Astrophel

I see this as is a real insight. Meditation as "spending time" is no better than what my cat does on the window sill. Wonder must be in place. An open...

You're some variety of a naturalist or a physicalist, right? So, brain here, tree there: how does the latter get into the former as a knowledge claim?...

I don't understand what you mean by "about". Not that it is wrong to say this, but it is a pivotal word. I quite agree, if by supernatural you mean, s...

Henry thinks philosophy is done with itself at the point of phenomenological consummation. We have God's consciousness now.

Frankly, the way of the sages is the only one that interests me. The "cultural milieu which facilitates those practices and insights" does not belong ...

Manifest, or immanent, there, upon you, undeniable as modus ponens, the reduced phenomenon, pure presence, minus all one might be able to say about it...

But what about the core Buddhist event?: the meditative act itself. Wordless, yet wondering, open, liberating. The essence of meditation lies in its r...

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Thank you for asking the most difficult question. As I see it, what makes Henry so difficult lies in his stand against Husserl's phenomenological onto...

It is not an argument that says there is no such thing as propositional truth. The insight here asks, what IS a proposition? Look at it like this: the...

Not about spiritual insight. And not an epiphany in the sense of something hiding in the discourse discovered as a surprise in the calculus. As with a...

This is, of course, brilliant. Philosophers chasing after propositional truth (logos) is patently absurd. It begs the question, Why do it (for it is a...

And how does one speak about brains and bodies and vacuums star and seas? One observes them, like anything else. And what IS an observation? THIS is t...

This small stretch of thought is meant to be an introduction to metaphysics , in a nutshell, an introduction to someone entirely convinced that no alt...

Well argued.

No, it's philosophy.

They both declare war on Christendom and rationalism. But what happens when all that "structure" is removed from metaphysics? One faces existence with...

I would say a qualified yes to this. My view is found more in the vicinity of philosophers like Michel Henry and Jean Luc Marion. These are post neo H...

A little less naivete, if you will. If you read what is written, then you will have noticed that the world remains the world, and science and everyday...

Look, all of this is rudimentary. Trouble lies where least expected. It is about the assumption that there is an object outside of the reach of percep...

No one argues otherwise. Here, the argument is about the presuppositions of such things. To begin to philosophize is to ask questions about what is pr...

Hegel never said he was the last philosopher. Kierkegaard certainly did not hold as Hegel did that one's existence was grounded an historical dialecti...

But this is due to your failure to understand that no event has ever been witnessed that is without meaning, and no event has ever occurred unless wit...

Not quite. It is saying that the myth reveals something about the nature of inquiry and discovery. A tree of knowledge, wasn't that it? Which bore app...

Well, this is a big question. It begins with seeing how physics cannot explain basic assumptions. Assumptions about knowledge and ontology. I know, fo...

Kierkegaard is an essential part of Heidegger, especially the former's Concept of Anxiety. Reading Concept, one finds Sartre here, Heidegger there, th...

A better question would be, why do you think only good things are meaningful? Meaning, and of course, this is not the dictionary sense of meaning, but...

There is here a lot that is extraneous to the issue. Underprivileged minority? At any rate, it does sound like you are a bit sour on metaphysics, but ...

No, I mean, you know this is wrong. Meaninglessness means without meaning, and all the things you mention are certainly meaningful. Meaninglessness wo...

Well, I did say in the OP that the naive straw god was not what is in play here. But understanding what it means to be human is to ask questions about...

Our existence is saturated with meaning. Never once has a human being witnessed meaninglessness, for such meaninglessness would have to lie beyond the...

So Arcane, there is a jot of connectivity. But here is a good place for an observation: Conscience, mentioned in the lyrics: This appears when one sec...

Well, depends on what they have to say.

Of course you are right! No one would ever argue against it, who understands this issue. But you have not taken the analytical step into the question ...

Then why not go through it, the issue that is, as it is plainly put: Question that I asked Ludwig V: what if ethics were as apodictic (apriori, univer...

The Op asks, what is behind "such explanations"? "Behind" here is, of course, not a determinative matter. If it were, the human existence would be VER...

Russell thought Witt was a mystic, because Witt thought, in a letter to a publisher, that the Tractatus had two parts, the part that is spoken and the...

And just to be clear, this kind of "truth" can be said to be about qualia, the phenomenologically pure color or sound, say. But qualia really doen't c...

I suppose it depends on one's priorities and how technical the historical analysis is going to be. But then, one can pretty much grasp the ideas in Be...

Phenomenology asks the right questions. That is not the way it works. Once the object is accepted as part of the structure of the cogito, one faces qu...

This would be a very different kind of truth that has to be set apart from propositional truth, and I don't think the matter is all that easy leave be...

The Philosophy Forum is responsible for tripling my post. Not me.

An odd thing to say. Perhaps you could go into this a bit. Cogitata a dubious interpretation? But it is not an interpretation, just a term that design...

An odd thing to say. Perhaps you could go into this a bit. Cogitata a dubious interpretation? But it is not an interpretation, just a term that design...

I understand, almost. I thought, well, the OP was about the logic of atheism, and the logic of something goes immediately to its presuppositions where...

Stickier than that. Descartes made the mistake of positing the cogito as the only certainty. But an examination of what is there in the structure of t...

Now you're talking! Of course, the question remains untouched: what is all the fuss about? Now one has entered phase two of inquiry. Phase one is mund...

The hard part is finding the most awkward questions one can imagine and ask about them seriously. Here is a hard question, the second hardest question...

The question so far has only bee about what theism if grounded upon. Distribution is a matter of justice and ethics in the entangled world of evolving...

I gets interesting only when the smoke has cleared after the table has been duly cleared. To discover anything insightful about atheism, theism has to...