Isn't Nietzsche just saying literally go down swinging? Humility is another feeling that I'm confused by. I'm ready to see the Forms when I die. 34 fo...
Nothingness is like a set in math. Sets have nothing in common with numbers. I think nothingness is pure space and time. Absolute space-time! It has o...
Honesty is often better than naivety. Schopenhauer said art and seeing the world as the Forms was the way to relieve the pain of life. Is there virtue...
Aristotle didn't believe in forms outside objects. He has a substance based belief, with the prime mover having great power.I Great acts are the great...
That's "understanding what the world is". How could Newton have disproved the solidity of matter? How is that possible? I don't get it. If it's solid ...
It's like the Catholic Church condemning Quietism. How can anyone judge another's spirituality? Schopenhauer's might be as good as Nietzsche. You sugg...
People get hunches based on their reasoning. If it becomes clearer the more I mull over it, I say I believe. I tend to say "I believe" for everything ...
Some good explanations of the Thomistic position so far! But is it maybe a cultural and/or sexist concept? Aquinas thought women passive and less nobl...
Christians know their doctrines say you can't save yourself and that you can't make up for sins. Sure they say you need to repent, but repentance for ...
Christianity is immoral, ancestor worship isn't. Sure it's comforting to think a God would die for you in order to change you (not you personally) fro...
We have a stream of consciousness obviously. Whether there is a person experiencing it depends on whether the stream has a substance. I think it does ...
I was speaking of Jesus. You brought up Druids, so I brought up another interesting theory. With the theory of evolution, how far back is it scientifi...
I've read a little about it. Ancestor worship is very popular in other religions. I personally think it may have been a more comforting religion in ti...
We and the world have all the reality to exist on our own, yet we are dependent on nothingness. I can't settle that paradox, but it is not a contradic...
You are basically asking what the particles were doing before the first pull of gravity and the first tick of the clock. I am saying "throw out absolu...
I believe those places are were holiness resides. Not a being, not a Person, but abstract holiness. "Impermanence, called anicca or anitya (Sanskrit) ...
That button doesn't always work on the laptop. Sorry No. It everything is dependent on motion and motion on them, but motion is the prime mover. Plato...
That's where the West in the person of Hegel countered Buddha and said "you can't expect people to do what you do. They will get bored. I say let them...
Only activity is real. Potential is as nothing as evil it. It only something and good when acutal. Before matter there is no movement and vice verse. ...
Heidegger knew Heraclitus was into more than Parmenides was with regard to cosmology. Plato did too. Aristotle falled the part seminar about the One a...
Heidegger always said the first start of philosophy is with o the the presocratics. Plato makes the one Universe of the eleatics into an infinity of F...
As I said earlier in this thread, Aquinas said the faculty of reason causes the power will, which reason needs in order to operate. It causes it and i...
From what I've read, physicist generally say there was no heat at the beginning because there was no motion.. It went from a point, which is not even ...
Not enough. But plenty of philosophers and some physicists believe that time is merely a measure humans give to events. Whether time is infinite in th...
You don't have to have time as part of "space-time" in order to understand the math of relativity. Time doesn't slow down; THINGS slow down and enlarg...
"When the unreflexive consciousness speaks of observation and experience as the foundation of truth, that phrase may sound as if the whole business we...
Absolute time says that things change merely speeds and that our perceptions are not the reality of time. So absolute time and relativity are reconcil...
It gets into absolute time because of the eternity. Consider the Islamic kalam argument against eternal time. If you think there has to be eternal tim...
There are difficulties with eternal time because it brings in absolute time. How could an eternity lead to now and there be a now? That's a paradox. W...
Hegel said that the world can always be broken "asunder" more so a countable infinity rules over the world. The Eleatics led Hegel in the "heaven of t...
I think the first principle of philosophy is that Platonism comes first in the process. Hegel said matter is a "non-sensuous element of sense", which ...
I just want to throw this out there: maybe you reading this are where yo u think you are and in Indonesia at the same time. Maybe it's not about nothi...
I would add that Descartes, when he did math, want to see the whole series of proof within one "vision of intuition". Deductive logic will always say ...
“The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break fo...
A line segment have infinite parts while being finite. A "contradiction" can always being resolved so I'm thinking it doesn't exist and nothing is imp...
"It has no content. It has form and no form. It has no content". That is how I would say it. It implies a contradiction, but I don't believe a contrad...
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