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"The past is never dead. It's not even past." ~William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun https://youtu.be/6MNf4fNfVTI?si=EqekDJrlOUVUxLly “I was talking abo...

De profundis ad astra ... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/05/astronomy-telescope-chile-vera-c-rubin-observatory :clap: :nerd:

I hear some of us are rarer birds than that: thinkers.

:fire: BDS (Benedictus de Spinoza ... would approve.)

Nagel's anecdotal, fact-free, special pleading is embarrassing and I'm not at all surprised that you're a sucker for it, Wayf, since it agrees with yo...

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Nice try, but ...

From a reply to you, Wayfarer, on your thread "The Mind-Created World" ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/842295 Furthermore ... An...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/877821

Answer my question, Wayfarer, and then I'll answer yours. The topic raisrd by OP is "the nature of esoteric forms of philosophy" and not "secular cult...

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No doubt.

Metaphysics without logic too. Same just-so story.

Well, since very few philosophers or scientists dogmatically advocate "metaphysical physicalism", you're taking issue wirh a non-issue (or strawman), ...

:clap: :fire: Excellent, well put! Thinking is questioning – being-oneself-in-question – and not merely believing in answers ("esoteric" or otherwise)...

:chin: Give an example of how "idealism" is "equally compatible" (as e.g. physicalism is) with the established facts of "evolution" or "cosmology". Th...

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Define "nothing" (including how that concept differs from 'nothing-ness'). As an undefined term, your argument seems invalid. "Time" is only a metric;...

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This "insight" is partial because existents are only part(icular)s of – ineluctably encompassed by – existence and is, therefore, only "a glance" of a...

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Bibi's policy of supporting Hamas since 2004 has been expressly to sabotage any "Two State Solution" by keeping the Palestinian population divided bet...

I'm unaware of any "real reason to live" other than that which one gives oneself by taking caring of – investing time in –anything or anyone other tha...

... and they may not. Which is it? What are you talking about, Jack? :roll:

:100: :up: Metaphor, however, is not synonymous with esoterica. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/877179

"Beware lest a statue slay you." ~Freddy Zarathustra

I'm not a Jungian / Campbellian or transperonalist, etc so clarify for me in layman's terms, Jack: Why is "living out mythic aspects of dramas" "extre...

So then you don't have any "tangible examples" of the difference the distinction between "exoteric and esoteric" makes particularly in philosophy? Tel...

:fire: :up: Mythos as light that casts shadows of Logos on the cave wall ... ... in other words, "esoteric forms" in contrast to reflective (and defea...

What?

Addendum to https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/874592 If the Netanyahu regime walks like 'genocide / ethnic cleansing propagandized as ...

If you say so ...

addendum to: In case you haven't been paying attention: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/877051

In case you haven't been paying attention: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/877051

A first draft of history: "January 6th" Democracy on Trial Frontline documentary https://youtu.be/Y44fyh4ap7k?si=PxvsRYa9jN3Z-ySc aired 30Jan24

So one can have, or acquire, reasons to choose or not to choose to be a philosophical pessimist (i.e. rationally committed to the idea that it is rati...

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Each reader has to answer that for herself after studying Spinoza (or any other metaphysician) for herself. My spoon-feeding apparently isn't helping ...

Spinoza's substance (i.e. nature or god) is a metaphysical supposition , not an empirical theory.

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For Spinoza, speculatively substance is the logico-mathematical structure of the universe (as distinct from the empirical contents in the universe) ak...

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:up: :up: Yeah, reasoning be damned. Unfortunately, even tragicomically, your insight is quite true. Happy warrior! :strong: