Gregory

I read once that for Schopenhauer to see the relation of the will to the body as the relation between th e phenomena and noumnena was to see the forms...

I actually don't like how Fitche grounded all judgment on reality upon morality alone. Hegel expounded on beauty, Forms of the individual and social h...

Thank you much

Here is the full quote of Hegel's swipe at Kant: "Reason, as essentially the logos (notion), is immediately parted asunder into itself and it's opposi...

I'm the opposite. Schopenhauer said that Fitche wrote convoluted nonsense. But I love those kinds of things! Do you know what parts of Fitche's works ...

Aristotle was wrong to say a segment is not infinitely divided. Parts are real. The finite merges with the infinite in objects probably by some non-eu...

Am I the only one who finds it unintuitive that a line segment can be shrunk for all eternity and never disappear? Just asking

No. There is obviously a division among motion or it couldn't be motion at all

As an outline, sex starts with an evil intention and ends with a morally good completion of the act. So sex seems to be neutral morally. (Of course ra...

If everything changes every infinitesimal of time then it's being does not remain the same. Think thesuas ship. An infinite process can lead up to som...

It shows there is a paradox in that every object is both finite and infinite at the same time, almost in the same respect. This shouldn't prevent us f...

Zeno already proved nearly 3 thousands years ago that there is a continuum. But the end points or limits can be discrete. It's not regress, but progre...

Of course there are sexual crimes. Some worse than others. I think every sexually active person has done a sexual sin before, but probably also morall...

Sex. It inherently has a sinful side and a good side. It's completely paradoxical, and there appears to be no way to untangle them. Best to remind our...

I like how you phrased that. Great question

Thanks I've seen a lot more hard core Christians freaking out over the virus than non-believers You may They read and treat them very different than W...

Plato wrote that "we must agree that that which keeps its own form unchangingly, which has not been brought into being and is not destroyed, which nei...

Think of absolute space and time as understood in past centuries. Those are literal nothing.

"There are the indisputable facts - fossils and all - but these facts point to creationism as much as it points to evolution et al." — TheMadFool No t...

I was just responding to posts and seeing where it went. Back to the OP topic for a moment: ye I saw that website. What I want to know is what princip...

Theoretical physicists would have to understand matter in itself in order to come up with truth apart from experiments. I claim such is impossible. If...

It's not an infinite regress. It's just a gray canvas. Almost every bit of Aristotle is circular and a waste of time Being is that which we can sense ...

Can you give an example of a theoretician combination several datas and not having to do an experiment to see if his hypothesis about them is right? I...

Hegel said that nothingness sublates being into the flow of the world (becoming). The Parmenidian One is "thrown", to use Heidegger's word, by nothing...

Thanks for the responses. They mean something to me, and there is much more human communication between you and I on this forum than between you and A...

Maybe 1 does not equal one because a nothing is identical, as nominalism says. So there is only one 1, one 2, ect. and math crumbles before philosophy...

It certainly sounds like Hawking was wrong to say philosophy is dead. Boo to Wittgenstein too. There are genuine questions here

Being comes out of its opposite. So they are mutually opposed but one is the source. They don't technically relate

You are thinking about nothing in a mathematical sense. You're being far to Kantian. The stars are limited

A blank canvas of only one color is the foundation of patterns. Something comes from nothing. That's why we die says Heidegger. We were always at home...

Boo! God clearly doesn't exist. Haven't you seen a Christmas tree? People say they didn't feel like a person till their teens. I felt like a full pers...

Wait, you are writing the next Critique of Pure Reason and you don't even believe the world is real? Are you saying there is a greater reality in comp...

Kant settled for the finite in his mind

A koan is meant to make you unmeasurable. I feel like everyone is turning from the East and moving to Greece lately on this forum :(

A consistent position of relativism is what I'm after, as I said above. I think 1 plus 1 equals anything or everything except 2. That's where Greg's a...

I get your point. Math and physical world seem separate with regard to the question of nominalism. Russell wrote a lot of pages trying to prove one pl...

Aren't they only fictions? I am not doing what jgill says. I'm offering an alternative, not proving a point per se

There seems to be only two valid forms of relativism. 1) nothing is true except that nothing is true because that is true. I like that serpentine move...

Hume pointed out that we can't say where force comes from, hardly knowing what force is in itself. He says things hardly need to make materialistic se...

He also thought heavy objects fall faster, not just stronger, than light ones

Aristotle thought the air returns forward to push the arrow along after it was flung from the bow. No idea if this is true

1) form and and matter, when believed to perceived in an object by an Aquinas or Aristotle, says something objective about the object. For a Kant, the...

If reality has no common natures,.why should numbers share a nature necessarily?

Mathematics is inherently Platonic. All numbers share a nature

I am not sure about that. One's intuition would be different from others. It would be the same situation, except it was more solipsistic. I don't see ...

Whether in the idealist or realist paradigm, nominalism seems to say individuality and difference define an object. Essentialism says things are defin...

Is Kants intuitions nominalistic though? Anyone

For Hegel, the noumena is prime matter, coming from nothing, and you are the form of the world, especially your body. Teilhard described this as "you ...

I get the passage. The appearance itself lacks form. The mind forms it. Hegel thought the same thing, except he called the appearance of the world "my...

Proving our optical vision is an illusion relies on science's use of the senses