:clap: Fantastic ideas, if you have the literary chops I'm sure it would make a riveting read, although I daresay difficult to craft. That's one of th...
Well, it's on the right track, although it's highly truncated, isn't it? Agree that Feser's articles are useful on the subject. Regarding potentiality...
hmmm. I kind of see what you mean but I think it's tangential to their main point. There is a preview available via Amazon, that might cast a bit more...
I can't see it as being relevant to pure mathematics. It's more about the tendency towards objectification and quantification dominating our worldview...
Good idea, although on a secular forum, it's rather like tossing bits of bloodied meat into the Piranha River. ;-) In addition to Leontiskos' suggesti...
It might be in some worlds, but not in mine. The over-arching issue of modernity, and of human existence generally, is the illusion of otherness, the ...
There's a copy of Secular Philosophy online here. I wouldn't recommend the book, the title chapter is the only one of interest in my view, the remaind...
I frequently refer to that book, particularly the chapter Evolutionary Naturalism and the Fear of Religion, which I have reproduced online for the sak...
You're familiar with the 'myth of the given'? It critiques the view that knowledge is based on a foundation of given sensory experience, saying that a...
Sorry about that, got caught by an editing glitch. I was only going to add that the image of 'our father in heaven' is ubiquitous in ancient religions...
(I'm bracketing this response as I don't want to derail the conversation about the OP. The popular image of God as a kind of cosmic director or litera...
The way I've come to think of 'intelligible objects' is through the expression that they are 'in the mind, but not of it'. This suggests that while fo...
Is it because you know what it is? I've been reading a book on classical metaphysics, which says that the basis of the forms is that they are the what...
Does he say 'there could have been a time when nothing existed?' or are you imputing that to him. The argument, as you've provided, and which is a fai...
That's OK, and sorry for my outburst. But Aquinas' arguments are exceedingly difficult, in their own way - and I'm not saying that as any kind of expe...
I removed it. But I was vexed by the fact that after you introduce the topic you then declare that it doesn't say anything, i.e. that it's meaningless...
But not by the logic of the argument. In other words, you're simply asserting that Aquinas' reasoning is wrong. In order to show why it is wrong, you ...
Aren't they presumed to be ethereal? As distinct from corporeal, to use another archaic term. They're denizens of another plane of existence, the ethe...
Well, I can sort of see why. It is imaginative, in its own way. The odd thing about a lot of Soviet-era architecture and technology is its kind of ret...
The disagreement you're having is very similar to the Katz-Forman debate. This debate centers around the contrasting views of two scholars: Steven T. ...
Right! So I suspect that statue harks back to the heady days following the fall of the Wall, and the chimeric belief that freedom was imminent for the...
It's more a speculative biological theory applied here to sociology in this particular case. The point being that morphic fields, and morphic resonanc...
One of the 'six realms' into which humans may be reborn in Buddhist cultures is the realm of the hungry ghosts - these are the spirits of people who i...
Consider this essay. Morphic fields, and morphic resonance, even though generally (and angrily) rejected by mainstream science, at least provide a pot...
Quite agree. I always been interested in the idea of a cosmic philosophy, a philosophy which makes sense of the whole of existence. Generally, those p...
All I can say is, try it and see. Sign up for the free tier at OpenAI (although there are now several alternatives). I've been finding it useful for b...
Quite well, I seem to recall from my studies in Anthropology, although I won’t go digging for them. Did you ever see Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Gho...
Yeah but I don’t know if their ghosts would bother haunting white fellas, or whether I’d be able to see it if they did. On that topic, ever read about...
When I was in my early teens we lived for half a year in Aberdeen Scotland which has been continuously inhabited since pre-historic times. We lived sl...
What is required is a perspective which transcends and therefore includes both subject and object, seer and seen, self and world - one of the fundamen...
Yes, it could get ugly, but it depends a lot on the motivation of the user. I don't know if you followed @"Pierre-Normand"'s threads on his interactio...
Which 'ancient peoples' in particular, and in which texts? A pretty strong argument can be made that many ancient myths and fables can be understood a...
Another point on which is in agreement with scholastic realism, as opposed to the theological nominalism of Ockham et al, which insists on the opposit...
I hear you. I'm personally not oriented so much around the Bible although I recognise that it's clearly a major part of my inherited culture and certa...
That's different to my experience on iPhone, or at any rate I haven't noticed any particular latency. But do agree about that annoying feature with qu...
Well, that is true, and thanks for your compliments. It is the best philosophy forum I've interacted with (out of about six). I probably ought not to ...
Don't let me affect that. So long as you enjoy sharing your ideas with others and the interaction here, more strength to you. My specific interests ar...
For 'internet atheism', faith in God can only ever be a mistaken belief or delusion or superstition, it's only ever an item in an argument. So the con...
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