Gregory

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Buddhists posit "interdependence" in order to separate from the world when it should be the opposite. A natural ally for Buddhism is Marxism, in a rel...

You don't understand metaphysical process. You're not seeing that antinomies of self, geometry, world, and divinity reach a point, literally a point, ...

I suppose you think you can refute solipsism

We're not interested in why there is a universe. Language is platonic because it's human. Reality is non-platonic: real non-real phenomena

The antinomies could be seen from all (infinite) angles and resolved only if there is a "thing in itself" (that is, a Platonic reality) but such a thi...

This thread is about how Buddhism relates to political social theory

That could be understood hypothetically but not as long as we are connected to phenomena

Plato thought the world was phenomena (real but not fully reality). Kant believed truth was immanent and not transcendent. His basic epistemic stance ...

The world is phenomena. Why is there something? Why not no thing? It doesn't matter! Why is the sky blue

I don't find the question of why there is something instead of nothing meaningful. We can ask "why something" but not "why not nothing". At death we g...

All the antinomies lead the mind in different ways but they are not solved but transcended

The world is phenomena so its best to see the world as eternal but in Kant's way, not Aristotle's. Modern physics has this all worked out. The only an...

He doesn't solve them

Materialism creates desire. Channel your efforts into the right social endeavours and you can make a change

George Harrison, who I've read a lot about, became more selfish with the obsession with finding meditative states. He thought he was wrestling with Ch...

The way is not "in". That's a place for vacation, not a destination

Kant said the antinomies are necessary contradictions which lead the mind to higher levels

Time exists in understanding physics. Space, as well. On a higher level there is just phenomena but Kant leads to those higher levels of thought and i...

Proof for what

I understand my place perfectly and how to minimize the bad stuff is not another story. Buddhism and Marxism point out how bad materialism becomes and...

"...life consists before all in this: that a living creature is at each moment itself, and yet something else. Life is therefore a contradiction, pres...

I wasn't saying everyone should own the same things. Capitalism causes a lot of misery and I see that everyday

I don't believe in any spiritual benefits someone can find apart from society

We find our own self realization in society. That's pretty obvious

If everyone was perfect, every door would open for each desire. But we are imperfect and we don't know why, religious explanations not being satisfyin...

We have a duty to help others

Because praying in your cave eventually becomes meaningless. Eventually you will want to put your ideals to practice

Having a child takes faith because you have to have the faith that the world is good

The world of time and space do not allow us to do whatever we want, so the LNC applies to it in a sense. But not as Aristotle thought since the antino...

If the categorical imperative is binding, than the Golden rule is for the reason that the later follows from the former. As Fitche pointed out, there ...

It's hard to say "what out to happen" from the principle of duty alone understood as the categorical imperative. If everyone steals we have a problem,...

Kant's relativity of motion apparently says that motion of a body in a space at rest is indistinguishable from motion of space itself in the opposite ...

Can a Buddhist not be an activist?

Law of noncontradiction? Objects exist and don't exist at the same time. That is Kant's point. The law only applies in our psychology, as the Antinomi...

What i think we all need to process more fully in this discussion is that Kant said that time and space are mental (in "our "intuitions). Asserting th...

I'm on page 52 of Friedman's book, and he mentions "Kant's principle of the relativity of motion" and that Kant "denies the existence of absolutely ha...

Yes, physics is the science of understanding how different matters work. Metaphysics is understanding how any substance would react to any other, and ...

"Cause has the aspect of independence and of a determination that preserves itself from the effect; but in the necessity of its movement what makes th...

1 Peter 2 says the emperor and his governors had a right to rule, although they had conquered the people they were ruling over. It all depends on the ...

The idea that "nobody can tell me what to do unless I have a vote" is contradicted by Paul and Peter in the Bible. "No taxation without representation...

Communism is authoritarian. To an extent so is Christianity. The new testament says to obey the powers that have the authority, although Jesus himself...

Kant, in CPR and the Metaphysical Foundations book of the same decade, was in essence responding to Aristotle. Aristotle thought he proved the existen...

Do you base your individualism on religion, philosophy, or practical concerns?

To my mind people make unnecessary distinctions in social-political theory. I do not support control of a country by a single person (monarchy, Fascis...

The West says it has objective Good as its goal and the suffering element is irrelevant. Let suffering take care of itself, so to speak. I know that m...

Every thing is illusionary is most ways according to the Buddhist. Reduction in suffering is their goal

As the article says, Buddhism doesn't say the experience of self is bad or unreal. It says it is an illusion that causes suffering if not handled well...

Well they say self and God are illusions so ye

It's about social identity, as the article says. Few can be hermits