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Augustine apparently started the idea that babies were evil because they committed Adam's sin with in while in his balls

On the contrary the absurdist can't help but project absurdity on the noumena, whatever it is

Well, it says that truth is unknowable in this life and that there are things we can encounter that are totally absurd (a very technical English word)...

What are your thoughts on absurdism, the mildest of all the relativisms?

It's already been said everything is acting to a certain degree. Energy has potential to act in new ways

There are things that existed, things that exist, and things that will exist. There are things that are possible and perhaps things that are impossibl...

You might like the book Action by Maurice Blondel. Friendly recommendation

I have Discourse on Thinking somewhere. Does anyone know when that was written?

I got that information from the skepticism section on historyofphilosophy.net

Lucian, emperor Julian, Celsus, Porphyry, and Hierocles provided Roman alternatives to Christianity, which is just remodeled Judaism. We don't have al...

You are right

If P is 70% true and 30% false, the laws of Aristotle are violated. I think this is what Hegel was after

I just didn't know what your point was. Gn

I've come to realize today that those who choose to enjoy the writing method of "Saint" Thomas Aquinas invariably become not arrogant but prideful. He...

You haven't presented a logical alternative to my agnosticism so I can't be open to it

If Jesus was God and promised he would return in that generation and didn't, than God is at fault You haven't made much sense at all so far

I see. You don't seem to have a distinct point/argument then

Matthew 16:27-28 "For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what the...

I will. You don't have an argument. If Christianity gave us freedom of thought, we have every right to use it against the bad points of Christianity. ...

I see the four corners as mind expanding, not dry

Freedom of religion was late in Christianity. The majority of the time you could not talk as we do on this forum.

Pyrrho doubted that he doubted, and so verged on relativism. I am not sure this is where the Tetralemma leads.

Early Christian writers Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Julius Firmicus Maternus, Augustine, and others all mentioned that the earlier Roman religion was s...

Christianity does't exist. That is, it was not an entity in the past. PEOPLE are who existed. They held various views and often condemned each other. ...

I never said anything about identity to him. He just got mad that I refuted his arguments. The part he "responded" to was just me clarifying that Aris...

. You've been ambiguous about identity and said that essence is the form in the mind. But you can continue to ignore the fact that I've refuted your p...

It's really annoying when people say "you cant criticize Christianity because it's the foundation of the West". Western ideas grew in a variety of way...

So I'm reading on this thread that Kant might not have believed in a thing in itself. I understand the Antimonies as arguing that phenomena says nothi...

You speak as if the form in the mind is the same in essence as the outside forms. This is strange. Also, why don't we turn into different people (a ne...

My point was that Jesus was supposed to give authority to the Apostles. But it's possible that Paul fooled everyone and was false and that L uke and M...

The Romans were right to acclaim "Who is this Jewish deity lacking such wisdom as to allow himself to be tortured to death?"

The Do you consider it a crime not to be always thinking of other people's problems? If everyone did that communication would break down.

According to Richard Dawkin's book The Selfish Gene, we are naturally selfish. And yes it is selfish to be an individual. How else can you have romanc...

You just made we want to read his last philosophical works

I fear that communist psychology is just a gateway to Islam

Plato thought philosophers should be cultivated and free from distractions of work. I feel like he was a perfectionist who didn't see the philosopher ...

He is using the word "essence" to describe thoughts because he thinks the world is literally in his head thru the forms

Mormons tried to convert me twice over the past few years. One of them said "I don't see how someone could have just made this up". But Christians say...

I'm talking about the Gospels. They have much historical detail, so they have historical value. The question is about the resurrection. My argument is...

Aquinas said he could prove a simple all powerful all good ect God exists and that anyone who disagrees is irrational. Disciples of his, like Edward F...

Two arguments against Aquinas 1) he said Being is added to form and matter as they unite in order to actualize them. But as Saurez and his school poin...

Do you mean "wrote more words" or made more sense? Aquinas is a clear writer and useful for people learning philosophy. But his main points are not pr...

Big post, no proofs So alteration causes half of the object to completely change? New forms every second since QM says everything is changing? You can...

Pure potentiality for Hegel is also pure freedom. Every thing is constrained in his system until the realization of the Absolute idea. Tielhard tried ...

Duns Scotus thought it was important to see "thisness" in objects. Thomists don't see "thisness" as a proper category, but Scotus did and I find it in...

Hegel loved mysticism as a youth and often saw objects as Platonic Forms in the flesh. Since experience was logic which in turn was metaphysics for hi...

Ditto

Interesting. Many philosophers in Germany, England, and the USA were Hegelian at the beginning of the 20th century. I'm thinking Peirce had read some ...

So Kant seems to be saying 1) we can know nothing about the real world because we create phenomena 2) thoughts of the world are even founded on contra...

I've heard songs that were both ugly and beautiful. Lots of Platonists out there it seems