Do you see yourself as a genuine lover of truth who is willing to let their ego be trampled and pulverized to powder, ? Forgive me but your username i...
Somewhat relevant, though it's difficult to explain exactly why: one of the best memories I have is when I had the opportunity to go scuba diving thro...
I agree that the individuated would seem to need to come from the unindividuated. Plurality, diversity, individuality, all come from a breakage of uni...
Options that are not already individuated themselves, which is obviously precluding plurality, individuality, identity, etc. Being, irrespective of wh...
Yes, interesting stuff. However, this is still within the realm of the ontic, i.e. science. "Cancelling waves" are still beings, they still exist. A p...
Philosophy is dead only insofar as humans have lost the interest in thinking philosophically. But they haven't - philosophy just goes by different nam...
Very interesting stuff, would it be accurate to describe yourself as broadly Kantian? Objectivity defined as inter-subjective agreement with an agnost...
Very true, the internet is a hub of narcissism. Brilliant, making personal sense of the world is valuable. But making sense of the world, with the int...
Good points, my critique of dogmatic philosophy is too vague. The general idea is that rational demonstration has not been rationally demonstrated to ...
I think there could be something to be said about the "spirit" of philosophy and its history. A. W. Moore calls the history of (modern) metaphysics as...
Yes, I agree with this so long as we see these truths as relative to the terrain. They are not absolute propositions that humans must prostrate themse...
I agree we can go down the pragmatic route Heidegger does and see the essence of things in terms of what they are for dasein. My chief concern here is...
Yes, I anticipated this response. If philosophy is inherently narcissistic, then it's inevitable that what I write will be narcissistic as well. I alr...
I didn't mean to imply they were always in dread and despair, just that the idea of a serene sage is a bit hard to believe. Greek philosophy is ancien...
There's also the possibility that the Stoics and Epicureans were talking out of their ass and were playing lip-service to an equanimity and serenity. ...
But what is existence? Existence is a sum over histories. But a sum over histories is an entity, or a series of entities. I want to know what the bein...
Earlier, we briefly discussed how we both "felt" as though we may have existed in some form before we existed here on Earth. It sounds fantastic and t...
Probably the most important part of this discussion is the ontological distinction between beings and Being. Science ignores Being, it has no place in...
That is an interesting issue. I have ambivalent feelings about the Abrahamic God. I suspect the philosophical God of Aristotle and Plato was wrongly a...
Something I have noticed is the tendency for those skeptical of theism to reduce God to a "thing" or "being" which is swiftly "dealt with" as a mafia ...
I suppose "having reasons" can have multiple interpretations. In the coherence sense, one is rational if one acts according to reasons that, regardles...
The omnipotence paradox is a straw man, since it requires that God have a logically incoherent power. God could only be omnipotent if he lacked the po...
I have considered trying mushrooms for this reason and also obviously curiosity. Though I'm a little iffy about the loss of "control" in a psychoactiv...
To be sure, there is a difference between being non-conscious and being conscious. But between things that are conscious, what would make something "m...
Yes, I think God is a helpful concept to have, even if you are not theistic. The classical God sees things in their entirety. Objects do not transcend...
:up: Culture is most certainly a sublimation of death anxiety. Suicide is a tabu subject because the strength to face another day often comes from a g...
Thank you for responding. By "flamboyance", I was not meaning anything outrageous. I meant very simply common wording, as well as general organization...
Just finished reading At the Mountains of Madness. I love his ability to create suspense through omission of detail. It's the unknown, the lack of des...
Eight Theories of Religion by Daniel L. Pals. I wanted the third edition - Nine Theories - but someone else had checked it out. Still reading: The Mea...
I can agree that the process of dying can be harmful, but to suddenly pop out of existence without any discomfort, fear or anything does not seem to m...
Either you don't get it right, or you have to keep it right. The good never comes on its own, and the bad always does. That is how, phenomenologically...
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