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It should help American businesses.

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I agree. And that fourth kind is likely to be drawn to philosophy.

Bernard McGinn wrote a good book on Meister Eckhart. I've never seen it spelled Eckhardt.

I've found three reactions to mystical experience 1. There's the guy who clearly describes an out of body experience, but is certain it was his brain ...

To me, the trouble is distinguishing a mystical state from a possible tumor. I would have to pay out of pocket for an MRI, and I have no noxious sympt...

Imagine a diamond where each facet of the diamond is the whole diamond. This is Schopenhauer. Knowing that it's true, not wondering, but knowing, is p...

I woke up in a dream once, but I changed something that went against the integrity of the dream reality and I immediately woke up. That never happened...

The bigger they get, the harder they fall.

I would get that too. I eventually learned that if you focus on breathing you can get back out of it.

One of my favorite topics. The second collapse was Rome. Per Eric Cline, natural disasters including drought and earthquakes appear to have contribute...

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I agree. I think Biden was from the generation that saw US prominence as an imperative, but we're moving toward the phase where we realize there's no ...

As a child, I was convinced that there's something behind the world I can see, as if it's all a veil and whatever is behind it is "more real.". When I...

I guess this thread should go in the lounge. It's theology, not philosophy.

Jesus was a moral nihilist of sorts, replacing the whole Mosaic law with the rule of love. Most of the human race isn't ready for Christianity. We sti...

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Maybe it's related to Hegel's idea of partial truths, or Rumi's "magnificent lie.". This implies a higher truth, or something more real, but that's ju...

Trump transition teams turns to Project 2025 to fill positions with Trump supporters

Through this thread I kind of changed my mind, though. The prevailing scientific view of the self isn't Cartesian is it? Except for a couple of physic...

That's good. I want it to be a surprise.

I knew a guy who claimed that if we don't go over to the Mayan calendar, the world will end. He wrote letters to the UN trying to explain to them that...

US involvement in Vietnam was due to appeals from the French. The French told the US government that trade routes for rubber went through Vietnam, so ...

Descartes believed God is a necessary thing, which he demonstrates by analyzing the idea of perfection. Descartes' Ontological Argument

Yea. Existentialists tell you to pay attention to your first person experience, but they do it in an intellectual way. Kind of contradictory. :grin:

I don't think so. Kierkegaard is the beginning of existentialism. His point was that the the more fully you become lost in the landscape of the intell...

Like a curtain coming down. You just need some credits rolling. :grin: Yes, probably. You're kind of stomping all over the existentialism with your in...

Really? That's wild. What's that like?

Become aware now of the sights and sounds around you. Do you detect a beginning or ending to the experience?

The answer to that depends on your hinge propositions. If you believe time is an illusion and the soul resides in eternity, then you would say no.

Always a pleasure to get your insights, thanks. BTW, Wall St is not liking the fact that Biden told Ukraine to strike inside Russia. Stocks are tumbli...

From the SEP Also: Descartes sort of invented the idea of nerves because through dissecting bodies, he saw the "strings" that go from the central nerv...

I guess Russia-EU relations will return to normal now that Trump is taking office. Gas and oil will begin to flow again? The US will lose whatever inf...

Why?

There's nothing magical about Davidson.

Putnam is wrong, though. A realist can employ Davidson and bypass any need for correspondence.

I think Trump might come to the aid of the British, but not the EU. Trump sees the EU as weak and unworthy of respect.

I don't either. I guess we've moved on from sexism. That's cool.

I guess I had that wrong then. :up:

But isn't it true that Putin came to power in order to protect Yeltsin? Putin guaranteed that Yeltsin wouldn't be prosecuted for corruption. Putin in ...

An infinitesimal is part of a continuum, though. It involves the idea of a limit. I don't think Descartes would have used that idea.

Yes. I like that view, it's a spin on one of Aristotle's proofs of God. We aren't doing a textual analysis of Descartes though. In other words, we are...

I don't think these two are in conflict. If change is inherent to thought, it doesn't matter much if that change produces discrete moments or comes as...

I think the project he sets is to find an indubitable proposition. Once he's there, there doesn't appear to be anyway out of the brain vat except to j...

Descartes' foundation is a benevolent God, right? The Evil Demon is used to show that logical truths aren't indubitable. For a piece of knowledge to s...

The Evil Demon could make you believe that. The quote in the OP is pointing to something intrinsic to thought. Something the Evil Demon couldn't fool ...

Very true.

You don't have to pick, though. You can have as many theories as there are cards in a deck. They're all myths.

The Cogito is: I think, I am. Maybe we could show that change is integral to thought. Is that Sartre's point?

Can't really prove that he's wrong, though. We might just be dreams of the Great All.