Angelo Cannata

All religions have a history, how they were born, what happened in different periods, what is happening to them now. In all periods of all histories o...

It was not my intention to be rude: I just did some criticism, by applying some reflection. If criticism, disagreement, looking from another perspecti...

A human cell has human DNA, it is human, but it is not a human being.

I think there is a trap when we try to answer this question. Actually it is the same trap that makes a lot of philosophical question endless, without ...

I don’t think that my idea falls into the problem of applying it to itself, because I didn’t suggest any alternative system. What I suggested is aband...

I think so. Playing ideas means trying to work with them without pretence of reaching anything fundamental, the same way musicians play their instrume...

I think there is a basic mistake when philosophy argues about this. We get our concepts of "external", "material", "I", etc. from a kind of instinctiv...

When I say “I”, I am referring to my subjective experience of feeling “I”, that, since it is subjective, is impossible to prove, otherwise it would be...

I think there is a mistake exactly in the text I quoted. In your hypothetical example, the talking person is considering the relativity they are immer...

So, you think that suffering can exist without awareness of it? I don’t think so. I think that suffering is possible exclusively in proportion to awar...

This seems dogmatic, which is, a truth without explanation, which, as such, is quite different from postmodern thought.

Perhaps it is good to specify that the problem I am talking about involves philosophy, not us in general as persons. It is easy to solve the difficult...

This is exactly the point of my question: if there is no self, who is suffering? I think that, even about animals, when we think that they suffer, we ...

Putting god/s inside the frame of existent/non existent condemns us to limit the discussion inside that frame, preventing a widening, expansion of hor...

When I say I don’t mean “valid in the opinion of everybody”: obviously, everybody can have different opinions. By saying “valid for everybody” I mean ...

I mean history as a set of elements that make our human condition. For this reason I specified that I mean all levels of history. I don’t mean it as a...

You cannot establish objectively that paedophilia or genocide cause more needless harm than less. You can establish it from specific perspectives only...

I cannot call it a system, because it is not static, definitive. It is my today’s method, that actually I have been practicing for many years. But tom...

I make efforts every day to reduce as much as possible the influence in me of people that I consider negative.

You cannot find anything able to definitely condemn pedophilia or genocide. There are answers and counteranswers to everything, so, you and me are in ...

Yes, exactly, my approach is subjective and interpretative and my intention is to address the OP. Jesus works on me, through me, on my daily life, and...

Of course I can demonstrate it: my daily life, second by second, is a continuous evidence of what I said. The act of making a synthesis is a temporary...

I think that an essential element that is normally ignored in discussions about postmodernism is history. History considered at all levels: the histor...

I think you are making the same mistake I already said:

Thinking of “Supernatural” as an empty, useless term is possible if and when you think that, by natural explanations, you are able to exhaust all that...

It is simply relativism: everything is relative, you can have relative certainties, but not absolute, ultimate ones.

First, I think that metaphysics, despite the extremely intricate forest of definitions and positions, can be defined as any system of ideas that you t...

I would say that Bloch’s idea of hope, without making hope an exact aim, has its root on Heraclitus’ idea that everything is becoming. Heraclitus’ ide...

It seems similar to the problem of objectivity: objectivity is unable to justify itself: it aways turns out to depend on subjectivity.

I don't think so: to my understanding, for Plato the world of ideas is the world of absolute things, while what is accessible to our senses is the wor...

All the schematic description I have made is actually Heidegger’s thought, it is not a creation of mine.

It is the consequence produced by the assumption that absolute truth exists. This is what happens: A. let’s assume that an absolute truth exists B. if...

I think your question is important. In a radical philosophical way, I find useful to think of evil as objectivity and good as subjectivity; this is eq...

Certain things we talk about in philosophy are not so much concepts: they are much more experiences. Conceptualizing experiences can be useful, but it...

I think there is a big mistake in that article. Apparently, it makes the big and valuable step of including subjectivity into consideration, together ...

Absolute truth cannot exist, because truth is a relationship between two things, the thing that gets known and another thing (like a mirror) or a subj...

I think your question is very important, especially today. In my perception, today’s philosophy is going more and more towards a scientific way of con...

"We" is anybody thinking that neuroscience has not explained consciousness and qualia. "Meet our subjectivity" is my formulation of what is considered...

Consciousness and qualia will never be explained by neuroscience because actually they can be considered already explained by neuroscience, but we rea...

I would like not to be misinterpreted as somebody who has not respect for science: I appreciate it infinitely, I think I have a real scientific mental...

Science is more objective from the point of view of science, which means, from its own point of view, which means self-referential. Even a drunken man...

I think your ideal of independent thinker doesn’t work because this effort of independence is exactly the effort already practiced by all philosophers...

Important concepts are those ones considered important by the persons. Obviously, they are different according to different people, but we can make di...

Depth is subject to a lot of shallowness and meaninglessness, because anybody is able to make a cocktail of evocative words. Real depth can be proven ...

The fact that the universe seems to your mind to satisfy your cause-effect scheme does not mean that your mental scheme expresses entirely how everyth...

So, God should exist to satisfy your cause-effect mental scheme, the same way God should not exist to avoid conflicts with the mental schemes of athei...

It seems that you have quite a moderate idea of "objective", since a few checks are enough for you to think that something is objective. This makes th...

It is important to note that it is reason that defeats itself. Realizing that reason is a circular process, as you have shown, is an entirely rational...

Here is the difference: theology is done from the inside of a religion: you must be a believer, belonging to that religion, in order to produce theolo...

Forcing people to anything is bad and immoral. We do it sometimes because we can’t escape doing it, like when parents force children to obey, to help ...