Eric Perl's book, that @"Count Timothy von Icarus" mentioned, analyses this in detail in Chapter 2, Plato. He says the levels of being ought not to be...
My uni attendance was delayed, following a terrible senior-school performance. As noted, late 60’s, there was a lot of social turmoil, I escaped a stu...
I've been singing the praises of this book, and the cogency of that argument. Like Perls, 'radical orthodoxy' also pins much of the issue on Scotus' '...
And there are some holes that need fillin'! I should add, I've never tasted any opiate, save possibly if any used to be in Panadeine Forté. Nor cocain...
My not-very-well-informed understanding is that Heidegger attempted a critique of classical metaphysics, saying that from Plato onwards, Parmenides wa...
I never had one. In fact right up until the moment of my first experience with 'entheogens' (the polite name for hallucinogens) I swore I'd never do i...
Yes, I remember, 'the man who stared at goats'. While I agree that there are definitely 'doors of perception' that can be opened, they don't all lead ...
You're welcome. Also check out this youtube channel Evers Brothers Productions. Despite the somewhat annoying accent, has many very succinct and usefu...
The first book I read about - recall, this was 1969, the Summer of Love had just been brought to a ghastly end by the Manson Murders - was Timothy Lea...
Well, sure. But I thought the OP might find it a resource, alongside Google and various other such resources. Not that members here may not have somet...
Why are intoxicants popular? Because they are a holiday from reality. I've found that cannabis makes the textures, colours and feelings of reality muc...
I must respectfully disagree with the passage from Derrida, which I find to be 'nonsense on stilts.' Identity, or what things are, is a fundamental co...
Try ChatGPT next time. I did it for you, this is what it returned: Here are some recommendations that align with your interests in cultural criticism,...
Flocks of birds, schools of fish, all comprise collections of ‘the same kind’. There are repetitions and patterns and instances of ‘the same kind’ in ...
More likely, “shoe delivery commisars”, in all likelihood very inefficient at their job. I have a favourite Soviet-era joke. You have to imagine it in...
It’s a disgrace that Trump was welcomed back to Congress by his Republican lickspittles and toadies. They so easily forget how they were all cowering ...
But is Gerson doing that? I see him as trying to identify the broad outlines of the implications of Platonism - not defined solely in terms of Plato’s...
Philosophically, though, the point of difference I want to establish against evolutionary naturalism, is that such abstractions are not necessarily th...
:up: I don't know yet if I'm on board with everything Vervaeke says, but I'm learning a lot listening to him, especially how to map philosophical conc...
I don't accept that, it's reductionist. I'm just as opposed to "scientism" as you are, but I don't buy this idea that mathematics and science is simpl...
Which is a human ability, and one that is basic to the exercise of reason. As for being ‘no experience in nature that conforms to “the same thing at a...
I had the idea it is impossible to admire both Nietszche and Plato. I admire Plato. As for the 'fallacy of reification', that is precisely the misinte...
‘God created the integers’ ~ some philosopher. It is sometimes said that the natural numbers are objectively real, but I don’t agree. I think they’re ...
I think he provides the grounds to argue that, but I'm not persuaded. The heuristic I prefer is that forms or ideas don't exist - not because they're ...
It was a major factor in making me realise my own Platonist (i.e. western) heritage. In exploring John Vervaeke's conception of 'extended naturalism,'...
The analogy that comes to mind is Buddhism's apoha logic: 'Apoha theory was proposed to provide an explanation for how, in the absence of objectively ...
As I understand it from my research, Aristotle and Other Platonists is part of a series of books in which Gerson presents his thesis about the continu...
Where does that critique come from? What's the theory behind it? I'm wary of trying to delve into the minutiae of doctrinal distinctions between Chris...
If you google Plotinus on the Gnostics there’s a ton of material out there. As I understand it, the basic drift is that he wouldn’t countenance their ...
You can find that book online - which is just as well, as it's out of print and very expensive in hard copy. It was one of the books mentioned in the ...
Updates for this thread: I've belatedly started working through the lecture series for Awakening from the Meaning Crisis which was the origin of Verva...
:up: There's a passage from David Bentley Hart which I've quoted a number of times recently: I'm exploring the idea that the reason the natural order ...
Hi Dan - welcome to thephilosophyforum. You might have a look at the help article on how to quote. Without those methods, the poster you are quoting w...
Not every school of Buddhism does, but the Yog?c?ra, one of the principle Mah?y?na schools, has a theory of the unconscious. See the Wikipedia entry o...
True, but not necessarily a criticism of Buddhism per se. One of the epiphets of the Buddha is 'lokuttara' which means literally 'world-transcending'....
Consider this verse from the early Buddhist texts: The 'wanderer Vachagotta' is a figure in these texts associated with the posing of philosophical qu...
Only one side in the American political scene is openly declaring the intention to suspend the Constitution, and running solely on the basis of vindic...
No. Different epochs (and that is what they are) are characterised by different ways of being. There were of course many aspects of ancient life which...
The subpoena to Garland was pure theatre and retribution, no basis in law or fact. We can expect many more frivolous and baseless lawsuits from Trump’...
No they did not deny GOP participation. The original proposal for a National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capit...
By the way, I don't accept that. I watched a great deal of the telecast, I found it compelling and right on target. Trump should never be considered f...
We have to tread carefully, however. The way I parse it is that mind does not exist as an object of knowledge in other than a figurative sense ('the o...
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