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Politics is never meant to be philosophy though - it's meant to be rhetorics - persuasion of something. The thing people are persuaded of doesn't nece...

Virtue ethics, as developed in the Aristotelian tradition. And I agree with Wayfarer that the subjective/objective distinction is just a tool of thoug...

Well it's quite clear that your mind isn't open to consider alternatives from what you have been taught by mainstream liberalism - hence finding what ...

You're not, but Jung certainly was ;)

Because you have divorced yourself from the culture of the time (and also from the Church which could have guided you), you have misinterpreted that p...

According to you one cannot uphold morality without being self-righteous? The two don't have a necessary connection together you know... https://en.wi...

It was a joke :) Because there is an ontological difference to speak Heideggerian to you between Being and beings. I have my reservations about this. ...

"But everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare" - someone wise said that. But people today expect everything on a silver platter...

But on the contrary my friend, gym membership isn't earned, you can just buy it and walk right into the gym. Mysticism isn't like that. I never claime...

I agree to that - as I said mysticism in Christianity is a reputable tradition, and is even the culmination of everything else. But some people appare...

I might as well say that in today's world it's so easy to be a mystic. In the past it took years of following rituals and traditions, and personal sub...

Well it certainly is much more likely as an explanation. Aquinas certainly did not renounce any of his writings as wrong. Only insignificant in relati...

That is incoherent to me. Whether they follow the law of Moses is precisely the verification for whether they are saved. Someone who no longer lives i...

Yes I agree. CBT in fact is very much like stoicism - apart from the metaphysical propositions and the worldview. I think actually stoicism is superio...

That it transcends may be so - but the notion of Freedom (what you term Christ) without Law is incoherent for me.

:D Not really no - that means Christ is the TELOS (goal, but often translated as end) of the law. Not the abnegation of it, but the fulfilment of it. ...

I agree but I lean more towards thinking that the thread is about a particular state of consciousness which experiences the world in a certain way. Th...

Well could one for example make the best with what one doesn't have? Or could one take what is out of one's control any way but the way it happens? I ...

Have you yet started praying so that Schopenhauer won't see those words? ... X-) Yes but Being itself is different than any particular being. Being is...

Highly unlikely. He did not dismiss the Summa as wrong - but as completely incapable of describing the extent of reality, being equivalent to a small ...

Thanks for remedying my foolishness Wise Willow :D

Well it is precisely Voegelin's point that there is something which cannot be known - which will forever exceed the human grasp, even though it can be...

Why do you think he would have disagreed with Voegelin? Bodin, Pseudo-Diyonisus (who by the way was the biggest influence on St. Thomas after Aristotl...

I agree with Aristotle about most things - forms are immanent. But the Neo-Platonists also have a point about Forms which are transcendent - don't hav...

You have to be careful here. There is a tradition of mysticism in Christianity and this is different than Gnosticism. Voegelin is very sympathetic wit...

No worries :)

Which aren't physical, so in-so-far as this entails not having a location, yes.

Ok can you unpack this? Along what lines don't you agree with his characterisation of Hegel and the Gnostics? This only holds if Hegel is right and hi...

It isn't. But they certainly don't exist "in" the universe. For to exist "in" something is to be physical. They existence "in" only by analogy.

Existence contains non-physical elements (which are objective - they really do exist - contrary to what some are inclined to think) - meaning, love, h...

I largely agree with that. For me I found Barfield's book as a convincing argument that (1) there are things in the world not amenable to being reduce...

No. The universe, for me, consists of physics, and stuff amenable to physical investigation. Existence is larger than just this however. Nothing - no ...

Depends on the particular situation, I don't have a set of rules which would always apply, simply because there are too many variables involved. Gener...

Well no scientific conclusion can be verified - they can just be falsified. I believe reality is rational - thus the scientific conclusion in question...

Both - we can clearly know both through reason, and through experience.

Probably. My only problem with that is that the Universe generally has the connotation of being the sum of everything that physics can account for - a...

Very well - I fail to see how this can account for the vast variety of content of the world, which escapes the physical. For me, the transcendent is c...

Surprisingly, reading Hadot had the opposite effect on me. It seems to me that Hadot does note the similarities, but more importantly also the differe...

The experience doesn't seem to be situated in the physical world as I understand it. Some things in the physical world do give rise to, or lead to the...

Certainly as far as it goes I think conservative principles are much more necessary for social order. As I have stated however, progressives also have...

He should have

Haha no worries!

As I said, because it is morally wrong - which doesn't necessarily have something with the legality of it. Ok - I have my doubts regarding the story t...

I never wrote that statement that you have attributed to me :D

Yes they (the progressives) do have a small, tiny point. Although I think they take it to extremes, the same way ISIS fundamentalists take it to extre...

Yes but that is more morality than law (that we find it grotesque and deeply wrong). Furthermore, the problem is that the animal probably will not sit...

Yes! I am aware of this although my direct study of Hegel is quite lacking in comparison with other philosophers I have studied. This point is especia...

I agree. My distinction was aimed merely at showing that some sins we need to treat differently than others. Some we need punishments for because they...

Maybe in a bit you'll end up like G.K. Chesterton!

My point isn't about the morality of it for the doer, but about the way it affects others. Murder is likely to have stronger effects than theft, which...