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Although my overall knowledge of Aristotle is pretty slight, this is one of the passages that has stayed with me (previously quoted) The suggestion, i...

I just noticed your post now, but what you said in it, seems completely at odds with this conclusion. Karen Armstrong says something very similar: Whi...

But think it through in relation to Chalmers' 'facing up to the problem of consciousness'. What you're saying is, you already agree that physicalism i...

But think that through. If it's not a physical science, then, according to physicalism, how could it be a science? It must by definition be metaphysic...

:100: But, you know, that book was subject of a massive pile-on when it was published. Nagel was accused of 'selling out to creationism'. Another pass...

There's a typical forum style of argumentation I think of as 'the coconut shy'. A coconut shy, as you will recall, is a popular sideshow attraction, w...

Obviously, many people have been gravely hurt by the religions. The history of religion in historical Europe is marred by episodes of appalling violen...

No reason. This entire milieu revolves around it. The premiss of the OP is to explore the historical causes of the divisions between religious/secular...

I'll refer to the potted quote I provided from Husserl again: Also, as you mentioned Nagel, another passage I quote regularly: Not as an object of sci...

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Why, thankyou. Nietszche is not among my normal sources, but I'll take that on board.

I'm afraid that's not the point. Modern scientific method was founded on a deliberate division between what came to be called the primary and secondar...

Indeed. And isn't that the central factor in this debate?

The metaphor Schrodinger gave was, 'once lived experience has been left aside in order to elaborate an objective picture of the world, “If one tries t...

Subjective, right? Personal preference. Edifying, but personal. That there is bad religion, and it's worse than no religion.

It doesn't beg the question. Begging the question would be 'The Bible is the word of God, because God says it is.' What I was responding to, was the b...

Agree. I think an awful lot of specious reasoning is associated with multiverse ideas. (Not that it isn't fertile ground for science fication.)

So says A J Ayer. There is abundant evidence for the efficacy of religious beliefs and practices in the lives of the religiius. David Bentley Hart say...

Right - so what you're saying is that 'cosmic mind' is analogous to the 'noumenal'. Agree they might be rationally inferred, but as such cannot be emp...

Reference is to Schrödinger E. (1986), What is Life & Mind and Matter, Cambridge University Press I think this criticism applies to all the current pr...

Well, that solves it. All living beings are made from marshmallows, and the moon really is cheese. Time we moved on.

A very short geneaology of idealism from an essay on Buddhism: I'm nearest to epistemological idealism, although transcendental idealism also appeals ...

That would depend on whether there is karmic retribution, in which case one's mortality would not be freeing at all. A lot of modern culture is fundam...

I see it more as a matter of facts which you don’t recognize.

Thank you. Must read some more.

Very true :pray: A comment I read about the distinction between the New Left and the conservative religious critique, was 'For Adorno and Horkheimer, ...

These are very difficult distinctions. But the point of my other thread, Idealism in Context, was that the human sense of their relationship with the ...

I know that the Upanisads (for example) were described as 'idealist philosphy' by a German scholar, Paul Deussen. But the term 'idealism' only entered...

'Idealism' is not ancient. The term first came into use with Liebniz, Berkeley and Kant. In hindsight, it is possible to describe some elements of Pla...

That is how quite a few here will inevitably categorise any discussion of what they consider religion. As I said upthread, I think much of this stems ...

The point that interests me is his refutation of the ‘is/ought’ distinction. He phrases it in terms of relevance realisation This revolves around disc...

Not at all. What I was going to say is that surely the whole concept of the purposelessness of the Universe, with any sense of purpose or meaning bein...

I’d hate to associate myself with Steve Bannon :yikes: I’d much rather Charles Taylor.

I was an undergrad student alongside a fellow by the name of Harry Oldmeadow, who went on to become an independent scholar in the area of the perennia...

Which is, in a word, physicalism - there is only one substance, and it is physical. From within that set of assumptions, Chalmer's and Nagel's types o...

I think you're misunderstanding the intent of that particular message. Vervaeke would not dismiss nor deprecate any of what you've said in the preceed...

I’m not using “ontological” here to mean merely “a set of observable traits.” I’m using it in its proper philosophical sense — a distinction in the mo...

Galileo's point, which was foundational in modern science, was that the measurable attributes of bodies - mass, velocity, extension and so on - are pr...

As it happens, as a subscriber to Vervaeke's mailing list, his most recent missive was about 'spiritual but not religious'.

By Kant's time, metaphysics had become highly dogmatised and he rightly criticized it on those grounds. But I've found that the neo-Thomist philosophe...

Thanks for the compliment! The way the mind interprets or constructs its sense of what is real is far from arbitrary. It is constrained in all kinds o...

Lovely story. I guess that is because, for them, the holy is still real, a source of solace, hope and wonder, in a way which for us it can't be. I've ...

Vervaeke doesn't see it that way. Maybe give some of his lectures a listen.

The key term is the 'the unconditioned'. It is a very elusive concept, if indeed a concept it is. But you find analogies in for example, in Hegel's 'a...

I had a bit of pique, but I got over it. I've been on this and previous forums for quite a few years now, and sometimes I feel I have become too habit...

I’d be the last to deny it. When traditions speak of “higher knowledge,” the term “higher” need not imply rank or authority - something that seems to ...

:pray: I wouldn't want to try and proscribe what is and isn't possible for others. But suffice to note that historically, at least, many religious cul...

I recommend having a listen. Since discovering Vervaeke’s lectures in 2022 I’ve taken most of the series in, often while working out or driving. Verva...

I don't think the objections are coming to terms with the argument. Again, the argument is, that since the Scientific Revolution, modern culture tends...

Interesting, that you so easily move from ‘truth’ to ‘ruler’. That says something, don’t you think? As to whether truth is subjective, my point is tha...