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July 05, 2024 at 20:59
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July 05, 2024 at 13:32
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July 05, 2024 at 10:18
I agree. :up: For instance, Spinoza's double-aspect parallelism dissolves Descartes' "MBP – substance duality": mind describes (degrees of) voluntaril...
July 05, 2024 at 10:17
And, imo, this "object" conceals (its) absence. In broad strokes, I think religion (to worship) idolatrizes-fetishizes-mystifies '(the) absence' and m...
July 05, 2024 at 09:13
AFAIK, "logic" doesn't "explain" anything; its "applicability" consists in providing formal consistency to arguments (re: valid inferences, sound conc...
July 05, 2024 at 07:25
It seems to me that every (human) "individual" is a (eu/anti)social being first and foremost.
July 05, 2024 at 02:44
Yes; however, we h. sapiens have not been "fair and just" enough – too often not at all – to one another for the last several (recorded) millennia at ...
July 05, 2024 at 02:15
Your mentions of him in the OP are simply contrary to Nietzche's moral philosophy.
July 05, 2024 at 01:44
:sparkle: :lol: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/912509
July 04, 2024 at 19:28
In light of Spinoza's dissolution of the "MBP" derived from the illusion – conceptual incoherence – of Descartes' substance duality (or Aristotle's su...
July 04, 2024 at 18:37
Maybe you should actually read Nietzsche's writings (especially e.g. BoT, GS, BGE, OtGoM, TotI & EH – preferably W. Kaufmann's translations), Bob, and...
July 04, 2024 at 18:07
Very marginal, imho. Read Philosophical Investigations instead.
July 04, 2024 at 01:07
The unintelligent (i.e. weak-minded) often, occasionally even ubiquitiously, oppress the intelligent ... with (e.g.) pseudo-scientific nonsense, relig...
July 04, 2024 at 00:56
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July 04, 2024 at 00:33
In contrast to the philosopher who reflectively contemplates (i.e. unlearns 'learned denials of') how every presence conceals absence, I think the mys...
July 04, 2024 at 00:32
:sweat: Maybe diagnosed, certainly not "influenced" ... :100: :up: :up:
July 04, 2024 at 00:02
:up: :up: If you haven't already, please consider this .
July 03, 2024 at 23:41
I (mostly) agree but, since the relevent context of this thread discussion implicitly concerns "religion" (and explicity and more broadly concerns met...
July 03, 2024 at 13:25
This summary legal analysis and discussion might be useful to understanding the practical impacts to Executive Branch (Article 2) of the 1July24 SCOTU...
July 03, 2024 at 11:29
Well, I think materialism (i.e. only 'the material' is real) is a form nondualism. On the contrary, they preceeded Berkeley by millennia in both Weste...
July 03, 2024 at 10:46
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July 03, 2024 at 07:51
:lol: Go troll yourself, BitCunt.
July 03, 2024 at 00:46
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July 02, 2024 at 22:08
Whaaaaaaat TF :brow: :down: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/politics/trump-sentencing-date-delay-proposal/index.html Sentencing 11July24 18September24 ...
July 02, 2024 at 22:06
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... but does not know because she cannot know. Her mere "belief" – desperate guess – is an unwarranted hope, or fantasy (i.e. ideation¹) – thus, the "...
July 02, 2024 at 18:43
Well, at best, theism is incoherent. "Idealistic" (i.e. supernatural). Yes. However, theism posits a supernatural creator of nature, which is incohere...
July 02, 2024 at 18:10
A stray thought ... Insofar as theism posits a creator separate from, though affecting, its creation (duality), atheism means rejection of theism (non...
July 02, 2024 at 10:36
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July 02, 2024 at 10:09
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July 02, 2024 at 04:21
Addendum to https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U8YuW09mwco ... for fuck's sake, like Rome, the Pax Americana has finally explicitly devolved from republic ...
July 02, 2024 at 03:02
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July 01, 2024 at 22:12
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July 01, 2024 at 19:13
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July 01, 2024 at 19:09
You've misread me (so far): I'm saying that "duality" (or "the split" as you call it) is only an epistemological issue that's been mistaken for – inco...
July 01, 2024 at 19:07
Obviously, NOS, you have not yet thought through how the MAGA Six Justices just gave Dark Brandon a get out jail free card! If the MAGA caucus in Cong...
July 01, 2024 at 18:49
1July24 SCOTUS rules, in effect, that POTUS is a "King" with Absolute Immunity from criminal prosecution for Official Acts. https://www.cbc.ca/news/wo...
July 01, 2024 at 18:15
1July24 SCOTUS rules, in effect, that POTUS is a "King" with Absolute Immunity from criminal prosecution for Official Acts. https://www.cbc.ca/news/wo...
July 01, 2024 at 18:14
No.
July 01, 2024 at 10:27
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July 01, 2024 at 10:25
"Non-duality", like monism, I don't find as "helpful" (i.e. incisive) as double-aspect theory¹ (e.g. Spinoza's mind-body parallelism of Substance/God)...
July 01, 2024 at 10:21
I've no quarrel with that. Of course folks are entitled to their own idiosyncratic, placebo-fetish (i.e. cosmic lollipop) of choice. My quarrel is, ho...
June 30, 2024 at 19:20
No. No. And yes I think they are "connected". (A proper response to come later.)
June 30, 2024 at 19:06
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June 30, 2024 at 17:32
Yes, that's magical thinking (e.g. "The Great OZ" behing the curtain), or the cross-cultural god-of-the-gaps (i.e. appeal to ignorance) fallacy. More ...
June 30, 2024 at 17:13
Pardon, but I'm concerned with a social "view of the idea of God" preached in religious traditions and actually worshipped (i.e. idolized) by congrega...
June 30, 2024 at 16:23
Scientists and scientifically literate persons do not misuse (misinterpret) physical laws that way – and obviously, bert, you're neither a scientist n...
June 30, 2024 at 11:27
No. Physical laws are mathematical (computable) generalizations of precisely observed regularities or structures in nature and they are only descripti...
June 30, 2024 at 11:10
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June 30, 2024 at 08:19