Wayfarer

I feel if I could really settle down to a life of reading and contemplation a lot of things would fall into place. I have a work-from-home job, so I g...

Well, yeah - my dad wasn't just any dad - he was a senior medical consultant to the WHO on population control. He worked in Geneva during the early 70...

I feel as though my understanding is continuing to improve. The way I study is thematic, the following of themes and ideas across history, and I think...

I came of age in 1968, 'the year the world changed'. This idea was everywhere at that time, as Gnomon says above. I was convinced a completely new way...

Excerpt from recent thesis on Schopenhauer's philosophy of religion: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1282&context=philosophy_...

Continuing to study, read, reflect and to discern.

It is of course a very difficult thing to explain, but it’s a facet of the mystical text ‘the cloud of unknowing’. At the time I had had my first enco...

If it’s not published, I’m sure nobody here will know, but you might find this interesting.

The back story is, Olivier mentioned Sophia, and I impulsively posted a link to my song of that name. Then I thought better of it, removed it from the...

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Well if can find some meaning, pack it in a carton and ship it to me. Although you seem to be having some trouble....

The subject of various disciplines, including linguistics, languages, and semiotics. I can't see how you can define what meaning means without falling...

Yeah, that Manhattan Transfer album was my favourite, along with Heavy Weather, and Aja, when I wrote that song. Like I said - aging boomer.

It’s not any kind of thing. There are patterns in nature - crystals, snowflakes and the like - but ‘meaning’ is not a pattern. Like, in language, the ...

Many of the things you ‘don’t particularly care about’ are actually fundamental to the kinds of questions you’re asking. But then, you probably don’t ...

Well, here's another. It was a vocal - actually the term is 'vocalese' for the kind of jazz that they do, where they sing instrumental lines - anyway,...

Coincidentally, perhaps, one of my least favourite songs of theirs. They were always a mixed bag, but at their best, the best.

It was a reference to Monty Python. I was actually trying to support the OP with reference to Western philosophical rationalism and the argument from ...

https://youtu.be/0L8rRMipzMg It has begun, there's nothing in the world to stop it now It's in control, we might as well just try to stop the wind So ...

That probably explains what my hovercraft is full of eels.

None known to science. Think about this: the simplest proposition can be written in any language, any medium, any material. The material form is diffe...

There's no bridge between the laws of physics and those of logic. They function independently of one another.

It might be neurological, but it isn't physical, because it relies on interpretation. Even to understand what is physical relies on interpretation. Th...

Anything that is read by a human is obviously a matter of interpretation. If I write something that annoys you or alarms you, and your blood pressure ...

Agree that thoughts are not physical. Furthemore, if this post causes anxiety, then that will have metabolic i.e. physical consequences, in terms of b...

And I'd be inclined to agree with that. It was the loss of the idea of formal and final causation that is the problem with modern scientific metaphysi...

Not oblivion although you may be oblivious to it.

Not true. That the goal of ascetic practice is 'nothingness' is a myth. The 'emptiness' of Buddhism is not the annihilation in the sense of non-being,...

Here's a recent thesis on Schopenhauer's philosophy of religion. Cleared up a lot for me. But, he says that the philosopher has no need for religion, ...

I doubt that. This particular article was one of those I discovered through this forum or its predecessor, and it's become an interest of mine. I thin...

Hmmm - I need to do more reading on that subject. I don't really get the gist of Husserl's criticism on that point. All I’m saying is that you will on...

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Yes, you're probably right, but I think Ryle's tenure has particular significance even if only as a representative of that kind of dry British positiv...

That’s why I posted a cross-link to that particular article. It’s an article about how the untimely death of R G Collingwood - a sensitive soul, philo...

I want to call that out. I can see why the ‘mind in itself’ and ‘material world’ are regarded as ‘derivative’. I want to call that out too. I think th...

In no particular order and off the top of my head: The Magus - John Fowles The First and Last Freedom - Krishnamurti Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Main...

Hint: when you reply, use the Reply function, which will appear when you mouse-over the bottom part of a post; that way the person you reply to will b...

It is hard to see what other form could subsist in the English-speaking academies. Actual philosophy would be too antagonistic to their major patrons,...

I have a hunch that this question is connected to the historical reason why the numeral for zero (0) was neglected for so long in the classical period...

As I said - colloquially, they do, or as a matter of everyday speech. 'Does that kind of cheese have holes?' or 'did a hole exist where the witness re...

I guessed. :wink:

:up: I’ve read essays and excerpts about Husserl, and Dermot Moran’s edition of ‘Crisis of the Modern Sciences’. There's a resemblance to Kant's 'synt...

But they have the characteristic of only existing within or as a part of something. You can’t have a hole that exists on its own, whereas you can have...

Speaking colloquially, holes exist, but in reality, they are an absence - like shadows, and darkness, which are similarly absences (tip of the hat to ...

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Agree with the bannings. We can't all be mods, the mods keep this forum running, and it's a good forum. It can't simply be anything goes with no guide...

Well it is a philosophy forum. If you want to find some actual gems, try fossicking.-)

Very good, similar to the doctrine of Bishop Berkeley:

Maybe Sartre is nihilist. Something that this thread lacks so far is the concept represented by 'self-realisation'. In terms of Advaita Vedanta, the s...

Thanks! Very informative. I must get hold of a Husserl reader so i can get a better grip on this material.