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What does it mean to be divine?

What does this thread have to do with Plato's cave allegory? First, he does not say that all of reality is a prison. Second, one must escape the cave ...

For what it's worth, you are not alone. Rather than address what was actually said he accuses you of saying or meaning or thinking something else and ...

Bragg is keeping his cards close to his chest. It seems likely that his decision not to discuss the second crime is strategic. Not disclosing it at th...

So sayeth Nietzsche, this great symbolist and ironist and inverter of values. What is this way of life? (33) The question immediately arises: can we l...

I play guitar and upright bass, mostly the jazzy end of blues. I read but too slowly to play at tempo. I built a couple of guitars from parts, Tele st...

It is in direct contradiction to the Sermon on the Mount and the letter of the Law. My guess is the influence of Paul, which can b seen throughout the...

Based on past conversations, you know much more about this. A few general comments on gods and men. The status of some divine or semi-divine being is ...

This sounds like Paul. It claims that the Law and the laws of Kosher are not important. Jesus' disciples split with him over this. They reached a comp...

One serious criticism, not just of philosophy, but the humanities, is that the universities keep churning out PhD's in the face of bleak job prospects...

I agree. It was intended as a follow up to my comment: The hope for a messiah, whether it is the second coming, or even a bloated orange savior, is st...

With regard to an alternative I was thinking of a movement in American Judaism beginning in the 19th century: "tikkun olam,” a Hebrew phrase meaning “...

I agree. Jesus did not start the messianic movement. It is a mode of escapism that was transformed into what some of the hopeful took to be the truth ...

But you should be interested in what those who you rely on actually say. Or not. That's up to you. The problem is your repeated criticisms of others b...

I thought you might appreciate that.

I think it might help to put aside the question of a private language for a moment. If I point to a mark '7' and ask what you see and you say "the num...

On a piano I hear B. But that is a story for another thread.

Once again you create a straw man to attack. I said nothing about ordinary opinions. Systematicity, as used by Hoyningen-Huene, is not itself a system...

One is a theory the other is not. What different medications have in common is that they promote health. They are in that sense commensurable, but tha...

Thanks for your advice, but I prefer to think rather than follow the misguided idea that there are steps that are not even steps. Dismissing what you ...

These are not steps in a philosophical method, they are branches of philosophy, areas of philosophical study. What you might find in a college philoso...

Much has to do with preferences both for the philosophers I want to read and interpretive practices. Others, of course, might see things very differen...

I agree. Having been in academia for many years I have some criticisms of it, but learned to separate the good from the bad.

You keep making claims that have nothing to do with what I said. What supernatural claims have I introduced? If you think we are anywhere near an adeq...

At the risk of admitting I am not truly educated I am somewhat in agreement. But knowing the languages is not enough. One must know and read the liter...

Perhaps. I am addressing what was posted. Ditto.

I have not presented an argument and I am not dismissing systematic knowledge or the work of specialized authorities. Those who are worth their salt a...

Many are disappointed with and turned off by philosophy because it is not what they expected it to be. What they find are concerns matters of language...

Seems more like Kant's misunderstanding. Abstract and bloodless. The distinction between humans and "merely natural creatures" looks like a denial of ...

This might be of interest. It is, as I piece it together, Plato's argument against knowledge of the Good.

That others may share your opinions does not mean that they are more than opinions. Neuroscience is in its infancy. Our understanding of what matter i...

You are confusing your opinions with facts.

I don't see the harm. There is, after all, a line of cosmetics called Philosophy. Admittedly I was upset to learn that after years of difficult study ...

DJ Trump spins another: the first time ever a porn star is paid to keep her mouth shut.

This should not be skipped over. There would be no public expression of pain. But there are public expressions of pain. And when someone expresses pai...

We have no knowledge of how he spoke or what he said. Paul spoke with what he claimed was the authority of Christ but did not call him a god. This was...

It is the name of something felt, the name of something that leads us to reach for aspirin and Novocain. He is not proposing a theory of pain. He asks...

The grammar is based on the fact that I don't feel someone else's pain. It does not "tend to" and does not "belong" to a person. It is not a possessio...

I took it to be in accord with your earlier claim: Your use of paraphrase is suspect. Several times you attribute something to what was said that was ...

It does not matter if it is the same or not. What matters is what caused it and how to alleviate it.

There are reasons he is called God, but that does not mean they are good reasons or even reasonable reasons. They are, however, reasons why Jesus woul...

What he attempted to do was to straighten out the kind of confusion we see here. A parent attending to a child with an ear infection understands pain ...

If we are to make headway on the problem of consciousness where do you think it might come from if not cognitive science?

What are Aristotle's two basic steps? How do they form a system? What is the framework that led to knowledge of certain principles and causes? Aristot...

They do not believe he is a false messiah, but he does want them to believe that they are the one's being crucified. As he told the faithful in Waco:

What two basic steps? Philosophy is not a how to manual. There are no frameworks to wisdom. I don't see how they could. This is simply wrong. Socratic...

There are various philosophical methods. Philosophical methods are not for the sake of method. The method is not independent of what it is one seeks t...

You give a very good example: To arrive at wise statements is not the goal of Socratic philosophy. Socrates wisdom is knowledge of ignorance. Knowing ...

He didn't. Good point, but the goal was not to know in order to change the world. In what sense is this metaphysical? Certainly that is one approach o...

It is talking to you that leads nowhere.