Robert Lockhart

OK, tim so, without being patronising, you know that to reconcile yourself towards something - or, for that matter, someone - means to convert some pr...

Yeah - unlike you, Tim Wood, I've no access to a spell checker right now! Regarding your injunction that I "write better", well, I'd say, check your o...

Dunno - the atheisticly based outlook then, beyond the limited dictionary definition. - You must know what I'm getting at in my posts!

Well, S - I think it's yourself who's a bit muddled. You do of course believe, even if only subliminally - in that quite naturally like most people yo...

Just the irreducable personal experience of consciousness of self-existance by which we all operate from the cradle to the grave - devoid of verbal qu...

The point, I would say, is to distinguish what would properly be the nature of a philosophical enquiry regarding the problem of free will, i.e. that s...

-How unconcious chance produces extremes of fortune thereby creating mutually exclusive worlds of experience, its random nature meaning the most vulne...

Once saw a burly hard-drinking GI weeping 'cause his Terrapin had died - I was equally puzzled...

Wrote while pissed...

Burp! Seems disilusionment is our fate an' that just about everything is to be revealed as an illusion - ie pschycology disguised as rational - ex Pat...

Happiness, Happiness - Yes of course! - Like oxygen! - But happiness without illusion?...Is it possible?...Improvising amidst this chaos I'll drink ab...

Well, yes what I've described is very sketchy. The theory involves the idea of ancient pedigree that, concomitant with the material brain, there exist...

Well, though of course there are other culturally imposed modifications on human behaviour, the objective biological evidence I referred to would seem...

t0m: Personally, I think, regardless of the possible objective validity of any materialist theory of consciousness, that the flaw inherent to all athe...

The idea I was trying to express - hopefully not ambiguously - is that people aren't primarily concerned with what may be the consequences for the fre...

No, I didn't intend to comment on the free will aspect of Bennet's argument. I'm suggesting only that Bennet's contention - that it is in the popularl...

“The good is not the source of being but is its’ goal.” Speusippus, disciple of Plato, c. 349BC. - They say some statements contain a Universe. I’d sa...

Hell is hell. - A tautology, I suppose. But then the gratification of inordinate desire might perversely lead to a sort of heavenly hell, entailing th...

Some time ago, happening to find myself sitting alone one day in a busy bar and I dare say looking a bit like ‘Johnny-no mates’, I decided, as a means...

BC. Yeah, methinks I have overdone the 'Curtain Call' routine a bit lately on this site. Of course it's all harmless really, so I s'pose I'll likely j...

Cuthbert. Re your previous response; As another example of the idea suggested in my op: ‘Youth’ is sometimes described as being effectively the archet...

Sarpentia - Before you get any more of your own finely preened feathers ruffled, my op was titled the way it was so as to be a reference to the centra...

Having at present too much time on my hands, I edited my post further - adding on some more nuggets - prior to your reply, Baden! So much for trying t...

' - Goodby cruel world ('specially PF) - For here do I now end it all! - - - Ahem! 'tis yourself, good Baden! - The timely intervention of your post h...

BC. I wasn’t going to bother replying but, on second thoughts, I’ve decided to try clear up a few points: As far as meeting with the requirements of t...

Cheers, Baden! Glad to have had the effect of leaving the Wise One - May Allah make him fecund and his tribe increase - in such joyous spirits! I will...

Could it make any sense to say that the greatest moment of your life is on the point of your death?...Just a thought!

Hmm! - You got me there, Hanover! :) (OK, I do of course get it that you're attemting to knock (a bit clumsily and niavely) what you see as the unnece...

Maybe, but I''d still guess that in principle someone being forced to go through the journey of dealing, say, with the unexpected intrusion into their...

Nils Loc: Well, I’m sure we could all agree that the inequity of the distribution of talents and advantages among human beings hardly corresponds with...

szardosszemagad: My OP was an attempt to define more precisely what the aim from the perspective of philosophy of an enquiry concerning the possibilit...

Rich. Well, having engaged in a constructive discussion at the end of which our ideas remain stubbornly incompatible, our only remaining option would ...

Rich: The philisophical problem of whether moral values are subjective/culturaly relative in nature or whether such types of values are ultimately oje...

“That's the part I dispute. A moral nihilist would reject moral autonomy, given that they reject moral facts, but can accept that we have free will. A...

Rich: Not yet having read ‘Bergson’, could you indicate for me what he considers should properly be the purpose, from the perspective of philosophy, o...

The assumption made in my op – which I had assumed was inimical to dispute – is that any enquiry from the perspective of philosophy regarding the poss...

Can't see how - from the perspective of philosophy as distinct from neural science that is - an enquiry into the possibility of free will unrelated to...

-Thought I’d point out another example of how in practice personal experience can perform the ostensibly paradoxical trick of ‘causing’ a capacity for...

litewave. Your first question is the most pertinent : While a capacity for moral behaviour is in principle contingent on possessing experientially gai...

‘What I most want to get is whatever everyone else most happens to covet – stuff whatever that might actually happen to be and then - glory of glories...

The fundamental principle of this theory is that any putative capacity of Free Will - as this concept relates to the possibility of moral as distinct ...

The idea is that the moral knowledge of the reality of, for example, capital punishment acquired by personal experience confers an understanding if it...

The idea that the possible validity of the concept of Free will should be considered as contingent on the truth or falsehood of whether humans could b...

It has been observed by some that the popular repuduation among philosophers of the idea of Free Will and their denigration of this concept as an illu...

If the question of the possible actuality of Free Will as a concept was essentially contingent on deciding the problem of whether human beings could b...

- Could've made that rushed post of mine a bit more competent one way and another (like by indicating the seminal point that it's logically impossible...

-Thought I’d make some more remarks here about the possible validity of the idea of Free Will: We could presumably all accept that personal experience...

Some remarks on the ‘Free-Will’ question: When we ask whether humans could have a capacity for free will we don’t really mean to enquire whether we mi...

...Thinking of The Gadirean Swine...

Proposition: 'It can be unambiguously accepted as, ‘a given’ that scientific methodology – the omnipotently successful describer of our sensorialy per...