'A transcendental argument is a deductive philosophical argument which takes a manifest feature of experience as granted, and articulates what must be...
Douthat points out, in the other article I linked, that Kagan also said back in the day that it was absolutely imperative to take out Saddam Hussain a...
More like @"Fooloso4", and less like Apollodorus! That said, I'm more drawn to the 'spiritual Plato' myself, and consequently find a lot of what you s...
Hey it's not a grad school symposium, it's a public internet forum, and, I think, one of the better ones of its kind. I often don't agree with what ot...
It's so dissappointing, and also really scary, how many senior Republicans have fallen back into line behind Trump, after initially condemning the Jan...
Epic OP on Trump as a real and mortal danger to American constitutional democracy. (It's Washington Post so may be paywalled although I was able to re...
One of the first distinctions I learned in comparative religion was between monism and non-dualism. Monism posits a One, but a One can only exist in r...
Thanks, that is a nice distinction. I think immanent is often confused with 'natural' and 'transcendent' with 'supernatural', which I don't think is h...
It's a squabble although I think to call it 'intellectual' is flattering it. The distinction I am making is between the 'phenomenal' - which is the re...
Of course, but your disagreements often seem to amount to 'I don't see your point'. And you've actually provided no counter-argument - you're simply s...
So, you want empirical evidence for the shortcomings of empiricism? The philosophical argument I gave was this, which refers to a controversy in philo...
Falsifiability is not a criterion for what is real; it is only a criterion for what is empirically true, and the question at issue is not an empirical...
Read Nagel. He also covers the issue in a chapter in Mind and Cosmos. And don't tell me what I haven't 'bothered to read', at least I bothered to fini...
Tongue in cheek. Besides, I'm not referring to semioticians and the like. I'm referring to biological reductionism and neo-darwinian materialism and t...
Hey here's a primer I wrote as part of my very first tech writing contract, way back in 2004 but most of the background info is still relevant. (This ...
Do you know how the Internet came about? A defense project, originally under something called DARPA. The whole principle was that it was decentralised...
On the whole, they're not interested in philosophy. They're more into science and engineering. Which is good! Someone has to keep the devices humming ...
Hey that's part of the plot line for the sci-fi novel that I never get around to finishing. I've discovered a lot of great material about those events...
Non-resolution of the US debt ceiling impasse is both more likely and would be more devastating. Would make 2008 look like a walk in the park. The int...
Being good or not is a result of your understanding. 'Trying to be good' is often not a successful means to that end. Hence the saying 'the road to he...
That is an extremely vulgar remark. This is a philosophy forum, it might do you some good to read some more about the subject before launching ad homi...
There is no single ‘internet’. The whole system is built in such a way that the vital bits are replicated in many different locations. To take it down...
'Real' may alternatively be understood as 'that which is' or 'what truly is'. It doesn't necessarily pertain only to propositions or statements, espec...
I don't think it's necessarily about 'being a better person'. I also acknowledge that my view on the question contains many intuitive leaps that may n...
It's not strictly speaking religion but metaphysics that is at issue, but in today's world, the two are so entangled that it's nearly impossible to se...
So they're the only choices? It's either nothing, or a religious dictatorship? It's certainly nothing I've ever managed to convey to you, although not...
:scream: Exact opposite of me, I'm a terrible patient. My dear one's step-father, now deceased, was like that - incredibly high pain threshold - tough...
Leaving aside Neitszche, I am trying to reconcile my leanings towards Eastern philosophy with Platonism. The traditions that I am most influenced by a...
According to Buddhist teachings, beings are born into the world that is to all intents created by their karmic proclivities. So a hell being's world i...
there's only one world, there's not a separate world for philosophers and psychologists. I don't lay any claim to any kind of attainment of Buddhist w...
Point taken. What I was trying to get at is that passage I quoted above from the essay on Ockham and nominalism: ' A genuine realist (about forms, not...
Ain't that the truth. I think it's lead to a kind of shadow, a tacit agreement of things that ought not to be said or considered. I noticed as an unde...
Why, oh why, could anyone, ever, have a Christian name of 'Trashelle'? I mean, is that a sick joke? That some poor girl was named after, I don't know,...
I'm sure. 'Man as microcosm' is found in many ancient texts. At funerals that are held by my wife's family, who are members of small Christian sect, a...
Those questions are too general to be meaningfully defined in a forum post. Suffice to note that for example there are references to the Greek pantheo...
Loy's essay starts with this observation - 'The main problem with our usual understanding of secularity is that it is taken-for-granted, so we are not...
:roll: From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Pierre Hadot: But later in the same section there's an important caveat: Even regardless ...
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