In the Patristic Era. Yes. But you accused me of making up the claim that he was a Jewish rabbi. You are avoiding the issue of what the term 'son of G...
While your heart stops and you are no longer breathing you are still alive. Clinical death is the irreversible loss of brain function. What the mind s...
"Professional" rabbi was at that time a meaningless term. I said he was a rabbi, a teacher of the Law, and you accused me of making it up. I provide t...
You need to increase your circle if acquaintances, or better yet, do some research. Rabbi means teacher or leader. Do you believe that Jesus was a Jew...
Once again, a direct quote: You say what is not an essential aspect of Christian love. The last thing that is not essential is material well-being. Yo...
This is not what you said in your earlier post: Your claim was that material well-being is not an essential aspect, You excluded material well-being, ...
The point is that the report of an embodied person does not stand as evidence of a disembodied person. What is it that you do not think is possible? I...
This is how Hess understands it, but it is not the gospels say. Given Jesus' emphasis on the Law we should see what is said there: Do not seek revenge...
It is always an embodied person who has an alleged out of body experience. It is always an embodied person who related their experience. What does it ...
That is not the case. The word means different things to different people. quote="god must be atheist;531529"]Maybe the word has a meaning, or a conce...
Don't think what? I am interpreting a story. I don't think that any of this actually happened. I don't think the storytellers did either. I honestly d...
I am puzzled by the fact that you think that what I said was a paraphrase of what you said. But I do not know that you are right. I gave you three rea...
Three points. The fact that the term was not used may not be insignificant. Second, if they did not know good and bad then in their innocence they did...
The first occurrence of the term usually translated as 'sin' - Hebrew: ?????) is at Genesis 4:6-7 There is no mention here of original sin, or inherit...
You as in those with a passionate desire for wisdom who know that they are not wise. If I was wise I would know what it is, but I ain't. This in not m...
That had crossed my mind, but with your mention of Plato, Meno, Phaedo, and anamnesis I took it that you were discussing the dialogue. That was not my...
From my previous posts: I think it follows from the argument. Knowledge is recollection of what was learned in a previous life, but if it was learned ...
But this is not Socrates argument. See Meno 81c-d: The argument requires having at some time previous to this life learning what is to be recollected....
The problem is that if we start with the premise that knowledge is recollection then there would never be a time when knowledge was learned. But it ca...
This is what you said: Now it may be clear to you but based on what you said it may not be clear to others that an infinite regress makes knowledge im...
You suggest an Adam, but if knowledge is recollection there would have been no previous life to recollect. Hence knowledge cannot be recollection. I d...
This would mean an eternal regress to past lives, there could be no life that was not a recollection from a previous life, so no life in which knowled...
Good point. But if there was this Adam then the myth of anamnesis cannot be taken too seriously, because it would not then rely on recollection from a...
Yes, this is the prevailing view and it had a strong influence on Christianity, but follow the arguments rather than prevailing opinion if you want to...
Yes, this is the prevailing view and it had a strong influence on Christianity, but follow the arguments rather than prevailing opinion if you want to...
This is the question, and it has no philosophically satisfactory answer. Nothing has changed since Socrates addressed this in the Phaedo. He gives two...
Yes, I can understand how it might appear that way to you when you shut your eyes and ignore the refutations that have been given. You are like the pe...
Mathematical objects were for Plato hypothetical. This does not mean that he denied they existed but that the mathematician does not know them directl...
You have not presented a theory of state formation. This is not a theory of state formation. It is what a band of marauders do. Pointing to the conseq...
Let's look back to what you previously said: And prior to that: And: Once again you shift from one thing to another. We were talking about what occurs...
I think it is more a matter of your poor thinking. You made a claim about all states. It is up to you to defend that claim. You did not. Once again, m...
This shows the problem with the question about the purpose of philosophy. People are engaged in different activities, and the only thing they all have...
You will be able to give a more reasoned response if you change my words, but I said nothing about your fantasy being "absent any example". The absenc...
Do you really not understand or are you just being obstinate? You said "the state" and "any state" These are all inclusive claims about all states, ea...
Yes, mine is based on actual regimes, your's on a resentment fueled fantasy. If that is far as it goes then that is your problem. If you act on it it ...
It means that we work from within the system to make necessary corrections to promote justice. Justice, as I understand it, goes beyond your desire to...
One of the most important movements in political philosophy was ushered in mid-twentieth century by the work of Leo Strauss. He is not easy to underst...
Then I would tell you to report it to the proper authority. As is your habit you shift from one thing to another when you are no longer able to defend...
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