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Thank you for all your contributions in attempting to find greater clarity on this issue, It feels, however, if we are still only busy to encircle the...

Yes, I think that its necessary that I give you some background about the origin of this question. Quite a number of years back I did courses in Relig...

I must apologize for submitting this question twice: to "general philosophy" as well as to "metaphysics & epistemology". Thank you.

Jack, I must congratulate you, because I discern something of the true philosophical spirit in your writing, the one taking us back to Socrates where ...

Thank you, Jack, for this thread - think it is a very important one if I understand your use of the concept of "human nature" correctly. Are you askin...

This is a very interesting line of thinking. Lets keep it in the Christian vein to make it clearer. We go back to the creation of man as described in ...

Pfhorrest, "stuff" is too materialistic to limit things to that. But, then, the material can, of course, never be excluded. SohistiCat and bongo fury:...

Thank you Antidote. On your first point: I have to agree with Heidegger that our arrival in this world is one of being "thrown" into existence - witho...

Seagull, thank you, quite a brilliant move you are making here! You seem to be attempting to turn Sartre on his head: we are before we are anything - ...

If that is the case, that fictitious things exist in the form of ideas about things, then it can be asked why it is that these ideas are not "things"?...

TheMadFool. I think you don't understand what I am trying to say. I will make another attempt and approach it slightly differently. On the one hand it...

Charles, I agree. Sartre can be very confusing and even self-contradictory. Sorry than I am not able to give explicit answers to your questions. Howev...

It sounds as if some of you are attempting to ban "G/god" from this forum. But, once you try this, you will soon find how futile such an attempt can b...

It can be helpful to bear in mind, when discussing this distinction that we are moving within the field of existentialism - although Sartre never want...

"Cogito Ergo Sum". According to prof John Cottingham (Reading) in the "Oxford Companion to Philosophy" this is perhaps the most celebrated philosophic...

Yes, bring in the "kielbasa"! There's just one thing, before you do that, to bear in mind. Ancient philosophy - west and east - had its beginnings wit...

aRealidealist. (1)"Thus no presumption, but immediate perception". Immediate perception here is strongly subjective and Descartes must have realised t...

Terrapin Station. It seems, if I understand you correctly, that proving P is like proving A, M, Y and Z. If that is the case and P is equal to existen...

With our creations "limping" all the way - can that be a case of creating "god" on earth? Aren't we rather creating the opposite?

Yes, its just that I can't find that address right now. (Just between you and me, are you working with her?)

Bronson. In stealing from Descartes you are making the same mistake that he made in his "Meditations". The "existing I " whose existence needs to be p...

Banno. The reason to doubt your existence is a consequence of the difficulty to proof your existence. Even old Descartes felt this to be a prerequisit...

Also bear in mind, at the back of your mind, that any certainty about really "existing" (i.e. self-existence) might be less certain than we think. We ...

Wayfarer. I want to thank you - for bringing the "supernatural" element in Buddhism to my attention. It is, alas, the case that the existence of these...

Thank you for all your constructive reactions so far, and, of course, the further one goes along with this line of exploration, the more complicated i...

Philosophy is serious business and especially so in the case of the Krishnamurti thread / threat. But, sometimes, a bit of humour can't do any harm. T...

BrianW. Exactly, the abyss cannot gaze into you without your being there to be gazed into - no abyss possible without you. So "you" are needed twice: ...

Wayfarer. Thank you for your comments. About K's being a philosopher and his subjectivism: although he never claimed to be a philosopher it is impossi...

For what's it worth I can tell you something about my own experience with Krishnamurti. It was many years ago, between 30 and 40, that I met him in my...

The pity of this discussion: all the "Ad Hominem's". The most elementary of all the informal logical fallacies to understand, yet so easily the most d...

Thank you for all your constructive contributions to this conversation. We must remember that any conversation about "God" is nothing more than an att...

Fooloso4. What you are saying is interesting. With my reference to a special Being, neither singularity nor plurality is important, because the attemp...

Yes, the Tao - another example of a highly abstract idealistic metaphysical theory. (Perhaps a possible way to approach it: naming / indicating everyt...

Perhaps the issue that I've started to discuss here should not be approached by attempting to proof or disproof "God's existence". We all know the arg...

TheMadFool. I agree with what you are stating in your last post. But there's one thing that remains baffling and amazing to me. It is the way Christia...

My personal view. I don't think its possible. I agree with Colin Mcginn where he says that we suffer from "cognitive closure". There are some things t...

Bartricks. I can't see how, for one moment, the element of "contingency" can be ignored / side-stepped when moral principles are at stake. To concept ...

PoeticUniverse. But, the outcome would matter, because this is the moment of determining who the scapegoat is - if there is one. And, what is applicab...

It seems to me that this problem is described in a way where the reality on which moral principles are based, is a fixed one, especially if its nature...

TheMadFool. Yes, my friend, it has always been like this when trying to solve this problem - all explanations leading to "new" problems. My attitude: ...

There is another that is bothering me about this major event which took place in the garden of Eden. In my mind I hear the conversation taking place b...

I agree with you: there are certainly problems with this explanation for the origin of "evil". Let's have a look at two of them: the Bible tell us tha...

Fine Doubter. Thank you for expressing your views on this. Although I don't agree, I respect them. Its just that in the final analysis everything retu...

Fresco. I cannot for one moment see how "neurophilosophy signal the end of philosophy as we know it". I think what we must bear in mind here right fro...

Perhaps, I hope, a better ability to distinguish between "trash" and "non-trash" in discussions. Also, although controversial, that a rational approac...

Fine Doubter. Thank you for all your contributions to this discussion - they are valuable and are appreciated - at least by me. Getting to your last t...

If Derrida is right about claiming that there is only "différance", then "love" is only possible in terms of its other which is "hatred". Should we th...

I want to consider for a moment the question of how just god is according to the bible. The picture of the "god" that I see is the following: one day,...

But, there is also something else that bothers me about psychosis and neurosis. To diagnose you for either one of them the "medical man" evaluates you...

Everything said about psychosis and neurosis is said against the background of normality. It has to be the criterion to determine what counts as psych...