TheMadFool

From what I can gather from the bits and pieces of information available online, Socrates' was trying to get to the bottom of issues that figured prom...

Then we agree that Fortuna must give us her blessings if we're to make a breakthrough? By the way, I thought, Back to the main page, metaphorically sp...

Thank (y)our lucky stars! :rofl: This is extremely intriguing in a certain sense, don't you agree? Stars as having something to do with luck and I men...

I don't know!

Because he saw what was coming viz. nobody really knows anything at all! Even if he'd stayed long enough for Socrates to finish what was essentially S...

Gracias for introducing me to a new term, lumen naturale. Had I known this concept when I started the thread, I would've happily used it - metaphors l...

History of military conflict has twice proven (Napoleon & Hitler) that to invade Russia is to invite Russia. :rofl: Somehow the two words, "invade" an...

My mind draws a complete blank. Either I've forgotten all that I've read (Alzheimer's :sad: ) or never read any (Moron :sad:) or I read but couldn't u...

I gave it my best shot.

Believe you me, there are highly reputed philosophers, logicians who've already made the first tentative steps in the direction I'm suggesting (irrati...

There are two kinds of sex - mental and physical. That mental sex is real is evidenced by transgenders (mismatch between mental and physical sex). Sex...

All I can say is anyone, that includes you, knows more than me about world affairs - I don't watch the news often, nor do I read much, listening is no...

There's something off about it, I can feel it. Luckily or unluckily, I can't seem to put my finger on it. As far as I can tell, I'm stuck! Thanks for ...

:up: I won't pursue this matter further with you. You seem to have made up your mind and not without very good reasons for doing so. Thanks. https://y...

I just found it funny that idealism and materialism were actually claiming the same thing but in different ways. After all, if idealism (all is mind) ...

:ok: :up: Will get back to you if I think of anything worth spilling ink over.

Fun fact: Idealism: everything is mind. Ergo, matter = mind Materialism: everything is matter. Ergo, mind = matter In the sense above, in both cases, ...

I thought as much but, in my defense, the gap between the physical and mental seems to be greater than that between the mental and the form. I feel th...

As has become customary for you insofar as I'm concerned, you've blown my mind...again. Keep it coming, keep it coming! What do you make of my rather ...

Pragmatism seems to be a rather simple and yet powerful technique to trim the tree of philosophy down, specifically the branch of metaphysics. Given a...

The form of piety seems indistinguishable from the definition of piety to me. The former is what the latter describes. What, for example, is the diffe...

I wouldn't count on personal experience to draw any conclusions about the state of the world. World wars (2 of them and the 3rd on fhe horizons), the ...

So, the whole idea of philosophy is to dismiss the very question that birthed it? How fascinating! It's like reading a book in which the last sentence...

I'm sorry it wasn't to your taste. Speaking for myself, it feels right.

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Definition of "dawn": become evident to the mind; be perceived or understood. "the awful truth was beginning to dawn on him". Is there something going...

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Is the analogy still "unusual"? Irrationalism. Sorry for sounding like a broken record.

All philosophy is a tribute to rationality (not just logic). All rationality is a tribute to truth. Thus, All philosophy is a tribute to truth. I'll s...

That single sentence is the logic bomb designed to blow up in theism's achilles heel (the unverified/unverifiable nature of its claims); upon detonati...

:rofl: The last one to find out was supposed to have been the first one to find out! How ironic!

An excellent question and just the right word, "life", to bring out the Wittgenstein in us. Did you check? The word "life" doesn't have a good definit...

Transhumanism: Treating death as a problem My mind is blown! What an awesome statement this is. This belongs into the category of assertions that upen...

Food for thought: Whatever else wars have been about, it all boiled down to space. One of Hitler's (the alleged culprit behind WW2) main motivations w...

World War II. Reminds me of this:

https://youtu.be/zyNyHark4xk :rofl: This is the highlight of my day! Kindred spirits sharing their darkest secrets on a public forum. :rofl: Jokes asi...

Ok. So, what's understanding? Your entire post contains nothing about what understanding is despite beating around the bush for two paragraphs. :smile...

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Agreed, the thousands of gods that are, for example, part of the Hindu & Greek pantheon are not omnipotent, in fact their powers need a lot of help fr...

Ok but what's understanding? Is there a good, working definition of it? Last I read about it, there are multiple definitions, all of them only half-tr...

Now that I think of it, the distinct/unique ideas, attributable to single individuals, as indicative of but not necessarily ironclad proof of the nonp...

You're on the right track but you need to work on it a more but only if I'm correct of course. I'm not really claiming that ideas are immortal - what ...

Here's another way to look at it: The concepts alive, living, live, and others that I might've missed belong to the category life The concepts die, dy...

I'm sorry for that grammatical goof-up. It slipped past my grammar checker. :smile: Please note that there has to be a difference between die and dead...

You're going round in circles I'm afraid. Socrates wants to know what piety is? Another way of asking the same question is, what is the definition of ...

If it's any help, look here :point: Prehistoric female hunter discovery upends gender role assumptions. Women actually hunted and, sorry guys, prey ma...

I thought it was the fat paycheck! Come to think of it, Aristophanes may have had his own (hidden) agenda in painting Socrates as a sophist. I don't c...

My sincere thanks go out to Daniel Bonevac for teaching a very crucial fact regarding the very first steps taken by the Greek philosophers, particular...

:fire: :clap: First, something that I want to throw out there for comments. Could it be that Socrates was actually a sophist who didn't charge the usu...

I guess it all boils down to the question, what's the difference between many gods, each with faer own specific mood and one God with different moods?...