I watched a great old movie yesterday, Comrade X (1940). I was impressed with the talk of "ideals" in it (in opposition to a philosophy of "bogie-wogi...
I liked the article until the end when he turns on the reader and basically says the situation is hopeless. Saying Buddhism can "help" without there b...
Kant did not believe the thing in itself causes appearances. Phenomenology is like a union of the ideas of Parmenides and Heraclitus. And iis not easy...
Cardinal Hans Urns von Balthazar is very popular in modern Catholic reading circles nowadays and he disagrees with the traditional Greek-scholastic id...
Life arises from the motion of chemicals. I didn't use the word organic. Anyway, you are still trying interpret modern physics within the parameters o...
Thomism has been fought against since Spinoza and Hume. I'll read your longer article today sometime. This is fun because I base my arguments on my ow...
I comprehended your critique of Thomistic consolidation of all attributes in a single first Mover and can tell you understand the arguments. You've do...
"If being exists as over against God, it is its own support; it does not preserve the least trace of divine creation. In a word, if it had been create...
Are you saying time is measure of motion or that it is a dynamic aspect of space? Aristotle said the first, Einstein the second I see no reason that a...
I can't say for sure that an actuality that has all power and goodness is not the ground of being. It's not about that. It has to do with what is prov...
Important addition: The arrow of time is not absolute as Aristotle thought. Time is not the sustaining power of God in the universe, but something sci...
An unnecessary distinction unless in a larger context. The first three chapters of Phenomenology of Mind are by far the best of Hegel's first book. It...
For the reader: Aquinas makes a distinction between an 1) accidental infinite series and an 2) essential infinite series God makes an accidental serie...
Things exist in between Aristotelian actuality and potentiality, and move by virtue of their material constitutions. Physics easily says of this is do...
"Unless, therefore, we are to move constantly in a circle, the word appearance must be recognized as already indicating a relation to something, the i...
For the reader: Aristotle and Aquinas assumed an infinite power was needed to cause motion throughout eternity. Physicists now know this is wrong and ...
The point of Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre is that objects exist a priori. I guess you don't understand them. And yes, Greeks hated the number...
Holy sites throughout the middle ages each had its own legend of how it had the foreskin (and sometimes umbilical cord) of Jesus and why it had been p...
You don't say how though I don't know if you will find it better, but there are alternatives. Every object has potential to be painted, burned, thrown...
Phlegon’s second century Book of Marvels is interesting. It reveals a lot about the mentality of ancient times. Miracles have been claimed in every re...
We've talked before about whether a stop sign is one form or many. I pointed out that we sense it as one thing but the screw in it seems to indicate m...
For the reader: Thomists like to run amuck with ideas of "potentiality" and "actuality". I find that defining God as pure actuality is very ackward an...
You're say in response to the question "how many parts does a tree have": "our minds are fallible" You're response to the question of whether a lamp o...
Thomas Aquinas was a Catholic priest who got addicted to pagan philosophy when he should have been reading the Jewish-Catholic Bible. He caused endles...
Thomist often say "I find your assumptions repugnant to intellect", to which we respond 1) truth doesn't care about your feelings 2) why are you assum...
Yes, the different degrees of insanity and "evil" and combinations of the two are not considered by Lewis. He makes it far too black and white. How ca...
Man must be social to grow. A mother chooses childbearing by having sex. Children are f@#k trophies, but if this world is just and right it doesn't ma...
There is some validity to being cautious about judging other cultures medicines (acupuncture has been mentioned). If you prove in a double blind study...
What type of Christianity to adopt is a question that has naturally caused Christians to accuse each other of having a false form of "the faith". What...
Could not God have arranged that people are like Mary and obtain heaven sinless and perfect on their merits? The Bible says "nothing unclean shall ent...
I pity Jesus's death because he was a man like me. If he were God I would have no reaction to his suffering because the whole situation would just be ...
Christian theology is expressed by Pope John Paul II as "justice serving mercy". The concept of God dying is that God would give his merits in his blo...
Scholars who interpret ancient text assume some probability as to what are best interpretations, but basing your life on these interpretations is basi...
I just read your entire OP. It is interesting that you cite a lot of secondary sources. Feser assumes something "simple" can be out there in a transce...
My primary point is: Christians say their interpretation is the best with regard to Jesus, but if anyone finds Christian theology itself to be ludicro...
Pre-Christian Zoroastrian scriptures have their highest God telling their prophet: "Verily, when I created Mithra, the Lord of Wide Pastures, I create...
Whether I conceptualize God as a reality that my brain creates or someone out there, there really isn't any difference. It's two sides of the same ide...
Well then I apologize to you. I have a lot of notes on the computer with various ideas on many topics and these ideas I had written down from a long t...
Christianity denies the reality of the world: 1) by saying God can become man 2) by believing in the resurrection of all human bodies Human bodies cha...
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