Gregory

Is nothing one or many? Can there be several nothings? The mind can see similarities between objects and make categories of them (such as species and ...

"Although the mind’s status as a substantial form may seem at risk because of its meager explicit textual support, Descartes suggests that the mind a ...

No, the issue was what you and i mean by ego. Is it the soul, body, or both. And as i said the article gives the general opinion but goes on to cite a...

Well we have the body on one side with the animal spirits and imagination, and then soul on the other. Soul has ethical obligations with how it uses i...

What citations do you want? I said that some of what Aquinas wrote on this I don't find philosophically meaningful but when you take the meat from it,...

Here is what the SEP says: In the secondary literature, one finds at least the following interpretations. 1) Descartes was a Scholastic-Aristotelian h...

So I found the SEP article I was looking for. This section tells how the nature of Descartes position is much debated. https://plato.stanford.edu/entr...

Does not a Thomist say his arm is his body, not partly his soul?

Ive read the Summa since i was 12 years old. My point was that for Descartes held the soul and body to be held by one ego, one I, so that they are per...

You posit something there is no answer to: a formless piece of matter needing a soul? That's the solution to the invisible interaction problem? Descar...

That's just a word salad. Distinctions where none are necessary. You commit the scholastics' mistake. There is body and soul, one alive spirit.

You're not answering my objection. Why is there a problem with interaction in either description of the human person by Aquinas and Desacrtes? The sam...

You would have to convince me that Descartes said something different from Aquinas. How can soul have anything to do with body we can still ask. Desca...

I dont see why the interaction problem would apply to Aquinas any less than to Descartes. The soul is the same for both. Aquinas has prime matter vs D...

The 5 ways of Aquinas are all different linguistic formulations of a single assumption: namely that only the highest good could complete the symmetry ...

What Krauss provided was a modern physical description of creation. Creation is seen as something supernatural in the religions. But what do they mean...

If i can pick your brain, a line segment seems to be convergent (because it has two end points) but it seems also to be divergent (because the segment...

Do infinitesimals have shape?

What do you think about "something from nothing" in terms of physics?

I find the idea of will instead of substance causing reality very interesting because it's so abstract

If there are levels: intellect, reason, understanding, subconscious, then unconsious, Schop's knowledge of Will would come more from the Unconcious th...

Two infinitesimals can make a segment. 3 can make a curve ib

What multiplicity? Schop says multiplicity is one because Will is one and Representation is Will. Will is not "a being" so to speak. Will is unity ind...

So Will in Schopenhauer: the point is that Will chooses everything for us and we are Will. If you have a bad life, Will choose that. Will is completel...

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I answered your objection. If reason comes from will than reason can NOT give an account of Will as you try to do. Reason inly knows reason. What is p...

Religious is an ambiguous term. Schop like the religions of the East

I'm more inclined to wonder "how" reason can be Will. "Why" implies there's a teleology before mind, which Schop denies. Kant advocated for blind fait...

Kant didn't say if the thing-in-itself was an object or subject. Schop said it was Will but mind understands the Forms, not Will. So the thing in itse...

Maybe Schopenhauer would regard a rational world emerging from Will as a kind of miracle. The Greek gods had trials and yet were gods. We are Will and...

So you would regard all of neo-Platonism to be a waste of time?

We are all Will because it is everywhere and Will is beyond us because it is nowhere. Only an infinite method can grasp Will, so only no method can. T...

The PSR is a concept of the mind, which has intuition and reason. Intuition is the source of our knowledge of the Will. Reason is the consequence of s...

What's doing the objectivication? Well i think it's Will, the primordial faculty. Reason-thinking come from Will. This is interesting because we usual...

From my understanding mind (Idea) comes from Will for Schopenhauer. So instead of as for Aquinas where will is a power of the power of reason inside t...

My impression of Schopenhauer is that he was a brilliant writer with an unlucky hex over his head. He tried to split reason and will, as if they were ...

Are you questioning that Hegel is an idealist? Most scholars say he was. The world is universals and we are Idea. His lectures on the philosophy of re...

Father= Absolute Son= Notion Holy Spirit= Concept Do you read the texts differently? This is like Ying and Yang. If we are free than our evil is not n...

For Hegel on religion, the most important work is Lectures on the Proofs of the Existence of God. I am going to reread it sometime this year. The argu...

Yes the Absolute for Hegel is an evolution of Spirit. There is a tension between Fate and Freedom in Hegel, and a tension between God and empirical hi...

The question of whether there can be a mathematical infinity is a good question for mathematicians and physicists. We are back with Hegel being a pant...

"Now it is evident by the light of nature that there must be at least as much reality in the efficient and total cause as there is in the effect of th...

Kant's contemporary Jacobi, in his famous Letters on Spinoza (1785), wrote: "Through faith we know we have a body, and that other bodies, and other th...

There are many editions of the Logic. I have the one by the Hackett Publishing Company. Check out the last paragraph of the preface to Hegel's second ...

When Hegel speaks of understanding it is of a lower function than the intellect (which speculates in universals). Kant's intuitions where in his under...

Confused by what your objection is. There is a difference between understanding a thing and cognating it. Ultimately cognition is to understand the in...

I have no problem with scientific philosophy. Physics, as you say, is half philosophy, half empirical. What floats my spiritual boat is God as forms. ...

For Christians (which I am not) the Trinity has 3 persons sharing one 'nature' (reason and will, mind). It's basically three persons in one person. I ...

That's interesting because in theology relation is the only difference between persons of the Trinity. They are completely one, but a one that relates...

Faith is a different, unique form of knowledge. Kant was in a bind because his reason could not prove there was something besides appearance and his i...