Sure, you can lie. Of course the Kantians might object.
Yes, that’s certainly one way to look at it. You can watch the news from day to day and argue that philosophy has no role to play in it. That when folks like Plato and Aristotle explored, among other things, ethics and politics it all revolved formally/epistemologically around philosophical realism.
But then…
Note to others:
A Satyr by any other name?
When have I ever argued otherwise? Instead, my argument pertains more “for all practical purposes” to the “use value” and the “exchange value” of intellectual contraptions like this out in the world that we interact in. And, in particular, when those interactions come into conflict.
Again, you seem convinced that the role of the philosophers here is to just punt everything to the politicians.
And yet even here I agree. It’s just that some folks embrace a particular moral and political narrative/agenda that revolves around one or another rendition of “right makes might”. And while they may not justify being “one of us” by way of a philosophical argument, they still huff and puff at those they deem “one of them” as though there really was a way in which to differentiate right from wrong, good from evil.
Some do this “naturally” by way of this:
1] I am rational
2] I am rational because I have access to the ideal
3] I have access to the ideal because I grasp the one true nature of the objective world
4] I grasp the one true nature of the objective world because I am rational
But not you? You just somehow, what, “intuit” that you’re right?
On the contrary, my reaction here is that this is, well, reasonable. I merely root it instead in the manner in which I construe the meaning of dasein, conflicting goods and political economy.
And then to folks like you I try to probe what unfolds “in your head” when your own values come into conflict with others. How are you not entangled in my dilemma?
After all, perhaps one day I will come upon a frame of mind that allows me to yank myself up out of it.
Again:
How do you claim that the world is when your own values do come in conflict with others? How are reasonable men and women able to make a proper distinction here when it comes to rewarding or punishing particular behaviors?
Cite some examples.[/b]
And just when I thought we were actually going to exchange some philosophy!
I think I’ve specifically stated to you on multiple occasions that I’m not interested in any conversation with you at all. So while I wish it was “kaput”, it’s probably not because you’re a weird stalker who insists on trying to force people to talk to you when they don’t want to. I don’t think it’ll be long before you’re back in another thread, copying and pasting the same thing. Seeking approval from your invisible audience, and with your fingers in your ears.
Consistency is hard to beat, but not al consistency goes somewhere.
We all are compulsive in our consistencies, some more than others, but we all have our straight, unbreakable lines, which if they are bent or broken in some event, release tremendous amounts of energy to reshape out life.