That's not the point at issue, though. Obviously there is massive divergences between species, that is not at issue. I am protesting the tendency to o...
You've heard of John Conway's 'Game of Life?' It was a 1970 program that replicates many of the salient features of evolutionary development by use of...
Everyone, indeed every being, deserves to be treated humanely, but that says nothing about the capability that distinguishes h. Sapiens from other spe...
A quote from a text on classical metaphysics about the distinction between living and non-living particulars: *Note that the term translated as 'soul'...
There's a passage in the Upani?ads - the philosophical texts of the Vedas - about the exact issue of 'the eye that cannot see itself'. The online text...
Might that sentiment not be more accurate if expressed in the first-person singular? It's very much a projection of the liberal bourgouis consciousnes...
Makes perfect sense to me. I do see a convergence between Heidegger and elements of non-dualism, although of course there are also many differences. R...
I admit it was a bit of a flight of ideas on my part. But the gist was that the denial of order in the Universe tends towards nihilism, in the sense t...
Isn't that how nihilism shows up in life? I asked my friendly AI helper about Heidegger's view of nihilism, and received the following response: I put...
Cosmos means 'ordered whole'. That was the vision of the Universe before the scientific revolution. We discussed it before, I mentioned this: That is ...
With respect to the range of reason, surely one of the factors that underpinned traditional philosophy was the conviction that the Cosmos was itself r...
I put the question to chatGPT, which responded: The Turing Test, devised by Alan Turing in 1950, is a measure of a machine's ability to exhibit intell...
I'm favourable towards Vervaeke but a bit wary of Peterson. He's hated by the left. And he's expressed support for Trump, which is a fatal turnoff in ...
A middle way, perhaps. At issue, though, is the substance of wisdom, of what wisdom constitutes, how to discern it. I contend that post-Enlightenment ...
Well, yeah, but my intuition is, that there's still something missing. Hence that link I threw in at the last minute - it was an OP on the dialogue be...
What I'm referring to is the centrality of individualism to liberalism and modernity, and the individual as the sole arbiter of value in Enlightenment...
The point of religious faith is that is concerned with salvation (in Semitic religions) or liberation (mok?a or Nirv??a) in Eastern religions. (They'r...
I've acquired a copy of Eric D Perl: Thinking Being - Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition, to which I was alerted in one of John Ve...
A Catholic intellectual. It seems to me that many of the prominent advocates of Platonism and traditional philosophy generally are Catholic. This is s...
I need to announce somewhere that I intend to log out for the remainder of February, so it might as well be here. As always, I am getting too drawn in...
In Platonism and Naturalism: The Possibility of Philosophy, Lloyd Gerson argues that Platonism and naturalism are basically incommensurable. On this f...
I am, as I mentioned, reading a recent book Thinking Being: Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition by Eric Perl (which is out of print and impossible ...
Absolute bullshit. I provide ample citations, links to SEP articles with definitions, copious arguments. If there's anyone with blinkers on, it's you....
In Platonist philosophy, forms are causal only in the sense of serving as models or archetypes. For example, the reason any particular beautiful thing...
This post outlines why I don’t believe there’s any specific conflict between idealism and science. There’s a conflict between idealism and scientific ...
/uploads/files/3u/y15kskw4s0bpgnbx.jpg Now THAT'S a majority. The kind of majority Trump felt entitled to in New Hampshire and Iowa (but *didn't* get)...
I regard creationism as on a par with flat-earth theories and the like. It has no merit whatever. But young-earth creationism and anti-scientific ideo...
But wouldn't your denunciation apply equally to any plausible candidate to the American Presidency? If if both candidates were to drop out of the race...
Nonsense. Banno frequently cites the surveys of academic philosophy which show that only a minute percentage of them support idealist philosophy. Phil...
If you lived in a culture, such as India or China, where reincarnation was part of the culture, you might have a different view of that. And I suggest...
I agree. Physicalism is supposed for all practical purposes, as physical objects are what methodological naturalism deals with. But that is not physic...
Further to this, and apropos of the issue of esoteric philosophy. The following is a comparison of a passage from Parmenides, who is generally underst...
You keep saying that 'we' do not know and can never know the forms - does this 'we' include Plotinus, Proclus, all the philosophers before and since? ...
'Consumer culture' is the engine of capitalism, the whole world's economy depends on it. And it's really diametrically opposed to any form of renuncia...
In the Analogy of the Divided Line, isn't knowledge of the forms distinguished from knowledge of sensible things, and knowledge of geometery and mathe...
Considerably more than a few. It’s a multi-million dollar business. A while back there was a series of lawsuits in the USA over the copyright on any n...
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