Gregory

I understand and appreciate your point although i have not read enough Wittgenstein to make a judgment about what he thought. Hume talks about impress...

Grammar is the one thing that Platonism has nothing to do with. There is science, philosophy as applied to science (which can never be finally solved)...

So if it were up to you people would be banned for promoting Platonism, neo-Platonism, or continental philosophy because it is not philosophy? We are ...

Science and math are not about philosophy except when one (Hume for example) make philosophical comments on it. Scientists usually miss the point abou...

Let me state that no one here is denying that he has parents and drives a car, ect. That is practical truth. Philosophy addresses something more subtl...

Well if Plato is right then science is opinion. His system stands as a certain way of looking at reality and should be addressed. Too few people are e...

To be upfront, I am a Hegelian perennialist non-dualist, so clearly I may see these matters differently than many in Western modern society. The Germa...

Hume on causation obviously, and in Plato's system the world is the realm of opinion, while the Ideas alone have true actuality. Some turn modern scie...

I objected to jgill's apparent claim that mathematics is superior to philosophy. Both give truth but different kinds of truths. They are two peas in a...

So if nothing, either thought or matter, ever existed, how can we cognize that state of affairs? Absolute nothing is that. We do have thoughts and bod...

You seem to be saying that mathematics is a greater source of truth than philosophy's pursuit of the ineffable. The later can't be put into words but ...

Why ould anybody act/will themselves to be a tiny piece of dust before an almighty and all happy God? Isn't the normal response to ask why you yoursel...

"If therefore we begin with the contingent, we must not set out from it as something that remains fixed in such a way that in the progression it conti...

Are these rules of the mind that we are examining or rule of the universe? The SEP articles on Hegel speak of those who interpret the philosopher norm...

When Aquinas says God is in all things as cause, as presence, and also in things in His essence, how is this different from panentheism? Also, if the ...

I think this conversation needs to distinguish between God's will and reason. If we can only conceptualize this separation because of our present empi...

In a way. We all have individualized empirical selfs. God has room for everything, and I think you are correct contra Thomism. Even the Trinity seems ...

How can God be in everything if we are free?

God would have his normal thoughts with the addition of his knowledge that he choose something (such as to create). You're basically presenting Spinoz...

I think everything God does is free. Freedom is objective choice about ends in order to "be good". God is act and can't be any different from how we b...

First you have to consider how God loves himself. Is it necessary or free? If he has any freedom he has every freedom and his acts are necessary becau...

Compare the Critique of Pure Reason with his Critique of Judgment. The first takes objective reality of immediate perception to be false. It's not the...

Kant's pure reason is attached to its practical reason, being the servant of it. So you can learn from Kant about life. His -Critique of Judgment- has...

Are you a reductionalist? What Kant said is similar Malebranche, Rosmini, and many others. The world is yet is not. It's contingent. But the nous in o...

For science the world is contingent while for philosophy the thing in itself is necessary, only by being in-itself can it make the contingent share in...

"To the things themselves" said the phenomenologists. For them experience was primary. Colors may be said to be in the mind but everything is. Color i...

The turn from Kantianism to modern phenomenology was a turning toward realism. It was for the world. Which is not to say it's not spiritual in any way...

Maybe the noumena is that which connecs the appearances to reason, not behind but within

My understanding of Kant on this point is that if the world is timeless and without space, objects are eternal and the becoming we see is like the mot...

Kant's response to Hume was that we ARE time and space. Both held the world to be phenomena but Kant held that world to be inside us in a sense. If we...

I was reading this today: https://iep.utm.edu/presocra/#SH6c I found it so interesting. We assume that how we experience reality is the noumena in our...

What do you guys think of the statement that Kant forced the limits of reason on us so that we would discover faith in the Designer? I believe Nietsch...

A "judge who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose". He takes this further in the Critique of Judgm...

I believe Kant and Hegel both were against this "intuitive, direct knowledge of the Forms". What -immediate awareness of oneness with God in the prese...

My mental image of the Kantian frame-image is that it is not fully dimensional. That is, whatever dimension it has, the phenomena (not the noumena min...

To say that the our fields of perception alone give us phenomena i think is contrary to phenomenology, which Kant may have have been the first author ...

It's strange to think of the phenomena/noumena distiction in relation to one's own body parts. Is there a nose-in-itself vs the phenomena of it?

Romans ch. 11 has Paul comparing the equality of all before God in terms of salvation with the special adoption of the Jews by God. Christians must be...

Maybe historically he bought their anathema upon himself. John chapter 6 has Jesus telling people to eat him, and according to many scholars this was ...

Ye but the Romans tortured him to death. They didn't have to. It was their choice

John 14 "Trust in God; trust also in me... my Father's house... I AM the way and the truth and the life... If you really knew me, you would know my Fa...

Could it be said that all systems of philosophy try to be as exact as mathematics, but fail?

To my understanding Kant became a dualist because of the arguments by Hume that physical "laws" cant be known and that the world is a-mechnical. Kant ...

When you say you dont consider yourself to BE something "necessarily", are you speaking of anatman? Do you know of Nishida Kitaro?

If you try to understand what your cup of coffee is, you will find that you always bring up uses and situations of cups of coffee, and also what other...

My point was to learn from the discussion and your aggression is unwanted. Why dont you provide your philosophy here on AI right now? Not factodes, bu...

I didn't say i knew anything about the topic. It's interesting to see others views on the subject while on the forum. Again this was posted over a yea...

I think that consciousness is awareness and we dont know how that reaches in nature. The ability to do calculations which AI has is divorced from the ...

Eternity if not before time temporally because it is the absence of time. Although, philosophy can posit a Tao that acts without being acted upon, sci...

The original singularity of our universe would be considered uncaused and self caused at the same time, according to how science approaches it. Nothin...