I don't think change can cause time. Some say entropy causes time, which translates in more general terms to change causes time. That is why it's call...
It seems to me that Aristotle's God, which is a final not efficient cause of an eternal system, is in accord with Leibniz's God of fulgarations. Aquin...
Have you heard of the philosopher Tim Freke? He wrote a book about Jesus and gnostic that a lot of people didn't like, but his ideas in the book Soul ...
While on a train you might feel stationary because of the "atmosphere" of the train walls. My position of empiricism is that we do see things how they...
You seem to be avoiding saying there is a consciousness that is and has always been on a higher level then humans. Does the intention of the big bang ...
To think that experience is a something coming from the body leads one to an experience of dissolution. You are attaching yourself to the body experie...
Non-existence is not a state. It's nothing, so nothing can't be because it is not anything at all. The afterlife flows from Descartes's cogito. Body i...
Consciousness is not an object or a subject but experience. We experience life as a body but can experience life in an alternative way too. All that i...
Instead of a first cause as a substance, I believe in the world as an entity that had a first motion. A first motion results in the next and so on, an...
The atom now has been found through experimentation, thru the senses. Empiricism comes in different forms. Most agree that taste is in the tongue and ...
We can't smell, taste, hear, or touch an atom so it's hard to say what it is in itself. We would have to be much smaller ourselves to know. Ideally or...
I agree that the physical field is real and that our imagery of quantum fields have no relation to what they look like to "God". A real field or meado...
Thanks for your thoughts. I've heard some Aristotelians say only form exists, others that only organic things have forms, and others that everything h...
I don't see cosmology as going from potential to actual as philosophers like Tim Freke expound, nor from actual to potential in an Aristotelian sense....
I see pantheism as a fatuation with matter. The famous Jesuit Fr. Teilhard cried as a child when he discovered that metal rusted. Some say he was a mo...
To my mind material we sense with our five external senses is prior to any sense in which it can change. Brains, hands, beds are all real tangible thi...
Subjective ideas are hard to communicate. I'm not saying change doesn't happen but that it is not an object. Heidegger speaks in his book on Metaphysi...
It seems to me metaphysical states of matter don't exist. The physical properties of actuality of extension in substantial form is what things are. Ch...
Maybe because who the holy spirit is is confusing. The son is said to be wisdom and the holy spirit love. Yet the father creates both and the spirit i...
Christianity promotes a unique psychology in people. For women Jesus is the perfect protector they won't find in the real world. He is an ideal of the...
"Human speech was originally poetic. As Vico wrote, 'Poetry is the primary activity of the human mind. Man before he had arrived at the state of formi...
Zoarastrianism might have been the foundation of what became Pauline doctrine on the separation between the Absolute and the world. These notions were...
I would also add that Spinoza said God had no will but only intellect. Intellect and will cannot be separated though, so our wills are God's will and ...
In that thread you say Spinoza is not a pantheist, a panentheist, nor a theist. Why are you cutting such distinctions so this? Spinoza did not want to...
If something comes out of God that is God because he has no parts but is instead a full unity. Pantheism doesn't deny that you can talk to God because...
I feel like panentheism (Leibniz, the Hare Krisha religion, ect.) is not different from pantheism (Spinoza, ect). Sometimes, or perhaps often, fine di...
Will for Schopenhauer was perfect pure autonomy and this is important in considering it's relation to phenomenology. I would be interested in knowing ...
Hegel thought the thing in itself was Absolute Knowledge, a kind of Platonic ideal. Schopenhauer loved Plato too but his thing in itself was Will inst...
Time is continuous in that it is infinitely divisible. This is so because time measures motion which is measured by distance. A point of time has no l...
I just finished rereading for the 20th time the first three chapters of Hegel's Phenomenology (skipping over the Preface and Introduction). I think th...
For Kant, a priori synthetic judgments are about the non-empirical world. So it matters to ask if the self is non-empirical (Descartes) or not. When w...
I heard two sayings recently: "Everything is so relative that it becomes absolute" "If the world is God, then the laws of science of science are his m...
Husserls observation that to experience someone else's qualia would be to become that person is pure philosophy and not psychology. Dennett is a philo...
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