Wayfarer

There's a cultural dimension to this as well. There are different worldviews vying for supremacy. Sam Harris et al are evangelically atheistic, in tha...

What does 'substantial' bring to 'entity' in this statement? Recall the Aristotelian term that was translated as 'substance' was 'ouisia' which is muc...

I also mentioned Pagels. I have a book A Different Christianity, Robin Amis, which was drawn from the author’s research and experience residing at the...

I think it indicates incomprehension of the formative role of Christian philosophy in Western culture.

Right - now I see your reasoning. I guess my analysis would be that the ‘divine hiddenness’ and the denial of the reality of Satan would arise from di...

I try to avoid 'throwing grenades' nowadays although it's something I've often done in the past. I attempt (not always successfully) to differ tactful...

Subjectivism.

No, that's not what I meant. I meant what I said - there's a taboo on ideas associated with religious philosophy.

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Right. So what I said earlier - a brief analytical statement of what is important about the religious idea. That essentially the human being is not on...

But statements like this comparing God to Santa Claus only conveys lack of insight as far as I'm concerned. Sure, God may mean nothing to you, but tri...

You can make the case and indeed I think that many of the Gnostics would claim Paul as one of their own (although I'd have to research it). But the ma...

But that's much nearer to gnosticism than Pauline Christianity. Gnostics identified the OT god as a kind of demiurge, and the suffering of life is see...

Like tossing bits of bloodied meat into the Piranha River, I've sometimes said. ;-) (Although I think you're exagerrating a bit, despite the efforts o...

There's an interesting internet anecdote about a well-known atheist philosopher, now deceased, by the name of Antony Flew, who's convictions were chan...

But that itself is tendentious. You're asking others to question their beliefs, but taking your own for granted. 'Science' didn't even become separate...

You misunderstand the role of myth in culture. There are any number of myths active in cultural narratives. A lot of it is now pop culture rubbish abo...

I don't concur. I agree that debates about religion are often irksome but trivialising or dismissing it is not helpful. 'It's just a bunch of old myth...

Thanks. I'm not all in on Vervaeke but I think he's worth the listen. I'm sure learning things from him. I'll bear that caution in mind.

Which would comprise what, exactly? Transformed how? Into what? In any case, I don't want to convey the impression that the dialogue in the OP concern...

I do understand that by ‘religion’ you mean ‘religious organisations’. I’m more interested in the philosophical aspect of the question. There are a gr...

I used to pick up that book at the venerable Bookocino bookstore in Avalon when I lived up that way. I hadn't been aware of such critiques until then ...

He does a lot of sessions on resurrecting neoplatonism, so I guess he must be. (He has mentioned Peterson once or twice, although I think Peterson has...

There’s a professor of religious studies, Elaine Pagels, who has written many books on this subject, notably Beyond Belief and The Gospel of Thomas: T...

:up: :100: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi dedicated his life to studying that. See here.

Yes, I have noticed that one as well. But, for instance, Brian Greene still includes a discussion of the differing conceptions between Newton and Leib...

At the moment, I'm reading that chapter I mentioned, which (as always) is a pretty hard slog, but as I keep promising myself to read more of Kant then...

What do you mean 'subsequent' reality? Subsequent to what? In this online edition, do you mean the chapter 'Of the Schematism at of the Pure Conceptio...

Give this a listen.

Leibniz v Newton is still a topic in history of ideas and physics, to do with their competing understandings of time.

For some reason, Freud springs to mind here, but I have to go and engage in other cultural pursuits (i.e. gym) so I'll come back to it later.

I think the pleasure associated with sex is rooted in evolutionary physiology. it is natural that the reproductive urge harness all the pleasure centr...

https://www.simplypsychology.org/wp-content/uploads/maslow-hierachy-of-needs-min-1024x724.jpg Evolutionary biology accounts mainly for the ground floo...

I think the problem with much of this, is that we look to evolutionary theory as a philosophy, which it isn't. Many 20th C philosophers regard evoluti...

Trump is under multiple indictements, and by year's end will be under many more. For those inside the Fox media bubble, these are simply 'instruments ...

Yes I see what you mean. First paragraph: scientific realism (first, there is a mountain) Second paragraph: 'but we know scientific realism is a const...

Ah, but that's not the point. That's an 'instinctively empiricist' view - you're assuming the prior reality of the object. Kant's philosophy is about ...

Yes but the dispute over whether it was Newton or Liebniz who came up with calculus is the part you will hear about outside mathematics class.

Wasn’t that contested by Newton?

It’s obvious that he’s ‘leading in the polls’ but in this case there are, ahem, other factors to consider.

Apparently they’re on it https://apple.news/AuWeVrjq2S16H2tjkoitkDQ

Let’s remember the fact that the Never Trumpers damn near kneecapped Trump at the 2016 Convention. You can only imagine what will happen at the 2024 C...

Fossils mean nothing to dinosaurs old chap :wink:

But that seems in conflict with the I’ll come back to that when I have time. An empirical fact - but there’s always an implicit first-person perspecti...

I think it is. I'm sure you all your efforts are driven by what used to be understood as a calling. It's how to answer that is the challenge! Incident...

:ok: Which is scientific realism. It assumes that the world is as it is, absent any or all observers or beings. That is an empirical fact, as science ...

I really don't know if that's true of The Embodied Mind book, in particular. That book, as mentioned, draws mainly from phenomenology and also Buddhis...

that double negative in the first few words is not not confusing..... From the snippets of Lakoff and Johnson that I've read, I think they (as distinc...

A number of very deep questions presented here! First, with respect to enactivism and the whole 'embodied cognition' school. Let's not forget that one...