A revert silence? Look, it is your position that the scientist is comparable to the, say, religious disciple, and the comparative trappings of belief,...
The presumption of certainty in the denial of mundane certainties. Faith, the faith of Abraham that surpasses the principles of common morality and af...
Okay, I take it back. "Greater being" is an interesting choice of words. If there is no "greatest" Being, then all that remains are the demigods of mu...
The "rituals of bottle washing"? And the liturgy of the lecture hall and the Eucharist examination? Heh, heh....I don't think so. If so, then everythi...
Implying that the religious situation is no more than a realization of one's lack of cunning? But then, the term "supernatural" just gives religion a ...
That is not Kierkegaardian faith, of course. But as the usual kind, Chomsky was asked about religion and his response was a good one. If you're just d...
Then there is only one way to go. Alas, it is not easy and most think it is prohibitively obscure, and they are right, frankly. But anything is better...
With this, you will get a philosophy of science, but nothing more. True, all things start with inquiry, but then, philosophy asks very different quest...
Philosophical ontology certainly is a question that seeks an explanation, but it does not do this through what one would call natural means. It is an ...
I think you have a point there about people and their diverging points of view. But then, what an individual experiences is not just a matter of choic...
Religion looked at as complex and impoverished IS worse than boring; it is dangerous and trivializing, popular religions and their texts. But once the...
Except that much of familiar philosophy doesn't "study" mysteries; it ignores them. Religion presents a metaphysics that is, in most of its content, n...
Depends on what you read. Go back to a time when the world was not cluttered with new categories, and one could observe without the presumption of kno...
Ah yes, the ontology of knitting. I've heard of it. I have also heard the paradigmatic shift in the art of knitting and the deconstruction of knitting...
Only one definition survives: Philosophy is the examination of the the world at the level of the most basic questions. Science is, of course, NOT phil...
Good is a contingent word: it depends on what it means given the context. But religious good is absolute. For this, one has to look at metaethics: You...
And when the you lie there annihilated by your own foolishness at the horse's feet, THEN the religious event has its grounding. It could have been Tro...
But ten, this asks further, what is made and what is given? The line is hard to draw, granted, but certainly NOT all is made (notwithstanding Rorty). ...
It is rather that you want to look only at what religion looks like, not what it is at its core. Religion can be contextualized in many ways, but its ...
You have reality. Religion is built into the real in the indeterminacy of our world. Indeterminacy here another name for metaphysics, but in this case...
Hard to believe this is so mystifying. Religion is clearly reducible to the "material" conditions that gave rise to it, that is, to what is IN the wor...
Okay But this is confused; I mean, you cannot say, "We call these combinations of phenomena "noumena." What you say here about noumena really has to b...
I suppose the matter comes down to soundness and validity. We can talk about anything at all if we like, and if the logical form of what we say is in ...
It would depend on how you take the existential quantifier, for 'existence' is ambiguous, but is treated as unambiguous in the symbolism. See how the ...
Apriori knowledge at its source, is transcendental. Hence, transcendental idealism. We can observe it in its USE. But "purely transcendental use of ca...
I guess you are referring to one who is a kind of rebel without a cause, someone who will not compromise at all. I think this can be understood in two...
Ethics prior to politics? But all politics is, if you will, an ethics prior to itself as it's good standing rests with essential defensible moral grou...
I speak of the dogmatic approach to living and thinking. Unquestioned rules and ideas. to me the question, that is, the resistance that is posed by th...
You're talking about classical liberalism. Libertarians think like this, while also looking to ease restrictions on social values as well. Anyway, if ...
In political terms, in global political, I most strongly agree. But in terms of the way we stand at the receiving end of a body of determinative think...
But it's interesting to see that Individualism killed western culture? Quite a thing to say. What part of western culture are you talking about? Given...
Yeah. That's the spirit. One has to know when one is simply going along with the climate of thinking. But philosophy attempts to take this kind of ind...
It is a fuzzy term, I think, in the extreme. The concept of an authority is not simply a fiction, I would argue. Any social concept you can think of h...
If only life were that easy. Authorities get very entangled in human affairs, politics--in government, at the office, at school, and so on. Such a mes...
You sound like a defender of anarchism (not anarchy, which is very different). These people say there is no authority above the individual. I may yiel...
Those pure intuitions are transcendental and cannot be explained. It would be like explaining how the absence of space and time is possible. And when ...
Just no, to any association to the brain and "what we observe". The brain is an empirical concept, it is preanalytical, and empirically we certainly d...
Yes, I see you have an empirical theory about apriority, but you don't seem to be acknowledging something entirely elementary: Apiority is a structura...
Sorry for the all the writing. I have to watch that. There is no brain talk in phenomenology. The brain is there among the rest of the world's phenome...
I mostly have to disagree with the basic idea here, even though evolution I find no issue with any more than any other science. The problem I have is,...
But one gets hung up on clarity with just this rigorous standard, and the when things get interesting, clarity gets dogmatic, as if the best we can do...
Yes, the philosophy of knitting....ponderous, provocative. But then, why are we born to suffer and die? One of my favorite philosophical questions. It...
Yes. And in solitude. Philosophy takes one the doorstep of religion, and there you sit like some abandoned child. Don't let them take you IN!!!! But s...
One way to look at it is to note that all knowledge is justified belief, and justification is always presented in a logical form, as is necessitated s...
What? That sounds like something I would say. I probably take it further than you. If language is self referential, the there are two ways to think ab...
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