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Frank, once again, the stories in these books come from various periods of time. The date of compilation does not resolve the question of the dates of...

Why? This is not a flippant question.

Thank you for demonstrating my last point.

Here is the problem in a nutshell. You refer to your "analysis" as if it is not based on your own dogmas and beliefs. The fact that you indefatigably ...

I cannot comment on a book I have not read but from what I could find on Amazon the book is not about the history of the Hebrew Bible. But perhaps I a...

This does not explain the two versions woven together in Genesis.

See the section Problems with Dates and Places in the article "Ancient Jewish History: Who Were the Hebrews" from the Jewish Virtual Library https://w...

The 'Shema' says: It is clear that this is addressed to Israel the people. "our God" is the god of the people of Israel. To say that our God is one is...

We simply do not know the dates of origin of the stories. We also do not know how long it takes for conceptions of divinity to change. It is not as if...

This is a henotheistic god, the one god of the people. The first statement of monotheism occurs in Isaiah: “This is what the Lord says— Israel’s King ...

A couple of differences: Abraham speaks face to face with his god. He makes a bargain with him and questions his morality in destroying Sodom and Gamo...

This is an interesting question. Why is there a question of God's name? There are several different names for gods in the Hebrew Bible. Monotheism is ...

This ignores the point. First, by derived I mean abstracted. Second, if the mathematical structure is in nature but that structure is knowable without...

Most are there in order to get a job. Learning is not a high priority

22: Hegel notes that this claim has fallen into disrepute, because nature is regarded to be above thinking and without external purpose. He says that ...

Another victory for the plutocrats: the merger of t mobile and sprint. Trump once again demonstrating that his being a champion of the average citizen...

It is not a theory, it is a formal deductive system based on the negation of the parallel postulate. Once again,it is a purely formal, logical system ...

Thank you.

Perhaps that is why you think it is nice.

The conditions of Earth now are conducive to the flora and fauna that exist. If those conditions change the conditions will no longer be conducive to ...

I agree. What I am stressing is the importance of culture in the development of the thinking I. In terms of the context and history of the term it see...

Well, since Jefferson's idea was rejected, we don't know if or how t would have succeeded. It has wide ranging impact on property, contracts, laws. Je...

In so far as evolution is a response to environment, global warming is of enormous importance. How could it not be? It will bring about significant en...

The self-development of the individual takes places within the self-development of the whole, which in turn is led by the philosophers from within the...

Corporations are not sovereign entities. They must comply with government regulations. And this is the crux of the matter. Trump has rescinded environ...

Not from an outside source. As I said in an earlier post, there is no outside, all is within the whole. Yes, I think that this is right, but self-form...

I understand why some are willing to overlook his shortcoming because of what they think they gain in return, but I cannot understand how anyone who k...

He alone does not have that power, but he is the leader of a nation that has a great deal of power, both to contribute to and abate the problems of gl...

Without those individuals the giant anthill will soon fade into nothingness. The anthill will fade into nothingness anyway, so why should it matter? T...

These are two different things. Cracks in and the undermining of the foundation do not mean that the house is falling. If nothing is done, however, th...

Since we are reading Hegel it would only be appropriate to that him. Of the many? Hegel thinks he and the gang have taken care of that as well. What w...

The potential is there for things to escalate. Wars have been started over more trivial things than seizing a boat. It is not clear how close Trump ca...

Yes, the development of the individual is through the development of the culture. But also, it is "the few" the philosophers who are responsible for t...

I think one thing is clear, God is not known by revelation or by intuition or by feeling. Since truth has the element of its existence solely in conce...

I do not think a neutral stance is arrived at by looking at Obama. On the international front, we still do not know what the consequences of Trump's b...

And every day he demonstrates how unsuited he is for the job.

I think he was as surprised as everyone else that he won the election. He has no filter and says whatever comes out of his mouth. It plays well with h...

There are plenty of people who know him well from their time in his administration who would strongly disagree with that. Some people like him others ...

Perhaps not, maybe he just did not want a black president and wanted to cause trouble and plant seeds of doubt. But maybe someone told him that and he...

There are several reasons Trump got the vote, none of them have to do with him being smart or understanding people. First, Hillary was not a good cand...

I don't know what this means. Did Spinoza "go theological"? The first question should not be whether he believed in God but what he means by God. Once...

“Thus” indicates that the life of God and divine cognition follow from what has been said. God and the divine are not separate from but within the cir...

You might be interested in this exchange between Jefferson and Madison. Jefferson says that no generation has a right to bind another. https://jeffers...

There is no judgment of the truth of the deductions of non-Euclidean geometry that independent of reality, unless of course you maintain that there is...

I think you are entirely right. It would be helpful to circle back. After all, the circle is the best and most powerful image of the self-movement of ...

Of course abstract numbers do not occur in nature, nothing abstracted from nature exists in nature. At last? I have never said anything to the contrar...

I am not but your topic is an attack on mathematical platonism and if you are going to attack it you must accurately represent it. Your talk of potent...

The mathematical platonist does not claim that there is an actual five in nature. That is nothing more than an assertion. The platonist asserts that t...

My hope is that there are still enough people who value the truth and can distinguish truth from lies, and, and this is important, they reside and wil...

What you seemed to be claiming is that the number, whether it is fingers or fruit, is not actual but potential until it is counted. One iteration of w...