So your argument proves exactly what then? You have to provide an example of something proven a priori and one proven so conclusively Subject doesn't ...
Yet you go on to define your argument as proving perfection, not a person Is there? Then all you are trying to prove is that perfection exist. I would...
Your argument says "I can think of God so he exists". It doesn't seem strange to you that you believe you can tweek that idea into proving a priori a ...
But the subject of all perfection is God and that is core to your argument. Whether it is a reasonable philosophical concept in itself has not been de...
Amalac's argument has philosophical assumptions because not only is the existence of God not proven by his method but the idea of God being a real, co...
In order to defend your "argument" you have to prove there is something greater than human virtue and the rewards (since the human goal is happiness) ...
It would be interesting if someone took everything Marx wrote about actual philosophy (as opposed to history or social theory) and put it into book fo...
For most Eastern philosophy infinite perfection is a state that humans can attain. It's not a substance that your mind turns into a person, like you'v...
Godel's proof, as I saw it explained, is like having a card that says " this is not the answer, turn over" on both sides. It leads to a spurious infin...
The logical positivists wanted to mathematize knowledge and make math into logic. Traditionalist say they have it backwards. Paul Cowen however in the...
I was more interested in for example Heidegger's last section of Being and Time and other such writings, and how they relate to physics. Science and p...
As I said earlier, some physicists now have said time causes gravity instead of gravity causing time. So I asked "what is time then". You keep saying ...
You have assumptions of the idea of "substance". They are undefended by you and and have no basis. Again, maybe the greatest good is where good people...
You mention Pure Act, which is of course from Aquinas. God as understood by Aquinas have 3 parts: his essence, his free will, and his necessary will. ...
Your arguments have many assumptions woven into them. Maybe ultimate goodness is a place and feeling we experience when we die, not some God out there...
Descartes implicitly admitted the ontological argument doesn't work unless the idea of God is clearer than all other ideas. I'm saying it's the least ...
All that we know of good is beauty in the world, the goodness of children, and virtue in adults. Trying to conceptualize a being having all those "to ...
Also remember that if we look at the Jesus story as ancient literature we have the person in history who was more convinced of anyone that he knew or ...
When we try to connect the idea of light being in eternity and it having a constant speed (fastest in the universe) the thoughts aren't very distingui...
I thought it was clear that by "detecting time" i meant finding out what it was and what's it's internal structure was. What I was saying in the OP is...
To clarify, "supernatural" means divine. "Spiritual" means "of the soul". We can understand the soul because we all have a psyche and the psyche, when...
Why do you think a subject of perfection is conceivable? Firstly, in theology this gets into problems with the "perfect being" having both a necessary...
Just Google free will experiments. When I looked into this there were many many of them. If I say "lift a hand" and accurately predict you will lift t...
There lots of experiments on this. With high accuracy they predict which of several options a person will do based on subconscious, not conscious, act...
They are able to PREDICT what you will do before you make the decision. However, the prior subconscious choice may be your hidden free will and they c...
You can't go from looking a clock to conceptualizing General Relativity without thinking philosophically. Scientists don't need to think about philoso...
Penrose's conformal cyclic cosmology says, according to his interviews, that the universe will expand until "it no longer knows what size it is". You ...
Take the example of whether you would go back in time of you went faster than the speed of light. Measurements say it can't be done but speculation on...
Science alone does not give value but science cannot be done "in a box". Common sense plays a role and what common sense is cannot be decided by scien...
Their ideas bring paradigm shifts which allow scientist to frame theoretical matters in new ways. Philosophers don't do the measurements but measureme...
That depends on your philosophical understanding of time. What some scientists call time we can detect. What some philosophers call time time you can'...
Nobody denies succession of events. How succession of motions, causes, and change relates to the concept of "time", what time looks like, is a philoso...
In a very real sense we can say time doesnt exist, yes. Descartes and Leibniz said as much. But although time is similar to matter and needs matter, I...
I know the song. The Catholic Church fought with the progress of modern society for years. It was trying to hold on to the old culture that has existe...
Let me just clarify my previous post by saying that the Roman church considered abortion before 80 days to be simply akin to second degree murder beca...
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