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What are you denying? I am not questioning whether you have this feeling, I am questioning whether it goes beyond that, that there is an eternity that...

Do you include the feeling or experience or intuition of eternity in things about which one might be mistaken?

I posted something right before yours that addresses this. He is trying to appease the Church. The authority is the self that thinks. Right. They had ...

I said: "if you feel". That has nothing to do with what I do or do not feel. Some people do have a feeling of being able to fly. When acted on it can ...

No argument needed. If he begins by doubting everything that includes doubting the Church. Of course he makes it appear otherwise. From the Second Med...

Follow this closely, if you feel you can jump out the window and fly then you feel you can, but you can't. Try it.

You misunderstood my point.The Church was the final authority on all matters philosophical and scientific. To challenge this authority was to risk the...

Your feeling has nothing to do with what might happen when you die. You seem to have lost track of your own argument.

Descartes' doubt gave him the cover to doubt the authority of the Church.

@"fishfry" I am not going to continue playing a part in another of your political rants, conspiracy theories, and alternatives to facts. Perhaps you w...

For the majority of the past year your man Trump was in office. You know, the guy who tried to get the National Weather Service to back up his claims ...

I did not say she got what she deserved. I questioned your comparison to what happened to a man who was killed by having his neck kneeled on for over ...

And you'd have make a piss-poor philosopher. Was she tased to death?

You cannot experience a minute in less that a minute, or an hour in less than an hour, or 100 years in less than a hundred years. For the same reason ...

This piece lacks credibility: First of all, it may be widely accepted by readers of the Federalist, but it is not widely accepted by those who have th...

I suggest you read the posts. You have time. It's long but won't take an eternity.

If you followed the thread with sufficient attention you would not have asked the question.

I just completed a long essay in several parts on Plato's Phaedo. Read it and get back to me if you want to discuss Plato. https://thephilosophyforum....

What if it is? And what if it's not? I have had no such intuition or feeling or experience. Not every intuition or feeling or experience I have had tu...

It hasn't happened in my lifetime. Seriously, I have nothing by which I can determine whether there is such thing and its consequences for me.

Some of us try to live in such a way that if there is something after death we will be judged well and will avoid punishment.

A significant part of the population and their influential leaders do not mark the lanes in the same way you do. Who has the right of way at the inter...

There are three parts to this, as described in The Three Metamorphoses of the Spirit is Zarathustra. When what was once a cultures source of strength ...

I agree in part, but while ancient texts may help with regard to thoughtfulness, technological problems require technological solutions. We cannot say...

The issue arises because of Socrates' choice to stay in Athens and drink the poison rather than flee. To some this seems like suicide, but it is quest...

I don't know the context but this seems to be overstating the problem. Belief should be critically examined but where it cannot be replaced by knowled...

I am glad to hear that.

I don't buy it. But I am not going to argue the point. But the story is such that what one takes from it the that one should blindly and unquestionabl...

A problem occurs when one's faith in reason is given the absolute authority of God. As if any conclusions that they have arrived at rigorously are tru...

You are right, The Theaetetus, as well as many of the other dialogues, ends in aporia. What is less well known or agreed upon is that there are also a...

Yeah, I was going to comment that you were probably not a fan. My view: it is part of our intellectual, spiritual, and cultural history. If one reads ...

Right, but the question is what does the allegory mean? From the story of Abraham: "your son, your only son".

You're getting your stories mixed-up but I agree.

Good point. Having a god who is to be feared can work in your favor, but you really have to be careful, his anger can turn against you. So maybe the s...

According to Socrates, the greatest evil that can befall someone is misologic. The cause is having unreasonable expectations of what reasoned argument...

That is correct, his is not a God of reason, but of will. He is in this way similar to Job's God and the God of Ecclesiastes. A God whose will cannot ...

Did you mean nocturnal emissions?

@"Banno" I just posted the last section of my commentary on the Phaedo. Socrates was unable to demonstrate through argument the existence of the soul ...

That may be. But this is the story that has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.

If I am to discuss a story I take the story as it is written. If I read in a book:"Harry said" then I can safely say that according to the book this i...

And yet their patriarch would have sacrificed his own son, and they still hold this up as a great example of faith. Rewriting the story is evasive. If...

There is in the story no indication of a misunderstanding: Abram hid what he was about to do from Isaac and his servants. It is not about God, it is a...

Cebes is unaware of the problem and says that he is completely satisfied with Socrates’ account of the deathlessness of the soul and has nothing furth...

Abraham's sacrifice of his son is the paradigm of faith in God. It is also the paradigm of everything that is wrong with such faith, the willingness t...

Well then, the "evil one" is in good company.

Maybe someone can help. I once came across an essay by a highly regarded philosopher about, if I remember correctly, why it is wrong a bake a child in...

I take it you are referring to Online Philosophy Club and Philosophy Now Forum in that order. When I was a moderator at Online Philosophy Club I would...

Thanks for your contribution. I am not sure I understand you. But based on what I think you are getting at. It is the unit, the one, that makes counti...

The fundamental difference is that the early Christians had no power. They turned inward because they were powerless to make outward changes. Their in...

I am an atheist and I have no reason to hope there is no God, I simply find no compelling reason intellectually, conceptually, or spiritually to belie...