Right. Most of the issues I refer to are the consequences of the attempt to apply the methods of science to the problems of philosophy. Sorry if I hav...
Right. So when I make this point, which to me is a crucial point, please don't keep saying 'oh yeah, so what. Everyone knows that.' It's kind of annoy...
Believe me, I hear you. Hardly a day goes by when I don't think, why am I wasting spending so much time on this Forum? Surely there are many more impo...
Whenever I bring this up, the reactions here are amazingly defensive. The first time I mentioned it, four years ago, there was a complete pile-on. 'Th...
Exactly! Obviously, books don't talk back, but reading the original and then the various commentaries on the original, is very much a form of dialogue...
There was a fascinating BBC article a few years ago on why Inception, Matrix, and other multiverse fantasy films were such huge drawcards in popular c...
How many people do you think have really taken on board Kant's 'copernican revolution in philosophy'? It is far less part of popular culture than 'the...
Seems a perfectly clear question. You say that hardly anyone holds to physicalist reductionism, so what do you say is an alternative to that? But then...
One analogy that has occured to me, is that it would be more like being liberated from some deep psychological trauma that you had been holding and wh...
As I understand it, the individual is detached from the will - liberated, in the Eastern sense - through what S. understands as asceticism. That's why...
Not at all, but I don't think the point of the article was really grasped. Some of the comments were highly vituperative. I've recently discovered the...
I linked to the original article The Blind Spot of Science about four years ago which you said, at the time, that you couldn't see the point of, so th...
A point that you're not seeing the significance of, and which I can't explain further, other than to say that it's the subject of the book I mentioned...
The OP opens many cans of worms but as I have an interest in the subject, I better add some more. I think a better interpretation is in terms of metac...
The Schopenhauer book I have mentioned, Schopenhauer’s Compass, has some interesting things to say on this. Schop is drawn to mystical insight - calls...
There are many disgusting things about Trump, but the most disgusting is the way he treats criminal indictments as commercial opportunities, and then ...
Because there never is an observed without an observer. Notice this has even become manifest in atomic physics. And also please notice that I’ve ackno...
You show zero interest in discussing philosophy, all your posts are on Ukraine and US politics and bear no relation to anything cited on your profile ...
Only just now read the OP fully. I see what you’re getting at but it’s not something I’d pursue. Clearly ‘faith in Jesus’ has inspired both great kind...
Does someone need to file suit in order for Trump to be found ineligible to stand? I mean, it wouldn’t automatically follow from a conviction without ...
I can do no better than cite the opening paragraph of WWI My interpretation is that there is a subjective ground or element to everything we know abou...
Would it be insulting to suggest that this seems a petulant response? None of this is a personal matter. How you feel about it is irrelevant, and whet...
Yes, read that! I was about to post it. Here's some of the key text: Ought to be a major stumbling block for Republican efforts to wind back climate c...
Heidegger's perspective suggests that Dasein is specific to humans and their mode of being. He argues that humans possess a distinct form of self-awar...
Would you say that about any other person? In what context is a person an object? Consider the role of objectification and the dominance of the object...
You yourself as subject, as the one who is wondering 'what is this referent?', the immediate first-person sense of being. That doesn't need an externa...
I recommend a recent (2014) book, Schopenhauer’s Compass, Urs App. This book draws extensively on Schopenhauer’s notes, manuscripts and correspondence...
True, I did use the word too loosely, but then, only one of the two parties has a standard bearer who has been indicted for interfering with the democ...
Nowhere near. Westminster system is superior to presidential political systems. But a functioning American democracy is better than a MAGA fascist dic...
I did mention a speech by Margeret Thatcher to the UN in 1989, warning of the looming issue of greenhouse gases, as it was mainly called then. NASA sc...
Webb Telescope spots Mysterious Question Mark in Space https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/20230810-question-mark-star.jpg?c=16x9&q=h_720...
The Meaning Crisis episode on Heidegger is here. Dreyfus comes up in this episode and in a subsequent episode on Paul Tillich. (He specifically mentio...
Trump burns through lawyers like most folks do toilet rolls, and the supply of the former is considerably more constrained than the latter. Not to men...
I read that (fooloso4 posted the link.) If the seditious conspiracy trial, now slated for Jan 2 2024, results in a guilty verdict, it wouldn’t be too ...
The Adyar Bookshops had an unmistakable atmosphere, incense-scented, full of mystical tomes and tidings. Last surviving one in my city closed early 20...
I came into philosophy through the Adyar Bookshop. I will say, Vervaeke’s lectures are bringing it all together for me - lashings of phenomenology, co...
One of the main tributaries of modern liberalism was, of course, Christianity. And Christianity 'levels the playing field' - it promises salvation for...
There is a kind of understanding that requires a transformation in the knower, that can only be known first-person. Science also requires a transforma...
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