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Spinoza does not say "God IS Nature" (Deus natura est ~ pantheism); he says instead "God, OR Nature" (Deus, sive natura ~ acosmism). An excerpt from a...

I agree, more nuanced – thanks for that. :cool:

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Hegel was one of the first thinkers (following(?) Maimon) to differenntiate Spinoza's acosmism from pantheism but I think its more accurate to identif...

Well, since the genre is, in effect, a Dystopia-Dying Earth hybrid, "individual habits or behavior" are only, even primarily, symptoms of accelerating...

Well, I think "descriptive talk" like yours tends to confuse bigots with racists. I don't have that luxury, Judaka. As a Black American Sisyphus, it's...

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The epistemically unsurpassable limit ("boundary" Kant wrote, which Hegel disputed, IIRC) of any phenomenon as such.

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:mask: "Intent" is irrelevant. Yes. Who is this "we" that "needs to interpret" what's "harmful"? "The relevant demographic", as you say, those harmed ...

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August 5th?

Yes. My muse is still ghosting me – not a single word yet. :sad:

The Iroquois word for this ahistorical statement, schop1, is BULLSHIT (same word, btw, in countless other languages over dozens of millennia of countl...

The description on Amazon.com reminds me of Pierre Hadot's Philosophy as a Way of Life. Thanks anyway. :up:

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I first read the novel back in the early 90s and have seen the movie adaptation more than a few times; I have enjoyed both versions, though they diver...

The Real (e.g. Spinoza's substance, Democritus-Epicurus' void, Laozi's dao ...)

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/749399

:up: I don't know what you mean by "identify" when you suggest that nothing in the posts I've linked describe the "why & how of racism". Maybe I'm wro...

Denial – a helluva drug. :mask: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/825130

No. Consider this post from an old thread "Racism or Prejudice? Is there a real difference?" in which I sketch the "why & how" of these "isms" ... htt...

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Care to post a link to a thread or post as an example to clarify what you mean?

:rofl: Amen.

So you're just objecting to a dogmatic (or proselytizing) mindset?

I agree. I rarely discuss "religions" or "God" or "theology" but instead focus on theism and other such purported 'conceptions of divinity' by investi...

https://youtu.be/JZ78TS1tHJ8

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:chin: An old post about "Christian philosophy" (re: ethics) ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/732167 An old post about the 'histo...

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:chin: IMHO, I absolutely know that no one has "absolute knowledge" of everything (including 'the Absolute').

In philosophy, ordinarily the terms "absolute" and "relative" are modifiers which indicate that each instance of the latter R is dependent on – variab...

What you describe is much more Schopenhauer's 'Will' than Nietzsche's 'will to power'.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/622702 :smirk:

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If you haven't watched this US Congressional testimony by the late Carl Sagan back in 1985, consider his well-informed warnings – macro predictions – ...

:100: A Guardian UK article today ... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/19/climate-crisis-james-hansen-scientist-warning

:up: What's referred to here as "naturalism" I think is more cogently conceived of as Pre-Platonism (e.g. Milesian, Ionian & Eleatic cosmologies) from...

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:fire: I very much appreciate this insight. Thanks! :up:

Hollyweird's latest Terminator-cum-Pinocchio AI distaster movie ... https://youtu.be/ex3C1-5Dhb8 :sweat: :100:

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Well, here goes one old trick's pony ... No. No. I prefer "hoe". When its transactional, hell yeah. No. Porn is an industry. Escorting is an industry....

Simpler than last time, the gist's the same ... No objections so far (be a mensch, gmba, and don't pee in the pool). :smirk:

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You've lost me.