I find it difficult to define a single concept meaningfully. So I take the liberty of defining a few concepts which I think establish a framework with...
I think it is more than a question of authority; truth being pathless means also that we ourselves can't establish paths upon this land. How could som...
I am happy that I have lived as fully as possible, for some time now. I think that is what happens to anyone who faces death as a matter-of-fact issue...
This has already been answered, I refuse to objectify the subject in order to arrive at your paradox. If you are unsatisfied with my answer, we will j...
I can only experience the certainty or the illusion of being. I cannot get out of myself and take a peek into what is "really there" concerning myself...
I wouldn't say that. Quite the opposite, actually: I think of the self as a metaphorical space where mental phenomena happen; so the metaphor of a con...
There are a plethora of mental issues where the madman can be sure of his inexistence, or that he is a ghost, or other "degrees" of non-existence. And...
I have to excuse myself as ignorant again, this time about the concept of time according to Heidegger and Husserl. That being said, I would say simply...
I think it is a catch-22: philosophers define the pursuit of happiness as something connected to reflection. Since most people dislike reflecting, the...
Please forgive my ignorance: is this point canonical Merleau-Ponty or you took some liberty in your exposition? I ask because I find compelling the id...
What if we are actually code running in a simulation, and the simulation (being run by a military entity) has as its objective to assess the effective...
What if god micromanages only irrelevant stuff, like the number of folds a curtain has when being softly blown by the wind, how many pigeons coo at a ...
"The content of experience can be in doubt. That I am experiencing cannot." Let's consider a drunkard just awakened from a blackout. People tell him o...
"You're not educating them; you're unjustly showing extravagant superiority that is not justified" Well the effectiveness of the method should be meas...
You guys conflate being a fighter with arrogance. Of course, being a man of knowledge requires an inordinate amount of pride: you notice the cutting e...
Only secondary things. I would say that my social fight is secondary to my inner fight, but not being an expert on the crusaders, I find it presumptio...
You don't go far enough. Let us avoid objects altogether! Reality is just a game where you an I have to agree on some stuff; let's agree to disagree, ...
Imagine two balls. You just got two things out of nothing. Now imagine one of the balls is material, and the other antimaterial. These two balls shoul...
Perhaps Spinoza made up a straw man, with the intention of propelling the reader to a revelatory conclusion. That would indeed make complex to identif...
Thought flows; wisdom and knowledge - even the most dynamic examples - are stiffenings of the flow; are corpses. Being good, behaving filially: these ...
Madness is to immerse oneself in one's imagination; it is to destroy reality, and build it anew, each breath one takes. You chose materialism, and I r...
What is not absurd? That small balls hit each other and that builds reality? Or that spirit becomes flesh? Madness is just another option. Up to you t...
Ideas are shareable thoughts. Faith are the coalesced ideas. Or perhaps the coalescing of ideas. Take gravity, for instance: we fall down when risen a...
That makes sense for a set of activities: decisions. But the intellectual life is full of thoughts, images, desires, inopportune thoughts, beliefs, me...
Your writing is incomprehensible. Perhaps you meant "our thinking is involved, as situations and our responses, positive or negative, must be evaluate...
That is a very neat cut into what matters; thank you. We can define as unchanging anything we want. It is just a language/imagination task. And to pos...
To clarify: I would say philosophers who are still religious are compacted to the infinite (as in, they have a compact with the idea of eternity). Jus...
One century ago, people didn't know about a ton of verifiable knowledge we now know, and that did not impede them to attain wisdom. You are creating a...
Men of knowledge are those who appreciate the finitude of existence; it is our duty to ring the bell and awaken people. This is specially true in our ...
Sorry, I couldn't get past the halfway mark on that video, because it is very constructive in its style, and I am uninterested on its theme. Genes and...
Yeah, you are right. I should have written that having no religion is the right way for a man of knowledge, but of course there are the unwashed masse...
Well, what is becoming if not transformation? And what is transformation of the species, if not extinction? I agree that humankind has in it the poten...
Imagine what will feel the researcher who creates the first artificial intelligence entity. Sure, it will start as a baby's mind, and the researcher w...
The body is composed of elements that are always in flux: we eat stuff, stuff becomes us, we defecate stuff. We do not call body the specific composit...
I think you threw the baby with the bath water here. Perhaps more important than knowing the truth about the existence of god, we should ask ourselves...
I understand the rules of your test to be: - ignore concepts based on a materialistic point of view - ignore concepts based on an idealistic point of ...
I do not discard any possibility. I consider possible that even some horrific religious fanaticism is, actually, the ultimate truth. It just might be....
It seems to me that what we are discussing is the relationship between society and philosophy. You identify two examples (corrupt societies and religi...
Meaning is something which only makes sense as a property of something that is communication. For instance, a hunk of metal has no meaning. But if we ...
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