Maybe one way to look at it is that we don't live within many of our convictions. They are experienced as boundaries of our experience. They are prese...
I think the virtue of patience is being connected to habit as a method. If one has the habit of patience, it is because it has provided many benefits ...
The FBI, along with the Department of Defense (along with the other Federal agencies) are under the administrative control of the Executive Branch wit...
The "agency of oversight" you are thinking about has already been established. The Constitution's separation of powers was designed to have the jobs a...
The dilemma you propose by saying: "Life cannot be both worth living and acceptable in ending", assumes your life belongs to you just because you are ...
I don't think "authenticity" is the "primary value of existentialism." If one is going to herd such a large group of thinkers (who disagree with each ...
Whether one considers his ideas of value or not, to describe the process Hegel is describing as "deciphering" overlooks a challenge he puts forward in...
One way to look at it is that Sartre inserted Kant between your question and Descartes. Unless there is some text that would underline what you are as...
One of the excellent things about Kierkegaard's Works of Love is his insistence that we love one another. The assignment of such a task is also the ac...
I recognize where many of these quotes come from but not all of them. As a general principle, I would appreciate it if the text was located by work an...
I am not on board with the idea of "deeply rooted beliefs." Belief is not a function separable from others. I can breathe. I can chop wood. Belief is ...
In so far as Hobbes points to how we guard ourselves against violence and theft, he is contrasting those measures with the desire to not live that way...
One way to look at it is that the language of the mystics will never square with that of those who are interested in the boundary between the possible...
We have had this discussion before but what the heck, let's try again. Maybe it will get better. If you are having conversations with God, what is the...
Yes, Hobbes says an authority is the only way to suspend the war of all against all. He is also a Monarchist who dismisses forms of the Republic that ...
In the entry to Liddell and Scotts' Lexicon, the definition of the word starts with this: "The nature, natural qualities, powers, constitution, condit...
in regard to etymology, the Greek word is similar to saying something like: "Events keep Happening." It is relentless and leaves us poor mortals tryin...
Well, it is more complicated. The whole thing about two or three gathering as a congregation doesn't square with a lot of other stuff that has been sa...
Some of the reason why is Kant's endeavor to "save" causality from Hume who said that is an arbitrary scheme we apply to phenomena to make it into a s...
Science needs to own all of the premises it sets forth to test whether asserted connections are true or not. It is a function of experimentation. The ...
Maybe one long term consequence of the insufficient testing problem is that the antibody factor that has suddenly come into view as the means to figur...
I suggest learning a little bit of Greek. Aristotle repeats many words and phrases. When you see how the translators are arguing for how to understand...
I don't think deciding why people are addicted, as presented by your remark about stressors, will advance the methods to help them. You want to separa...
There are ways to present them as "diametrically" different. There are ways to approach the differences as parts of various psychological frameworks. ...
Yes they are different. There are good reasons why we make distinctions between them. But accepting that doesn't necessarily move us closer to underst...
It does. The Establishment of Religion clause of the First Amendment in the U.S. Constitution was not a stand against theological ideas or styles of l...
Yes, the need is prior to the "desire" for something but noticing that doesn't separate the two in an absolute fashion. For the most part, we want wha...
When you need or want things, it is not happening in a vacuum. If you say you need to eat you also want to eat. A distinction is made but it doesn't p...
Maybe the way to approach it is to start with the relativity of absence. Aristotle noted that people suffering from an illness experienced their needs...
The whole thing has been set up as a gamer's paradise, by gamers. The paranoia regarding hidden agendas is quaint. There is only the game and what one...
What is important for a person can be what is true. The culture wars are wrapped around that connection. Being a progressive is about embracing a bett...
That is a reasonable conclusion to Sartre's reference to Kant. For me, it misses a certain quality of a phenomenal observation of the sort Descartes s...
I hear the connection you make between devices of power and the ideas that make that viable. But we all live our life's trying to make the best of wha...
The "inwardness" element gets treated in different ways in Transcendence of the Ego. One pivot point is Sartre emphasizing that Kant said the "I" coul...
There were a number of testimonies that got labelled as "Gnostic" by the "Church Fathers." The orthodoxy that shut out all but one view was not concer...
It is very annoying that you assert to be the speaker for "Gnostic Christianity" when that is an idea only recently recovered from the mangled text of...
I have learned a lot here but I don't really belong, When I have tried to contest matters in view of what most interests me, it is not interesting to ...
In the Homeric tales, gods acted in their self interest and outcomes of mortal affairs were often shaped by that dynamic. The Republic wrestles with t...
Having to choose between something abstract and something less so may not be the pivot. One aspect of Taoism that speaks to this situation is that all...
The decision to fight or not can be a principle that applies to every situation. But if one approaches it as a matter of conditions, it becomes a matt...
Because the relationship to who has the power is always specific to a particular situation. Is there to be a unified theory where being an employee is...
I agree that kicking off a war that ends the planet is stupid and hopefully will not happen. The right thing to do about that situation may not apply ...
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