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Yet without intuition you can't have faith, the act Kant considered the crown of practical reason
July 31, 2023 at 02:35
"ut the Idea that is all-embracing even with respect to content is set up by Kant as the postulated harmony between nature (or necessity) and the purp...
July 31, 2023 at 01:54
"This" (experience) is what is- FOR us. Universe is a word that implies a cohesion of the world of sense and its laws. Compared to the Absolute the wo...
July 31, 2023 at 01:28
Have you read Being and Nothingness by Sartre? He takes the concepts of "in itself" vs "for itself" from Hegel, noting that the nothing, the in itself...
July 31, 2023 at 01:16
Thanks for information. If for Spinoza God is everything and yet God is not identified with the world, then the world is illusionary (as acosmism says...
July 31, 2023 at 00:15
Here is some of the spiritual tradition that was a early precursor to German idealism (quotes taken from Timothy Freke's book on Christian mystics) "I...
July 31, 2023 at 00:12
Kant named the noumena such because all we can do is think about it. It is never in our direct experience. His phenomena is the contingent, the negati...
July 30, 2023 at 23:42
A "bad" or spurious infinity is one like life, where its the endless striving just for striving. An infinite object would have to be the universe, but...
July 30, 2023 at 22:47
Your quote is from his perspective as living a life like ours. It's not denying that heaven is actual and your there *although* we experiennce life no...
July 30, 2023 at 22:43
To my understanding Hegel held that God/Spirit is everything and everything is becoming, which in turn is the sublating (erasing and preserving anew) ...
July 30, 2023 at 20:52
I have not read Fitche but I've wanted too for a long time. These paradigms shift between philosophers because it is difficult to cognate spirit-forms...
July 30, 2023 at 19:55
Does self consciousness come from the individual, or did God exist before you were born. "If I were to say God exists, this would not be true. He is a...
July 30, 2023 at 19:31
As in Spinozian immortality? I think with death there is something gained and something lost. Which is you is hard to tell. But the movement of self-c...
July 30, 2023 at 19:11
Yes but Hegel writes "Spirit is activity in the sense in which the Scoolmen already said of God that he is absolute actuosity. The spirit's being acti...
July 30, 2023 at 05:52
Kant says that intuition speaks of God but reason speaks of the world. "Wisdom is willing and unwilling to be called Zeus" (Heraclitus). Why should we...
July 30, 2023 at 03:11
Cantor did actually speak of "Absolute infinity." He was also a Christian who was decounced as a pantheist. Hegel's notion that thought, like organic ...
July 29, 2023 at 23:57
Self-consciousnsss is not preserved. In paragraph 46 of the lesser Logic he writes "But the need arises to be cognizant of this identity or of the emp...
July 29, 2023 at 23:46
Yes
July 29, 2023 at 12:36
Populations are individuals I go to the doctor. Science is fine except if it contradicts philosophy. Nothing is fixed in this world except God
January 15, 2023 at 16:11
They can't relate to each other through mating because species have souls and they don't change into each other. True philosophy knows this. Evolution...
January 15, 2023 at 16:04
“Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations The experiences - and therefore t...
January 15, 2023 at 07:14
Saying minds are based on DNA is the rejection of the entire global philosophical movement throughout history. It's logical positivism which is nothin...
January 15, 2023 at 07:04
My point was that a soul is irreducibly complex. It's amazing how many people here don't believe in philosophy or even care what it is. Moderators inc...
January 15, 2023 at 07:00
A snowflake doesn't have a soul, is not alive
January 15, 2023 at 02:42
There is a difference between factoids and wisdom however
January 15, 2023 at 00:44
"The self cannot stand in the Presence of God. God said to Moses, 'No one shall see me and live.' Where God is, I am not. Where I am, God is not. Ther...
January 15, 2023 at 00:16
Thanks for the resources. And I recommend Aristotle on form and matter, a good start as well. Science and math serve philosophy, not the other way aro...
January 14, 2023 at 23:22
You guys are too blind to even admit I have valid arguments. I suppose I'm done here unless a new *argument* actually surfaces
January 14, 2023 at 22:36
It's not intelligent design because I'm not saying God did something from above. I'm far closer to Spinoza. Strange how his version of God you don't d...
January 14, 2023 at 22:29
You can't erase the probability so that it is no longer improbable by uniting it with other probabilities. That can go on forever and then you have no...
January 14, 2023 at 22:15
That's because evolution is a type of religion for people. Ironically, instead of seeing animals for what they are, people want to be their relatives....
January 14, 2023 at 22:13
You're choice There is no evidence that everything that can happen will. It's not relevant. My first point was that evolution resulting in humans is g...
January 14, 2023 at 21:32
But you didn't answer my arguments
January 14, 2023 at 21:14
Ok
January 14, 2023 at 19:46
Why not address my arguments at least. We have a dog. What is the first member of its ancestor that is just like it such that our perception recognize...
January 14, 2023 at 19:26
We debate from the point of philosophy and if philosophy finds evolution impossible then science is wrong
January 14, 2023 at 19:18
This is a philosophy forum.
January 14, 2023 at 19:18
So we have a cat. No first just like it?
January 14, 2023 at 19:12
You are trying to make it continuous, when individuals and organs, all that, are all discrete. If there is a cat then there was a first cat. Your theo...
January 14, 2023 at 18:32
Who does the first member of a species mate with?
January 14, 2023 at 18:24
Why did you go get a video (which I've seen) instead of doing the chore yourself? Lame
January 14, 2023 at 18:22
How does a species start to shape? How so you get from one group to another by step by step evolution, noting how each member can mate with the ones b...
January 14, 2023 at 09:14
Evolution is discrete because there are individuals involved. It can't be continuous
January 14, 2023 at 09:07
The older the alleged evolutionary line is the less likely its real because it's just a greater amount of time the living beings didn't go extinct. If...
January 14, 2023 at 06:05
The longer ago it goes the more unlikely it was
January 14, 2023 at 03:55
Kant struggled with his more Platonic side but cast doubt on things of the world and not being intuitively in touch with what only the mind can know, ...
January 11, 2023 at 19:47
What about when, say, an alligator dies? It loses its reality and was killed by the past.
January 04, 2023 at 20:24
Abortion has been condemned repeatedly by Popes but they were never said basically "I defined this as a matter of faith" Pius IX defined that Mary was...
January 04, 2023 at 17:39
I've studied catholic dogmatics extensively. There are very few collegial or papal decrees that are certainly infallible. Church leaders have used amb...
January 04, 2023 at 16:52
I believe in God because it is a beautiful idea. It's not about being saved from anxiety. It is very philosophical
December 30, 2022 at 22:45