No accusations were made...I was spewing nonsense. Let's discuss "philosophy has failed to create a better world" First off, science is a rather ungra...
Think of it, the Bible touches upon subjects as mutually exclusive, apparently, as sexuality and cosmology; that, if anything, suggests that the autho...
There are two things to consider here. One is genius as measured with an intelligence test and genius in terms of a person's usually groundbreaking wo...
As per Cartesian skepticism, the only thing we can be certain of is our mind, the rest, the physical world included, could be nothing more than an ill...
An intriguing fact that Libet needs to consider is that in all cases we feel the intent preceding the act i.e. even for the subject in his experiment ...
Do you suppose that the Abrahmic religions are not about morality and are about something else entirely and we've completely missed the point of these...
We don't have a choice or, more accurately, it doesn't help the case for free will based on dualism for the simple reason that brain activity precedes...
It's not a non sequitur. There's little to disagree on when it comes to the matter of the prophets of the Abrahamic triad being pioneers in ethics in ...
So, what we have here are basically two events: 1. R = The brain recording of an intent (to flex a hand) as observed by the experimenter 2. I = The in...
If you ask me, there's an issue/a problem with that approach - the one where we look for a "cell" - because such a project functions under the assumpt...
First and foremost, a particle is an idea, the idea that matter is composed of tiny allegedly indivisible units. This idea is ancient and harks back t...
The accusation would be meaningful only if it were true that philosophy - its core lessons - were as commonplace as the TV - to be found, without exce...
The linguistic turn isn't over to my knowledge. Perhaps a transformation it underwent in recent years makes you think that way - it may have changed s...
While I think @"fishfry"'s answer is the best I wonder whether "may include" has an independent logical meaning that would require separate considerat...
Well, that music and suffering are connected at a deeper level seems, from my musings for what they're worth, plausible. Joy, in my humble opinion, is...
This, my friend, is the right question. Morality doesn't make sense even for the best philosophers as you must already know. Let's get the facts strai...
I'm simply pointing out that the the beginning of anything, including ethics, will consist of missteps, faltering, stumbling, fumbling, teetering and ...
This is what I meant by how Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed were limited by extant social, cultural, political paradigms. They all had a vision of greatnes...
Politics and religion, the nexus between them, is not what I want to discuss. What I want for you to do, if you feel yourself up to it, is give your v...
From what I can gather, it looks like people were fed up, exasperated as it were, by the continual appearance of tyrants, bigots and despots in the po...
All that you mention - the politicizing of religion - came much later, after religion was an entity in its own right. Of course, given how useful it i...
It just seems so out of character for a book compiler even at that time to include in a tome mutually contradictory accounts, beliefs, positions, what...
The point, if there's one, is this: people were grappling with two issues viz. ethics and, how can I put it, that which has no name, the so-called Has...
Religion, whatever said and done, seems to have, on the whole, two sides to it. One is the quite obvious moral dimension we have a love-hate relations...
Did you read my last post. I'll provide a synopsis: The Problem Of The Criterion has, at its core, the belief that, 1. To define we must have particul...
To All Concerned It appears, on closer examination, that The Problem Of The Criterion is a pseudo-dilemma insofar as definitions are concerned because...
The free speech dilemma is like the gun dilemma. The good guys know that they need guns (free speech) to defend themselves but to do that they have to...
No, and isn't that the point? Sorry but I seem to have lost my train of thought but what I'm getting at is very simple and perhaps that simplicity is ...
:up: :clap: regarding the following: The way Hillel puts it, it gives us the impression that religion is rather simple at heart and every holy book wr...
Socrates was never in the business of proving things - he probably considered that quite impossible given how ignorant everyone, including himself, wa...
The reason behind excluding 1 from the set of primes is that we wouldn't/couldn't have a unique prime factorization for a given number: For example, 9...
I suppose you're right but such expressions as "people of color" are what I call linguistic relics i.e. they're remnants of past weltanschauungs that ...
Why be happy? Happiness seems to be like a place which we like but where we're persona non grata. So, we always look for reasons, even excuses, to go ...
I'm trying to reconstruct the Buddha's logic. Sorry, nothing explicit to go on except his conspicuous coyness on the matter of God and other metaphysi...
I suppose it's about different levels of experimental rigor. The birth of technology was driven by experimentation yes but these experiments were crud...
@"Wayfarer" if interested. Evolution from D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's (1860 - 1948) point of view isn't anything to be surprised by. The basic body pl...
Surface area of a cylinder A = 2 * pi * r * h where r is the radius and h is the height. Volume of a cylinder V = pi* r^2 * h where r is the radius an...
The question of free will is an important one. Few can deny that but fewer still have made progress in demonstrating its existence or nonexistence, in...
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