The problem is that though it's not too hard to nail down what Leibniz means by "substance" (it's just a signal that we're doing ontology), I don't kn...
This is an awesome song. Poetry? Literature? It's an awesome song. Man in the Long Black Coat Bob Dylan Crickets are chirpin' the water is high There'...
A turbo-summary: "Since Plato a recurrent theme of western philosophy is the contrast between appearance and reality: the nature of reality can be gra...
Hopefully we're both just speculating based on our respective experiences. My opinion comes from working in healthcare where causing pain is part of t...
Emotional responses are the problem? Um.. no. It takes a hardening of the heart to be able to chop somebody's head off. The vileness actually starts w...
Eh.. for my money, it's too soon to be deflecting grief and anger about recent attacks which were apparently done in the name of ISIS with "Yea.. Chri...
To some extent this is true. You're explaining that people aren't slaves to scripture, but rather people define for themselves what's sacred by their ...
In some situations one may be unjustly verbally attacked for asking questions about the Prophet's history. I think it's a symptom of underlying stress...
So.. Tiff. Reality check. You know as well as I do what kind of man Trump is. You know as well as I do that trying to make this about Bill Clinton is ...
Hi Erik! I don't think a self-labelled conservative in this or any other era has any business talking about a "new dispensation of history." You are a...
Not all monads possess self-awareness. Monads are immaterial, immortal unities. There are an infinite number of them and each one has a unique perspec...
Yea. I don't know how much the finer points of predestination translated out to the general Calvinist public. I think a religion can be a response to ...
I disagree. It's a harsh response to the greed and amorality of capitalist types. The fierceness of its admonition to work for the glorification of Go...
That sounds like an interesting art installation. Maybe film the black boxes wearing pink sunglasses? And have some boxes jiggling here and there whil...
:) I learned that saying when I was working at AT&T. There was a sort of military climate. If one person screws up, we all screwed up. So it was you a...
You can't really be one of those sensitive philosophical types, have a Christian background, and not have covered this territory extensively. You have...
Yea. Really. There are Christian outlooks that deny omnibenevolence, but they're fringe. It does. Christianity was historically vibrant and dynamic in...
Per Catholics and therefore most Protestants, God is considered to be perfect. The proposition that God is omnibenevolent follows from that. This is p...
I just assumed that everybody in the discussion would agree that necessary truths are exempt from global skepticism. Although, one could argue that th...
Yes. Cool. To expand on what John was saying, what a monad can see of another monad is bits and pieces of its complete concept. For instance, we all k...
That makes sense. He said rational creatures are like little divinities, lol. I guess he thought Locke's mind imperfectly reflected the divine mind. H...
People park them in Washington DC (known for being a difficult housing situation even if, like Hanover, you have a job.) Could people do that where yo...
Yea. How do the monads see one another if they're windowless? His mill story is interesting. He proposes a machine that can think. He says if we enlar...
Probably very energy efficient.. which is part of what the tiny house movement is about. The other part is about owning your home without owning the l...
That's true in big American cities as well. In some places a tiny house can fly under the radar of restrictions. Finding a place to park it is the tri...
One of the things that keeps Leibniz's view from being a variation of Spinoza's is his insistence on moral agency. Ironically, the way it works out is...
:) I'm not sure. I don't think Leibniz would like the idea of continuous divine intervention. Newton actually proposed that and the reaction of Leibni...
GS isn't required to frame an alternative. It's just based on the possibility that none (or most of) the statements you make about the world are false...
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