Possibility

And yet your argument is supported by the original use of the word. Sounds like etymology to me. You can’t have it both ways. And I think it’s narrow-...

Yes - this is similar to the point I was making earlier:

There’s something wrong with this picture. I recognise that use of the word ‘philosophy’ developed out of the Aristotlean or ‘Western’ tradition. But ...

I agree that the difference between Western and Eastern philosophy is more about tradition, in contrast with content (for the most part) in Africana p...

Thank you! I’ve been asking about ‘African Philosophy’, which was mentioned and then rapidly dismissed based on one example, without so much as a refe...

Agreed, but that has nothing to do with patience. Patience is an awareness that every event or change requires a certain amount of time, effort and at...

Oh, I’m okay with being ‘wrong’ and ‘stupid’. Sticks and stones and all that. It just seemed like a waste of time and energy, which could have been sp...

Meanwhile, I’m still waiting for a response to an on-topic discussion... Perhaps the ‘expertise’ being demonstrated here is in trading insults. It’s a...

There is a lot in embracing femininity that is about a reclaiming of potency. While there is potential for toxicity in this, as much as with masculini...

What? Not here to survive, multiply and dominate? Isn’t that the goal of evolution? I agree with you. I think there is a creative impetus underlying e...

Love Discworld! From memory, ‘Equal Rites’ was an interesting commentary on sexism, too.

I’ll start be clarifying that I agree masculinity and femininity are not toxic, per se. It’s how we wield these terms to corral, control or justify be...

There are masculine virtues?

:up:

Not how I’d put it, but I agree. I thought it was an honest place to start the discussion, though. This version of masculinity does have a ‘place’, wh...

As @"BigThoughtDropper" said in the OP, this is a comment on societal expectations. I think it’s not so much that we’re ‘built’ to endure (or that men...

I don’t think this has anything to with survival.

Well put, Isaac. :up:

It does highlight that presumption, doesn’t it? The use of ‘physical’ and ‘emotional’ probably aren’t even necessary. But it also highlights the quest...

Best OP and discussion of masculinity I’ve read on this forum so far. As one of the few women frequenting here, I sincerely appreciate your approach t...

Which is why a ToE has to be inclusive of infinite possibility, or at least an inability to ‘know’ everything. Physics will fail at this as long as it...

If their reaction is to tense up or pull away, then I would say not. It’s the process from experience to action that is potentially inaccurate. We can...

No, not right. Philosophy is not just about statements of what’s true. Pronouncing what is true is only a narrow perspective of truth, even when infor...

No. You asked a question and I answered it from my limited understanding of Augustine. Not to mention that I haven’t seen the distinction ‘African phi...

No, it’s what you think it means. Narrowly useful is not always accurate - just ask Copernicus. I offered a broader definition.

It’s something I’m working on. I work in marketing and PR, so it’s often the little things that matter most. But with COVID regularly turning circumst...

I don’t think it’s as cut and dried as that. I imagine that most people have the capacity for both, but they lean towards one or the other. My husband...

No, but it is important that you not define philosophy so narrowly. There is no ‘qualification’ required. It’s a comparative term, not a classificatio...

There’s really no need to be rude. I wasn’t arguing, you were - it just wasn’t a particularly effective one. I was entering into a discussion. But tha...

A riveting argument, as usual.

I thought as much. No, for me, understanding can be beyond words. When I understand someone’s grief, putting it into words, even to myself, is profoun...

Yes, but we don’t necessarily interact as one of the 10,000 things. We can also interact as an indistinguishable aspect of the indeterminate whole. Th...

This is interesting to me. You use words such as ‘intuitively’ and ‘osmosis’, as if the knowledge just kind of turns up in your head. I’ve been aware ...

Philosophy is not just the practice of using reason to find out what is true, especially since it so rarely arrives at such a destination. There is pl...

It’s a bit like saying “What does ‘patriarchal system’ mean? That’s just the system, there’s nothing patriarchal about it”. The word appears to do no ...

I noticed that I’ve been using ‘understand’ in two different senses, and I wanted to clarify. In a metaphysical sense, to ‘understand’ is to align wit...

I agree with this as the overarching idea. But in order to be or interact, we fall either side of this coin. This is unavoidable. ‘Do or do not - ther...

I think Lao Tzu engaged the Chinese system of language in its purest, most straightforward format as the framework for an expression of reality that i...

I think that referring to the Tao as ‘knowledge in its truest form’ overlooks what the TTC says (and what we have been discussing here) about knowledg...

Ok. You can’t follow the Tao by gaining knowledge as a possession. You can’t experience the Tao by using knowledge. But you can’t relate to the Tao by...

I’m not saying it is an aspect of the Tao, but of experiencing the Tao. You can’t deny this quality without diminishing the experience. Language is no...

Are you still smarting from that? That is NOT what I said at all. I have tried to clarify, and your response was that you’d prefer to ignore it. This ...

‘The Tao’ and ‘objective reality’ are not concepts, they’re both placeholder names for what cannot be named, and it’s fruitful to claim that neither o...

There is ambiguity here, for the same reason I have been arguing: all these scholars are bringing their own experience into their interpretation. I’m ...

Thanks for the tip. The advantage of Google is that it doesn’t just offer it’s most likely translation, but a range of alternatives. This gives me a c...

A story does have logic to it, even a report of events does. Action occurs in a sequence, for starters. A narrative necessarily has characters, affect...

An interesting quote from Confucius with regard to naming, from a SEP article I’m reading on ‘Logic and Language in Early Chinese Philosophy’: “An exe...

It looks like I may have been using ‘logic’ where I mean ‘rationality’. This may not solve our disagreement, but I’m trying to be clearer...

No, I’m saying that the concept of ‘hope’ is one of the 10,000 things, and directing effort and attention towards it as an objective or virtue in itse...

I saw this a little differently. The functionality of emptiness is capacity, unrealised potential. We are not so much in what we say, but in our capac...