/lit/ - Literature

Here are two of King Akhnaten’s and Queen Nefertiti’s pre-nubile Nile daughters (that royal couple had a litter of six), wearing nothing but many necklaces of bright beads, relaxed on cushions, intact after three thousand years, with their soft brown puppybodies, cropped hair and long ebony eyes.

cool technique for poetry, songwriting, and sloganmaking: butcher the spelling of words in a text message window (use "ph" instead of "f", "s" instead of "c", etc.) and use the autocorrect suggestions to find words & phrases that rhyme.

example: "selfie" and "Delphi"

>Abstract objects
other: nominalism, potentialities that are actualized in speech, action, and qualities of character
>Aesthetic value
other: inner-social and inter-subjective categories
>Analytic-synthetic distinction
yes, nominally
>External world
non-skeptical realism
>Free will
other: skepticism about classical deterministic thought
>God
other: aesthetic category
>Knowledge
other: dialectics
>Mind
other: skepticism about the possibility of an epistemology
>Normative ethics
virtue ethics, emergent inter-subjective justice
>Politics
other: constructivism, philanthropy

Let's get a moral realism thread going.

Obviously there is such a thing as "morality"-- we have a word for it.

What is the nature of this thing called "morality"? Is it nominal? Universal? Is it natural to humans? Or is it artificial to humans- viz., do humans construct it?

How is morality actualized? Through thought or action? Through gestures or contracts?

And what of moral qualities? Are "virtues" and "vices" real traits of an individual identity? How do these traits exist, metaphysically speaking? More, what is "identity", and what is its relation to action? Are "virtues" and "vices" words to describe habit? Habits of what? Of thought? Of action?

Is there a such thing as moral progress or regress? How can we improve ourselves, morally speaking?

Be sure to mention what kind of conceptual schema your description of morality relies upon. Where does morality fit into the whole of human experience? Where is its place in epistemology? And what of aesthetics? Are morality and aesthetics at all related? After all, morality is generally taken to be within the purview of human valuation/value judgments. So, what is the conceptual nature of morality in a broader, axiological context?

And what about linguistically? Morality usually implements terms like "good" and "bad". Do "good" and "bad" in the moral sense share their meaning with other usage of "good" and "bad" in common parlance? Do you think that morality can be descriptive, or does morality necessarily implicate "prescriptive" or "normative" language?

And, finally, if morality is a thing held in common by humans, where does morality fit into a sociological and political framework? Do leaders lead the State's construction of morality, or does the State reflect the morality of the people? Different cultures doubtlessly reflect systems of morality that differ from one another... why is this? But, simultaneously, there are common threads amidst the moralities of different cultures... why's that?

Let us hear it, /lit/.