Note the original link between substance (philosophy) and being; suggests a notion of 'subject', rather than 'stuff', and is not to be conflated with ...
As I said, the problem with saying that is that it makes of 'the soul' an object or an entity or literal force. Then the question will be asked, if yo...
The SEP article on 'ancient theories of the soul' has 'spirit' as one of principle aspects of the human, and generally the aspect most compatible with...
All perfectly sound, but note that your definition of it is given in a specific context, or domain of discourse, rather than an attempt to define the ...
The issue I see, as soon as you say 'it', then you're near to committing the fallacy of reification. To say 'it' is 'something' - life-giving or whate...
I think he does. I'm not saying I accept this or believe it verbatim but I also don't see how it's plausible to deny it outright, or to reinterpret it...
Well, I don't feel any sense of antagonism towards you, or from you, although I also feel as though our interpretation is poles apart. I do accept tha...
I take it that he says ‘whether I’m right or wrong only God knows’ not as a confession but as a goad. He wants others to make the ‘rough and steep’ as...
121 degrees F, 49.6 C, in Canada, more associated with moose and permafrost. More than 500 deaths associated with heat, and the village of Lytton BC t...
How would you do that, though? In today's world? Studying science or some other profession? What would you be struggling against, or struggling toward...
Might interest you to know that the author is the propietor of dhammawheel.com and dharmawheel.net, two Buddhist forums I have frequented in the past....
That review you linked to in Voegelin's blog is both inspiring and disheartening. Inspiring, because of the depth of the learning, and disheartening, ...
I don't necessarily agree with fooloso4's interpretation, but I also don't feel the same compulsion to take issue with it. It can be a dialogue, where...
Right. But much of Platonism (in the broader sense) was to be assimilated by Christian theology in the worlds of the Greek-speaking theologians - Orig...
The fact that humans are physically embodied is not at issue, and ‘the fact of raising your arm’ is also not at issue. The question is concerning the ...
But from that it doesn’t follow that the cause is physical or determinable in terms of physics. Precisely what is the nature of intentional action is ...
Where everyone is making a mistake here, is in looking for 'the non-physical' as an object or a cause in the physical sense. Where you look for it, is...
:up: (Although I would add that pictures naturally imply observers.) Logic is the relationship between ideas, pure and simple. Of course all the physi...
:up: Hence the correlation with 'positivism' - 'a philosophical system recognizing only that which can be scientifically verified or which is capable ...
He addressed them as a crass materialist and prototypical advocate of ‘scientism’. I agree his general essays are an important part of today’s humanis...
Easy to say in hindsight. Plato would never have conceived it in those terms though. I’ve been reading an article on Ancient Greek mathematics - we au...
It’s not - it’s as old as Descartes’ publication of Method - around 1633 from memory. The medieval would never have conceived the question in those te...
Do you remember the uproar when Rupert Sheldrake said in a TED talk that the speed of light may not be constant? Led to a 12-month-long Wikipedia edit...
Can the Universe Learn? Peirce always said that what we see as scientific laws are simply habits of nature. That's the fly in the naturalist ointment,...
What 'narrrow framework' are you referring to? What 'framework' have I been arguing for? You're writing as if I've been pushing evangelical Christiani...
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