NotAristotle

Why do you say that? I think there must be a source of kindness. People aren't always kind, so people can't be the source of kindness. Only one who is...

I think I already know what Banno will say, but what do you three make of this argument: 1. There is a way the world ought to be only if there is a Go...

from God.

Okay, where does kindness come from?

Thanks, yeah I think you may be on to something when you say the desert is not merited due to the infinite dignity of the offended. I would tentativel...

That depends, when you said: did you mean kindness?

Okay, then why can't an offense against a being with infinite dignity come in gradations?

Goodness

Implication?: the creator of life is good. Implication?: the Creator of all life is supremely good. What do you make of a sacrificial act that is done...

"Wisdom is vindicated by her deeds."

Can offenses against "finite dignities" come in gradations?

Where does it come from?

Who said that sin is transient? There is, I think, no way to erase a sin; the only way forward is through forgiveness.

Okay yeah, agree with 1. 2. What do you mean by "upshot?" Jesus is considered the Word of God, what God the Father has spoken, according to my faith t...

Having started the introduction but with no specific quotations in mind, my impression is that "contradiction of concept" may also refer to the tensio...

Pretty sure it is illegal to yell "fire" in a crowded theater.

Based on SEP, something like Hegelian dialectic, or just that, appears to be Adorno's target. I am not sure if Adorno is saying teleology failed in en...

Not sure I agree; I think it is important that we distinguish liberal practice from the ideology that many identify as liberalism, and I think it is t...

But of course there are alternatives to Marxism. Liberal government is one such alternative! OSHA is an example of a peaceful political change to acco...

I appreciate the problems you are confronting, but I really do not see them as a problem with "liberalism" understood as a political association relat...

I think some of your concerns are overstated. Freedom of speech is a qualified right in the US and probably in most liberal countries. It's true that ...

By relational, I mean that information depends on engagement with the substance, otherwise the substance is not a vehicle of informing. There is no in...

You used the term "critique;" does that mean you think something in the liberal tradition, broadly construed, is worth salvaging, or is it all ideolog...

It is ironic that the very totalitarianism liberalism is accused of would seem to be the reality of any state system that would seek to externally enf...

I think another potential issue is the eternal possibility of repentance, faced with an eternal afterlife with no further consequences, why would some...

Okay, I see, then one actually can be subject to infinite punishment, correct? Assuming they never repent (and given an eternity to do so). That is ev...

Wouldn't an implication of your view be that everything is ultimately permissible in some sense? Moreover, it would seem to imply that it doesn't matt...

MoK, you want to say the information just is the form, right? That's fine, but if you go that route then you seem to be implying that the information ...

It is interesting because you said the substance informs the interpreter. I have heard that great artists talk of a marble block "speaking" to them of...

I think what is being said is that the object lacks form, but the interpreter, through an act, communicates information and thereby gives the substanc...

I have in mind the USB stick. It appears as it is, but the information, that is the written document file, is in a sense encoded in the USB stick. Tha...

Would you elaborate on why you think this? Is it not in God's power to have a trinitarian existence and to take human form? Does your thinking change ...

Do you think all information requires some kind of interpretation? Is information always other than it appears? Is there always the-thing-itself, and ...

Exactly, have you heard of the doctrine of the Trinity? "What you did not do for the least, you did not do for me." (To paraphrase the Gospel).

Perhaps one way to think of it is that to sin is to value some temporal good above God; that is, to worship an idol; that is to prioritize something o...

It may make sense to think of everyone as "God's property" though a more sensible description is that of father to son or daughter. If someone physica...

Sure, could be random, that doesn't change that Bob2 likes a different book than Bob1, the source of the difference doesn't really matter, what matter...

I am not sure if this has been proposed although javra may have been suggesting a similar notion concerning the realities of lived experience. What I ...

I encourage you to seek out a professional therapist. Feeling a lack of joy may be indicative of a mental health need or signal depression.

I think your questions are apt. Indeed, if we are just chemical processes then there isn't a fundamental difference between us and the machine that is...

Epistemic humility is certainly a virtue. On what basis do you think everything are chemicals? Are you 100% certain? Are you willing to subject your e...

Here is my first impression of the paper: The proof relies on "thought objects" and an intentional theory of reference. Wherein the thought object ref...

:ok: Okay, I think I get it now. So it is not composition itself that is at issue. Rather, that a part should be responsible for composition when it i...

Correct me if I am wrong -- are you saying that there are no composites, composition is impossible?

Perhaps. Whether matter is infinitely composite (and similarly whether or not it is infinitely divisible) or not, anything composite requires a compos...

I further suggest that any mathematical question may well be ontological already so that the expression of a mathematical matter in ontological terms ...

Very well Gregory, then I object to your objection on the grounds that the mathematical question that my argument is accused of misrepresenting has no...

Here is another way of arguing for premise 5 from the original argument: 1. A composite gets its composition from its parts. 2. If all the parts of a ...

I absolutely agree with what you said in the counterargument conclusion, #3. God cannot be a mere part within the created order. I think the original ...

To say more, the argument necessitates either A. a simple part, or B. something other than the parts that the composed composition is composed of that...