Philosophy Now Forum

Anyone else smells natural fallacy here? Nope. The natural fallacy would be if Prof approved of something simply because it was "good" (i.e. exemplifies its nature). The SUV example should have clued you into this; Prof's hypothetical environmentalist notes that the SUV is "good"...

I haven't heard this one in years!! And I thank you as I'd forgotten it and how nice it sounds but I don't thank you for how many are going to jump on this band-wagon now. Thanks for your enthusiasm, although I seriously doubt we'll have many people on this particular bandwagon. The problems I have...

OK, my point being that there is much that we don't know, i.e., mind, consciousness, origins of the universe, theory of everything, etc. So could it be that any decision to say what it's not or what it is, is purely conjecture at this point, and thus not really worth arguing. Of course this is true...

I agree with Aristotle that happiness is the ultimate end-in-itself; it's the only thing we want for its own sake. Everything else, we want for the sake of happiness (i.e. because we think it will bring us happiness). Human beings seem to look for happiness in the strangest of places. And most of us...