OK. So the pain and, presumably, the sharp glass are real but they are not "out there" but "in here", where the perception of pain, and the mental ana...
The possibility of doubt is always there until we have reached certainty. And yes, phronesis is practical wisdom. And so is sophia. Ancient philosophy...
Well, Plato's philosophy is a way of life. It is about the cultivation of virtues; of "doing was is beneficial to the soul" as opposed to being too co...
However, in general, it would be difficult to follow too many different paths at the same time, for the simple reason that each path requires a certai...
Not only that, but even in terms of finding our own way toward the attainment of wisdom, we cannot do it in complete isolation but need at least from ...
That depends. Just because Finland and Sweden were keen to join, it doesn't mean it applies to all European countries. The idea of a united Europe com...
I'm not entirely sure about "shown". Personally, I don't recall being shown or even told how the brain produces sensory cognition, for example. And I ...
Yes, they might even converge, becoming one path. Entirely possible. But it would be still one path. One goes up again by the same or a different one ...
I never said to "follow external authorities" in the sense of entering into some form of master-disciple relationship, only to refer to them as a gene...
Science, yes. Unfortunately, most people have no knowledge of science. If everything were so well-known, clear-cut, and non-mysterious, then presumabl...
"Guess work" was a slight exaggeration. However, if there is "a lot we don't know yet", then what we think we know may not be true after all. Or it ma...
The pain itself probably is not guessing since we seem to experience it. The guessing seems to come into it when we are trying to explain how contact ...
Is Russia's Dialogue with the EU Coming to an End? - The Moscow Times So, you can see that the plan for Russian integration into the EU was hatched at...
Correct. When it comes to things like consciousness, how it operates, and how it produces cognition, perception, experience, etc. it is all guess work...
Foreign Secretary David Miliband spoke of the integration of Russia and the Ukraine back in 2007: - David Miliband Speech at College of Europe, Bruges...
You need to start by understanding the Mediterranean Union project. The primary intention was to do it by economic means. You start with economic coop...
Well, IMHO there is nothing wrong with disagreement. You are right that there is only one path to wisdom in a Christian context as there is only one p...
Ataraxia can get you anywhere. You need to take the beginning, the center, and the end, i.e., "s", "o", ph", "i", "a", and discard the "ch", "i", "z",...
I agree. However, the path of humility and obedience is voluntary. No one was forced to become a monk. There was a trial period during which both the ...
France and England had enough military power to deal with any Arab state. Even more so, with NATO involvement. You should perhaps start by reading the...
I agree. But the spiritually unenlightened or unevolved is like a child until he or she has evolved. The children of God (ta tekna tou Theou) must gro...
Correct. The supreme example of humility and obedience to a higher reality. Humility and obedience were central to the early monastic orders. Without ...
Being loud doesn't count as "aggressive" in my view. You sometimes get groups of teenage girls that have had a few drinks and are a bit loud, and some...
The Russians said, "you mess with us, we mess with you". They sided with Turkey, took over Syria, and messed up the whole Mediterranean Union plan tha...
Union means union, economic, cultural, and eventually, political. Read the official EU documents. Oil extraction and distribution would be done by Wes...
Correct. American corporations led by the Rockefellers' Harvard Management Company and Goldman Sachs. And their European partners. I didn't say all th...
Are you practicing your Buddhist sophistry, sorry, debating, skills on us? :grin: Logic was just emerging and every system of rational thought is base...
I agree. Totally useless or, rather, self-interested politicians. However, I think the story is a bit more complex than that and it's got to do with t...
We'll have to disagree on that then :grin: Nothing wrong with being loud if they are being themselves, is there? Even Spaniards and Italians can be lo...
Yes, I think something along those lines is probably true. I don't think I quite agree with that. Louder than other English-speaking women, e.g., Engl...
I never said she was. And even if she was, I'm not interested, period. There is no legal requirement for me to justify not liking her shows. I can't i...
Well, I disagree. Ancient Greek mythos is not the same as Modern English myth. It is simply an account or narrative intended to illustrate an argument...
I think what you are saying makes a lot of sense, actually, and I agree with you. Personally, I tend to react negatively more to people’s actions than...
Exactly. In some cases. As I have said many times before, and as long shown by scholars like A E Taylor (Plato: The Man And His Work) and others, Plat...
I definitely agree with this. The fact that there is no scientific definition or proof of something, does not mean that it does not exist. There are p...
Correct. I'm not sure about the implications of "cannot know" though. Possibly, "do not know" is somehow less strong and more impartial. And, of cours...
You really find male voices overpowering and intimidating? I am asking because when I eat out in a busy restaurant, for example, what I tend to hear i...
You are probably in the right place at the right time then :grin: But you are right, enlightenment or illumination does imply some form of diminution ...
My understanding is that the OP is about Socrates and how concepts like "enlightened", "rational", "virtuous" can be defined in the context of the Soc...
That's what I'm saying. If there were a genuine will to communicate and to live peacefully and in unity and harmony, presumably there would be less cr...
I get that. I was just curious how talking about women comes to evoke a feeling of "disgust". But, as you say, it doesn't matter. As a matter of fact,...
I think "religious preachers" is a bit exaggerated. Plato, in any case, is working with religious ideas that were already current at the time. Like ot...
"Factious"? I am merely pointing to the reality on the ground. We are divided by many things. Politics is just one of them and exemplifies the situati...
Well, I don’t think it is “my view” or “interpretation” in this case at all. Divine illumination is a key element of Greek philosophy in general and o...
Wikipedia and Aristotle may say many things. However, just because they say something, it doesn’t follow that Plato and Platonism are wrong. The soul’...
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