Gregory

If God is the creator of the world then there can be nothing ugly in the world. Everything must be beautiful because how can God sustain a positive ug...

Husserl didn't get into rationalizing about the mystical like Peirce, to his credit

This is interesting because of the question of translation. Criticism tries to establish what type of document each text is but this requires some ini...

The brain creates everything. We don't know its size but it is material. Spiritual things are activities of the brain. All you experience is the spiri...

Which is why it seems to me that the Bible left on it own doesnot give us a faith or religion. It gives us innumerable ones. Even the Catholic claim t...

It makes more sense to say the light was stars because they could have caused the heat and light for vegetation to grow before they were pulled back f...

If we don't know what type of book each book of the Bible is intended to be, every interpretation is valid and none heretical. Can we say than the the...

Based on a literal reading the Old Testament had a clear separation between God and man. In the New Testament though man "partakes of the Divine Natur...

I read Christian literature because I was raised with it and I enjoy atheism more the more I understand the true place of Christianity. We all have co...

The first lecture is good so far and dovetails with Jung's writing on Job. I'll make more comments latter, but there seems to be two types of archetyp...

I plan on rereading a few books of Schopenhauer's in the future, having finished some books by Hegel recently. There is this element in psychology whe...

This seems to indicate something about our relationship to history and ancient text. There is the line of history, people, events, translations, and c...

Why should I read them if we don't know what they say?

You are always pointing the finger sir. I am interested in learning which texts are more reliable and how we know this based of linguistic philosophy....

If you take the Bible literally, the earth is flat and circular with 4 corners on it like a modified pentagram

If we don't know what is literal in *religious texts* how can they have a "meaning" anymore?

If an ancient Jew read Genesis he would probably think it was literal unless it's author implied other by the author or tradition. But Acts and Mark, ...

Why would Schopenhauer say only causality is a category of the mind. Kant admitted that the self is will ("free will) and since such is apart from spa...

Usually theologians say God let's some go to Hell in order to save and make others happy, who are happier because they were chosen and others not. Ima...

Reading Kant himself will increase your knowledge

Many scientists do claim that consciousness arising from quantum effects can be tested. Those with a religious bent will always claim this is the qual...

If consciousness is fundamental than how is it not a soul? And if quantum waves create consciousness how is that not physicalism?

Let me try: 1) understanding is the categories in the mind while reason-intellect-judgment is the higher free human function that operates to connect ...

Kant seems consistent with the Copenhagen Interpretation. The quantum world is the thing in itself and consciousness through the categories makes it w...

My point was that Aquinas's belief in the superiority of light to matter was based on aesthetics and not science OR philosophy

Aquinas got the four elements from the Greeks and the superiority of light over matter from Aristotle and Augustine

If God has to allow pain for a greater good, there is still the problem of predestination. Why create people who will go to hell or not ensure that th...

I read somewhere that Kant claimed his ancestors came from Scotland, the land Hume was from, although Kant was most likely just German. He did have a ...

It's just a general thread about medieval thought. If you don't like it go away

It's called Construction of Nature. It's not well written, lucid, and interesting that I can't recommend it enough

I wondered too why he says basis instead of base. "Basis" is used several times so far and I'm on pg 70. But what I think it means is that we project ...

I quoted Aquinas's arguments on why he thought light was immaterial. Just as people quote and criticise Aristotle's physics.. There are people who sti...

It's accurate

Everything on the quantum scale (which includes light) have a particle\wave duality. Quantum mechanics is the most successful theory in physics (which...

Aquinas claims cold is a quality and darkness not and does so dogmatically, without evidence and without research. Science studies how light behaves a...

You don't write like you know very much. Start with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M90XEREe66s Try to learn

"medieval people did not think the earth is flat" Most people know this "nor did Columbus 'prove' that it is a sphere" Nobody says he landed in China ...

You need to study more

I have not presented myths. Aquinas says that the planet's other than earth were right below the human soul in their god-like nature, being incorrupti...

We can see light. Matter is not just colors and we know it exists. Apparently you're a solipsist

And there's the mental illness. You know what a car is right? If it hits you you really think it will only be colors hitting you? Scientists have anal...

So light is a color? How is it that you feel comfortable rejecting proven data without even giving counter arguments?

And the properties of light are electricity and magnetism

What do you mean? Light is electric and magnetic, presenting itself as particles while being a wave through the reality of spacetime

Thanks

The Kent's assumption is that the thing in itself will confirm to the mind

The point of Kant's critique of Hume is that in the former's position does not allow matter to suddenly act bizzare while for Hume this could happen a...

The footnotes are indicating that is from the preface. I also added the "material meaning" quote (which I think is also from the preface) in showing t...

It's actually from Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786). I'm reading Michael Friedman's book on it right now.

Having read the whole thread, I wanted to ask what you thought of the argument itself of space and time being intuitions. Kant says "matter's motion o...