Now you’ve shifted the discussion to the disproved position of the tabla rasa (empty slate). If someone is born and denied sensory experience or help ...
That’s the opposite of the original question you posed. Christians denied the authority of the Romans willfully. They chose an individual path that op...
I still want to hear your answer/s to the ‘deeper question’ first. You asked why people give up their ‘will’ in reference to people’s ‘respect for aut...
Oh! You want a different answer to the one I’ve given? Okay ... Maybe because they wish to experience something ‘wholly other’. Meaning, as their sens...
So the deeper question is why people are willing to respect authority. I believe I have already outlined my view. To repeat, if you’re completely subs...
I’m not going to pretend I know exactly what your take is on The Holy Spirit. Needless to say it is clear enough that the narratives contained within ...
Actually pinprick is more on point than you are here. A false idea almost certainly qualifies as a meme, but a meme doesn’t necessarily qualify as a f...
This isn’t true at all. You asked for criticism and I’ve clearly offered constructive criticism. Anyway, you’ve made yourself clear enough. If you hav...
I literally said I do the same thing (ie. Not try hard enough, and that being human is the reason for this). The little bit at the end was directed at...
Not trying hard enough. Maybe you’re just not ready yet and find it easier to swallow if it’s ‘the world’ that’s against you instead of yourself. We’r...
It wasn’t really ‘invented’. Roger Penrose has a nice way of summing up ‘reality,’ ‘mathematics’ and ‘consciousness’ by saying they all appear to oper...
If I was pinned down I’d say philosophy is nothing to do with either knowledge or intelligence in any direct sense. Philosophy is a cultural phenomeno...
Again, what do YOU mean by ‘unproductive’ here? I don’t know what distinction you’re referring to. I’m assumed you wasn’t making a value judgement at ...
Not necessarily: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-values/ Red Wibbles eat Lemons as a propositional statement is considered to be either true ...
Depends on the person. You’ll get the same from me either way :) I imagine critiques will vary depending on how serious people are about it. Some peop...
All, any, none or whatever. Join in by writing and/or critiquing how ever you can. I’m sure people will have different ways of doing things and this w...
@"Zophie" 7 days. Go nuts! The word is ‘Chair’ go with it any you see fit :) Honestly I’m just going open my dictionary every week and slap my finger ...
Personally speaking I’m doing this to improve my writing and critiquing. I’m interested in seeing what people come up with and I’ll comment about thei...
As far as I understand Hedonism it is that life should be judged through pleasure and pain - obviously with the aim of maximising the former! I’m here...
Halfway through rereading the chapter now. Nope, it’s not merely ‘superstition’ either. Like I said, it is about ‘culture’ in general - as in we don’t...
Our genes allow us to have memes, but our memes don’t allow us to have genes. That’s stretching the concept a little and then holding it in the corner...
When there is conquest or rebellion there is death and destruction. I don’t think there is likely more to it than that. If it was premeditated then is...
Do you at least accept that these choices have nothing to do with what happened though? You may believe for example that you are patient and polite in...
This is an Issue Syamsu has been having for a long time. It doesn’t look like you’ve taken any advice given to you previously by numerous people. I do...
Yet all you give the reader is this: For a novel, yes it’s an intriguing opening. For a philosophical work I don’t care for it and it doesn’t tell me ...
Put that in your intro then and dump the other opening because it doesn’t work (I would recommend you change one of the iterations of ‘something’ thou...
I don’t quite follow your line of thinking here? For starters wars and conflicts around the globe have dramatically decreased over the past century. Y...
I understand what you’re saying. You should listen to the advice given to you. Our lives and interests sound relatively similar. I’ve always done thin...
I wasn’t being impatient? Just said that in relation to your other post where you made explicit your waxing and waning on this project. You sound like...
You probably just need a tonne more persistence and the resolve to finish a project (which will be flawed regardless of how much you try to perfect it...
Have you abandoned this now? Do you understand what I’m pointing out in terms of presentation? Note: To repeat; nothing to do with the content. The po...
I’m here to read and to sometimes write. I don’t expect to have in depth discussions online because they are rare. Occasionally I come across somethin...
This gives some more depth to it: https://durkheim.uchicago.edu/Summaries/forms.html His definition of religion was this: There is a term that still c...
There was a guy on Sean Carroll’s podcast talking about psychedelics recently ... ah! It’s on youtube too: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SOEHWbl3KFc M...
My personal take on this - and, to be clear, it is MY take on phenomenology - is that to refer to phenomenon within the framework of a phenomenologica...
I’m assuming you’ve read Eliade’s ‘The Sacred and The Profane’? The most telling concept held within that small work for me is ‘hierophant’. For the h...
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