Valentinus

You can download many of his books from this site: Memory of the World library. A fellow member of this forum showed me the library. It is an awesome ...

Thank you for the warm welcome.

I am not saying what is a proper response. That is your problem given only to you as it is given to me as my problem. We all have these peculiar assig...

A central theme in those "manuals" is that passion clouds perception of what is going on. Both Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus struggled with those arou...

More of a drive by shooting than a hijack. Maybe you could start a thread on what you want people to focus on.

Well, it will be difficult to explain how Illich may be germane to the discussion if I am the only one who has read him. He discusses methods of educa...

That observation wasn't brought up as a definition. Why anybody would ask the question is because there are experiences with language that do not seem...

I disagree that the emphasis on technology is solely driven by the prerogatives of warfare. I appreciate you fleshing out what that argument entails f...

Let's look more closely at this use of possession as exemplified in "my thoughts." The property of ownership is bound up with other people recognizing...

I am curious which part of Sartre you are drawing that representation. In Transcendence of the Ego, there is a source prior to the Cogito but it is no...

Well, for myself, I never listened to Krishnamurti as a giver of direction. I was galvanized by his question of whether I had thought anything on my o...

The possibility comes from our experience with ourselves as what cannot be gotten away from. We keep showing up in every movie. I am trying get some s...

Big question, probably requiring more than one discipline to address. It can be observed that solipsism, the Cartesian thinker, etcetera, all start wi...

One can approach the matter of "identification" from a number of ways. I am fond of the following from Zhuangzi: " Kai-shi then replied, "I have heard...

While I share your dissatisfaction with the shallow quality of many of our present forms of life, I don't think it is only about leaving one kind of e...

Hopefully, something smarter than the speculator in you will take over command at that moment. Or if your prefer the thought from a dead French guy: "...

These are good examples of employing references to a person in lieu of addressing their arguments or requests on their own grounds. They are also exam...

The manner in which a physical state is said to produce a mental state is where the two models diverge. There is the general distinction between form ...

I can assume those things but that is exactly what I am trying not to do. I am comfortable with considering the world where all mental states are attr...

Yes. As per your suggestion, I am trying to focus on the first seven remarks

I was referring to the definition of property dualism that I quoted above from the IEP : ""Property dualists argue that mental states are irreducible ...

Reading the full argument prompts me to observe that responsibility as something that we practice every day has less to do with "making one the way on...

I read that line as saying we are not checking if the words correspond one to one to "objects" as they are represented in the Augustine quote. Their "...

If it is true that "human disposition is an attribute of brain states", then there doesn't seem to be any purpose to maintaining a dualism. Nothing is...

It is a term we each apply to what appeals to us. But "beauty" is also something that happens to each of us, an experience that can be compared with o...

Thanks for that text. It completes the thought I was trying to have. I particularly like this part: It resonates with Wittgenstein's examples of learn...

There certainly was cross pollination. Eisenhower was warning about their integration and he had been in enough places to see the depth of it. I am on...

It is true that the model of the General Staff developed by the Prussians was adopted by the U.S. military in the early twentieth century and employed...

The language of the act specifically excludes control of curriculum: "Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to authorize any department, ag...

Er, you were the one saying one proof was better than another. Asking for a defense of that opinion offers you an opportunity to explain why. Your rep...

Perhaps you could relate how you consider that proof to be superior to others. You, after all, are the one claiming such a superiority. You express a ...

Well, in English, it is: ""When they (my elders) named some object, and accordingly moved towards something, I saw this and I grasped that the thing w...

Give it your best shot.

I follow your explanation about the soul being prior to harmony. I am confused how the "attunement" discussion relates directly to versions of duality...

Regarding the IEP article, it does a good job of describing the differences between how substance is described in Spinoza and Descartes but doesn't re...

This website describes the term this way: "Property dualists argue that mental states are irreducible attributes of brain states. For the property dua...

Your approach makes sense. Thank you for taking on the task of organizing.

Okay, joe b, that put your question in more context. Is there something you are reading that uses the phrase: property dualist concept of mind? Is the...

Is this question being asked in relation to specific texts that you have been asked to read?

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Maybe we don't have to frame philosophy that way. I have some sympathy for Socrates pouring cold on the idea. He did it in the context of forming an i...

Your point is well taken that what Spinoza was saying by "substance" cannot be easily associated with contemporary meanings. I am only adding the obse...

I agree with the points made previously by the others but want to focus on the idea of buying power. On the one hand, consumers have an incredible pow...

Your rhetorical question is a meaningless taunt.

This conversation between you and Terrapin Station interests me, in that I had to learn how to listen to some music while others felt like I had been ...

Whoa, couldn't we start over again with a new thread with an agreement of how much to read as a start? It has been a few years since I read it and my ...

Thanks for the reference to E. F. Schumacher's A Guide for the Perplexed. I had not known about it and will give it a read. The "'topography of the sa...

Story of my life. All of them. :cool: The format of how comments appear here make that development difficult to overcome. Along with the natural disgu...

When considering your appeal to a change of procedure, it may be helpful to consider why some say "none of the above" won't be showing up on the menu ...

Well, the initial point of entry in Aristotle's discussion of perception is commonly regarded to be his comment in De Anima, 418a3: "That which can pe...