I suppose the biggest question is the issue of sincerity. That's what I alluded to at the end of my last post. Does the artist have genuine feelings c...
An interpretation is an explanation or description of the meaning of something. How can that be the thing itself. To say what something means, is not ...
This is complete nonsense. First, in number 2 you allow that an interpretation could be the thing itself, which is impossible. Then in number 3 you st...
I know what an explosion is, and a sudden release of energy, I just don't know what an expansion of heat or energy is supposed to mean. By the law of ...
As you can probably tell, I've been trying to avoid actually interpreting the work, alluding to my belief that it is very difficult to do a proper ana...
"Expansion of heat and energy" is a nonsense phrase. It doesn't make any sense at all to say that heat or energy expands. This idea just comes about f...
This is a very meaningless statement. We know that an event X occurred, but we don't know what X was. Every time we attempt to describe X, we are prob...
That's right. there's no big disagreement, we're just discussing some finer points. The question right now is how we ought to approach the piece of ar...
But if you reduce art to a form of communication, then we must consider, first and foremost, what is intended by the artist. Because, if you believe t...
It's not the power to drop the stone, which is relevant here, it's the power to hold the stone up in a position where it may be dropped, which is rele...
I would differ with this. He had to lift the stone into the appropriate position, and hold it there with the possibility of dropping it. So, what make...
I don't think that's correct, because it is the distance between objects which is expanding, not objects themselves. Objects don't expand. If you thin...
I agree that there is something about a work of art, which draws us toward it. I wouldn't say it's the aesthetic though, because "aesthetic" already i...
I wouldn't say that this is possible, would you? Take a look back at your moral edict, "do unto others...". So long as an individual perceives oneself...
Sure, you can say "expansion happened", it's happening right now. But we're just referring to something which we have a completely inadequate understa...
I believe it is General Relativity theory which leads to the conclusion of the Big Bang, and I don't think that this theory provides us with a good re...
This point goes two ways though. We are now dependent on satellites for just about every aspect of our lives, and a lot of this technology probably ca...
I think it's not so easy to separate the meaning from the aesthetic. When we look at art, we take it for granted that it was created by an artist, so ...
The "meaning" which lies within a work of art is often vague, ambiguous, or obscure, art often being of an abstract nature. The meaning is a represent...
Reality is more complex than this. There is also the movement of things. The movement of things creates a difficulty for the "S is P" form of sentence...
I'm not following this at all what do you mean by "informed"? If you mean instilled with a form, then the form must exist prior to the act of informin...
That's the key point I think, the good of the state is given priority over the good of the individuals. The problem is that there is no such thing as ...
Insurance companies intervene in the free market. They negotiate special deals with the hospitals, deals which the uninsured cannot get, so that the u...
Logic doesn't operate on evidence though, it operates on rules. Adhering to rules produces a logical conclusion. Logical conclusions may be used as ev...
Since God is supposed to be immaterial, theists don't actually "see" God with their eyes. So I think the discretionary difference must be the result o...
Why would you think that a belief in the impossibility of absolute certainty would lead to solipsism? I would think that since certainty is the proper...
It could be that because of original sin, we cannot have separate existence of the soul, separate from the body, and many believe that the separate ex...
This is why you should read some theology rather than just relying on some interpretations of what Jesus said. Thomas Aquinas clearly describes what m...
I don't agree with the categorical imperative, I think it is a fiction. I think that every good is particular, determined relative to the specific cir...
This is what Aquinas would call the apparent good, the target of one's moral actions. He also assumes a real good, and the real good is often inconsis...
I don't see the point in posting a bunch of out of context quotes. Here's a question for you then. If only God is good, as your quote from the Bible c...
How can you be certain that what you have is a migraine then? You might be quite sure that your head hurts, but a migraine is a certain type of headac...
That what you say may be distorted, in the way that you claim I distort it, indicates that I cannot even have certainty with respect to the meaning of...
I simply interpret it differently than Aletheist, and I believe it's a more Christian way of interpretation. The Old Testament might lead you to belie...
In other words, I know these things, unless I'm wrong, then I don't really know them. OK, how does that make me certain of them? You're not making any...
But here's the point. Because we are bound to make mistakes, i.e. sin, does this mean that human beings are inherently evil? I think not, I think that...
Our position is a consequence of original sin, but it should not make us, ourselves, sinners. The original sin, and fall, are sins of others, and we m...
That could be it, but I think it depends on how we would define "the mark". What I have been arguing is that to have a mark, which is aimed for, is to...
I know how to drive a car, but I am not so certain of my skill to know that each time I drive I will not have an accident. Therefore despite my knowin...
Yes, I disagree, I think that "evil" is a stronger word than sin, signifying a greater transgression. I think if we ask many of the same questions of ...
I think you need to differentiate between sin and evil. I've studied some of the greatest Christian theologians, such as St Augustine, and St. Thomas,...
You seem to be starting from the false assumption that human beings have "true certainty". There is always the possibility that a human being may be m...
In the traditional Christian conception of good, such things are not evil. That's why forgiving is central to that religion. As I said in the other po...
It's no strawman, every aspect of experience can, and should be doubted, therefore the "presence" of experience, or that experiences are "present" is ...
The theologian has the very difficult task of determining our relationship with God, and "good" in relation to this. The importance of that task shoul...
There's no cop out, it's just that most human beings really don't understand "evil". Do you understand evil? If something doesn't go your way, is ther...
The need to assume God, in the first place, is based in the fact that the universe is filled with "mysterious" things. So it should not be at all surp...
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