Yes, but your explanation of it wasn't clear since you didn't address the status of the synthetic a prioris in relationship to space, time and causali...
Sappy seems to have a quaint notion that loyalty is neither a virtue nor a vice, but rather amoral, that would be the only way to make sense of his po...
More interesting things as I'm revisiting some works: "The mistake at the root of this view, a mistake which has been fully revealed only by scientifi...
Relative to their authentic belief, obviously. Right, another poll citing fool (not to mention how you upload that link way after I had already respon...
Quite many, the fear of hell is a source of anxiety for many religious people... really your ignorance on these matters is quite painful. There is the...
Oh yeah, more bullshit. I totally dislike this hypocritical bias when you admit something on one side, but not on the other. How is it comforting know...
Very relevant to this thread, and to criticism of Kant's empirical derivation of the non-empirical thing-in-itself (which me and Willow have been hitt...
You're lucky like that, you live close to the beach. I haven't gone to the beach for years :P I'm also more of a mountain person haha, but I don't dis...
I disagree - Being shows itself just as much in object as in subject Metaphysics must be both subjective and objective in order to be a complete descr...
Okay, but it seems to me that this is no-way different than Spinoza proving objectively that the body cannot be anything other than conatus. Not merel...
Not only by science. "It is raining" is an empirical proposition that is verified by looking outside your window. This would be considered a category ...
Okay but remember you were questioning whether it is a moral test or a political test. The facts are that it is a moral test, and the purpose of the a...
"The fundamental problem of philosophy is the problem of man. Being reveals itself within man and through man" "In man there is a twofold aspect: man ...
Because their point is that certain types of morality are associated with certain types of political positions. This is what Haidt's research focuses ...
How does this help to prove that the will is our essence? Spinoza explains why it simply cannot be otherwise. Things which are contrary to one's natur...
For example, I read this essay of his just this past week: http://www.berdyaev.com/berdiaev/berd_lib/1952_476.html I disagree that Being reveals itsel...
That was my reply to you when you were talking about pragmatics, so obviously nothing to do with morality, I don't understand why you'd expect it to h...
It's a moral questionnaire, not a political one. Your chastity is relevant to your morality. Okay, no one disagreed. I didn't argue that the law shoul...
I don't understand what this means... Personally, I appreciate Berdyaev's ethics, and ethical insights - and political insights actually - but I disag...
That only happens to me when I accidentally fall asleep early haha - then I'm like "umm I didn't just fall asleep without even eating dinner did I? :’...
Sub Specie Aeternitatis is a way of seeing reality non-empirically and it contrasts with sub specie durationis. Imaginative, rational and intuitive - ...
Yes, but seeing sub specie aeternitatis also can include rational knowledge, not only what Spinoza calls intuitive knowledge. Both these two forms of ...
Chastity? Respect for the sacred? That kind of stuff. In fact quite the contrary :P - I did see the logic of it, and would have said that I agree to i...
No, he acknowledges it with the third kind of knowledge, scientia intuitiva Obviously he accepted it. Why would we consider it to be more likely to be...
:-} No I'm not suggesting pragmatism as a point of view, I'm merely illustrating that acts of betrayal say something about the lack of character of th...
Yes but even Schop. abandons it for thing-in-itself ultimately. And don't forget that Spinoza does have the equivalent of will - it is called the cona...
Why not? I don't see how "what feels right" is anymore likely to be correct than empirical and rational investigation, in fact quite the contrary. Acc...
But anyway transcendental idealism seems to fall apart in the way put forward by Kant - it's only in the sense of "subject correlated with object and ...
Yes, because my intuitions don't tell me anything to be honest with you Yes it's not essential for me - doesn't have much practical import - but I bel...
Yes, I also agree in fact with this insight. My personal view on metaphysics is probably still closest to Spinoza - one substance with two parallel at...
Circularity isn't the only issue. Meaning doesn't require truth to have meaning at all. Truth is a property of propositions. Propositions are true if ...
What do you mean much of the rest? It certainly affects the overall structure of it, in quite a significant way. That it doesn't affect a lot of the i...
An abstraction is not a perception though. Lines are nowhere to be found in your experience. In fact Berkeley did the right thing and denied the exist...
To believe in God doesn't necessarily mean I believe in dualism or existence of the soul prior to birth or after death. I think of God similar to Spin...
There is no pretending here. I can imagine how a ball interacts with a foot, and to imagine that I make appeal to their common nature - that they are ...
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