The good life. Virtue and morality. Order. Love. How to help bring order in one's own soul, as well as in those who are surrounding me? How to become ...
LOL! This makes him seem like a good guy, but without any charisma or really worldly know-how. His brother, George, was much more charismatic than he ...
That is only if you assume that existence is meant in the same sense for all possible things it is attributed to. However, the scholastics made a diff...
Interesting, I will acquire the book - it's as subject I've been interested for a very long time, especially in-so-far as it relates to Plato/Socrates...
What do you mean? How do you "resist" belief? Also please note that my categorisation was "open to believe" vs "not open to believe". Being open to be...
It feels more like they were half asleep through his speech to me (probably being there only because they were paid), and furthermore, asking your aud...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdCYMvaUcrA One must wonder how such specimens ever get to run for President.... Just have a look especially at the tw...
I think though that the secularism is the symptom of a deeper problem. Secularism is merely a refusal to look at certain aspects of reality - a justif...
This illustrates my point very well between you two. One is open to believe, and thus believes. The other isn't open to believe, and therefore doesn't...
That's not what I'm referring to. I'm referring to what intellectual circles are concerned with - the ideas which guide their thinking, and which repr...
No - it's not focused on power structures. Plato's Republic is focused on how to form a good society. The focus is The Good - not Power. I'm talking a...
Again - you don't get it. Yes it's precisely the point that these people were talking about how society should be organised. However - unlike people l...
As BC noted I probably wasn't referring to political leaders and their enemies, who have always struggled over power. So try a more charitable reading...
In such matters, maybe more samples will only introduce more errors. The scientific statistical method may very well not be adequate to deal with such...
That will depend on how we define progressivism I think. I define progressivism as movements which (1) ignore the ineradicable evil in the world (and ...
Yes - I appreciate such a valuation, and I think that's good. I was thinking for a moment that you thought they should treat it as if it wasn't someth...
Yes it is entirely true for the simple reason that we call a knife a knife because it is an object designed with the function of cutting. Even the kni...
>:O Yes there are different kinds of knives, but they all have the purpose of cutting. Nope. That's your modern Maslowian wash-over the Aristotelian p...
That's impossible. It always haunts you. You cannot change or escape the past. The only choice is to accept it - to live without a leg for example, an...
But I will recognise this. People like me are useful to prevent tragedies. People like you are useful to improve the life of those who have already be...
Naïve. The future is dependent on the past my friend - the past cannot be escaped from. That's a direct result of the physical structure of our world....
I am reporting back with the findings :D It's not that I can't believe the pink elephants - it's that I don't want to believe it, and I can't make mys...
That's according to you, and you seem to be very certain about it. It's a possibility, but not the only one :) No it won't be just as good. One will s...
Not in this life; that's a point about the afterlife for those who are virtuous and do the will of the Father on Earth. Indeed those who go to Heaven ...
Again progressives seem to be overcome by an attitude of indifference to sin and evil. As if evil was a banality of existence... a matter of indiffere...
False. I have room for that, only that once he commits adultery, the relationship is already ruined, whether he changes or not. If he changes, he may ...
No. According to Aristotle, a human being has the telos of a human being - just like a knife has the telos (or function) of a knife. This is true of a...
Ok. Can you give a specific example to illustrate what you mean here? Also how can such an ethics create order in society and in the individual soul? ...
This is contradictory. If they are groundless, then they cannot be challenged from the ground up because there is no ground. Then how do we access eth...
The reason for having ethical systems in the first place though is to create order - both in the soul and in society (the latter being merely man writ...
Okay. Rudolf Otto in the Idea of the Holy presents a similar conception of divinity. May I ask you, in your opinion, what is the ethical import, if an...
It depends - some things ruin the value of the partnership, and make its aim impossible to achieve. Yes that is a problem because (1) people are not w...
We can ask them bruv. If you head over to the Nichomachean Ethics, you will find out that Aristotle defines virtue to be a state of character or habit...
Yes - it's called (1) keeping my eyes open :P (take this as a joke) and (2) understanding that without the necessary support structures, all human arr...
>:O According to John. Not according to Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and the whole Greek lineage which defined virtue. Right - because me and you are di...
I know - I haven't criticised Aquinas's arguments. I think they are valid, but NOT persuasive to an unbeliever. Different arguments must be sought out...
I think the rules are just the structure required to teach virtue. Socrates was long wondering about whether virtue can be taught or not :) I think in...
I think Kierkegaard was a bit wrong on this. Faith without virtue is not faith. One cannot claim to have faith while cheating on their wife for exampl...
Yes because he understood that God knew better than he did what was best for him and his son, so he had faith in God. Where does the Old Testament sta...
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