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Important that the law only works for those deemed worthy.

Especially with Porter’s guilt having been presumed beyond all reasonable argument.

Ulrich Mornhoff is definitely not going to scam anyone. You can click the link I provided with confidence. The reason I said that is because when I po...

A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality.

That's why I was leery of Apollodorus' linkage of 'nous' with the root 'gno-' (knowledge), which I thought suggested a form of gnostic insight. I thin...

I'm not claiming to have any first-hand knowledge of that, but isn't that what 'mortification' originally referred to? 'To mortify' is to 'make dead'....

Yes, and philosophy is 'practicing for death'. It's not avoidance. After Plato's death, his philosophy was the source of inspiration for generations o...

There’s no saying what will happen.

That doesn’t allow for the possibility of something that is thought by everyone to be a fact which subsequently turns out not to be. You’re appealing ...

Yes, reading further into it, Stan Grant does make those points. Someone on the ABC was saying that by about mid-century all submarines will be consta...

By being reviled, rejected and crucified to death in agony. What society makes of that is another matter.

Jesus didn’t come out of the experience as an all-conquering emperor.

yeah right. And, fuck dissenters - all those twerps in Hong Kong, all those anonymous Uighers who should know better. Get on board, but be ready to sh...

Short OPs.

It’s phrased in such a way as to leave it an open question. I’m trying to respond to the questions you raised: ‘The visible’ is what is perceived by t...

according to what I can find 'nous' an Attic Greek word of uncertain origin. I think it's important to differentiate Plato from gnosticism generally. ...

I don’t believe that is correct. The root ‘gn-‘ is found in ‘gnosis’ and the Sanskrit ‘Jñ?na’ but according to etymology online ‘nous’ is a separate r...

Not in Parmenides, but in the dialogue, The Parmenides, which is almost wholly concerned with the nature of the forms and possible objections to it. I...

To explore these questions, it's necessary first to study the Parmenidies, don't you think? Isn't it the case that in the later tradition of Aristotel...

Alduous Huxley published a book in 1945 called 'The Perennial Philosophy'. That would be as good a starting point as any. He presents quotations and p...

So you must be on Ulrich’s mailing list. It was only published yesterday.

Check out this article https://aurocafe.substack.com/p/the-shapes-of-things?r=l7mv0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy Mornhoff is a qua...

So Biden is a meglomaniacal lying narcissist?

Biden is only better than Trump in respect of not being a meglomaniacal lying narcissist. Other than that, not much in it, but it's an important facto...

Hartcher pointed out that as a consequence of all this faffing about, Australia will have exactly the same submarine capacity in 2030 as it had in 199...

:up: I know it is hackneyed to link to Wikipedia entries, but the entry on Nous is really pretty decent. I think the key idea is that nous is the facu...

When I was studying comparative religion, I formed the view that Christianity had appropriated many vitally important ideas from the sorrounding cultu...

The Western liberal tradition is profoundly hostile to the Platonic 'doctrines of illumination'. It's the task of liberal philosophy to make the world...

I don't think it's a propositional form of philosophy even though it sometimes appears in the form of syllogistic logic. N?g?rjuna is notoriously diff...

See karma doesn't explain everything. Note especially comment (2).

I know just how you feel.

By inference. We presume that others are just like ourselves. I think it’s a perfectly valid presumption. ‘I know how you must feel…’ ‘I can’t imagine...

Along what axis or dimension? Exactly.

That's pretty right. I am not an admirer of Nietzsche, personally. I don't see how you can admire both Nietzsche and Platonism, and I certainly admire...

The philosophical question hiding behind this interminable debate is not ‘what is a fact’ but ‘what is truth?’ or ‘what is real?’, which is a much big...

One of the really obvious things I have now come to realise after blathering away on forums for 10 years, is that the question of the nature of meanin...

Do you understand the first paragraph of the second reference? The first ref starts: As it happens, I did an MA thesis on this topic. Whereas I think ...

I think that is a very important point. The subjective unity of consciousness is very hard to explain in physicalist terms. One aspect is the neural b...

I always thought Peterson's support of Trump was the stupidest thing he ever did. Also note that he confidently predicted that Trump would win in 2020...

Due deference to the thread title, Mussolini was actually pretty stupid, wasn’t he?

One thing to consider is that the body continually changes, and indeed every cell is replaced every seven years, but the self maintains a sense of con...

I picked the wrong evil dictator to make an example out of! :yikes: Anyway, good to know about Mike Godwin, he seems an ultra-cool dude. :cool: That’s...

Just a wild guess. Am I right? Go on, don't be bashful.

Roger that. I had the pig down for greed - thought that figured - snake for hatred - check - and roster for stupid. Stand corrected but the basic poin...

It's a great book, a classic. Bet you knew nothing about it until this thread (and still don't).

and as a consequence, raped a physicist. :lol:

There's an icon in Buddhism, of the pig, rooster and snake all pursuing each other in a vicious circle. The snake is hatred, the pig is greed, and the...

I said something about stupidity. Hitler wasn't stupid. Neither was Mao, nor Stalin. So I'm asking the question, if 'stupidity' is the enemy of the go...

I started a thread on that some time back. Landauer is in the ‘information science’ business, he was a senior scientist at IBM. So he could tell you i...

Hitler wasn’t stupid.