Things can cease to exist, the do regularly (death, destruction). Furthermore, as per science, in around a 10100 years, the last atom will decay. What...
Virtue ethics puts the required level of emphasis on those qualities that help a person determine the right course of action in a given situation. It ...
Trying hard to be rational vs. Effortlessly being rational. Wu wei! I'm getting mixed up...or not. Practice, practice, practice...makes perfect. We mu...
Paradox of carnism To animals: Either you're in our good books (sacred cows) or in our bad books (filthy pigs) In both cases we don't eat you (Hindus,...
Excellent! Autopilot vs. Manual override. The point then is to become an automaton - we need to stop trying to wrest control of our minds + bodies fro...
It looks as though, apart from ethics, the self is as good as nonexistent - a stone falls, a book falls, we fall (for gravity there is no self, re ana...
Partial information! :up: The point to Meno's paradox is a question is either a student's or a teacher's, one is impossible (unknown unknowns) and one...
:snicker: On point! Bravo! That's exactly what I wanna know! Buddhism, it seems, is more complex than I imagined it to be. It suffers from internal pa...
Meno's paradox? If you know what you're inquiring about, inquiry is unnecessary. If you don't know what you're inquiring about, inquiry is impossible....
The purpose of 1. Primary education is to teach you how to read, write, listen and do basic math, prepping you to learn the knowns. 2. Secondary educa...
Holy cunning! :lol: The truth then is not conducive to morality! Merci. Gennaion pseudos. At least the Buddha kept his lies to a minimum and and went ...
So you mean to say that the Buddha "deceives" people into being ethical by dangling the false gift of nirvana before their eyes? Most interesting! Nev...
Yeah, I get that virtue is a reward in itself but all religions, without exception I'd say, peddle virtue as a means to paradise, attaining nirvana, a...
Nagarjuna's tetralemma has to lead us to ethics (re Wayfarer's post). The question is how? Ethics, is it an end unto itself or is it a means (buys you...
The problem with democracy is it's built on, not trust, but mistrust. Being so, it immediately undermines itself. Nevertheless, it's orders of magnitu...
Silence can mean two things: 1. Ignorance (Sariputra). 2. Ineffable (Siddhartha). That explains the dismal performance of mysticism and others of its ...
Are all cognitive biases pessimistic/optimistic/neither/both? Dunning-Kruger effect: Sacrifices knowledge for confidence! False positive error: Sacrif...
It looks like belief is not tied in any way to logic/rationality (re faith); we can believe whatever the hell we want (screw contradictions and ex fal...
Suppose there is nothing. It hasta change. The only thing nothing can change into is something. Hence, there is something rather than nothing. It's a ...
Donald Trump should have himself checked for a brain parasite! It's the only way he can let himself off the hook. It wasn't me that did all those horr...
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