It's a good idea to get familiar with Plato's style. His overall humour and use of simile in a humorous way, can be very entertaining. Once you become...
Yes, I described how I believe they differ. The one is intentional, therefore manageable, educational, and helpful in confronting the very real limits...
Yes I do, and what I pointed to, is that I believe that with practise and effort, one could substitute the emptiness of depression with the emptiness ...
That's why I am arguing that the result of meditation, "emptiness" is described in the same way as the result of depression, as "emptiness". It takes ...
The page on "emptiness" which you referred, seems to confirm what I said. Both forms of emptiness are associated with the relationship between a perso...
I don't think there is much to mistake with a word like "emptiness". There isn't a whole lot of ambiguity associated with that word. So, I think you'r...
Although this might be the part of the process which makes you feel good, confident, courageous, etc., the act of confession might also be said to be ...
After reading this thread I come to the conclusion that we do the same thing with the words "physical" and "non-physical". Those are just two differen...
Imagine a herd of millions of human beings wearing welding masks, stumbling along, while staring at the sky, following the path of total lunacy. The e...
I just read it and reread at the difficult parts. The beginning is straight forward, so not requiring a whole lot of rereading, as Plato sort of eases...
I think that for Plato the true good is beyond human apprehension, just like the Christians say that God is beyond the capacity of human understanding...
I think that's a good point. To learn requires faith in others, teachers, and all that surrounds you, in the capacity to educate you. Without that fai...
Didn't you say that you lied to your mom to tell her that you were going to the library when you were really going to see a woman? So, isn't this an i...
The good behaviour is what comes naturally from the principle of love, as described by BC above. If love is your top priority, you will not act badly....
Why? What I tried to relay to you, is that the forced code of ethics is the wrong way. Notice that a central tenet in The Old Testament is The Ten Com...
"Spirit" is what motivates action, it drives ambition, will, and determination. Adopting a "code of ethics" which you attempt to force yourself to fol...
If you are like me, then whatever you're worried about, you will make happen by being overly cautious and attentive to specific things which you belie...
Yes, I read similar information. I was researching the origins of the Pythagorean theorem, and "the right angle" and found that the general principle ...
It may be argued that the most fundamental use of numbers is in ordering, first second third, etc.. In this sense the number cannot be an object at al...
The point is that neither substance metaphysics nor process metaphysics is adequate because nature reveals to us, the reality of both aspects. And, si...
Good post, very informative. I believe that what nominalism rejects is the idea that abstractions may be classed as "objects". So nominalism does not ...
That's really irrelevant, because the point is that we understand that it is things which are interacting. It's obvious that we understand things thro...
I am not saying that we cannot think of mass as being composed of underlying processes, I am saying that this perspective does not solve any problems....
"Stabilities" are represented as equilibriums which are artificial ideals that have no real independent existence. So the ideal equilibrium is compare...
That's right. "Everything is contingent" implies two things, the possibility of nothing, and infinite regress. Infinite regress implies infinite time ...
I think the point is simple. If the proposition "Everything is contingent" is true, then there is always nothing. The proposition "After all contingen...
I'd take part, but only if you'd allow me to be a gerbil instead of a hamster. Furthermore, I think you'd find that I would flatly refuse to read Shak...
The process view has its own problems, such as how to explain the reality of mass, as that which stays the same while time passes, inertia. The two di...
Yes, but here's the important question. When the "dupes" interpret in the way that they do, does Trump expect in advance that they will interpret that...
The nothing did not occur, that's the point of the argument. If nothing did occur then there would still be nothing today. But if everything is contin...
No, I don't see how it could be a problem. Since "all being is contingent being" implies an infinite regress of causation, therefore an infinite amoun...
Any use of "bloodbath", whether literal or metaphorical, implies violent aggression. It's similar to his use of "fight" on Jan 6. You can downplay it ...
When the one who is laughing at you has become you, there's only one thing you can do, and that is to laugh at yourself. The rest of us become innocen...
I don't think that's relevant. If everything is contingent, then there would be an infinite regress of contingent beings prior to now, implying infini...
By the nature of "contingent being", it is shown that it is impossible that "all being is contingent" by Aquinas' argument. Therefore the hypothesis "...
Is there a coincidence here, or am I just paranoid? That would be March 17th I suppose? Sorry, let me crawl back into my bottle, the real world is too...
That issue becomes irrelevant when we consider what is prior to now, as Aquinas did. By considering what is prior to now we see that it is impossible ...
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