Just checking for double standards. Like I said, I may be mistaking a previous instance I was pulled up for on another forum. I’ve no serious issue wi...
Was referring to Sam Harris and his discussion with Peterson where he rambled about a recipe (?). Basically he gave an example of how he could read a ...
I’ve not read much of Hegel yet. Started POS, but then my interested turned elsewhere. Heidegger ... I’ve not the time nor inclination to voice my ful...
It could be little more than an unconscious accumulation of avoided metaphorical ‘deaths’? I reckon it basically comes down to facing your fears and/o...
‘Crisis’ is an incomplete mess. I do tend towards a ‘phenomenological’ view of things, but in reality it is probably not much like what Husserl was tr...
A whole lot of nothing I’m afraid. The being you could just as easily have said ‘art is the meaning of life, because I’m viewing everything as art’. S...
I would resist making leaps of faith based on a few neurological studies. Too many many people use such items as ‘evidence’ to back up their worldview...
I’m squishy like a peach with a stone at its centre: holding it together. Some may have sloughed off their ‘metaphysical’ flesh, or become rotten to t...
And? Again, not being dismissive here - or I wouldn’t bother posting. Just looking for something to discuss as I don’t see anything put forward for di...
So what? I don’t mean that is a dismissive manner, just couldn’t find anything to say as you don’t appear to have given any context to this thought or...
You’ll have to explain further the point of this thread? It means there is a feasible potential for said person buying an ice cream. Just because an o...
Nope. I never changed the use of the term or switched context. I did point out how the colloquial use can be used to present a mistaken use of the ter...
I’d ask him what I’d ask anyone. What was the biggest mistake you made that you found most difficult to face up to and admit to yourself? In this sens...
For me the hard problem that often remains a mere afterthought for these kinds of ‘schools of thought’ (ethical models, or whatever you wish to tag th...
You think and thought, you play with it, let artistry do its thang, then present some articulated form in hope of pushing beyond comfort yet remaining...
Have you seen some of the proposed candidates? Jess Philips as ‘wildcard’? Are they serious! Haha! Better to keep Corbyn than utterly drive the party ...
I was talking about experimental evidence - not something that exists in mathematics. Even so the guy who solved Fermat’s theorem wasn’t exactly happy...
To be fair this is true for almost everyone - if not everyone? Granted some are more prone than others, but it’s probably better to take note of who d...
Not really. I’m simply saying the other person is misusing the term to suit his purpose - the definition shows ways in which the context changes and I...
I tried this kind of thing on another forum where there were topics with 50+ pages ... mostly people went ape-shit when the intention was simply to lo...
Jung is not exactly taken serious by many, but he’s had a huge impact on psychotherapy. I really like his work - what I’ve read of it - but he did him...
I’ve given you pointers. Go look. Start with Kant’s use of ‘intuitions’. Nothing more to add, but I’m sure others here would be more willing to engage...
I said ‘jab’ because I thought you may have been offended by my brief mention of ‘religion’. I wasn’t taking a ‘jab’ at religion at all. I don’t reall...
By that logic you’re saying blind people are incapable of experiencing. I have a feeling this is a bit beyond you at the moment so I’ll just leave you...
I wholly oppose what you’re saying here due to the choice of wording. My point remains the same. Dogma is against critical thought because it doesn’t ...
Skimmed it. Yeah, ‘dogmatism’ exists in pedagogy. Dogma doesn’t care a jot for evidence the same cannot be said of science - although some scientists,...
I’m not willing to change the definition of a word to suit your claims. Scientists literally don’t adhere to ‘dogma’ yet in colloquial speech we do ca...
No. A dogma is nothing like an axiom. Scientific method is basically the antithesis of dogma. ‘Dogmatic’ can be used to suggest a degree of close mind...
I don’t regard ‘dogma’ as incremental. It is not possible to gain knowledge if you’re closed off to it - that is what dogma is. I don’t see how using ...
That just doesn’t follow. ‘Dogma’ means belief without doubt. It is hardly possible to be critical if you cannot doubt. I would argue ‘critical though...
Dogma goes against ‘critical thinking’. Dogma basically means to accept as writ without criticism - ergo it is probably more likely to induce a lack o...
If it’s violent enough it would wipe the slate clean and allow a new system to form. I’m pretty damn sure what the underlying problem is, but it’s har...
Tories have it by the looks of things. On the bright side maybe it will take things to get much worse before they get better. At the moment the choice...
I wish I could agree. I do at least have a better understanding about his views of science. I was expecting more depth in the answer and hoping for a ...
It may be more a case of lack of ability to make the best of the empathy we have. Maybe if we had less empathy we’d be better able to manage ourselves...
Immanuel Kant - Critic of Pure Reason. It’s heavy weight stuff, but if you really want to establish the kind of lexicon used in this sort of discussio...
Completely. Perhaps many assume they are offering ‘critique’ when they’re doing little more than expressing an uninformed opinion. Critical thinking i...
I think it’s a little strange to point the finger at prominent public figures in the billionaires world - Bill Gates especially as he’s been going aro...
Words do not exist independently of each other. I know what ‘primal’ means but don’t see how there can be ‘primal words’? I can explain what ‘shape’ m...
I think one of the main problems is associating ‘power’ with such a negative attitude. ‘Power’ needn’t be conceived as ‘domination’. I would say chang...
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