For example, look at the post written a few hours before yours, where MacIntyre is being quoted: Liberalism as we now understand it is the idea that n...
This is another of those strange dichotomies, "It is functional, therefore it is not ethical or unethical." Note that things like genocide, slavery, a...
I'm sure that's part of it, but I think it's only one piece of the puzzle. For candidates on the right, he did extended interviews with DeSantis, Chri...
The problem is that liberalism presents a faux neutrality. To say, for example, that hate speech is permitted but assault is not, is to lapse into non...
Already answered: Also unanswered: It's fairly important that you be able to identify what it is about your claims that should make us favor indirect ...
I think it is a matter of accuracy or reliability. "Are we able to form true propositions which accurately and reliably get at what truly exists in th...
I won't belabor this, but I don't believe he has. The left has a consistent difficulty in distinguishing someone who doesn't oppose Trump from someone...
The world exists in a precarious balance of the coincidentia oppositorum. Environment conditions reason and reason shapes environment. To reject eithe...
A few weeks ago on a road trip I listened to a conversation between Jordan Peterson and John Vervaeke, originally given a much better title, "The Rebi...
I think that's fair, so long as we are open to the various additional factors that exercise an influence. Yes, you're preaching to the choir. :smile: ...
Okay. From earlier: For someone who believes that the Incarnation occurred and changed reality, a political philosophy which requires neutrality on th...
Conscience is a notoriously ambiguous term, and there are different conceptions of conscience even within Christianity. But to your point, today we ar...
Okay. This is a salutary correction. I was glossing Simpson, and would probably need to go back for a tighter critique, but I can't remember all of th...
I'd say this is actually the claim that any non-Scientistic methodology is dogmatism, which is a remarkable claim. Ironically, these varieties of Scie...
I'll back up @"Wayfarer" on this. It's no accident that Catholic universities tend to have large philosophy programs, nor that these philosophy progra...
Some months ago I was reading Peter L. P. Simpson.* His view is that Rawls' thought leads inevitably to cultural relativism, and that when this charge...
Well, perhaps I should have said that I don't believe that indirectness entails inaccuracy, because there is a correlation. On average, the more playe...
- I don't believe that indirectness implies inaccuracy. I would say that I feel the sandpaper with my fingers. My knowledge of the sandpaper is mediat...
- But you are importing a homunculus theory. Most obviously you are doing this by conflating mediation with indirectness, and this goes back to the sa...
Ha! Well let me bring up religion to rectify this... ;) On the Catholic view that which unifies a friendship defines its quality (and at least this mu...
(I will use your term "burden" rather than "harm's way") The Kantian deontological maxim is something like, "Do not use others as a means to your own ...
Sure, and I was not saying that the common irrationality is unrelated to misology. I should have used the term misology, but I did specifically speak ...
It seems that until 'dogmatism' and 'relativism' are better defined, the claim reduces to something like, "Dogmatists and relativists are irrational i...
I think this is all wrong, but let's just assume for the sake of argument that D. C. Schindler is a giant hypocrite, and you were able to conclusively...
:lol: This is a caricature. Schindler's argument there is two-pronged. The first prong is historical/cultural, and even Nietzsche would agree with it ...
Ad hominem "provocation" would be an odd way to initiate such a thing. I believe that when someone writes a serious and thoughtful OP the initial post...
Decision does not precede the registering of sense data. 's quip about hypericin's "homunculus" was more pithy and effective in communicating the poin...
Good post. I have been discussing a similar matter with @"J", who may find this interesting. Schindler is on my list to read. If we read Socrates in T...
I am reminded of David Oderberg's quip: Our eyes are what provide us with sight, not what prevents us from seeing reality. One could say the same thin...
- That's fair. I think it's an interesting topic, both culturally and philosophically. It is often noted that the Greeks had three or four words for l...
This is a fiction. The sand is not encountered as a report presented by the brain which we then decide whether or not to act on. This is a story that ...
Yes, of course. :up: Schemes which emphasize representations or phantasms always come up against this problem. In my opinion Kant's positing of the "n...
For the Greeks the term would be kalos as applied to human beings. For the Latins, beginning at least with Cicero, the term would be honestas. If what...
Well here is what Aristotle says: This is the central piece of his rough outline of the good of man (happiness). On my reading Aristotle believes that...
The trick is that anger always involves a desire to modify someone else's behavior by accusing them of doing something that they oughtn't have done, a...
Yes, somewhat, but there was still a recognition of the difference between the animate and the inanimate, and according to Aristotle the inanimate doe...
I think this idea of objects "presenting" is primordial. Aristotle systematized it with his ideas of act and potency, but in a less reified form it co...
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