Wayfarer

You should read Herman Hesse’s ‘Steppenwolf’.

And besides that, there are scholarly and historical arguments for the idea of there being a higher knowledge that has generally been forgotten in the...

Yeah him sorry. Lord Martin Rees. I bought his book, Just Six Numbers, which I'm pleased to report is stultifyingly dull. Yeah lookout, they're coming...

I am. As we discussed with Reconstructo, whatever he calls himself nowadays, a few months back: Of course. But I still think there’s a critical way of...

I really do understand that. Platonism, ancient philosophy generally, existed in a master-student relationship. The teacher passed down understanding ...

A discussion of the distinction between conviction (faith) and knowledge from the early Buddhist texts: Bolds added. The issue is, in secular culture,...

Then, knowledge! I think the target of Plato's skepticism is what you designate 'the visible world', which is often referred to as the domain of sense...

No. If I'm mistaken in that regard, I stand corrected. Actually, i think there's a key term missing in the Western philosophical lexicon, which is 're...

If they're true, they're no longer simply opinion.

End of paragraph 90 in the text you referred to.

The problem that leaves me with, is whether anyone knows anything at all. If all anyone has is opinions, then where is the lodestar? I also had the id...

Hope it’s ok posting this speaking of ‘alluring femaie forms’. Disregard the syrupy strings and ungainly session musicians. The singer is Ksenia Buzin...

Internal experience and witness testimony.

It is an imposition on civil liberties, and governments should and sometimes do acknowledge that. But freedom of choice is not really a criteria. If y...

Moving your arm or undertaking defined motor skills is one thing. But you're talking about the fundamental constituents of knowledge, reasoning, meani...

They do work that way, and there is also emerging technology that interfaces with disabled user's brain waves. I don't see any problem with that ameli...

This is not true, it is fiction. It is mistaken to believe that patterns of brain activity can be correlated with the contents of conscious thought. I...

I recall Russell saying in HWP that in Maimonides he found more perplexity than guidance. I think it's very specialised with all the nuances of langua...

Nag Hammadi Library resource page.

It's not inference, it's a matter of fact. They were aural traditions for centuries, until being codified in various Indic scripts, of which one early...

On the right track. Question: does the number 7 exist? if so, where? 'The thing in itself' is otherwise designated as 'the noumenal'. From the wiki en...

To be honest the ancient texts I like most are the early Buddhist texts but I’m trying to broaden my base.

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I provided the link to the Princeton Press series for those interested. I am interested in authors such as Cicero, Plutarch and Seneca, never having s...

Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He wa...

Probably the latter. As I said, I think it’s easy to be corrupted my modernity, but it’s definitely not all bad. I’ve got a very interesting post by A...

:up: There's something about modernity that is inimical to the traditional idea of wisdom. I think it has to do with the fact that in liberal individu...

Let's just leave it as-is for now. I suppose, I can concede there is a sense in which these could be 'self-help' books, with the caveat that there is ...

Anyway - to try and get this back on track - I'm reading Pierre Hadot's well-known book, Philosophy as a Way of Life. I makes an excellent 'companion ...

In actual fact, I think his comment was directed at the post he replied to, which I realised after I made that snide remark, which is why I removed it...

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A Guide to the Good Life, William Braxton Irvine.

I think that's a very shallow reading. Many of those kinds of texts are far from self-help or how-to in any modern sense. I put that link up for refer...

I don't know how big an audience it gets, but it's nationwide and has a hard core of fans. Sky After Dark hosts a rabid bunch of climate-change denier...

Only in this world. In many other worlds we’re all over the place.

Thanks. I relate more to Type II, for what it’s worth. I noticed Deutsch’s reference to the ‘lacuna’ in some of the standard interpretations in his op...

Perfectly true. There are detailed and vivid accounts of early Chinese monastic pilgrimages to India. There's also an account of Bodhidharma, the lege...

I think he explains his motivation in the introduction as a response to: I note the posit of a 'real, objectively existing world'. Presumably this is ...

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:up: Quite true, and often overlooked.

What about Universities? Hospitals? The Western philosophical tradition? They're also part of what was left by 'The Church'.

Very good. This is a properly philosophical question. But think about that. Whatever is true 'in the absence of a subject' is by definition unknown. I...

No, not objective. But real! Something you're obviously having a great deal of trouble seeing. That is what this Aeon essay is about. As said, it's th...

The thread is about zen, so I’m just presenting a realistic depiction of it, rather than the Shangri-la Buddhism that most people think it is. I mean,...

Surely there is a subject of experience. The brain doesn't experience anything, unless it is embodied. The reality of the subject of experience is wha...

I'm sorry, but I just find this really creepy. And I still would like to know what Deutsch would be obliged to admit if it were shown it could not be ...

You have to be kidding. Or perhaps you've never visited Australia. The Church has about as much influence here as, I don't know, the Boy Scouts, or th...

Well, remember, Einstein once asked, I think in exasperation, 'Doesn’t the moon continue to exist when we're not looking at it?' I'm sure he meant it ...