Interesting. Probably what any human is aware of at the most basic level is the "there is". For Heidegger's Dasein, this would likely be "Being" (Sein...
If you want to put a cup on a table, the table has to be stable and relatively motionless, which requires that it be on the floor, which requires it t...
To a certain extent I would argue that one of the things allowing "scientism" to run rampant in many scientific circles is the loosening of importance...
Well, no, I just said that inanimate objects that haven't been made by humans are usually the most obviously "natural" thing. But these objects don't ...
There seems to be a greater magnitude of difference between natural and supernatural, than natural and artificial. But in both cases the difference ar...
This is going in the the neo-Platonic demonstration, but if this material being had both actuality and potentiality, then it would be a complex compos...
I'm confused by what you mean. A purely actual being cannot change and thus cannot exist in time, which means it cannot be material. Are you implying ...
I don't think this is true. Just because change requires the actualization of a potential doesn't mean causing the actualization of a potential requir...
Feser has a response to exactly this criticism (why does the actualizer have to be purely actual and not simply have unrealized potentials?) on page 6...
Why? God exists outside of space and time. This isn't an argument for pantheism. Well, according to this argument, evil is a privation of goodness and...
Well, again, I am not a theist, I am presenting an argument in favor of theism so we can discuss it. God is said to be the purely actual actualizer, a...
But most cosmological arguments take the form of, A causes B, B causes C...etc but what caused A? = God, not A sustains B, B sustains C,...etc but wha...
Actually Feser takes pains to show how a hierarchical dependency is metaphysically more fundamental than a temporal one. The argument presented here i...
Yeah, idk why charleton is being such a douche then. I'm agnostic by the way, but for some silly reason I'm being associated with theism simply becaus...
Actuality and potentiality stand in relation to each other. Change occurs when a thing changes qualitatively (coffee cup cools), quantitatively (a pud...
"How things come to exist in hierarchical relationships with each other" seems to be a question for the sciences, particularly historical sciences lik...
But it's still God. You are making a metaphysical argument with respect to a temporal series, whereas the argument I have presented is with respect to...
Do formal and material conditions or universal laws exist? How do they maintain their existence? If the hierarchical system imposes stability on its b...
It's not atomistic as I mentioned how the environment plays a role in how the body survives. The point is that the existence of x is explained by the ...
What do you think about the Aristotelian demonstration of God's existence in which the hierarchy in the world presupposes the existence of an ultimate...
Perhaps not guilt, but perhaps we ought to feel concerned that we are limiting our focus to a specific region of the world, and not the entire world? ...
Premise (1) is doubtful. Why is the existence of God necessary for there to be objective morals and values? Why has naturalism been ignored (not sayin...
I agree, but as said, these sorts of values have been white-washed, made to seem like they come exclusively from Europe or North America. Hence why I'...
Yes, I agree that cultural differences are probably geographical, environmental, accidental. Consider how the weather patterns may influence the outco...
Utilitarianism was never really meant for everyday decisions, people like Mill and Bentham explicitly say they mean it more for political entities tha...
What kind? But I think this can still apply to engineers. I mean, a company an engineer works for isn't just doing to accept an employee's "intuition"...
I feel like, if people are okay with "harmless" work banter, then this is an exception to a general opposition to it. Someone might be fine with sexua...
Moral theories are better when they accurately describe how humans actually reason morally than when they claim to have complete authority over what h...
It's not really a dichotomy really, in my opinion. I'm an engineer (major) and what I do requires the application of lots of math and theory, but also...
This is not true. You have confused deontology and consequentialism with specific versions of deontology and consequentialism - re: Kantianism and cla...
It probably goes without saying, but for many people, having children is the life-defining project. The goal is to marry and have a stable income so y...
So, Levinas' perspective on intersubjectivity can be summarized as: the "alter" in "alter-ego" is suppressed while the "ego" (familiarity, because it'...
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