BrianW

Very slowly, I think. There's no necessity to invent or create anything within the next decade or even century. For those who have seemingly peaceful ...

Before the term science was coined, philosophy encompassed the "study of the nature of our own minds and how that relates to the universe" as well as ...

I haven't read Shaw but I think I will like him more than Nietzsche. I have often thought that Nietzsche's irony was too much and a subtle way to mask...

Yes. Not professional philosophers but professional courtesy to philosophy. Just like the average person is willing to accept scientific values, so al...

This has quite captured my imagination, I wish a part of my education consisted of this. It sounds fun and promising, in a way. However, I can't imagi...

This may also be said of science. It's not that by interacting philosophically we should ignore the many diverse aspects, but we should also realise t...

Terribly interesting. Wikipedia might be my new favourite site. I can already foresee myself going back and forth through the chains. I'm gonna be so ...

One failure of so-called philosophers, myself included, is the inability to realise the domain of practice of our knowledge. We want to save the world...

That is the whole truth of it.

Isn't this restriction an insult to real philosophy? Imagine if any branch of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics declared itself a separate and ...

The fact that we have access to so much knowledge may imply philosophy is playing its part accordingly. I think, just like in the past, most people do...

Most people accept their philosophy in a language that is less academic. Fortunately, it is easier to express philosophy in such diluted means especia...

I agree with this.

I think science supersedes philosophy in terms of the materialistic approach. By this I mean that, science has exceeded in investigating the material ...

So far, what has been said about the shortcomings of philosophy seems quite unfair considering philosophy has played its part of providing the necessa...

There's an idea that eternal and infinite means existing outside of the frames of space and time as opposed to existing comprehensively within the ful...

The above shows that ethics/morality is determined by popular consensus within a particular sphere of interaction. This means that, in some places, cu...

All humans are, presently, believed to have free-will as part of the equality package. This means that, unlike animals, humans get to determine their ...

Utility. Some animals are bred for food, some for companionship, some for work, etc.

The arguments work for humans because it's clear that we're equal. That is not the same for animals, hence the current inconsistencies.

Imagine if we thought having knowledge meant omniscience. Then, we would be arguing whether we have knowledge or not. On the one hand, it would be obv...

Everything about our human relativity is subject to influence, including free-will. If free-will is something independent of everything else, then it ...

Me thinks we see eye to eye. :eyes: :victory: :eyes:

Strictly speaking, I'm not vegan. I practice a form of dietary 'ahimsa', that is, I feed in such a way that my habits do not cause harm to others. I e...

I believe the following, from my previous posts, suffice as personal views: I am vegan in a predominantly 'omni-canivorous' society. How is that confo...

I've already given you my personal views. As to society, is there individual/personal equality? The laws of equality are for the collective whole. Wha...

That is the point I'm trying to make. The laws we enact are dependent upon our interaction but not on some fundamental equality for all animals. We de...

That's what I said in my previous posts. Here are some references to the above sentiment:

Democracy is based upon the idea of equality or that all humans can be equally cared for within the collective. But, equality is not similarity. This ...

I don't know about this. I understand consciousness to be different from thought. Consciousness allows us to recognise thoughts but it can also transc...

I don't know. These, I believe, are some of the great unanswered questions. If reality is in unity, harmony and ultimate freedom, why should there be ...

Instead of wanting humans to stop mistreating animals, you should want them to learn what mistreatment is and why it is. This means the information sh...

There's personal views and general views. How I determine ethics/morality is a combination of: 1. Precedence. 2. Personal analysis. 3. Reciprocity. Th...

Allow me to share my two cents about meditation. From my perspective meditation is the deliberate application of mind.* Instead of letting the mind wa...

I think it is confounding the absolute with the relative. When we think that all there is to us is the relative (or limited) life, we fail to recognis...

Personally, to gain some understanding of the teachings on spirituality, I've had to filter out most of the relative conditioning accompanying the tea...

I don't think Yogananda lied to his followers, it's just that he did not account for the difference in culture. Back in his native India, if people le...

To me, democracy is social interaction based on unity and harmony, and worked through intelligence. It is about knowing who and what we are and have, ...

The beauty of the message in the video is that those often thought as 'primitive' meditators adhering to mystic religious edicts are actually achievin...

The root of democracy is far beyond the limits of current humanity. For generations now we've declared ourselves to be thinking life-forms but, most o...

Whatever decisions were made back then concerning the way forward in education, was because they earnestly thought it was the better way forward. Tech...

We're still learning through trials and errors. However, there's a fundamental shift in mentality where more and more people, while still concerned fo...

Exactly. I couldn't have said it better. :ok:

Is this a matter of belief? If God is omniscient then it means He is intelligent in the absolute sense. Doesn't that mean He knows how free-will works...

Democracy isn't necessarily about voting or consensus via public agreement. Most of the agreement is usually abstract, sub-conscious and pre-determine...

That's an unexpected point of view. Why is that?

In what way? (I mean, is it clearly defined harmful activity or is it relative harm. Most of what I've seen is, to a large part, relative harm from th...

Also, there's the question of whether someone would be ok to suffer a particular influence. If not, then it would be immoral to cause others to suffer...

I'm inclined to agree with the general flow of what you're saying but I'm having trouble getting past this statement, I think part of our genetic codi...

My ethics/morality is derived partly from previous precedence and partly from my own analysis. The idea that killing animals for food is unethical has...