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https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/507090 I'm beginning to think you're just pissing down my leg, Fool. Your misreadings are getting te...

It's ... less worthy than "deep beauty" (e.g. bumpin' to hip hop is far less worthy than swingin' with bebop; or riding through a Disney safari park i...

Check out the link.

It's what you called "superficial" as I wrote agreeing with you, Fool, in contrast to beauty that is "deep". And "eye candy" isn't derogatory, just de...

I think of the deep kind as "beauty" (and agree with you about the OP) but the superficial kind is merely "pretty" or "attractive" or "fashionable" or...

Is preferring, or being most (even exclusively) attracted to, any particular "race" (re: members of a color/ethnic group) "racist"? Other than due to ...

Neither.

Not sympathetic to platonism at all (pace A.N. Whitehead), I nonetheless have greater admiration for Iris Murdoch even more than I do for Mlle Weil.

:clap: :clap: * :up: The only "boy bands" for me ever were/are still The Beatles (early) and The Jackson Five. * https://youtu.be/Qs63dcPh3Mw The Dark...

Neither. They're faces of the same coin: one / many – yin / yang.

:fire: https://youtu.be/hGoFLYYQi4Q "What is terrible is easy to endure." ~Philodemus, Tetrapharmakos "... there is no fate that cannot be surmounted ...

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Yep, g/G is a mystery (i.e. inexplicable). The answer to the question of origin of the universe is "Mystery created it" or "Mystery caused it" or "Mys...

Oldies but goodies – that's my story and I'm sticking to it. :smirk: They don't because they can't. Creationism (or "Intelligent Design") are just woo...

Levinas' "face-to-face" is more about ethical encounters (i.e. responding – subjecting oneself – to the vulnerability or suffering of "the other") and...

Ok. So what's your proof that we don't need a god – philosophically or otherwise.

Agreed. And since the world is thus, an "omnibenevolent deity" is a fiction.

Philosophy (and its history) for me means contemplating the variety of ways in which we are unwise (i.e. confused, perplexed, frustrated, oblivious, s...

I don't see how this "necessary universe argument" is a rejection of theism. What am I missing?

You can convince us/me that you're an atheist by making your best argument for rejecting religious and/or philosophical theism. Not that you owe anyon...

:roll: You've misread what I wrote. More plainly then: claiming that philosophy hasn't proven anything is like claiming an unmarried man still beats h...

The PoE is only a problem for the existence of an omnibenevolent deity. "Free will" theodicy presupposes that some deity created humans with free will...

You've misread what I wrote. More plainly then: claiming that philosophy hasn't proven anything is like claiming an unmarried man still beats his wife...

I've learned from Schopenhauer that each body consists in immediate subjective apprehesion of the "thing-in-itself", or the real, which he conceives o...

At planck length (c10^-35m) or less, distance (space) – like at planck duration (c10^-43s) or less, interval (time) – has no 'scientific meaning'; spa...

Welcome to TPF. Yeah, in other words what makes you "you" is physical continuity of self-experience and not 'mere identity' of atomic or neural patter...

:up: Agreed. But that's because they (when conceptually coherent and self-consistent) are noncognitive proposals (e.g. criteria, methods, aporia, spec...

:up: Excellent topic, Jack! Will return when I have time.

Of course. Knowledge (i.e. theoretical/practical capability) is acquired through learning or training. Experience (i.e. understanding-based competence...

Delusion denotes persistent belief that a demonstable falsehood is true. Atheism (however defined) is not a demonstrable falsehood. And science, Franz...

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Lived, reflective, experience.

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And yet so many 'passers' are in deep denial of that fact.

Yes.

:100: :clap: Viewed on end one sees a large metal ring but when viewed laterally one sees a length of coils of a large metal spring. The latter is a m...

Cool. Marx the political philosopher was a determinist but Marx the socioeconomist, etc certainly was more authoritarian (i.e. vanguardist, statist) t...

No. It's that the twin aspects of path of least effort (dumbing minds) and path of least action (humping bodies) have predominated @1000:1 ratio (at l...

Religion does not "justify morality" – the question makes no sense – so, of course, we can. Morality, like language more generally, is an emergent pro...

Clarify, if you don't mind.

Once upon a youth I'd started writing a 'speculative novel' which I'd sort of styled as a response to, or alternative vision of, PD James' Children of...

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:up: My weekday usual: a pot of hot tea (black, very strong), a glass of cranberry juice, 2-3 hardboiled eggs & 1 small-ish blueberry bran muffin. The...

https://youtu.be/nDqP7kcr-sc (480:00) :yawn: "Fascinating. If my suspicion is correct, there can be no response to this message." :yikes: "Now wait ju...

My condolences and ... carpe diem, my friend.

Marx (in the end) was a historical determinist (i.e. hegelian materialist), socioeconomist & anti-bakuninist ... but, IMO, not much of a philosopher a...

I ... won't take the bait this time. Very sunny here for a change, going for a walk.

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It isn't "justified". It is, however, like most complex dynamic systems self-justifying/reproducing. Well, there's the old time "Be fruitful and multi...