My reading of "great histories" informs me that civilization is always on the brink of collapse. Periods of long, gradual decline culminate in sudden ...
:roll: Incorrigible & lazy ... 'Natura deus est' is pantheistic; however, (sub specie aeternitatis) Spinoza's concept is acosmist¹. (2023, 2020, 2021)...
In other words, the improbability that 'an uncreated, transcendent creator of universes' exists (e.g. Plato, Aquinas) is, at best, equal to the improb...
Not unless there is a metaphysical necessity – (transcendental) reason – 'why there is anything at all'. Only "X is ultimately necessary" (i e. absolu...
If the nonexistence of nature, like the nonexistence of a sunny day, is a non-contradiction, then nature, like a sunny day, is contingent (i.e. non-ne...
:100: @"Gnomon" spews that as if 'methodological Supernaturalists' like him are not "dogmatic" and do not spectacularly fail in every instance to prod...
:up: :up: :up: for fact-free, non-corroborative stories (rationalized with pseudo-philosophizing) rather than fact-based, corroborative stories (inter...
No doubt. However, do you agree 'there is a naturalist (or anti/non-supernaruralist) worldview of the few' in contrast to 'the supernaturalist (or ant...
Perhaps some emotionally need certitude, or an illusion of knowledge (i.e. severe allergy to admitting what (that) they don't know (e.g. woo-of-the-ga...
:smirk: Well ... ... a student's pov: https://youtu.be/7grUgixqH8I?si=7SxW3vFpDEV2X9Rg or a teacher's pov: https://youtu.be/ITnL7-2RwUQ?si=RaALyxM10i0...
@"Gnomon" – An interesting summary of Stephen Meyer's polemical thesis; however, dress-up "Intelligent Design" any way – with any jargon – you wish, i...
Circular reasoning & compositional fallacy. So how do you designate the distinction between a copy / counterfeit and the original? or distinguish a fi...
Caveat: dubito, dubitans accidit. :smirk: Yes, "the subject" is what an object does and, as Spinoza suggests, a complementary way of attributing-descr...
Maybe that explains why non-MAGA cultists voted for The Clown but does not explain why about 7 million Democratic voters who had voted for Biden in 20...
18Nov24 I'm not mad at MAGAs, a majority of white women and "low information" citizens for again voting for The Clown. Instead, I'm pissed at the ten-...
There isn't any significant anthropological evidence of "religion" before ca. 50-80,000 years ago (i.e. before the Upper Paleolithic era)¹ in a period...
:roll: At best, sir, this premise does not make any sense (re: "common" therefore "beneficial"? like e.g. poor hygiene, bigotry, sex/child abuse, thef...
Yes, magical thinking in performative forms of woo-of-the-gaps superstitions, immortality fantasies, folk/fairy tales, etc – no doubt the childhood of...
Re: The Myth of Siayphus by A. Camus; also, section 2.5 (esp. re: Camus) of the SEP article "Hope" ... Same reason anyone wears "lipstick". I used it ...
:chin: Denying "the nightmare" – e.g. prayers in foxholes – 'nostalgia' (philosophical suicide) to evade the absurd (re: disorder, uncertainty, catast...
"AI" cannot harm our species – retard our development, sabotage our potential – more than we have harmed (and continue to harm) ourselves in so many w...
Consider again the sections featuring Aristotle, Spinoza & Camus in the SEP article on Hope – e.g. "Sisyphus" endlessly rolling his philosopher's ston...
2024: Sometimes the sheeple vote for wolves instead of sheepdogs. e.g. 53% of White women again chose a "Your Body, My Choice" misogynist by playing t...
Thanks. :up: Fwiw, my conception of courage sans hope is primarily indebted to Aristotle, Spinoza & Camus (as well as e.g. Laozi, Epicurus, Epictetus,...
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