:up: For me, philosophy consists in reflectively reasoning to better, more probative, questioning (i.e. an answer (concept) is just a question's way o...
Except for Sam Harris, I intellectually respect these gentlemen as advocates of irreligion but not of soundly reasoned atheism itself. Not even the ph...
:up: Too much money and too many generational careers have been dedicated to this mission for it be a "random shot in the dark". Like gravity waves, H...
I've made attempts in many posts at clarifying my conception, at least, of "religion" which is informed by historical, anthropological, archeological,...
JWST probably can "see" as far back as 12.5+ billion years – the observable astronomical limit – or about 1 billion years after "the big bang" (re: co...
Kant argues that "existence" is not a predicate (re: criticism of Descartes' & Leibniz's ontological arguments for the existence of god). What caused ...
"Unconditional love?" But human beings are not unconditional beings. :monkey: ... a teaching for dying in the monastery, but not for living among stra...
Don't flatter yourself. :sweat: As in old posts where I've charitably elaborated on your specific case, sir: Your obstinate pesistence when faced with...
"Civilization" is the symbolic construct of administratively distancing decision-makers (elites) from the adverse risks/consequences of decision-makin...
March-April readings • The Nature of Sympathy, Max Scheler • Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values, Max Scheler • Scheler's Ethical Pers...
A difference in – not "of" – experience. A difference in degree, for sure, not in kind as Heidegger proposes.. You've misread what I wrote, Zzz. I do ...
:up: So you're a partisan in the "Analytic-Continental" divide to the degree that any discourses which do not meet the peculiar standards of the Anglo...
Did you read the summeries / reviews about the books I'd mentioned (those are links) in my post which addresses your question about (ways of) 'experie...
A "restatement" of (Hegel's) dialectics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic or more generally dualistic monism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
Perhaps you've read N. Perhaps, more likely, you've not bothered to study his work. So you'd agree that most (pre-PoMo) non-Anglo-European philosopher...
By paying attention to, for instance, "the negligent and the insignificant" (J. Miller) – "the immensity of the particular" (G. Steiner) – to begin wi...
In other words, as others have suggested, "panpsychism" is a reductionist yet anti-emergence mystery-of-the-gaps which only compounds 'the mystery of ...
And what's the "cause" of this requirement? To claim one unknown is caused by another (further removed) unknown is an emply claim because the question...
Yeah, more or less identically with actualism (a position I favor contra both possibilism & modal realism). This is like saying that predictions such ...
No, not on that basis because, if for no other reason, both positions posit only a single entity / principle. To paraphrase Einstein: "Everything shou...
:up: Spinoza's natura naturans (i.e. substance ... which he calls "deus, sive natura"). Epicurus' void. Buddhism's sunyata. Hinduism's brahman. Laozi'...
I don't see a response to anything I wrote in your reply. For instance, I didn't say or imply anything about needing or not needing "to believe in God...
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