Gregory

I'm thinking that "This sentence is true" is correct relativism, while "This sentence is false" is improper relativism

If someone wins a race by an infinitesimal, she has won by potentiality. Hegel said Being and Nothing sublate themselves AND each other to make the wo...

I see potentiality as first, prior to every thing Hegel wrote of. It's pure yang (with a small y) passing through yin (with a small y) to make the wor...

So are you saying Heidegger was wrong to posit being as most prior? And are you saying that identity (self-sameness) comes before being in Hegel's wor...

You apparently have a substance-based metaphysics. So is pure actuality for you the perfect Platonic form, God, or the Trinity? I don't see what else ...

. I see your argument. Now my response is that there are two "things", pure potentiality and the avenue for it to become actual. You might want to thi...

Dichotomy means division. Difference thru division would be making one wooden board into two. For me, Aristotle gets into too much trouble defining wh...

Fair enough. I don't see how Hegel is THE answer though. He's cool, and maybe you are too idk. I've read the Phenomenology twice, his Philosophy of Hi...

Let me get this straight, you had to "try very hard" not to throw insults at someone who knows more Aristotle than you and simply explicated the issue...

It's an empirical fact that most strict Hegelians are egoists

Are you speaking of meaningless (or empty) categories? I'm not sure what a trope is

1) his post was good, yours was not 2) pride is a mortal sin 3) you are a newbie here. Speak tentatively 4) you remind me of a Christian fanatic I kno...

Aristotle (in his book on the heavens?) said 3 was a special number, and not in an aesthetic sense, but objectively. Hegel answered him: "We may, of c...

Good thoughts. But can perfection finally happen in the universe? I see the Intellect as the "evil genius" of modern philosophy

Therefore my claim is that immediately after Plato Platonism became an aesthetic movement very much wedded to the world. It was Aristotle who was "up ...

Plotinus's One can be seen as pure movement without entity being inside. My claim on this thread is that Platonists may not have really believed in to...

We should turn to Plotinus because Plato is ambiguous, and maybe we should continue the thought with a Heidegarrian interpretation of Plotinus. Potent...

Giovanni Gentiles was a Fascist with similar thoughts ;)

The Republicans call for a proud America. The Democrats say they want a humble America

I own Physics and Immortality by Frank Tipler. Controversial book. The parts about a God are mixed with philosophy

Maybe Plato was ambiguous, since he writes in dialogues. Plotinus for one wrote in the Anneads that the One is pure potentiality

I remember when I was improving my spelling in elementary school. I used creative imagination. I saw patterns that strict logic would make you doubt. ...

To clarify what I said above: we have great minds like the ones working of quantum mechanisms and people like Douglas Hofstadter, yet the issue of the...

I don't think he has clearly distinguished between (1) innate ideas (2) getting all our knowledge from our senses. You have to make that distinction b...

Thank you very much!

The idea that a thing is a thing does not come from the senses

"...life consists before all in this: that a living creature is at each moment itself, and yet something else. Life is therefore also a contradiction,...

The five ways of Aquinas were created for simple peasants to count on their fingers, like a little intellectual rosary. But he had far more to say on ...

1) I don't think you want to understand being 2) because you, perhaps rightly, feel that action is greater 3) you get no help that way

What kind of music do Marxists like? Do they ever truly meditate? Just wondering

Marxism started by the replacing of Spirit with Matter in Hegel's system. What's the difference? Don't know. Fine lines

If an abortion was happening in front of me, i'd stop it. I think people would be tempted to as much evil if it was made illegal. All kinds of stuff. ...

I hate her abortion stance but there is a greater good

I think the only hope for the Democrats is for Biden to drop out before the election. Trump was ok for four years but four more years will bring the H...

Thanks for the honest reply. I think Leonardo da Vinci would disagree with your thesis. And maybe dolphins lol. A math teacher of mine wrote a paper s...

I saved a link to my email on Einstein, GR, SR, and Zeno. The link doesn't work anymore. No!! I wanted to learn about science's perspective on how log...

Thank you

1) are you an empiricist like Locke? 2) isn't the working energy in the human intellect what this thread is about 3) are you talking about just humans...

The I think it was John Searle who asked if a software program was doing addition or "quaddition". He was trying to argue against the emergence of rea...

Maybe he wanted too be

I've read the Phenomenology of Mind (or translated Spirit) twice. He gets tired and falls into holes. The mazes he then makes are amazing but he lost ...

Your posts are neat but unnecessarily convoluted. For Hegel, the positive stays, the negative moves. That's how the dialectic worked. I think he was b...

Hegel is a way to learn about philosopher. He is not the be all or end all. If you had read, in a poetical mood, a poem that said "time is a fragmatio...

Nice. I recently put down Being and Time in order to read the lesser Logic. Three fourths thru and loving it. Someone recommended Peirce to me instead...

As a teenager i read the section on Reason in the 1960's new Catholic Encyclopedia. It said animals ( who "do not have reason") can understand how to ...

The British empiricist would applaud you. Most scientists would say "your not in the business" . Scientists, to explain further, often don't like phil...

Have you read either of Hegel's Logics? When I first got on this forum there was a thread about whether he was even a true philosopher. I wonder that ...

I think purpose in the world is in the eye of the beholder; purpose in ourselves we must strive for. Hume would agree

Zeno' idea (basically it was one idea, which btw didn't necessarily lead to the One I don't think) was so profound that I feel people usually don't ge...

Descartes specifically said in his Replies attached to the Meditations that he doubted simply to find unshakable truth