So in the way that this law is usually identified - “A=A” - what, precisely, is the difference between the left-hand ‘A’ and the right hand ‘A’? Are t...
Aquinas' hylomorphic dualism does not suffer from the 'interaction problem' of Descartes because it does not posit a stark dichotomy between body and ...
Obviously a very deep and difficult issue. One point, it is the nature of dialect to explore a question from the perspective of competing arguments. T...
Not true. Aquinas doesn't depict the soul as a separate substance in the way Descartes does, so there are not two types of entity involved. Beyond tha...
I've often said, and sorry if I'm repeating myself, that I first encountered Kant in The Central Philosophy of Buddhism, T R V Murti, a book that beca...
Yes, but I'm wary of the German idealists. I've been reading Magnificent Rebels, by Andrea Wulff, which is about Fichte, Schelling and others in late ...
But it only does that when you begin to speculate 'what could that be?' By positing it as something, then you're introducing a division or rupture. Ob...
Glossary entry: In Aquinas' epistemology, the essence (essentia or quidditas) of a particular refers to "what it is." It delineates the nature or the ...
Well, Heidegger was according to some readings still pre-occupied with the fallen state of humanity. I think the absence of that kind of sense from se...
There's nothing mechanical about reason. Reason is the relation of ideas. And the reason why it seems 'metaphysical' is because, as we already establi...
On the contrary - doesn't C S Peirce say that 'matter is effete mind'? Which, now that I reflect further, suggests 'that of which we cannot speak....'...
Don't get too diverted by it, there are many more important points to consider. That was simpy a passing allusion to David Chalmers. It's the connecti...
Exactly as I see it also. I quoted from that in my MA thesis in Buddhist Studies. As I've said before, the self is never an object, yet the reality of...
Mainly that the so-called 'right-wing' or 'extreme conservative' reaction is a massive overreaction. I too get pissed off with political correctness i...
It might be a matter of deciding what challenges are worth responding to. There are plenty of times in these debates where people are talking past one...
.....As I think I've already mentioned either here or some other place - it's something I mention often - the canonical source for the idea of that 't...
I was right with you up until 'physical science'. I want to back up to this point, as it's central to my concerns. There is an Aeon essay, The Blind S...
OK, here is the question that has occupied my philosophical quest for decades. It concerns the reality of universals. With your background and interes...
Except for the blind spot of science, which ironically is a product of that same tendency not to be aware of our own seeing. Isn't that the main point...
I don't think I can be accused of dodging. I write a lot of responses. That's pretty well what I'm also rejecting. :up: But the way I have worded the ...
I believe this is the point already addressed: The form, idea or principle is not something that exists - at least, in the sense that a particular exi...
I did that in the OP. I provide the passage about Schopenhauer's philosophy by way of showing points of agreement with at least one historic philosoph...
He doesn't have to anything to say about the brain, in his day the physiology of the brain was pretty well completely unknown, but he does no such thi...
Kant calls into question the 'the inborn realism which arises from the original disposition of the intellect'. That is why it produces such hostile re...
In our case, as physical beings, the brain is the vehicle of the mind, is it not? I'm talking about 'the brain' as an object - as already noted somewh...
Note the acknowledgment that 'to appear' supposes in essence somebody to whom to appear'. That is the 'transcendental subject' (which incidentally is ...
Whereas I think he's right. As I've said throughout, how can there be time without duration, space without distance, and either of those without persp...
Apologies if I am misunderstanding your criticism. (I've had another try at it below). Hochschild does not hold that Aquinas was nominalist, not at al...
The first thread I created on the forum that was predecessor to this one was an exploration and defense of platonic realism. I say that universals are...
Perhaps I don't! This is new territory to me - having been studying philosophy under my own steam for a good while, the fact that I find A-T philosoph...
But 'exists' means 'to have an identity' - to be this, as distinct from that. And I can't see how you can have that, without an observer. I mean, if y...
I have been exploring this question from the perspective of Aristotelian-Thomist (A-T) philosophy. I have been introduced to that by readings of Edwar...
Peter Hartcher, international editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, puts a persuasive case that the motivation behind the Hamas invasion is actually to...
Yes, who can forget Sharpiegate. /uploads/files/f3/wt2k4bpu6wnpv3j3.jpeg Beats even the Disinfectant Injection stand-up routine at the COVID briefings...
My approach is more influenced by Buddhist Studies in not positing unknowable entities, such as 'ideal minds' and assigning roles to them. That said, ...
Absolutely. It's amazing how far he's gotten without, I think, any real strategy. I saw an interview recently with an ex-staffer who had been involved...
Typical q-anon drivel. This is what Trump has helped usher in - the total disregard for fact. He had to, because if he were judged against the facts -...
In passing it is worth noting that the current understanding of matter is represented by 'the standard model of particle physics.' And where do models...
No, that's a pretty good analysis. Bernardo Kastrup will say that 'tears' are the 'external appearance' of sadness, but that they are not, in themselv...
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