Imperfectly analogous, (for an ethical naturalist (à la Foot, Parfit, Nussbaum, Peirce-Dewey, Spinoza, Epicurus, et al) like myself) ethics is like li...
:up: "XX" & "XY" in most mammals (i.e. human default), no? Ain't no fucking "royal we" here, alt-right snowflake. Just don't "celebrate" if you were s...
Who is "everyone"? And why "should" they read exactly the same books (like "true believers" re: e.g. the Bible, the Qur'an, Mao's "Little Red Book" .....
"The source", as you say, is the human interpretation of (maladaptation to) "impersonal entropic suffering" and not entropy itself. For example: Buddh...
My last post describes Spinoza's nomological-ontological conception of immanence (i.e. reality aka substance) such that there is not any "underlying r...
The "absurdity" comes from the demand for, or expectation of, there to be a "reason that existence should exist", and is especially so because, upon r...
I think Spinoza uses "God" in contrast to religious (scriptural) usage in order to de-anthropomorphize reality – the necessarily independent process u...
And this line of questioning, like most others, by the white-faced ministrel show – Gang Of Putin senators – had absolutely nothing to do with questio...
:up: "Old atheists" conceptually reject god-beliefs whereas "new atheists" rhetorically reject god-literalists – both in response to "religious theist...
@"Jack Cummins" Nope. You shit the bed again, G. :sweat: Pay attention! Deists, like theists, believe that "God" is ontologically separate from Nature...
Being a Spinozist, I consider myself an – to coin a phrase – ecstatic naturalist, with a strong affinity for pandeism as mentioned elsewhere . Maimon,...
Ontology (relational, actualist) and ethics (eudaimonia praxis) "connect" them for me. From this genealogy, as a consequence, deflation of epistemolog...
I don't recall this exactly (it's been about 15 years since I've read The God Delusion) but this is what Einstein means by "God" – more than "a metaph...
Yeah, your well-reasoned positions, apok, seem very consistent with this "line" (genealogy). :cool: Likewise, I'm confident with these tres hombres Ep...
Yes. The scope of the "PSR" claim is absolute, and given that most of nature – its fundamental structure (99.9 ...%) – is vacuum, that fact persuades ...
Most believers within most extant religious traditions conceive of, or relate to, "God" as a person (or in polytheistic traditions "gods as persons")....
Once again you seem to be shadowboxing with a strawman, Gnomon. :roll: To the degree that theism consists in factual truth-claims, atheism is the seco...
In the face of evidence to the contrary, we don't have to "assume the PSR". Consider e.g. acausal / random vacuum fluctuations (or radioactive decay) ...
What "certainty"? For most atheists, at minimum, it's a probabilistic (i.e. falliblistic) belief warranted by (some or all versions of) theism's lack ...
The question remains, just one step back: what "sufficient reason" makes this "axiom" indispensable (i.e. necessary), or preferable to any other "axio...
I think this point is only one conception of "God" and even then it's not "conspiratorial" but occult instead. Most of reality experienced by human be...
The latter connects "ideological / existential" dots arbitrarily (i.e. inductively) in a paranoiac manner whereas the former tends to fill in "transce...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r0EMrJTgqgM "The Wind Cries Mary" (3:21) Live in Stockholm, Sweden, 1967 (3:28) A-side single (UK), 1967 The Jimi Hendri...
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