This is a superthread of material related to the project I call an atheology of love, a moral and spiritual philosophy I'm developing around the idea that love can function as a source of subjective meaning and value on premises of atheism, naturalism, and moral error theory.
Pretty cool that God just gives me what I want. I want an eternity of love and awe-filled pursuit of the mystery of being. Thanks God, that's really cool.
@SpeedWatkins Reasons are a philosophical category error. People do things for reasons, and the reasons are desires guided by beliefs. Independently of these reasons, the concept of "reasons", as moral realists would like to offer it to us, is an empty pretense.
@foolmealex Least respected taboo ever. I happily shoot my shot with customers and coworkers. It's never a problem because I'm actually respectful to everyone.
@SProviso69292@FSMincho@ThePhysicsMemes@grok Yeah, that's the way it's constructed. I'm not sure why though. Sometimes it's written as each number just containing the previous number.
@m966021 I agree in moral and practical considerations, but we also need to be able to abstract ourselves from the picture in order to understand systems that exist or operate independently of us.
I'm pretty sure that David Hume did not write that nothing exists except for sense data. Feel free to correct me! But his epistemological, moral, and metaphysical skepticism have been extremely influential, influencing Kant to develop transcendental idealism and deontology among other things.
The image is a Venn diagram of the set theoretical representation of the number 4. 0 is the empty set, 1 is the set whose only member is 0, 2 is the set whose only members are 0 and 1, and so on. This tracks the Peano construction of the non-negative integers with the successor function.