about being persecuted by the MeFi masses who bow to authority. Look, Saucy Intruder, here's an analogy. If you don't see why you're..." [
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"Lots of bad defenses of eating meat here. If you eat meat, just say it: I don't care enough about animal suffering to alter my eating habits. If that's what you believe, admit it. Don't rationalize your actions with bullshit arguments about..." [
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"I'm really curious how the two correlate for everyone. I fall into camp 3 for both.
Me too. But this is one of those areas where liberalism splits with progressivism. To the extent that this is a useful distinction, progressives tend to go with..." [
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"...but do you really feel that the story of Oedipus was a moral tale?
Of course it is. Oedipus makes no sense otherwise; his actions are inexplicable. That's not to say that Sophocles gives us an answer. There's a sense in which Oedipus is..." [
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