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...
I understand that German has a term 'geistewissenschaften' meaning 'sciences of the spirit', in which they include philosophy. There is no English equ...
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...
The difference between philosophy and science is a philosophical difference, and, so, not necessarily amenable to scientific description. The inabilit...
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' - ...
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 ...
I'm inclined to believe that the same principle applies in the case of rational inference and neural biology, contra 'neural reductionism'. Consider t...
Recall that question I asked you about 'biological reductionism'. Here you are deploying that again. The ability of a 'species like us' to understand ...
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....
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...
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...
: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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
'Beefiness' :roll: ? That quote 'what is latent becomes patent' was from lectures I attended in Indian Philosophy by a distinguished scholar. It was i...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Pininng this here as it’s relevant (rather than start a new thread). Christof Koch rejects the mainstream physicalist accounts of consciousness, decla...
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...
The ‘philosophia perennis’ is the idea that there is a kind of mystical universalism of which all the primary spiritual traditions are expressions. Sp...
https://youtu.be/_xD6Xl-ky2I?si=Wv1fT9YEfVg2wrEx Differentiates syncretism (which he likes) from perennialism (which he doesn’t). Describes John Hick ...
'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 ...
The cardinal difference is the subjective unity of consciousness: we experience ourselves as a single entity, not a combination of micro-processes. Wh...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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