As a song by "The Doors" has it: "you know the day (in this context, light and thereby truth) destroys the night (falsity), night (falsity) divides th...
In truth, your account is somewhat overly simplistic for me, but, that said, by and large I agree. In real world cases, the successful self-deceived w...
I don’t know if Haack wrote about it to any significant extent (it wasn’t present in what I’ve so far read of her writings), but the issue of self-dec...
OK, I’ll bite and reply. Aristotle? The guy gave us the understanding of the unmoved mover as ultimate telos. No, I don’t read Aristotle as a man of m...
Yea, I sharply disagree. (Reminds me of discussions on different thread where philosophy itself can be viewed as being a cash-making endeavor: Socrate...
Because the prevailing philosophical outlook of materialism has nothing to do with the adopting of materialistic values which is so endemic to moderni...
Or, there might indeed be spiritual dimensions to reality. Take your pick. But don't presume to have definitively evidenced it. That is, not unless yo...
To cut to the chase: Do we then agree that the issues at hand have nothing to do with either “normality” or with “naturalness”? If so, as currently ap...
From where I stand, good faith philosophers pursue philosophy for its intrinsic worth and mostly if not wholly shun its potential instrumental values ...
I can get that, but, on the other hand, none of us here have yet passed the test of time in terms of being a substantial philosopher … this generally ...
OK, why not, as well as references to common sense decency where some semblance of humility holds. (You wann'a go all Western religion/tradition about...
In conjunction with what I’ve just expressed in my previous post, I’ll maintain that for something to be conscious, the following must minimally apply...
I’ll stick to the more extreme case of prokaryotic unicellular organisms termed “bacteria”. Can bacteria act and react in relation to novel stimuli so...
This might be deviating from the OP, but there's something quite off about all this to me. Why do many Easterners put their hands together (as Western...
BTW, in attempts to better clean up the issue of “more normal for Nature” not being equivalent to “more natural for Nature”: Language can at times hav...
Ever heard of the book "Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the Universe"? (Wikipedia reference). This I've read. It...
Well, to start off, what I was saying is that there is philosophical fluff that drowns out the good quality non-fluff philosophy in today's connected ...
Yes it was. There’s a very important aspect to language called “context”. Especially in the context of all my posts on this thread in which I’ve quote...
Are you saying this is the only thing that matters to you or to the subject at hand as laid out in the OP? Plenty of fluff out there that gets far mor...
I’m here assuming that by “university assistance” you’re referring to holding a doctorate in philosophy, and the networking that then goes hand in han...
Most all religions not only address what the point of life is but also why one ought to live life ethically. I say it would be nice to address these s...
There’s this aphorism given by Einstein which I think works wonders: “Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.” To put it in terms of a form...
Here’s some English definitions: Normal (adj): ordinary; usual, typical; conforming to a regular pattern. (e.g.: it is normal for a tossed coin to not...
What on earth do the Laws of Nature have to do with the man-made economics of a global pyramid scheme grounded in the supposition of infinite resource...
As in Eve, Adam, and a tree of knowledge of right and wrong, traditionally interpreted as baring apples. It being immoral to eat of its fruit and all....
Correct. It is all governed by what is metaethically right and wrong. As we all know. Hence virtue and righteousness and all the rest. The problematic...
Yup. (It's also roughly the same percentage of people who are red-haired.) But as you say: the two conditions of being intersexed and of being transge...
To better clarify: Yes, human cases of what is more correctly termed "true hermaphrodites" cannot reproduce at all. In my previous post, what I stated...
Very nice! A rarity, also kind'a dealing with spiritual themes, I found in a very early addition of Jack London's "Martin Eden" as a preface: Let me l...
Was wondering if this had already come up ... Hermaphroditism wherein the lifeform reproduces with another such that both impregnate each other and be...
On what I hope to be a slightly more cheerful note: ---------- White is the sail, On the misty infinite blue. Flying from what in its homeland? Search...
For those who don’t know of it, there’s a parable/fable that speaks to this exact issue. In short, there’s a kingdom with a water well that, when drun...
And yet the speak of it with such immense authority and complete conviction in passages such as this: Boldface mine. All this at face value being utte...
In certain contexts, I could see how the three terms could be interchangeable. However, here are some differences I think notable: Re intuition: We so...
You rely on these notions of "nature" extensively. They are however meaningless devoid of an explanation of what "our true human nature" which awaits ...
:up: Beautiful! To which I'd also add: belief in the reality of. Also, this being a philosophy forum: that trust is not entirely an aspect of the cons...
Yup. Definitely so! Having worked a bit in Photoshop, you sometimes get those types of results, as you say. Cool art, though. In a way, it reminds me ...
First off, teleology and essences are no more empirically observable than is efficient causality, which is zilch. So one does not empirically investig...
A Benny Hill joke I remember from my childhood: God, in his all-knowing wisdom, gave us ears for the purpose of having something upon which to attach ...
It's nice to hear. I think I fully agree. I’ll share something with you and would be grateful for your general feedback. In my attempts at analyticall...
I get that. Neither do I. Nevertheless, that is the problem of other minds in philosophical circles. Back to the point though, there is no currently k...
The problem of other minds cannot be resolved by looking at other humans face to face. This due to Cartesian doubt which Descartes introduced: e.g. if...
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