Gregory

If I say intellect comes from matter, it's like saying steam comes from water. It's limited to phenomena which we know. When you say that the world is...

The "principle of least action" is a natural law What are the laws of the supernatural?

I can't imagine you don't see things in life that make you say "wow that is real". A silver car, a white female leg, a German shepherd, there has to b...

The supernatural is not something we can investigate so it's ultimate core might be unnatural. Theist want to set a rock in their reasoning to stop th...

What is the probability of God being wicked? The world might be good but then again but God needs to allow the good for a greater evil. If people star...

Post your thoughts on that thread. I thought that it indicated that proving anything a priori from logic alone is futile, but I may be wrong

"Infinity, the affirmation as the negation of the negation", Hegel

I don't know. I saw an article on Hegel and Heraclitus by an Islamic scholar that was really good. I don't know how they connect their theology to his...

I'm going to have a busy day, but we can talk more latter. I'm going to finish reading two books im the middle of and try to get a thread up on infini...

So saying we are not "ideas" floating out somewhere, that says something about our nature. But maybe it only leads to psychoanalysis

I think I can reason without being in spiritual infinities. A lot of people think that is stupid or impossible, but it makes sense to me

If finite things (infinitesimals) make up finite objects, then the finite stands outside an infinite

Space and time reconcile to eternity and infinity your post said. A materialist view is that it reconciles to what is finite. Seeing objects as the un...

Name something that you know with 100 percent certainty

What do you mean by philosophical sophistication? You said Aquinas was an atheist (yes) but give Essence and Existence are overview. It's sophisticate...

I've read Phenomogy of Mind twice and Philosophy of Mind 3 times. There wasn't a sentence I didn't understand

I bet you don't know how to read Hegel. Yet you say he wasn't sophisticated, or would say so if you read him

Hegel says at the end of Philosophy of Mind: 1) you are the Holy Ghost 2) your reasoning powers (logos) is Jesus 3) you memory is that Father so he wa...

None do

Materialists consider it common sense to believe in science. A 'higher order" justification doesn't seem necessary

Well I don't know if I can say anything profound about your distinction. Emotions define us much and whether there is a substrate for them has always ...

Yes it's hard not to generalize. Thanks for the admonition

That's a really good start. I believe psychology is broad enough to give a great description of human nature and that keeping fields of study apart is...

I've been doing some more research, and I think when Descartes refers to the pineal gland as a "penis" (check out the SEP article on Descartes and the...

I don't know why theists think "God" will guarantee the validity of science. All he might do is interfere with scientific studies in any ways he wishe...

Minute 5 to 7. People seem to make up stories as to why they do things and "believe their own shit" so to speak. Since no one so far has referenced st...

I guess

I'm looking through your links now. Descartes thought the 6 experiences of life were love, hatred, passion, wonder, joy, and sadness. He was sure ever...

Science assumes "identical OBJECTS act identically in identical situations", not that "ideas" or "blank" act in this way. That's how they are able to ...

Science not only assumes that matter must exist, but puts our species on the same level as others and does not judge (yet) which has the greatest awar...

Some comments: The subtle body is alleged to have a chakra which is above the head like a halo. Does it originate from the pineal gland like daytime d...

Actually, I think dinosaurs were reptilian birds

The immaterial is not supernatural (grace). These are different experiences. The former is akin to experiences on shrooms. As for the brain (which it ...

Is not "where consciousness is located" a debated question?

Unfortunately, the friend who told me about these types of studies got addicted to Fentanyl last year and it's likely he's dead. I haven't heard from ...

As many Pyrhonnians in history have concluded, the infinite is contained in the finite so there really isn't a distinction between the two

This paradox correlates with Mr. Zeno's paradox ( "The paradox of the large and the small"). Aristoteleans say quantum mechanics is weird because it a...

Marx is fun but being a Hegelian materialist is hard because your mind is overloaded with so many ideas you can't even write properly

Aquinas has a very beautiful style, but it's just that it lacks all excitement that you want to kill yourself after reading him

Thomism is just so dry and boring that I was forced basically to get into Hegel, although his works feel very forced in themselves. I'd bet you have h...

Interesting

The fire= reason The sun= The Forms The whole= God The Shadows= non-reality The relationship between "desert Platonism" and "austere Gnosticism" is in...

Idk. In college they said it meant that matter was like a shadow

I would believe in pure Thomism if it wasnt so depressing and boring

All philosophy will eventually being about a strain

Tim Freke is a popular western philosopher who believes "down up". He thinks evolution will bring the existence of God into existence. A secular Teilh...

Top down vs. down up? I like epistemic Hegelianism instead of yoga but perhaps it leads to where you are

That sounds like Sun worship. Aquinas, I believe, worshiped the sun, and some Popes called themselves sun kings (like Roman emperors) before King Loui...

Yes they were neo-scholastics. I take what is good in their works and disregard the rest

The allegory of the Cave is the most famous example of Plato's opinion on matter