Your points regarding the differences between the views are well taken. My purpose in bringing up Kierkegaard, however, was that he underscores how th...
I wouldn't say that this redemptive action is completely missing in Paul. The community of Christians is said to be the new chosen people. The way the...
I wasn't thinking of it in terms of whether a god can suffer but focusing on the claim that Paul's encounter with the resurrected Jesus was with the o...
An interesting quality in Zhuangzi is how the big questions of what should be predicated of the world keep being interrupted by perceptions of why som...
Your first and last paragraphs make sense of the differences between views. I am not sure if the middle paragraph does. The focus on suffering is clea...
It should be noted that Paul himself readily admits the differences between a resurrected savior and the expectations of the Messiah as was hoped for ...
Well, at least we can agree that your interpretation is not tenable if Book Lambda is a legitimate expression of Aristotle's thought. There is a hefty...
This is not an argument against your thesis but something that may be worth considering. The call to embrace a view of the natural is said to be in co...
You have yet to provide the support for this statement. I have seen some commentary regarding this topic in various writings but you have not attempte...
In this case, the game is trying to understand what certain texts are trying to say. All the players are interpreters. If one does not understand what...
Well, I do not mean to claim as much. I cannot judge as irrational what I cannot conceive of in my own terms. There is always the possibility that I a...
To argue that one's interlocutor has not studied enough is an abandonment of a thesis made upon its own merits. Admitting that one's arguments are use...
The Categories does point out that what can be predicated as a quality requires a primary substance, an individual being, without whom referring to qu...
One interesting element in the period of the Warsaw Pact was the development of a trading bloc through such instruments as the Council for Mutual Econ...
Enough for what? If what Jefferson is saying here is correct, we are not in a condition where any particular solution will suffice for all time. There...
They did not free the slaves at first. The contradictions did lead to a reckoning of the sort Martin Luther King Jr. emphasized. The constitution did ...
While I am interested in those ideas as my forum name might suggest, I was referring to the specific people In Kansas and Missouri who killed each oth...
There is no doubt that slavery was a successful capital development plan for many investors in it. There were benefactors of the system in both the No...
I think the following accounts are true: Methodists divide before the war. Presbyterians divide before the war. Calvinists divide before the war. It i...
That is not the case. The major denominations divided during the years before the war Outside of the churches, the intellectual environment of Aboliti...
Aristotle relates the telos of individuals to the fulfillment of their kind of being, as noted in the quote given above. I will add the passage that p...
In the passage from Book Lambda I cite above, the element of causality of what Aristotle finds to missing from Plato's good: " And those who posit the...
Continuing from my first comment on the theme, I will try to approach Plato's views of the good. Reading Book 6 of the Republic after reviewing Aristo...
In order to compare Aristotle's' and Plato's views of the good, it may be best to start with Aristotle's rejection of the 'form of the good' in which ...
There are interesting points of comparison and contrast between Plato's 'idea of the good' and Aristotle's use of 'final causes'. Declaring they are i...
Thank you for directing my attention toward Blumenberg. After having searched for his writings, I am going to read some his work on fables, myths, and...
Yes, one might suppose the level of destruction might disrupt the vision of a negotiated space. I suppose we will have the luxury of determining the l...
In regards to what is at stake for China to invade Taiwan, look at that map to see how much China imports from Taiwan. China already has the problem o...
Augustine synthesized a Neo-Platonist view of the cosmos with the Pauline vision of a world torn asunder by the struggle between good and evil where m...
I get the part about no guarantees. I don't think promises are what is on offer in the Theaetetus text. We don't know much about what is going on. We ...
I was looking at the connection as way for the autocracy of the regime to be seen as serving the culture of the believers. Whatever sincerity may or n...
The dialogue continues to say the one we are living on, seeking the good as much as possible or suffering the cost of not trying. The dialogue of that...
MU's explanation does not touch upon his claim regarding knowingly doing evil. Consider the following regarding intentions which obviously are the sou...
The significance in the context of this invasion is the similarity of Putin's embrace of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Falangists who used the Ro...
It is difficult for me as well. Whatever one might make of the brutal methods of the USSR, Putin's close connection to the Russian Orthodox Church sho...
A full reading of the Pensées shows the wager is not simply placing a bet on a yes-or-no proposition but is a reflection of the human condition in whi...
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