Ethics sucks

[Anonymous No.18338520]

What is the most brainlet branch of philosophy and why is it ethics?

[Anonymous No.18338546]

>>18338520
It's the easiest to read up on, discuss, and debate about. Every abstract principle in ethics can be immediately applied to our practical everyday lives, not so much the same for epistemology and metaphysics.

People practice everyday. Choosing whether or not to get up in the morning is an ethical choice.

[Anonymous No.18338570]

>>18338546
Except nobody ever reads a book on ethics and feels it to be so life changing that they immediately alter their day to day lifestyle because of it.

[Anonymous No.18338571]

Ethics.

[Anonymous No.18338582]

metaphysics is brainlet shit

its all unverifiable

[Anonymous No.18338593]

>>18338546
fpbp
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[Anonymous No.18338601]

>>18338582
nice metaphysics nigertoes. Neither is ethics. Most antimetaphysicians have their own implicit metaphysics anyway.

[Anonymous No.18338604]

lol

[Anonymous No.18338606]

>>18338582
It may not be falsifiable but metaphysicians always offer insight into the nature of the universe.

[Anonymous No.18338615]

>>18338520
Ethics isn't a branch. It's just reality. They aren't separated

[Anonymous No.18338704]

>>18338615

Ethics is applied moral rules. So you can't really talk about ethics without talking about morality and implicitly about the source of the moral rules, which have to be rooted either in rational metaphysics (like christian morality) or transcedental idealism (kant)

[Anonymous No.18338717]

>>18338704

Wow look, seems like ethics is rooted in metaphysics. I guess metaphysics is for cucks too.

[Anonymous No.18338918]

>>18338520
Political Philosophy.

[Anonymous No.18339036]

>>18338604
lmao, dis nigga got a bump on his head

[Anonymous No.18339531]

>>18338520
Because it's based on emotions.
>everyone must be happy, right?
Ultimate ethics are based around evolutionary psychology that isn't really a philosophical field but rather a science based on empiricism.

[Anonymous No.18339568]

>>18338520
The biggest problem with ethics is that all of the foundational works ascribe entirely too much agency to humans that science now shows we do not have. People respond according to their biological dictates and incentives, not conscious choice.

[Anonymous No.18339578]

>>18338520
Ethics is only brainlet when in the hands of thinkers like Mill.

[Anonymous No.18339603]

>>18339568
Yeah, people like you just can't stop talking about things they don't know.

[Anonymous No.18339615]

>>18339603
Read Kahneman, bro.

[Anonymous No.18339663]

>>18339615
Why read this charlatan? Psychology isn't real.

[Anonymous No.18339673]

>>18338570
Not true.

[Anonymous No.18339680]

>>18339663
It's as real as the terror you're feeling right now at the prospect that you're little more than an ant in a colony controlled by the queen's pheromones.

[Anonymous No.18339686]

>>18338604
a blood vessel burst from seething

[Anonymous No.18339739]

>>18339568
humans are selected as a social species. Adaptations of particular "biological dictates and incentives" in the individual, which govern interactions between humans and how said interactions are structured, will tend towards strengthening the species.
I think the idea of revenge is one of those adaptations, it's rooted in something implicit in the body as well as the mind. It acts as a natural deterrent to murder in tribal societies, especially ones that use a neolithic "eye for an eye" code. Where families can avenge murders and rape.

[Anonymous No.18339755]

>>18339680
Not really, because I know you're not right, heh.

[Anonymous No.18340219]

>>18339673
That's what ethicists want to believe and how they justify their "philosophy" as not a complete waste of time.

[Anonymous No.18340246]

>>18338520
It's the only branch of philosophy with practical import.
>>18338570
Wrong but what different do you think this makes?