Apollodorus

Nobody is disputing that. As I said before, I was talking about reliable accounts, e.g. family, friends, trustworthy persons who're simply relating ve...

Well, Platonism is a philosophy more than a religion. It is true that in those days philosophy and religion were closely interlinked but that isn't my...

Good try. However, well-being includes spiritual well-being and that is achieved by following the teachings of the Gospels. You seem to forget that tr...

I think Hegel needs to be taken in the right historical context. His "statism" was a reaction to the French Revolution that promoted individualism whi...

That was exactly my opinion. Marxists come up with fantastic stories of replacing capitalism with paradise on earth, only to end up with something ver...

That remains to be seen. I'm in no hurry.

It's a common misconception, understandably held by atheists, materialists and communists, that a soul without a physical body has no body. The fact i...

I doubt there would be any need for that as many seem to have already been lobotomized by Covid-19 and by reading too many Marxist fairy tales. The nu...

I'm not sure what you believe to have "raised" as we haven't noticed anything.

I don’t actually frequent online forums much, for the simple reason that I haven’t got the time. I only came across this one while I was working with ...

They do indeed. But the main concern in Platonic philosophy is justice or righteousness. The ideal government or political system is one guided by the...

As I said, I agree. Agreement and consensus and, above all, commonsense are without doubt of the essence.

That's exactly what I meant. Good to see that we agree.

I bet great scientists like Mao Zedong would have said something similar.

Extremely ludicrous. My guess is that science and society in general are influenced by materialistic and atheistic systems in many different ways. As ...

Correct. Humans are social creatures. They learn from each other and learning or study groups do assist in this process. The thing is that people ofte...

In Politeia, Plato presents an account of the adventures of the war hero Er. The story begins as a man named Er, son of Armenios of Pamphylia, dies in...

Well, one thing doesn't necessarily exclude the other. If consciousness can operate outside of and independently from the physical body, then both sce...

Correct. What seems to be happening here is that some people have decided in advance that reincarnation is impossible, irrational and evil, and that a...

It all began with threads like "Democracy vs Socialism" (started by others) where some comments seemed to suggest that socialism, including Marxism is...

Well, I was going to address this but the discussion went a bit off track and I had other things to do. I will try to explain. In the last hundred yea...

Not at all. Your second statement doesn't follow from the first. If only a few people claim to have memories of previous lives this may simply mean th...

Sorry but I think that's a (deliberate?) misinterpretation of my comment. Marx was not an Anarchist, he was a Statist at least in the Socialist phase....

Marx said very clearly that the socialist state which is a transitional phase from capitalism to communism is a dictatorship (Critique of the Gotha Pr...

Correct. Didn't Socrates say that he couldn't understand why the oracle called him the wisest man? Philosophy as understood in Ancient Greece was a wa...

Correct. Christianity at least believes in the rule of law, Communism doesn't. Marx himself wrote that the concept of the rule of law is "obsolete ver...

I fully agree with that. Otherwise we can easily start imagining that we are "God's brother" or something and maybe one day even that we are another "...

However, that applies equally, if not more so, to Communism and other atheistic systems. Millions died because Stalin and Mao imagined that the agricu...

I think you're jumping to unexamined conclusions there. I never said "in the absence of concern". What I said is that concern for a person's spiritual...

However, there is an extensive literature on the inconsistencies of Marxist theories and concepts and in my experience objective academics tend to ack...

Sadly, this seems to be the case here.

Sure. But Marx borrowed copiously. Even the Communist Manifesto (1848) was largely based on the Manifesto of Democracy in the 19th Century (1847) by V...

That's a perfectly reasonable approach. However, when I say "reliable accounts" I mean reliable accounts i.e. accounts that are about as close to esta...

Yes, there are many paths to the same goal.

Please do. I think what you're referring to is what the Bible might call "righteous struggle" or "good fight": "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hol...

That pretty much encapsulates what philosophy is about. As for reincarnation, and I think this also touches on @Jack Cummins' observation, it was a th...

That makes sense to me.

I don't. I only said that he attacked Christian communists for whom love of God and the neighbor was a central issue. That seemed to have rattled your...

The Greeks were practical people. To be wise (sophos) meant to be clever or skillful in practical things. But the gods were acknowledged to be wiser o...

Oh, really? You may twist and bend it as much as you like but I'm talking about the approach here, not about a person's beliefs. Social anthropology i...

Well, I did say "Christian philosophers" so I'm taking a religious-philosophical approach if you don't mind. But seeing that you’re into social anthro...

That's a pretty anecdotal statement in itself the way I see it.

Correct. As testified by trustworthy people, "paranormal experience" such as telepathy, clairvoyant dreams and the like, rare though it may be, does e...

Correct. However, what is interesting and I think important, is that "love thy neighbor" doesn't seem to be an absolute law as it is qualified in very...

I don’t think the Communists got rid of God. They tried but they failed. But the point I was making was that there are two important distinctions to b...

I think it wouldn't be wrong to assume this to be the case. As already stated, the reason I chose to describe soul as "intelligent energy" or "conscio...

So we agree then.

That’s an interesting statement. I was just flicking through Communist writings to see what Communists had to say about love. For example, Moses Hess ...

“Socialists from Marx and Engels onwards have always held that with the establishment of Socialism the State will disappear” The Withering Away of the...

I think he's saying that many children report being somebody else or describe things connected to a recently deceased person that they wouldn't have a...