That's a strawman. My point wasn't there are no terms, for there are plenty of those: Meaning, infinite, worth, etc., but that you were demanding fini...
The trouble with abuse is often doesn't happen in every case or maybe even most cases. It's makes it easy to sweep under the rug, especially when live...
Not exactly. "Lust" is usually a combination of maladaptive desire which treats others as your possessions and feelings or thoughts associated with th...
An afterlife is worldly though, not metaphysical. For a religions claims to be true, for them to be right in some way, depends on the existence of a p...
Doesn't this have much the same problem as Wayfarer's pluralism though? If no religion is true, aren't you being just as disrespectful? How can this p...
In terms of ethics, for sure. Otherwise, not really. All the truths in question are of them— how they act, how they are ethically better than before, ...
Interestingly, the "flatting" actually comes out of understanding the infinite on its own terms, of the "higher" value itself. Since the infinite is b...
There are no terms. Meaning is necessary, is infinite. To specify a particular "how" (e.g. go on a spiritual journey, be an atheist, accept Jesus, etc...
It's more a reflection of how any philosophy involves ourselves and concern for our well being. The religious and mystics are deeply "egoistic." Their...
The better question is: What is pornography people? How is it virtuous? Porn is form of entertainment (or it should be). It’s not the viewer’s sexual ...
Depends which atheists you are talking about. The fundamentalists (e.g. Dawkins) are desperate to find a world without religion. For them it occupies ...
The point was I'm a literal refutation of your assertion no-one would have an interest in BDSM without having seen porn: I was having BDSM fantasies b...
Good to know I'm too implausible to exist! I was imaging bondage scenes long before I watched any porn (before I had "the talk" actually). Your approa...
What are you talking about? I wasn't saying no-one was addicted. My point was people get bored of things if they are only consuming them for excitemen...
I know. I commented as I did because your analysis is shallow. It's neither interested in describing the phenomena of escalation nor in understanding ...
I don't think so. Not everyone is watching purely for excitement. Some people would happily watch couples doing missionary every day of their whole li...
Issues of escalation aren't really about whether people are inclined towards S&M or not. The trouble with porn, for many who are watching purely for e...
The problem with Kant's critique is it dismisses John's approach out of hand. John's argument holds that there are, for example, real tree and flowers...
The trouble with that is logic is the ultimate other to oneself. Is 2+2=4 only true because it is of me? Clearly not. Even as I know it (or do not kno...
The mistake is thinking we need to know the whole system to know what's happening. It's flawed to think of a cause as a origin point which made everyt...
No. Such an account is absurd because any knowledge or observation is an experience. If anyone is to understand anything, including what bees or other...
I think you've missed a moral dimension. Robert seemed to want to name God as unjust. It's not just a creator of the unacceptable human condition is p...
I might put it like this: the trouble with God is one is always in the relationship for oneself. One loves God for what he does for you, rather than j...
The New Left is more or less the death of the religious myth (at least until is reforms in the illusion that practicing identity politics creates utop...
I'd say that's exactly what he's doing. The vision is of the abstracted idea of triangle. It has no geometry in a visual sense. The idea of triangle i...
"Faith" is a misrepresentation of trust, belief, values, ethics and knowledge in this context. Every philosophy, outlook or world view shares these as...
I'd say religion itself is heavily responsible for that response. In its hierarchal concens, it teaches people itself is only source of meaning. The s...
I think that question is a bit misplaced. The reasoning behind takes the loss of death to mean life's not worth living, that if it's true one's going ...
Subjectivities are objective-- it's true my states of experiences exist and cause other states (including of my own body). There is no "dependency" be...
An even more telling situation is presented by the mind which is not the body. If we take the non-reductive accounts of mind Wayfarer holds so dear, t...
Only is you believe or fear it is true. For anyone who's aware of the existence of minds, no such issue is present. We know truth is on our side. P-zo...
Final cause isn't an empirical question, even though it masquerades as one. It's the misapplication of reasoning about causality to logic. The "why" q...
I think the distinction between the worm theorist and stage theorist is suspect. The crashing of the Titanic happened over a finite duration. If we st...
I think the question is ill formed. By definition, there cannot be the iceberg which takes out the Titanic in 2017-- neither the Titanic nor the objec...
Identity. The experience of bring on the computer is not any other thing. What matters here is not the limit of you, the world or something else or ev...
We might say relativity is absolute. God can "turn the clock back," destroy the present states and reorder the world in a way similar to what was four...
I'm not calling out the Church on its own moral terms. My point is a description of what was done when Christian tradition dominated society. Wayfarer...
It's a total red herring. Materialism (whatever that's meant to mean) isn't at fault. The West's pillaging of the world by didn't begin the 20th centu...
I would say it's? religion or the transcedent itself which is the problem, a self-inflicted wound of one's own expectations. To be "bigger than politi...
Absolutely. I even like Sartre's earlier work with it's absence of value. It's a great account of power, responsibility in the context of radical cont...
Which is where Hegel falls back into fantasy of unity. In the face of meaninglessness, he went back to the fiction of outside nature, again returning ...
With regards to "meaning," it's both. It applies to either logical truths which expesses meaning outside someone's experience or to existing objects. ...
It's more a logical analysis of his work than a specific claim he makes. In his earlier philosophy it's most obvious, but he also struggles with the m...
Feuerbach is talking about the distinction of ourselves as the authority over nature. A person (or God) is distinct from the rest of the world, is the...
That nihilism, and the thinkers who circle around, mistake meaning or value for states of the world. Sartre, for example, treats meaning as if it's? a...
The trouble with this sort of account is it only accepts "cause and effect" style reasoning. Infinite of definition are misread as a function of prior...
The trouble is that Kant isn't paying attention. For it is not just bare experience which amounts to a category of understanding, but also the absence...
Does he exclude inference as a source of knowledge? I mean, is the claim that, if we rely on inference as a method, we cannot know the sun will rise t...
You're still expecting design. Nilhism is formed out of the expectation there is an underlying force which forms a destiny to be powerful and capable ...
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