Gregory

Everyone approves of themselves at times. Why does this make God special? Maybe yesterday he committed his mortal sin and is now Satan. Are you still ...

People do often say the world is "contingent" and needs something spiritual and "necessary" to be its "ground of being. These might just be philosophi...

It's Greek bias that say that "if God could destroy Himself He is not necessary". Eckhart maybe right said that (assuming God exists i say) God is all...

"For sight is the keenest of the physical senses" Plato (thanks Wayfarer!) Aquinas has an article in the Summa Theologica saying (rather dogmatically)...

There are no mathematical truths. 1 plus 1 equals 1 plus 1, not 2 (which doesnt exist) so math is a bunch of semantic tataulogies masquerading as onto...

The mind has a deep interior and for Buddhists (from what I've read) reason itself must be transcended. Reason seems most real and intuition seems lik...

Kant did think that Euclidean geometry was written into our minds a priori, but does this make this geometry true? Heidegger in his lecture on What is...

From what I've gathered from Heidegger's lectures on what is metaphysics, if you were to turn the mind's eye around you would touch "the nothing". He ...

Thanks for all the posts everyone. This is a good discussion. Last night I was reading articles off the internet comparing Nagarjuna and Zeno of Elea....

There is no such thing as a "more rational" view of an event so long ago. Language changes every generation so there is no guarantee we have the right...

Sorry for the delay. People call themselves Catholic and have apologists who argue that their sacraments are from God. So that is on them. I did propo...

In Catholicism, it's called the sacrament of confession, the sacrament of repentence, or the sacrament of reconciliation. All the same thing Materiali...

I've been told "such and such" is a "sin" many times in confession. I no longer go. Morality comes from within us, from our Dasein (is German as good ...

Science generally works under the assumption that everything is inner-connected. This is seen as a good thing since it accords at least in language wi...

Yes, I understand what phenomena is better. Malebranche would have told me in the confessional that it's a sin to doubt God. But I think it is necessa...

There is a problem with your guys arguments. God is supposed to know everything by his nature. How else could he know everything from all eternity? Ho...

I've read the articles on Malebranche from the Sanford encyclopedia twice. Sure, he was coming from a semi-esoteric perspective, but he was also a pri...

I see, thanks guys for your replies. I was introduced to Aristotle before Kant. Aristotle had material potency bonding with an immaterial nature to ma...

Lots of great thoughts in your post My edition of the Britannica Encyclopedia says that some in Kant's time said he had merely rehashed Leibniz. Now L...

I didn't mean that the Critique was mechanistic like Descartes. Kant does believe in substance underlying quantity and quality. I think he got this fr...

Thank you, you cleared up my confusion on all this.

Side note: I notice that there is no mention of conatus in the Critique of Pure Reason. I probably will have to read the Critique of Judgement for any...

Hmm. I was thinking in terms of Christian atheism, which is a real thing. On the other hand Karl Rahner in the last century built a vibrant Christian ...

Thank you. You've been very helpful. I think we shouldn't read Kant like he is Descartes or Aquinas. He is more modern. To illustrate, Nietzsche is a ...

Im confused by what Kant means when he says noumena is not "OF anything". My way of understanding Kant might be influenced by what I read from Heidegg...

When it comes to God telling Moses that his people would rebel, couldn't Moses go tell them what God said and change their minds? There are two school...

My friend Alex told me today that in his opinion "Christianity was the art of religion, Judaism was the origin of religion, Hinduism was the science o...

Years ago I was on a religious site that had that option

I don't know why he misrepresented the specific questions I was asking in such a ridiculous and demeaning way

I presented a specific argument about dropping apples on the North and South pole. This is a philosophy forum and I most read philosophy, so it's ok t...

Thanks. I've never taken a physics class before. Banno get's haughty all the time on this forum

Since this thread has slowed down, I wanted to try to jump in here quickly. The following video has much to add to my question here, so watch it if yo...

If worship means "giving your all" to someone, I can understand doing this with a human. I can even understand shutting off the mind and regarding an ...

The four antimonies are 1) that space and time must be infinite and finite in their directions. Hawking showed how time could start itself and there a...

Interestingly, Nietzsche wrote that Kant has "theologian blood" in him. He felt that Kant was afraid of atheist attacks on Christianity and wanted to ...

Well I know that Kant thought his four puzzles could not be solved. That's what was wrong with his system and it took latter thinkers to find answers ...

God really may be too real to be perfect. That's a great observation. But I don't really think in terms of worship. I'm not sure I can even understand...

I do not know how to process the idea of a savior. With regard to morality I still think in Catholic terms. I didn't believe in God until I was 8 and ...

Considering that Einstein thought we were made of matter and energy, his views of religion may well be in accord with what I've been saying: https://w...

Fitche, Schelling, and Hegel have given me a new outtake on God. Materialism was fine for a while (a long time actually), but it leads to despair. The...

Hegel (whom I haven't mentioned yet) was a liberal Lutheran and was called by a famous German neo-Hegelian as the "Protestant Aquinas". He really was ...

Christians are usually trapped by what Jungian psychology calls the "archetype of the common man". This stunts to an extent spiritual progress and lea...

There are higher states of thinking than our normal consciousness. Terminology can be rather fluid in any language. However Buddhists speak of satori ...

It could be said that the Christian God did face infinite pain and conquered in Jesus. This theology has a flaw though. This didn't change God in hims...

You say I don't know what language is. I say you don't know what an argument is. This conversation is over. Thanks for your imput

I already went over the argument in detail. You don't understand it. That's a lack in your faculty, not mine

You have absolutely no philosophical abilities so I don't know why you are even on this forum. You are also very immature in how you avoid questions. ...

What's your excuse for wanting to kill babies? Are you an abortion doctor? Do you want to be one? Would you be one? Or are you just going to let other...

The great but imperfect Crowley said in his Confessions: “I consider criminal abortion in any circumstances whatsoever as one of the foulest kinds of ...

There is no point in debating this issue with people who both have no genuine human emotions in the issue and who have no philosophical ability. I can...