That is close to the distinction that I am getting at. I think there has to be a distinction between the verbs 'to exist' and 'to be'. So 'existent' o...
Are they? I had thought that primarily humans, and some of the other higher animals, are referred to as 'beings', and that tables are 'artifacts', riv...
I don't hold that against Nishijima. Besides have been many fallings-out between Zen teachers and their putative successors the last few decades. I do...
I'm doing a big cull. We sold and bought within one week, moving to the Blue Mountains in February. I've got a list of books I really must read but ha...
But Buddha doesn't 'create the world'. Buddhism's focus is the negation of suffering - it points to the cause of suffering and the way to the cessatio...
From my recollection, the five hindrances are admonitions about behaviours and psychological obstacles to liberation. I'd love to be able to report on...
That's the weakest link in the explanatory chain, as far as physicalism is concerned. The reason that physics set out to 'describe reality by excludin...
Wouldn't disagree. Perhaps something like Russell's neutral monism (although the phrase always reminds me of a drab-looking English civil servant type...
('Some contemporary philosophers might be inclined to reject Peirce out of hand upon discovering this fact' - more than a few reading this, I would av...
:clap: Of course it is a metaphysic, and idealist to boot. Pierce’s works were written before Russell and Moore and the whole 20th C ‘revolt against i...
More to the point, what would a Buddhist answer be? 'Obviously yes, or I would not be Buddhist.' Modern western culture is in many ways materialistic ...
Very briefly, the standard formulation of Buddhist doctrine is the 'four noble truths'. Cribbed from Wiki: So if Buddhist teaching stopped at the firs...
'Philosophical pessimism' arises solely because of exclusive identication with the physical body and its wants, and the sensory domain. Even the notor...
That's all I have to add at the moment. I haven't read much into Collingwood's opus, but on the basis of what I have read, I like him a lot better tha...
I don't want to hijack Clark's thread. Suffice to say the observation about the subjective nature of reality is grounded in long-term study and medita...
No, it's not, and the fact that you can only think of it in terms of an object, thing or substance is the problem in a nutshell. That's what I mean by...
It's a fundamental and usually un-stated premise and one that is tough to critique. Reality itself has a fundamentally subjective aspect, which is int...
The influence of non-dualism can be clearly discerned in many of the above observations. Whereas naturalism starts from the presumption of a fundament...
Objectivity is over-rated. What is seen as objective is highly dependent on many contingent factors, and whatever is ascertained to be real is obvious...
The question does arise as to why bother posting on a philosophy forum if you think it's a waste of time. I mean, I ask myself that also, but at least...
It's a philosophy forum, I'm exploring the philosophical question of the nature of rights. The fact that this is so dimly apprehended says something i...
Again - I'm not disputing the importance of animal welfare. I donate to the RSPCA. I'm responding to the first sentence in the OP, about 'animal right...
I still don't think you've grasped the reason why I'm saying that 'animal rights' is a meaningless concept. And I don't agree with the animal rights i...
And I feel like you're continuing to miss the point, which is about rights. You seem to be saying that animal rights can be justified on the basis tha...
Well, as I said, there's a thread on vaccination ethics. Suffice to say, if a deadly disease began to appear in the canine population which could be s...
I think a clue to the problem is in one of the quotes you've given: Whereas in a lot of modern thinking, the idea of there even being 'an eternal orde...
Humans are not all the same but for the purposes of determining human rights, are treated as equals. Your writing is not clear here. What do you mean ...
You then created two hypothetical examples which had no bearing on what I said, as if they represented what I said. Humans are different to animals be...
No, you're stereotyping Buddhism by depicting it in the only terms you know, which is 'theism', as understood by WEIRD (Western, educated, industriali...
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