If I understand you correctly, you're suggesting that drug-taking is an attempt to fulfill a "spiritual" need? If so, what's this "spiritual need gras...
Strawman. :shade: FWIW (not that bigots & idiots like you give AF), "my theory" summarized in this 2019 post: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussio...
Marx said "Religion is the opium of the masses". In late global Capitalism, perhaps addictive intoxication (i.e. escape, distraction, self-anaesthetiz...
Yeah, and they learned that from White (or semitic re: Arab) slavers-oppressors. Plenty of colorism (especially) in the older generations of both the ...
As long as I was to be executed within an hour of finishing, my "last meal" (today; probably a different menu tomorrow) would be: • a large chef salad...
Same here. :up: I'm too cosmopolitan and leftist to do anything but militantly oppose every ethnonationalist (and/or theocratic), war criminal state. ...
I'm not familiar with Bunge's work. Say something more about his conception of "energy" that 'belongs in metaphysics" (like e.g. Schopenhauer's Will)....
No, it is to treat an abstraction (e.g. "Form of Goodness") as if it is "a thing" in causal relation with other things which is why, misplaced concret...
https://youtu.be/ajWI1g7dNAk?si=uJIS08ZnGclHOESs "I'm in Love Again" (2:00) A-side single, 1956 writers F. Domino & D. Bartholomew performer Fats Domi...
:100: :fire: This sums up my own freethinker-naturalist interpretation of 'Platonism' (which non-exhaustively includes 'Aristotleanism'). I.e. fallacy...
You're mistaken, sir. That's predeterminism, not determinism (i.e. every effect necessarily has at least one cause). For instance, stochastic / nonlin...
I'll put it this way: by 'conditionally voluntary' I mean embodied, or being mindbodies the behaviors of which are both enabled and constrained by det...
IIRC, by "no-self" Buddhists (or Advaita Vedantists) mean there is no permanent, unchanging, non-transient, unconditional or transcendent self. I thin...
On the contrary, sir, I think naturalism (i.e. nature as 'the more-than-human-mind ontology that necessarily constitutes-conditions any view-from-ever...
'Being free from fear enough to work for freeing descendants and others from fear enough to work for ...' is how I understand freedom. On this basis, ...
I think this is the existential difference: determinism denotes 'all actions necessarily are effects of causes' (i.e. actions are conditional) whereas...
As I've already said, I think AIs must also be embodied (i.e. have synthetic phenomenology that constitutes their "internal models"). I'll be convince...
:victory: :mask: From the inside too the reek of imperial rot has been unbearable except to the last few of generations of "my fellow American" shitea...
Current AIs (e.g. LLMs) cannot philosophize (i.e. raise and reflect on foundational questions in order to reason dialectically towards – in order to u...
I claim that many questions are answered by religion (i.e. scriptures, dogmas, sacraments/rites) and require "faith" because those "revealed answers" ...
Yeah well, the logical precedent happens to be manifest historically since the topic concerns a concrete, social institution and not a mere abstractio...
The OP raises a question of "the essence of religion" and not "what Witty says about religion (in the TLP)". Nothing I've discussed here shows what I ...
Insofar as 'religious faith' denotes worship of and/or practices justified (i.e. rationalized) by Mysteries – which only beg questions becsuse they ar...
We flee mortality :fire:, or as Buddhists say: impermanence of ourselves, one another & everything else (NB: I prefer 'radical contingency'). IMO, thi...
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