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Are you familiar with the ethical personalism of Max Scheler? His thought greatly influenced Fr. Wojty?a's early writings.

A Western philosophical koan: A sufficient reason for 'the Principle of Sufficient Reason' is missing.

If you knew your philosophy better you would know that, in this context, "infinite regress" concerns philosophy (re: invalid argumentation), not physi...

Epicurean =/= libertine (or hyper-consumerist / acquisitive), y'know.

So no more avoiding and reducing and mitigating ... pain / fear / suffering? You're getting yourself lobotomized? radically desensitized via torture? ...

And every scientifically literate and philosophically thoughtful person recognizes what an "obviously" nonsensical (i.e. question-begging infinite reg...

Desperately trying to mend broken wings while free fallin'. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWJXDG2i0A :cool:

That's like saying 'Old English grammar is "proto-Shakespearean?!"' :eyes: plus these old sketches & & So, in sum ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/d...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/693562

Only to a simulated agent (within it's native simulation) which, in that case, makes the question itself moot since "real" – ineluctable – to the agen...

Last I checked, 'the vacuum' (Democritus' void) is physical https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/586447 :fire:

Faith – fideism / make believe – doesn't require, or depend on, any such "coherent" notions. Theism (i.e. theology, theodicy), with regard to reasonin...

Insofar as "nonphysical" entails disembodied, it's indistinguishable from "nonexistent". Perhaps X is "nonphysical", such as an idea –it is subsistent...

Some of what I've found in philosophizing that's been "useful in my life" more or less ... :death: :flower:

Thirded.

Here's a link to a thread titled "Substance Dualism versus Property Dualism Debate" from last year (2021) which may interest you. https://thephilosoph...

Rationalized. :roll: :up: :clap: No worries. That's a paraphrase of my paraphrase of Hitchens' Razor

In the absence of corroborating evidence, it's just "modern folklore" to me. I'm not aware of any scientific studies which test "this hypothesis". We ...

:fire: And yet, however "distorted" or "noisy" it is (via e.g. misunderstandings, expectations, biases, delusions, etc), judgment is the enabling-cons...

So they all showed up on "The Most Boring Day in History" when nobody would notice arrivals from the future? :ok:

Ah, you characterize 'questions you can't answer', like this one , "trolling"? Card sharks, pool hustlers, FBI profilers and dialecticians call this "...

I simply reject the hackneyed, 'romantic' anthropomorphizing of the universe. Also, your synedoche "we as part of the universe perceiving itself" assu...

We are that part of the universe perceiving ourselves as part of the universe.

Whatever, lil troll. :sweat:

Probably hundreds of them ... I wouldn't know.

Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy and Han Jonas' The Gnostic Religion suffice for day trips down the rabbit hole of Wonderland "Esotericism". :...

1. A minimally-dependent field, or domain, which is relational and evident. 2. Aspects of existence (i.e. entities) consisting of structures sufficien...

I will gladly "rethink my position on" theism when (1) theism is soundly demonstrated to be true AND (2) when more-than-intersubjective, intelligible ...

:roll: *Cough* yeah but ... :chin:

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Consensual reality (à la shadows on the walls of Plato's cave) – much more than mere "social constructionism", right? What does "existence" mean in th...

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Yeah, approximately. :wink:

From my speculative cookbook: Re: ]] ^^a generalization of negative theology ... :fire: :nerd:

That's not what I "mean to say". :roll:

On the contrary, I think we can (with this rule-of-thumb): where "the difference" is ambiguous (or vague), we encounter "reality"; on the other hand, ...

For better and worse, all of it of has.

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Well put. :up:

The law of non-contradiction is at the (ontological-pragmatic) crux of both "the cogito" and "statement A", to wit: ... or as Witty might say 'philoso...

:up: :fire: The Fermi Paradox redux: Where are they – all the backtravelers (chrononauts) from the future? :chin:

"A republic – if you can keep it." :fear:

:smirk: :up: :clap: :100: :fire: Libertarian capitalists. :eyes:

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Dems don't have the votes in Congress to pass any legistlation to codify reproductive rights before the midterm elections this fall. Overturning Roe v...

What if it's the case 'you are not even "you"'? (e.g. PSM)

If you follow the link to old post included (demographic crisis) with a further embedded link to an older thread (re: race war) you'll see that my arg...

"Who are we?" Wrong question, I think. Instead: what are we? We are ecology-situated, embodied-enactive, brain-systems coordinating their bodily activ...