I was referring to "natural", not manufactured, empirical entities as being encountered. Also, the ultimate constituent elements of manufactured entit...
So then, is it more appropriate to say Einstein "invented"/"created" or Einstein "discovered" that monumental interplay of abstract ideas (mathematica...
Pfhorrest, you stated: "The first thing we need to do to structure our experiences is to identify patterns in them." Is structure (patterns or pattern...
Thanks so much for your comments and especially the photos. I've been to Italy and never saw these structures, mainly because the focus for tourists i...
I completely agree with your comments about BLM. I never said I liked the Nazi, or the Fascist, or the Communist idea of utopia. In my opinion they ar...
Assuming total agreement with what you've said, how then does BLM think the "internecine" violence of black on black can be ended? By the way, Fascism...
I believe Alicia Garza was quoted as saying she and her fellow organizers of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, were "trained Marxi...
In the interests of fairness, I also think that: "What does matter (equally) is that crypto or pre-Communist groups, like ANTIFA and BLM, as well as p...
Perhaps the more accurate question ought to be about the allure of totalitarianism, be it fascist or communist? In my opinion, both are equally object...
Mysticism is utterly crucial to philosophy???? I don't think so! Fundamentally, mysticism, in all its forms, is not so much meaningless or nonsensical...
You are confusing the Principle of Cause and Effect with the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Just because natural phenomena have causes which explain ...
The Principle of Sufficient Reason is a universally shared transcendental prejudice. It is a cognitive knee-jerk reaction. It necessarily and inescapa...
YOU CAN'T DIE BECAUSE YOU DON'T EXIST should be I CAN'T DIE BECAUSE I DON'T EXIST First of all, I do exist! As Descartes showed: Ego Cogito, Ego Sum. ...
Both matter and energy exist and can be transformed into one another. It remains an open question as to whether, or not, matter and energy are ultimat...
How is it possible that for all the time the Philosophy Forum has been in existence only the articles by Jamalrob and Lamarch have been deemed worthy ...
If someone had an absolutely free will, then this would mean that, at some point, they were able to choose whether, or not, to exist (participation in...
Sartre claimed that human experiences of Nothing (everyday examples of experienced negations) happen just as frequently as human experiences of Someth...
The question: Why is there something, rather than nothing? presupposes, uncritically, that the Principle of Sufficient Reason, according to which my i...
Silencing hate speech is really nothing more, or less, than an indirect way to try to sabotage our constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of spe...
The existence of Material Being is dubitably certain and contingent, whereas, the existence of Thinking Being is indubitably certain and contingent. B...
Yes, the Nazis were completely defeated in World War II but, unfortunately, China's government today proves that the totalitarian ideology of Fascism ...
China has transformed from a totalitarian Communist state into a totalitarian National Socialist state. However, unlike National Socialist Germany, it...
[reply="ssu;433562" Today, the Socialist controlled Democratic Party condones, with deafening silence, the outrageous rioting, violence, and attempted...
One could argue that Socialism and Democracy are inherently antithetic concepts. Socialism is nothing more than a provisional form of totalitarian Int...
It certainly is! But that's what I see when I look around. A rose by any other name! I perceive no clear divide ideologically, just shades of differen...
The contemporary version of the method for bringing about a Communist revolution in the USA is in line with the thinking of Antonio Gramsci and the Cu...
Communist ideology stresses how crucial it is to bring about "classless societies." Instead, at most, it seems to have repeatedly established "societi...
Perhaps a non-totalitarian communism has never been tried in practice because real grownups know that such a thing is really nothing more than a utopi...
Both national socialism (fascism) and international socialism (communism) are totalitarian systems of government. Totalitarian systems of government p...
No. I'm just trying to determine if death is some kind of point reached by Being-in-itself where it "re-integrates" with itself because its effort to ...
Very nice overview of Schopenhauer's philosophy. It's obvious to me that you really admire his philosophy. If you are also familiar with Schopenhauer'...
" … the essence of the religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Marcionism, but not Judaism or Islam) was in fact leading towards truth,..." What truth? The "tr...
Schopenhauer is trying to be an "atheistic saint." And Nietzsche is simply calling him out on this! Although Nietzsche admires Schopenhauer for his un...
Suffering is not "enacted"? upon individual wills by someone or something, suffering is inherent in, an integral characteristic of, individual wills, ...
According to Nietzsche, the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, whom he greatly admired, had already successfully demolished and discredited the notion o...
Frank: My paternal grandfather came from a little hamlet called Sant Angelo a Cupolo and my paternal grandmother came from a neighboring hamlet called...
Hey! My Neapolitan Cousin. I'm 80, and, rest assured, I am just as mystified as you are as to what the ultimate outcome will be; viz., "Nothing, or so...
First of all, I am not attempting to judge another's spirituality; that's their business. Technically, I am also not attempting to judge the "truth" o...
In my opinion, Schopenhauer's denial of the Will-to-Live is an Affirmation of the Will-to-Extinction. It constitutes salvation for sick, weak, enfeebl...
One could argue that there is nothing. That the question presupposes what is not the case, and that experiences which involve nothing (negatites) are ...
On second thought, perhaps the more accurate question(s) ought to be: Why is there, simultaneously, both something and nothing? What kind of being gro...
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