Democrats murder the unborn directly while Republicans murder the world indirectly (global warming). It's ironic we have to choose between such altern...
That's good. Kant definitely wasn't Platonic. The true "realists" seem to be those who take the world as it is and doesn't bother with what is "behind...
Nature itself may or may not have a quiddity, nature, or essence (I think those are the same thing). "Realists" usually, contra nominalists, say that ...
Ah but a thing's patterns is not rejected in nominalism. Computers don't seem to have a nature but they have similar patterns of construction so they ...
Love can be bad when you only love your country, humility can be bad when you have no self respect, kindness can be bad when severity is required, ect...
Those who do the infinite never become cadavers. Some fail and end up trapped in a dead body for eternity, never being free. You never are going to ge...
Salvation is impossible because it's impossible for a consciousness to cease to exist. To cease to exist is equivalent to going to hell for a consciou...
The material is only a limited way of seeing reality. What we think of as material doesn't act as we usually think material does. You can literally mo...
The thing for me about faith is that rationality is a paradox. We are, on one hand, bundles of matter and energy, while on the other hand, infinite po...
Hoffman treds on the grounds of philosophy with his "conscious realism". He uses prior concepts of real and unreal to form his posterior argument that...
Hegel didn't say that being and nothing unite in time to form the universe, as if that was the big bang. They are united inseparably, forming the mate...
If space is nothing, then it forms the world with substance. When Heidegger says "nothing nothings" he means, I think, the flux within us finds itself...
On the contrary, I think the OP was correct to say we must be nature view death as a great evil. The truth with this though is that we can unlearn thi...
Humans have a longer developmental time than other animals. They are ready for the world while we spend our first years creating an image of what life...
I don't think you can prove time is real from motion and matter alone. Heidegger's philosophy does a lot in the way of bringing the mind to time and i...
Ok, I thought you were arguing for B time. Einstein thought time was an illusion because of his understanding of general relativity. Time is a very di...
Thanks for the clrifications as to energy and existence. It seems to me you've adopted the method of Fetcher over that of the romantics by arguing fro...
Ok, he says "Nothing can create something" but "something" is really nothing, even though "we live in a universe full of stuff". This is because: "Gra...
The Wikipedia article on "zero-energy universe" says that Krauss believes that the net energy of the universe is zero. It's not antimatter that is neg...
Lawrence Krauss believe nothing comes from nothing. The first nothing is the world, divided between positive reality and negative reality wherein each...
I reread your op. There are many possibilities as to how the world is actual. Kantian idealism can be seen as stating positing a pure Platonic world w...
It seems to me we have to see causality as linear although this is a habit of mind. Linear causality seems like a masculine, almost phallic, concept o...
So if you go back in times and find no end, that is eternity. But going back in time reverses which you encounter first: cause or effect. Therefore a ...
A ball on a cushion causes the cushion to debt instantaneously but there is one thing causing another. You are not generous in your explanations of ho...
Atheists often have a strong sense of morality. Such cannot be said for typical Christian doctrine. How can the act of one person transfer its merit t...
What has simultaneous causality to do with self creation? You say their analogous but they are not the same thing. The ball causes the dent, not itsel...
If an iron ball had always rested on a cushion it would eternally be the cause. Each minute can be seen as a member of the infinite series. But this h...
We don't know enough about the universe to verify much of what they write. I've been enjoying the books of Michio Kaku lately. To a medieval thinker t...
Physicists are often undercover philosophers and they are free to express alternate pictures of reality as long as each thesis is self consistent. Som...
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