But philosophically speaking, a lot of philosophers take the I to be a representation of the will, or Will, and to be one and only. And so there is th...
Yeah well, look on the bright side, you'll never be alone! :smile: But you could trick it, and as a diversion, could try doing all those things that y...
There is this thing called the 'I', as in an I for an I, for long thought to be one and in unity with itself. But then came Nietzsche and said that th...
I think that 'western civilization' has its roots on Aristotle, after all aristotelianism has dominated most of the world for some 2k years, and we ar...
According to Hegel, it is the other way round: it is space that turns into time: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/324093 It seems tha...
Yes of course, philosophy has little to do with statements, true or false, but if one sees it that way, then they are statesmen, and not philosophers....
Seeing what makes a good philosophy, well this I think is extremely difficult to do by itself, but seeing what makes a good dance, that's a lot easier...
Yes, and so we have all these preachers-teachers in philosophy, being upset, that want us to do be just like them, and not to harbour our baby, saying...
Certainly, in religions, there are all kind of preachers. What I am saying is that in philosophy also, there are too, only that they are disguised as ...
But this idea is a representation of the so-called ascetic ideal, as it has been anayled by Nietzsche et al. Let us do a google search for "ascetic id...
As detailed by Socrates in the platonic dialogue "Phaedo", https://www.iep.utm.edu/phaedo/#SH3a So, philosophical life, according to Socrates, consist...
We should not see time for the age of the universe as something real, what would that time be anyway? In the theory of relativity, used by cosmologist...
I think that Nietzsche's filosophy is nicely expounded in the film "Dark City", one can watch there an ubermensch in action. https://www.imdb.com/titl...
Anyway, seeing that you are a Lovecraft fan, I suggest you watch "In the mouth of madness", if you haven't already that is, I think you'll like it. ht...
I managed to read the whole of your OP, wasn't easy, I must tell you, you need to improve your english mate, if you want to reach out to people, prese...
This is not what I meant, but to answer your question, you cannot create unless you destroy, with accuracy playing second fiddle, one cannot be a grea...
What's to say of him, in other parts, he speaks differently of women. Maybe in his works, one can find every possible thought expressed, I doubt he ha...
Dunno why, maybe because there is no bait, or maybe because they are disinterested in this sort of bait, eg some cheese, which is nevertheless mouldy....
haha, true, true, I guess you are off the hook then. Yeah, it might mean that as well, either that it was never born - so how can it die??! - or that ...
ha, you are very perceptive, although I said indication, not reason. Anyway, a rather good reason for philosophy being dead is the complete lack of mu...
Oh, in many ways, I reckon. Take humour for example. Why is there so little on this topic? On the metaphysics of humour I mean, its ontology, where ar...
If philosophers spent the same amount of time writing about the philosophy of humour as they did about ethics, then I think we would be much better of...
One thing to consider in the solution of Fermi's paradox is the so-called Great Filter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter The above was Robin...
Have a look at the link below, what prof Massimo Pigliucci wrote in his one and only appearance in TPF: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comm...
But the polemic nature of philosophical debates is usually either underrated or even totally ignored, as "philosophers" battle for domination, for the...
Everyone seems to dislike nihilism, but also everyone is using it to annihilate what they don't like. It's like the traitor: everyone likes a good tre...
Anyways, a good book on entropy is "Understanding Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics" by Georgy Lebon, David Jou and Jose Casas-Vazquez. https://b-ok.cc/b...
I think you misunderstood me, I wasn't saying that you are a violent person. I was referring to polemics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polemic It see...
"Battling with my ideas" is your inline comments numbered 1-7, which is perfectly allright. But I fail to see how the rest of your comments is "battli...
I don't need to do much searching, as I studied physics. And sorry man, I don't have time for guys like you, I used to have, but now it seems that I h...
It's just seeing you write all these "against" essays, how many have you written so far, and how many more are there to write? You are like these warm...
From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe#Controversies Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-equilibrium_thermodynam...
Entropy is a concept that is useful on a microscopic scale, but has trouble applying itself to the macroscopic one. As such, there is no such thing as...
But anyway, these are matters for the bureaucrats to sort them out themselves, whether there are any connections or not, I mean. But what of, what abo...
Yeah, well, too much bureaucracy and paperwork involved in the process I guess, thus making philosophy a ... bureaucratic enterprise! Ah those beerocr...
When Hawking says: ... he makes the error of applying Godel's theorem to physics and the real world. There is no connection, let alone an obvious one....
And because of this distinction between the formal/mathematical/non-empirical/logical world and the real world which is nothing like the other, we sho...
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