Wayfarer

No, it's a real parallel. You will notice that I linked a google search in my remarks, have a look. I think Wittgenstein correct with his sense that w...

Agree that the OP title could have been worded more tactfully. But I see the point. I've often noticed that philosophical ideas I want to discuss are ...

You know that Schopenhauer criticized Kant's use of the term 'noumenal', right? According to a passage in World as Will and Idea: The Wikipedia entry ...

I think that’s about right. // What I’ve read about Schopenhauer’s influence on Freud is that both he and Kant anticipated the discovery of the uncons...

You’re welcome.

They're difficult questions, but I'd be careful about reification. Buddhanature is not any kind of entity or thing, but the latent capacity for enligh...

That is along the same lines as the 'critical reflection' in the SEP entry that I mention above. But I'd say, it's deeper than a feature of thought, i...

Have another look at #7 of the SEP entry.. I think it addresses that question. The emphasis on will is 'less of an outlook derived from an absolute st...

In the Wikipedia entry on higher consciousness I belatedly linked to my last entry, there's this snippet:

This is where I think Schopenhauer was disadvantaged by not having encountered an adept or guru of the Eastern paths he admired (of course in his day ...

Not necessarily either, but the subtleties of these subjects are such that they resist compression to a schematic. Understanding what exactly Plato in...

(There is a connection between Wittgenstein and the issue I mentioned earlier in the respect of the decline of scholastic realism and Aristotelian phi...

One of the reasons they're still read is obviously because they were judged to have enduring value, and the fact that they have been preserved for mil...

From the SEP entry: ' I recall from Kastrup's discussion of the Ideas, that they are like modes of vibration, similar to the way that when a guitar st...

It turns out to be more like a book. It's related to the theme I keep returning to. See this chat.

As you know, I generally look to Buddhist principles as a source of guidance, and they proclaim that there is indeed 'an end to suffering', even if it...

in the second half of my life, I've come to regret not having been educated in 'the Classics', although I console myself with the thought that had I b...

So, the 'scholastics', who were avid readers and propogators of 'the Classics', were responsible for the snuffing out of classical education?

this is an entirely fatuous OP.

I put this to ChatGPT4. Have a look at what it said.

I think you need to slow down a bit. You make many rapid-fire comments, very much stream of consciousness - which is fine, it's part of the appeal of ...

I presented an argument in response to your gnomic aphorism. If you think it 'makes your point', what is that point, and how did I help make it?

You did ask me to comment, and I tried to respond in good faith, although I ought to know by now what to expect from you.

'What did you do to the cat, Erwin? It looks half dead!' ~ Ms Schrodinger.

Maybe it's Schrodinger's :-)

I've referred to the Eastern Gatehouse Sutta before. It's a dialogue between the Buddha and Sariputta (who is the figure in the dialogues associated w...

Grow up mate. Schopenhauer is for Big School, not kindy.

I think there are two rather divergent themes in play here. First you referenced the ‘rope-snake’ illusion, attributed to Sankara (although really com...

An error in consciousness, it has been said.

I realise my reference to ‘feeling what you cannot know’ is open to a variety of interpretations (to say the least). But what I was trying to drive at...

Learning to feel what can't be known is actually a very difficult skill, I believe, and I don't make any claim to have mastered it, but at least I'm a...

You often ask 'why should I bother with this?' But something keeps drawing you back into these discussions. I think It’s essential that you learn to f...

One way of thinking about it is that the transcendent is 'always already the case'. In discovering it, or rather realising it, we are coming to unders...

Perhaps you can use a couple of sticks to learn to make a fire. It might be more in line with your proclivities.

I found an interesting essay on Wittgenstein's philosophy of religion - Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion, John Cottingham (.pdf). Thomas Nagel re...

I simply quoted that in support of @"Constance" who has expressed similar ideas.

I second that, extremely important book, one I read when I first joined forums and which underlies a lot of what I've been exploring since. There's a ...

There is implicit reification in this statement (and please forgive me for flogging what is probably a dead horse.) This is based around the instincti...

Speaking of whom.....

A fascinating insight and one I'd never thought of, although I suppose it ties in with the ascendancy of liberalism which understands freedom as freed...

Actually the sources I referred to, and I think Schopenhauer, don’t posit that dichotomy between naturalism vs Divine creation. That, I think, is very...

Don't overlook the significance of trance states and sacred silence, which humans also 'have access to' (to express it in modern terminology). For exa...

Indeed, which is why the term 'objective' only came into popular usage with the dawning of modernity. The pre-moden sense of being was characterised b...

I’m sorry but really a very silly piece of doggerel which adds nothing to the conversation.

There's an essay I often link to that makes exactly this point Wittgenstein, Tolstoy and the Folly of Logical Positivism, published in Philosophy Now ...

I enlarged on the above discussion of free will and determinism in line with my interest in Eastern philosophy, by raising a question of where karma f...

Pretty much the exact argument of my The Mind Created World OP. There is some truth in that, but consider that in his day and place, there was no oppo...

I quite agree, and kudos for expressing such a deep insight so succinctly. Perhaps for self-aware rational beings such as ourselves, existence is a pr...

Thank you :pray:

I was prompted to use it, and did. I asked it to validate an anecdote about Schopenhauer that I wanted to re-tell in the thread on that subject, which...