Esoteric Christianity had to grow under threat of persecution from hierarchies. The hierarchy were for the status quo. Augustine had said Aristotle wa...
I was reading about the Nyaya school today and thought of this thread. They were an Indian group focused primarily on logic. Questions of reality and ...
Heat energy was divine for the Stoics. The sun particularly. The Hindu idea of "tapas" in the stomach would have resonated with them. Stoics were mate...
"Closed time-like curves" is Godel's phrase. This question is a physics AND philosophy question. You can't deal with the beginning of the universe in ...
Rene Gerard made the point that violence is as much connected to the religious impulse as to anything else. Modern society does not like to speak of v...
Are you familiar with the arguments of Aristotle, Aquinas, and Duns Scotus on how motion, causality, and change in the universe cannot to fully explai...
The PBS digital series on spacetime is now saying, along with other video makers, that gravity is caused by time. If time runs in the opposite directi...
"Like beauty, however, what is negative and what is positive lies in the eye of the beholder, and what is negative for one may turn out to be another'...
The Advaita Vedenta school is a non-dualist school of Indian thought that is very interesting. "Darshanas" means philosophy in India, while "Jnana" me...
I dont know if this is completely accurate, but some people have a more artistic side and often leads to mental illness. People who are too analytical...
Great post. In the West the German romantic poets, inspired by Rousseau, were the ones who started saying "follow the heart and beauty and don't worry...
The problem is you sporadically post on a year old thread. Why not start a brand new one and get into discussion with those interested by some fresh i...
Thanks guys. The position of the anti-Darwin crowd is that genes cannot be combined efficiently any which way we like. They think each "kind" has a co...
The most important piece of writing in modern philosophy is, I believe, Hegel's short chapter titled Sense Certainty, which is the first chapter of hi...
I don't think the discussion among the Plato and Aristotle people about natures is relevant to gender questions. I'm a nominalist and a body just is w...
The image of the soul I hate the most is that of an ocean. That does not do it for me. I actually believe the human female form might symbolize the so...
The Talk to you latter I like poetry when it relates to philosophy. Maybe you can make some connections for us between your poetry and what we discuss...
Sleep well Prakriti can be seen as yin and Purusa as yang. Indians call their unity Ayus. For most esoteric believers the body has gender but the soul...
Energy: modern physics Life force: Leibniz Elan Vital: Bergson Ashe: African philosophy Qui: Confucian Tao: Daoism Prakriti+Purusha: India These are a...
A poet especially tries to see the ugly under the perspective of the beautiful. I was wondering if the experience of truth when going logically from A...
After world war 2 the ideal of a global government gained traction in the Catholic Church and Paul VI wanted the United Nations to be that government....
This stuff effects all of us. The Catholic Church has a lot of power in this world and I don't think the world is moving in the direction of more indi...
The Catholic Church at Vatican II said it respected most established religions, which means that the Church recognizes more good than bad in them now ...
I found these interesting quotes today: "The triad is the form of the completion of all things". Nichomachus of Gerasa (c,100, Greek neo-Pythagorean p...
Yes, I've read the Wikipedia article on him and Nazism. There was a book written awhile ago that said that his philosophy is inherently Nazi. I think ...
Spinoza didn't believe in free will. When I was reading his Ethics at first I thought he was a compatibilist until he directly denied that any free wi...
There needs to be a healthy relationship between knowledge and faith. Gnostic hopes of finding the secret concept that explains all life and makes the...
Free will is very paradoxical in that we impose morality on ourselves. Morality is our own law yet it comes with the feeling of necessity to it. Fitch...
I'm not aware of a lot of philosophers even talking about Camus anymore. It's more about science, post modernism, ethics, New age, ect. nowadays to ha...
I subscribe to Hegelianism, which I see as a German romantic system that is like a unity of Daoism and Confucianism (e.g. yin and yang as a dialetic)....
I remember you saying you are a recovering Catholic. I use to be Catholic too. Anyhow, when someone is having religious thoughts they are not in the b...
It's just a matter of trying to grasp what an ancient person MIGHT have meant by a saying. All religions evolve from the times they were started until...
I argue that this is an example of why the Bible is not a trustworthy source to govern one's life. It's seems painfully obvious to me that tradition B...
Everywhere it is said that Buddha held we have no soul. To understand this as not eradicating the ego seems like a strained Western attempt to claim B...
The mythos of Mythras started in Persia and had the sacred bull sacrifice for sins. There are similarities in most of the religions of that area with ...
. Nihilists take the assertion "life is good" as a 100% true position and respond with the 100% objective response "life is meaningless". I like your ...
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