Gregory

The Christian God is said to be necessary, not contingent. Therefore He wills the Good necessarily. But He is said to be free as well. Therefore He wi...

Plotinus argues that the One is pure potentiality that doesn't act. God comes from that (for him)

Aquinas was very opposed to the Platonists who regarded matter as somehow less than real. Sorry if my writing style in wonky lately

I am familiar with Feser's book, yes. You may be interested in the old school of Ontologism (search Google for the Catholic Encyclopedia article on th...

You don't use these terms in the Aristotelian sense. I can tell. I was trained as a Thomist from an early age. So we are coming from difference perspe...

The only science book I've read lately is The Toa of Physics, where it's argued everything is inter-connected energy. This energy has a weird relation...

Maybe there is will and intellect in everything, and there are still particular objects although they parts of the universe as a whole. What you guys ...

Last comment: matter is said to be included in the category of energy. Both are said to have information. Information seems much closer to the Intelle...

1) most fundamental is 1=1 2) next is if A is B, and B is C, than A is C 3) then there is the 1+3=4 and the Socrates is a bachelor syllogism AI can go...

In addition, I was wondering if AI would be able to do philosophy in any way. If there are certain human sparks that alone let's it philosophize, coul...

I like what you've written. It seems to me The Axe cut the Gordian knot by separating supernatural beliefs from natural one. For him, I believe, the u...

I tried to help you dude with Mo. I don't "care" about people who use the full consent of their will to ignorant. One thing I hate is bias. Bye!

If you want to choose with the full consent of your free will to be ignorant, I'll leave your thread alonw

Ignorance

it's not weird that the primordial juice we come from is best formed in a body that likes to enjoy and sometimes says things about itself it truly doe...

The best aid to meditation for me has been cigarettes. There is no evidence it causes cancer. There could easily be a gene that makes certain people s...

Whether the program is numerically infinite or qualitatively infinite, I don't see why its necessary that it must be broken, or breakable

Buddhism doctors us out of the idea that we have to die to find "God" in the ultimate way

Well Schopenhauer was from the West and he proposed that Spinoza was correct all along, although the former thought a way to eternal existence is poss...

Law is only seen as law when it is law to you

Heidegger seems to have thought of death as "dispersion", which might be wrong. He seemed to take to heart Nietzsche's phrase "joy in high tension"

The mind is problematic, despite what Descartes or Aquinas thought. Thought itself can be the problem

How are you coming to the conclusion that a program can always be broken? You are putting a necessity on this as a rule

All Christians want to dominate something in some way. They are not Eastern at all, or have not learned its ways

Why would a Spinozian necessity make it "fall apart"?

Pope Francis, in the new Catechism's teaching that capital punishment is evil, has done what he has to do to curb the violence of Christians. Christia...

Nothing wrong with the devil if it's the right devil

What I'm saying is that you have to realize what you want to live for. To live for the feverish will cause more suffering than enjoyment but the momen...

One may think of a physical theory and it might not gel right, it might feel off. But it might be the truth of what is our there for the reason that o...

Do we really get older each day?

Was Nietzsche a materialist?

I think if we have faith in logic, math, and deduction, we have to trust nature. Gods could fool us, but so can aliens, and multiverses. It takes much...

To see the world as dark and evil is an aesthetic, and I think Buddhism's true one. Schopenhauer emphasized our unity with the evil and thought there ...

There is theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge on one side, and theoretical ethics and practical ethics on the other. (I like to avoid the wor...

Is not will, even if not free, obviously existent? Buddhism is about making it (the will/ego) subtle, as in being Quietist

Note: Catholics use doctrines, not arguments, as mantras.

"Temporality temporalizes itself primordially out of the future" Heidegger As I've said above, there are theories of time in physics that may have use...

What do you think Heidegger means when he says we do things by virtue of the future?

Aristotle said that motion causes time. Heidegger rejects this and places a more esoteric view in its place. Is it possible future Time causes present...

Heidegger blamed Aristotle, which is why he discards him. Heidegger is more than focusing on power tools

Correspondence between mind and object is practical knowledge. Theorectical knowledge has no object. Like 1+1=2

Is it possible motion does not go to time, but Time comes from the future to motion. Modern physics has many theories. Philosophy was the start

Are there line segments with no parts between the points and ones with parts?

From the perspective of the Absolute, objects are not unity (1) divided by infinity, but infinity ÷ 1, which would = 0 because it can be done. The att...

Does not a segment have an infinity of tiny points and is also finite? Have you heard of Banach-Tarski's paradox?

Finiteness and infinity would seem to negate each other when put "in the same regard" in unison. But that is what an object geometrically is

Everything you experience is becoming, so it is related to time. Nothing and being can do nothing without each other, but they can act in unison with ...

For the reader: sublation means ascending by the type of contradiction that produces a staircase. MU is thinking of contradictions where two opposites...

Becoming is the sublations of nothing and being. There is no dingy dirt called prime matter hanging around. The movement leads thru Universals to the ...

I am going to have to take a break from this thread for a week or more. If there is a true paradox here, I hope to find it when my head feels cooler. ...