I haven't studied all the fragments of Heraclitus but according to Bertrand Russell's History of Philosophy (on youtube by workingklass0) the Logos is...
One last shot in the dark before I go to sleep: Bertrand Russell said "Weierstrass, by strictly banishing from mathematics the use of infinitesimals, ...
Kant said time can only be represented by a single line. He might be wrong. There are esoteric materials that apply sacred geometry to quantum mechani...
There was Berkeley's position that objects are mental, Hume's position that objects are indefinite, and Kent's position that objects are phenomena of ...
The passage of time is like the fire of Heraclitus. For him, ordering the fire was the Logos of opposites, kinda a dialectical yin and yang thing. Kno...
By physics do you mean alchemy? Science might really be alchemy, idn. There may be no way to test how our thoughts affect reality. We surely can wonde...
Imagine a chess board (The world) being played by Mr. Sole Principle. He is the only thing with force in the universe. Each piece of the game (which I...
"The bread, which I formerly eat, nourished me; that is, a body of such sensible qualities, was, at that time , ensure with such secret power: But doe...
The world is very relatively in tune with the world wrote Andre Breton. Surrealism in poetry was prominant during the rise of quantum physics, interes...
I'll just throw out there that Dawkins has arisen a lot emotion on this question. Some say explaining improbabilities by multiverses is ridiculous. Ot...
Asking "why is there something rather than.nothing" and why leaves are green from the perspective of philosophy is probably to ask something pretty pe...
Faith posits stuff like "The world can't have the reason for its existence in itself". That's highly abstract though. Faith makes the abstract seem co...
To me talk about quantum mechanics always falls into talk about philosophy eventually. Distance is space and who knows what time is. As Augustine said...
I just found these: https://medium.com/@paulaustinmurphy2000/graham-priests-contradictions-in-the-world-zeno-s-arrow-and-legal-inconsistencies-9eb6fd7...
Eternalism basically says that causality is real in our world but the casual series is subsumed under (or into?) something more fundamental (greater?)...
A lot of Christians do take the old Testament to mean God can and does demand the killing of completely innocent individuals by his followers. These C...
It could be argued that "sucklings" could refer to children over 7 who were in the eyes of Jews "sinners". If one is open to seeing it, the ways of in...
My main point is that our knowledge of past cultures passes through the shapes and forms of each generation back until you have reached the culture yo...
If, just for argument sake, the peasant understands his class with 60 percent accuracy and the modern historian knows the whole age with say 15 percen...
I love Cassirer. He never says 'this is the most reasonable way to understand this religion". Hegel incorporated Aristotle into his system, a system v...
I don't think there is any way to demonstrate that there are and only are spirits who are below humans or that there is one or several supreme ones wh...
Thank God someone brought in another religious tradition. This is helpful. Thanks I would like to add by saying that it's wrong to use the "copies of ...
Good points. What counts as being "most reasonable" about ancient text and how we are to take them doesnt seem to have one simple answer however. Read...
QM can predict the activity of something that is a millionth of a millimeter in size with the accuracy of someone guessing the distance from Paris to ...
Also how can God, being all happy and perfect as they say he is, even do anything truly moral, good, and virtuous. Applying these questions to God are...
"God" cannot be necessary and have free will at the same time. This is intuitively obvious to me. If he is necessary than he can't do evil. Not becaus...
My last points: 1) Logic might be able to be broken. Is experience supreme? Maybe 2) Logic has not shown that "contingency" or "necessity" reside in t...
Well in the Kantian system it seems we emerge from nothing (pure action) into substance (extended biological body). So essence is achieved after activ...
It appears to me that "essence comes after existence" also means "action comes before substance". Allan Watts said Buddhists sometimes say "take respo...
"(1) that which creates and is not created; (2) that which is created and creates; (3) that which is created and does not create; (4) that which is ne...
I think the fate of the distinction between "is all possibility" and "has all possibility" rests on questions better answered by Sartre then classical...
Well he said "God is all possibility, even the possibility to not exist". I think Eckhart got this idea perhaps from John the Scott who said in his fo...
I could list hundreds of poetic ways of looking at the world if I wanted to take the time. They are indistinguishable from Avicenna's "argument". Even...
Taking an empirical object, abstracting it from time, and asking "is this, this thing, necessary or contingent" is really pointless. It's subjective d...
Even if God existed, maybe he wants us to be atheists. Piety is not a virtue. Its simply taking our endless craving and creating an object for them. M...
Yes. Thoughts like 'exists and cannot not exist' are just constructions of the mind and have no place in reality. We live in a stray universe and it e...
Offer a syllogism or state, please, that it's a priori innately self-evident. I deny that it is the latter Saying God is male is a problem. Saying she...
"Contingent, "grounding", these are concepts you mention which are simply flowery language designed to support something you take on faith, not logic ...
Furthermore, how did this "God" become so good. He would have to act and be victorious BEFOREHAND in order to become good. People think that a divinit...
It's impossible to prove the supernatural. I can claim there exists a fairy's butt in your nose but that would just be nonsense, the same nonsense tha...
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