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Bear in mind, one possible derivation of the word 'sin' was 'to miss the mark'. From an article on 'emptiness' in Buddhism: See also this wikipedia en...
April 04, 2024 at 21:48
some more than others :lol:
April 04, 2024 at 05:45
I understand that German has a term 'geistewissenschaften' meaning 'sciences of the spirit', in which they include philosophy. There is no English equ...
April 04, 2024 at 03:39
That's a misleading way of putting it. Random strings of characters are impossible to compress because they contain no order. An ordered string, say a...
April 04, 2024 at 03:09
The difference between philosophy and science is a philosophical difference, and, so, not necessarily amenable to scientific description. The inabilit...
April 04, 2024 at 02:50
:chin: (bows out.)
April 04, 2024 at 02:17
Only that it suggests some form of dualism, although nearer to traditional than Cartesian.
April 04, 2024 at 02:12
Good question. 'Locating it pre-fab in memory' is a bit facile, though. We have proclivities, innate abilities - which is not to say 'innate ideas' - ...
April 03, 2024 at 23:47
That's Nietszche, isn't it? "Twilight of the Idols". He outlines the history of the idea of the "ideal world" and declares its final dissolution into ...
April 03, 2024 at 22:58
'Whatever' sounds about right.
April 03, 2024 at 22:17
'Entire history', eh?
April 03, 2024 at 22:12
Answer 1: efficient cause Answer 2: formal cause
April 03, 2024 at 21:54
I'm inclined to believe that the same principle applies in the case of rational inference and neural biology, contra 'neural reductionism'. Consider t...
April 03, 2024 at 21:38
Recall that question I asked you about 'biological reductionism'. Here you are deploying that again. The ability of a 'species like us' to understand ...
April 03, 2024 at 21:09
It's a dramatic way of putting it, but I believe this means 'the negation of ego'. 'Not my will but thine', in the Christian idiom. Dying to the self....
April 02, 2024 at 23:05
We all have to make a decision. It's quite possible that we'll make a wrong decision, that goes with the territory. I was attempting to address the qu...
April 02, 2024 at 21:45
Spoken from the true secularist perspective!
April 02, 2024 at 21:26
You also have conscience.
April 02, 2024 at 21:24
Protestants say that, but because every matter of faith is then taken to be arbitrated by the individual conscience, in practice this results in a kin...
April 02, 2024 at 20:49
Not so. The distinction between the feeling of pain and the objective description of pain is a factual distinction.
April 02, 2024 at 20:44
:100: What I meant was, for those who know, belief is no longer necessary, but that up until then, it has to be taken on faith. That is illustrated in...
April 02, 2024 at 20:41
I wanted to circle back to this as it makes an important point. Originally this pursuit of 'retracing the footsteps' was very much the practice of anc...
April 02, 2024 at 09:16
A key concept in Scholastic philosophy, emphasised in Aquinas, is the "analogical way of knowing." He says that we only know something of God by analo...
April 02, 2024 at 09:10
But regardless So if you don’t understand the criticisms, how do you know there are no ‘major holes’? Let me point to a couple: Objection: the argumen...
April 02, 2024 at 01:25
I was referring to the argument presented in the OP.
April 01, 2024 at 21:43
Kastrup's Analytical Idealism is a contender, isn't it? The OP mentions Donald Hoffman, who's on the board of Kastrup's Essentia Foundation, although ...
April 01, 2024 at 21:35
Practice, study, contemplate.
April 01, 2024 at 20:47
Alan Watts’ books are not a bad starting point. He had his flaws but his prose is excellent and he’s adept at explaining esoteric ideas if you’re look...
April 01, 2024 at 09:10
One of the early spiritual books I read that impressed me was The Supreme Identity, by Alan Watts. It is an exploration of the relationship between th...
April 01, 2024 at 07:35
The argument that 'the whole is more than the sum of its parts' goes back to Greek philosophy, Aristotle in particular. He observes that living organi...
April 01, 2024 at 00:06
You must be setting a pretty high bar, then. Do you have any examples of those you think might have?
March 31, 2024 at 22:54
Isn't that what the story of Jesus' life and resurrection was supposed to convey? Seems an odd quote, as the later Wittgenstein never preached religio...
March 31, 2024 at 21:49
'Beefiness' :roll: ? That quote 'what is latent becomes patent' was from lectures I attended in Indian Philosophy by a distinguished scholar. It was i...
March 31, 2024 at 21:48
Isn't Wittgenstein's answer that it can only be shown, not argued about? Thanks for asking! I find it difficult to map what I said against M Scott Pec...
March 31, 2024 at 21:33
I think many people are going through this. I declined confirmation in the Christian church, although my family was not religious and neither was my s...
March 31, 2024 at 10:23
The problem I see with reductive materialism is really pretty simple. It is that the scientific approach that it assumes is defined entirely in terms ...
March 31, 2024 at 07:15
I like that interview. Note he says consciousness is irreducible, that it’s on a par with an electron’s spin. The conception of panpsychism I can get ...
March 31, 2024 at 03:51
Amazon blurb is here - Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It https://amzn.asia/d/fthGBYC The first sentence of the ab...
March 31, 2024 at 00:09
Pininng this here as it’s relevant (rather than start a new thread). Christof Koch rejects the mainstream physicalist accounts of consciousness, decla...
March 30, 2024 at 22:25
A naturalistic argument for religion is that only human beings are endowed with the potential ability to discern the sacred. I’ll mention John Vervaek...
March 30, 2024 at 20:52
The ‘philosophia perennis’ is the idea that there is a kind of mystical universalism of which all the primary spiritual traditions are expressions. Sp...
March 30, 2024 at 20:44
https://youtu.be/_xD6Xl-ky2I?si=Wv1fT9YEfVg2wrEx Differentiates syncretism (which he likes) from perennialism (which he doesn’t). Describes John Hick ...
March 30, 2024 at 05:04
'The sacred' is a category, not an entity. Consider David Bentley Hart's depiction of God in The Experience of God - 'one infinite source of all that ...
March 30, 2024 at 00:17
The cardinal difference is the subjective unity of consciousness: we experience ourselves as a single entity, not a combination of micro-processes. Wh...
March 29, 2024 at 23:47
Significant that the original texts of Advaita were called the Upani?ads. The term is derived from 'sitting near'. They were texts imparted from teach...
March 29, 2024 at 23:04
He doesn’t say that at all. His thesis is that religions originate with ‘the encounter with the sacred’, which is then interpreted in divergent ways f...
March 29, 2024 at 21:26
Insofar as it’s a claim, perhaps it’s not the truth. The best words can do is point. And as far as philosophy is concerned it can only ‘take you to th...
March 29, 2024 at 11:19
I know it's a contentious and contested area, but I came into the subject through comparative religion, so I tend to see through that prism. But I'm n...
March 29, 2024 at 05:08
Quite! Your points are well-taken.
March 29, 2024 at 03:39