I am not bothered at all. As I have said, I will say again. You are keep repeating yourself with the same point, which is negative and not productive ...
It was not just your choice of the words. You kept saying due to the isolation and exclusion, I will never be able to arrive at the truths that need m...
Just quick reply, as I have a lot to do today. Will read the rest laster when quiet. I was not defending anything, but just noticed that your choice o...
Reason, which is universal to human being's mind will authorise you to do that, if you follow proper guidelines and apply the right methodology to you...
It is not arbitrary boundaries. The boundary had been drawn since time of Kant. And that was a part of his mission in Philosophy. I thought you did re...
Again, the same points :) you are the one self oscillating on the same points. Topics that are out of boundary of reason should be left to the faith a...
I was drawing lines between subjects that can be dealt with reason, and subjects which is out of boundary of debate with reason. I cannot understand w...
My claim was not reason is the only and best tool, but rather, I was saying for Western Philosophical tradition rationalism has been dominating trend,...
I wouldn't treat mysticism, religion and any other non philosophical subject with the philosophical methodology. If I am interested in a mysticism (wh...
Perhaps that's where our difference lies. To me, knowledge and truths beyond reason are in the realm of religion or psychology or whatever, but they a...
It was obvious that you intended to bring Kant into the debate just to counter the opinion on the "Layman's definition", which suddenly sounded all to...
I don't believe it is a possible task for you anyway. That is just my way of the defining. You have yours. No. Humanity is not Philosophy. I made clea...
I have all the books, and read them years ago light heartedly. I know what they are about roughly. I could reread them and refresh my memory, but I fe...
Yeah, same point again. verify and validate against what? If you read Kant, you surely would know against what by now. You have universal categorical ...
In Kant, experience and truths is only possible, when you allow the inherent reason and sensory experience are combined. He distinguished different ki...
I feel that "experience" is just far too loose and abstract term in defining methodology for arriving at truths from my description above. And you can...
Experience is another abstract terminology, which is not clear. Experience, to me, is something that you have gone through in the past? It is also alw...
Could you give some examples on this? I am not sure what experiences you are talking about here, and where it came from. They make sense, when one is ...
Philosophy deals with every subject in universe, but its methodology is different from other subject. So if you are doing Philosophy of Religion, then...
It sounded like not Philosophy defined by philosophical view point, but from a psychology or layman. It is just too loose definition, and unclear. It ...
Yes, I think you have been emotionally stretching yourselves rather than engaging a debate. It is like, I said "Tokyo is not in Europe. It is in Asia....
We do have Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Emotion (passions) and Ethics etc. But their way of studying these subjects are different from the re...
No, we don't and haven't discarded anything. What is not in the realm of reason and logic, will be in the realm of faith, or as you say emotions. I am...
Meaningful to whom? It depends on what one wants to achieve. If your goal is clarifying muddled ideas by others, coming to logical and clear conclusio...
I have not been denying it. I was just saying they are different. What has to be said to get through to you, I fail to understand. You seem in perpetu...
I feel, it is better to have narrower and stricter definition of Philosophy, if we purport to arrive somewhere more meaningful and productive conclusi...
Wisdom is too abstract and relative term. I think it was meant to mean "knowledge", but it still too wide and loose. What was wisdom to you could look...
And ok, you mentioned "Philosophy means Love of Wisdom." Well, that was 2500 years ago, and it is really Etymological definition. If you want to stick...
You seem to have been deeply confused between racism and clarification. If one says, ok your idea is not philosophy, and you don't have philosophy as ...
Yes, I would agree with you. From Oriental or Chinese Philosophical tradition, the Western Philosophical Traditions and Methodologies and the Ideas, b...
I don't think my argument is drastic simplification. Even in Western Philosophies, each school have tried to re-define what Philosophy is, or must be....
no no never said that. you are getting into personal level again. always you seem to be targeting arguments or statement from others into the speaker ...
My friend is a car mechanic, and I don't take him seriously for his alleged DC philosophical system. In fact, I think he just talks whole load of bs. ...
As I said, you can call whatever, as Philosophy. But from the Western Academic Philosophical point of view, I feel that they are just type of mysticis...
You can call anything under the Sun, Philosophy. It is up to you. But would it be wise, or meaningful? If you are even half awake, you would want to l...
I am not trying to dismiss anything or being egotistic (it doesn't benefit me in whatever manner or fashion in any possible fantasies and imagination ...
But we are not talking about purely Etymology here. We are talking about the origin as well the traditions, the contents and also methodology in Weste...
The word Philosophy originated from the ancient Greeks, and it has 2500 years of tradition. In there, there are many schools and fields of different P...
To me wisdom is knowing that Religion and Mysticism are not based on reason. They are based on the belief, faith and mystical experiences. Philosophy ...
When one believes in something, that is a mental attitude or perceptual state from result of reasoning or sensory perception. But when one wants to be...
I quite agree with TheMadFool. I feel that discussion on validation of consciousness and external existence must be done from Analytical approach. Aft...
If you are a colour blind, you won't see red. It will appear as grey? In either China or Korea, colour red is symbolises blood, therefore death. They ...
Another thing about Reality is, that it must have some sort of objectivity. If you see something, but no one else can, and if you can hear something, ...
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