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Certainly wouldn't. How do you think the lucky guy would feel 'hey we've brought you back to life, but all your relatives died a million years ago. Le...

This is a philosophy forum, it is not a theology forum. I've tried joining a couple of comparative religion forums, they were a real mishmash. The thr...

What bollocks. As if Wittgenstein is the final word. Dawkins has not the least inkling of what the term 'transcendence' means.

:up: Good. What I'm trying to articulate is a revisionist interpretation of the meaning of spiritual awakening. It provides a religious cosmology but ...

How so? You write this as if there is a real universe without sentient beings in it to realise what it is. Nobody has any knowledge of such a universe...

No problems at all, T. What would there to be gained by decoding it? Aren't we already embodiments of it? Doesn't 'what we are' exemplify 'what it mea...

Allow me an interpretation, then. The point of this diagram is that, despite the obvious and (many would say) irreconciliable differences between diff...

nihil ultra ego. Forever the same on thephilosophyforum.

:up: Your posts are definitely improving through time in my humble opinion. Just been reading this interview which I'm sure you will find relevant.

It's not in the least ego-centric. In Buddhism, as an example, it is only in the human form that beings are able to hear and comprehend the Buddha's t...

For some background: Wikipedia also notes: I haven't spent much time with that work as I've only just become aware of it, but it seems at the very lea...

I'm reading some of that Dean Inge text just to reconnect with a classical presentation of the subject. I read some of it years ago when I was studyin...

Just goes to show that Trump couldn't start a piss-up in a brewery.

The ugly Truth: Trump’s social network in trouble as woes mount Opportunity for some righteous schandenfreude, if such exists. Devin Nunes, who possib...

:rofl: (I'm supposed to be working....)

It's easy to appeal to the repugnance of rape and murder as purported evidence for the universality of moral instincts. But many a moral question, may...

I see the point, and will try and find time to read that SEP entry. But the form of naturalism I have in mind is that espoused by, for example, Bertra...

:up: I'll look into that Kazantzakis text you mention. My practice fell of a cliff a couple of years ago and haven't been able to restart it.

I try to, but it's difficult. It makes you wrestle with some deep existential questions. But that's why I studied the subjects I did and pursued this ...

The contradiction is that we assured by naturalism that the Universe has no inherent meaning, that the idea that life has a reason for existing is an ...

So much for the sovereignty of reason, then. Rather vitiates philosophy, doesn't it? (Oh, the irony.)

Volodomyr Zelenskyy said Meanwhile Russia has dismissed the graphic footage and witness testimony of grotesque abominations and mass murder and tortur...

My exemplar Darwin quote:

It's not that it's awful or wrong, but that it subjectivises ethics. They become a matter of choice rather than being grounded in anything beyond ones...

As this thread is about concepts of religion, I will provide this schematic again, which I've posted elsewhere recently, attributed to religious studi...

All I'm saying, is I don't claim to be enlightened. Had enough of your sarcasm and constant jibes, baker. The context was that I was arguing that ther...

But if you keep going back to a default position which forecloses the idea of there being a sapiential dimension to philosophy, then what is there to ...

It is something that has be realised, known first-hand. If I attempt to relate that - even considering I possess it, which I don't - if you're not eve...

It's an idea I've never bought into. I'm old enough to remember the (in)famous Time Magazine cover story on that, and didn't take it seriously, not th...

Hick is known as a pluralist. That captures the point I'm trying to make about there being a 'core insight' that is carried in the various traditions ...

I think they are. :up:

I'm at pains to point out that it's not exactly 'theism' that at issue. Or 'belief systems' as such. See this post again. I didn't seek confirmation i...

And I would obviously not agree.

My 'revisionist' understanding is that behind the religious philosophies that I think are meaningful is an insight into the fact that humans live in a...

It's a question of reason, meaning, and purpose - and the absence of it. 'In social science, 'disenchantment' is the cultural rationalization and deva...

It's philosophical terminology for 'being of a fundamentally different kind'. Ontology was one of the traditional subjects of philosophy although its ...

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They're depressingly subservient. It seems they have totally bought into the fact that Putin is an absolute ruler. This is probably why he is able to ...

I think something that is missed in its absence is any reason for 'being good'. After all, if life is the outcome of chance, and humans no more than p...

They exhibit self-organisation, homeostasis, the ability to reproduce, evolve and mutate, and heal from injury.

But it's not. Or rather, they are included, but there are other levels of organisation which are not apparent on the level of physics and chemistry. Y...

If you mean, am I scientific realist, answer is negative. That's a sound empirical hypothesis, although of course you won't be around to test it.

I don't think it's really accurate to depict what I'm saying as 'a dream'. In the other thread on panpsychism - it's a bit confusing working between t...

I think the facts of evolution are indisputable. But unlike evolutionary materialism, I don't see evolution as a kind of spontaneous chemical reaction...

How could you make a comparison? How could you assume a perspective that can see from all those completely different perspectives at once, so as to co...

A calm sea.

I was going to write something in this thread, but changed my mind. But anyway, now you’ve got the ball rolling…. Of course, the kinds of philosophica...