Hegel used the word in the title of his first major work in 1807. This is because he invented phenomenology. Kant was in the tradition of Berkeley and...
Heidegger worked in the early 20's under Husserl, along with Edith Stein. Edith thought this philosophy led straight to God and apparently sided to Ki...
Here in California christians are up in arms, saying "the Bible is under attack". They think their religion trumps safety over the current virus and t...
Take the confessional. If the priest is invalid, no sins are removed. Because all repentance is insufficient. But if the priest is valid, ah hoc there...
Most of the saints in the Church were great sinners. They are said to be better than others because of the grace and merit Jesus gave them. Which is m...
What I thinked happened is that the Jewish court accused Jesus's mom of being a whore and his response was as a man, not a child or demigod. So they i...
It's a dilemma because reason says its immoral to take someone else's merits yet spirituality seems to necessitate it in order to become new again. Ev...
I think Augustine was such a big sinner that he had to posit the idea of taking on Jesus's merits in order to feel clean again. I think he went to hel...
I like to talk to all kinds of thinkers, but some schools of thought i dont like to read. What could eventually resolve Kierkegaard's anxiety if God i...
"Now, immediate actuality as such is quite generally not what it ought to be; on the contrary, it is a finite actuality, inwardly fractured, and it's ...
Hegel united the Eleatic school with Heraclitus's dogmas, into a moving principle intimately united with material principle. What is transcendent is i...
Kierkegaard claimed Hegel was confused by his own identity, yet Kierkegaard himself was always looking for supernatural agents to save him. Perhaps th...
I've read about 20 pages of his work all in all. Ye not much but many talk bad of Hegel although they read maybe a few paragraphs from him. Kierkegaar...
Possibly, but Kierkegaard doesn't present a philosophy that I find philosophical. He went to lectures by Schelling (as did Engel) who was arguing that...
No full works, just extracts now and then. I never get anything from them, and for me that's rare with a philosopher. Sorry if I put him down. This wh...
I despise Kierkegaard and not just because he hated Hegel. I've seen no intelligence in any of what I've read from him. For me he is just a small mind...
Humans folllow one of two principles: their ideas (reason) or their heart (will). They choose one of these or both with their "will power. I think hum...
I think randomness wasn't understood in previous eras. Modern probability theory, stats, and all that opened our minds to it. When Aquinas speaks of r...
Ok. If we imagine (like the OP) a few billiard balls which move by determimistical laws, I don't see how it could be AI. To think is noncomputable, so...
A four year old does have free will, although like us, as you imply, they might if ever only take it out for certain occasions (holidays). The German ...
It seems clear that consciousness can't come from determined matter. It also seems clear that consciousness comes from what amounts to the matter of t...
The only thing science doesn t know yet in how to create consciousness is as to what configuration of quantum randomness makes consciousness emerge in...
Human consciousness is primarily uncomputable because it arises from the randomness of the quantum level through microtubules into neurons which commu...
Only a brain can write a great paragraph like yours. The will is free because it feels transcended ( "from a simple principle") but that doesn't entai...
The Stoics with their Stoa (a word I found in Nietzsche with respect to them) are like Greek Daoists to me. They are good but they don't tell the full...
Stoics speak of purpose and such in nature, and of us as nature. They are not as specific as the Catholics though (Feser) for whom contraception is fo...
Secularism can be seen an animism in its infancy. To me, animism regards animals as gods and nature as THEIR home. We are intruders who must show resp...
I get where you are coming from, or at least it sounds like Stoicism to me, which is much like my position. Do you yourself see similarities with your...
Feser argues that the only proper function of sexuality is the spill in your wife's vagina. Everything else is against purpose. People are willing to ...
I agree. I thought his point was that we know morality from the purpose of functions. If this is true, than we would know the morality of sexuality fr...
Saying we apply morality to ourselves refers to my second my point. My first point was that Greek teleology leads directly to: https://www.youtube.com...
Teology is a blurry question. Do you believe homosexuality bad and straight sex good? In a moment of conscience the "law" is objective, but maybe ever...
Why this widespread prejudice against "the composite"? Why isn't matter magical and spiritual? Why assume a soul separate from matter is better than m...
"Saint" Augustine was a worm. He was all "I think babies committed sins thousands of years before they were born and are therefore evil. If they die b...
I am not going to get into details with you because you can't think philosophically yet. Go read a Bible instead, bc that's were you mental bent leads...
I didn't go back. You keep asking questions you already had the answer to. I am no longer a Christian BTW. Im a materialist atheist, as I've already s...
False on every point. All your questions on this thread have been answered. As for emergence, dead matter makes the subconscious mind and then conscio...
I've already told you that you won't find answers in Spinoza. His view of God is to ambiguous. Also, I think you dont understand emergence because you...
Nobody knows what Spinoza would have said the the "hard" problem. I don't think it's a hard problem to begin with. Why shouldn't concsciousness come f...
Nobody has mentioned the Stadium paradox. If the two moving columns are made of 3 discrete parts each, and pass another other column from opposite sid...
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