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World War 1 - the spectre of appalling savagery and loss of life in the heart of Europe; and the subsequent discovery of relativity and quantum physic...

Consider the cultural context. There was universal acceptance of deities in ancient culture, so God as revealed by the Bible could only be understood ...

I would like to interpose an observation from philosophy of religion if I may. In many discussions, there is equivocation between God and 'the gods'. ...

True, but I'm referring more to the way in which modern philosophy, or modernism, subsequently developed. I think the pre-modern view acknowledged tha...

...applied to the objective domain and only interpretable in those terms.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/gods-little-rival-on-remi-bragues-the-kingdom-of-man/

That is philosophical analysis.

I really wouldn’t waste too much time stewing over that. I suspect that their Facebook site gets an awful lot of commentary, the subject is a controve...

And I'd be the last to disagree with you. What I'm trying to do is situate your ideas within the broader context. Your intuitions are sound but as thi...

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IN the recent thread on Plato's Phaedo, I was struck by the discussion of whether suicide was ethical. The discussion revolved around the idea that it...

I think the idea behind the widespread distribution of CRISPR is the democratic distribution of the technology. I presume that this is the reasoning b...

To which the obvious answer is ‘yes’. I get that you’re making a polemical point, but, for example, you’re utilising the power of your computer and th...

I also agree this actually might be something pretty invidious. You're right in saying it should be more discussed. I would have thought such technolo...

No kidding. I have not said anything about religious conviction, you resort to that because your own dogmas are being challenged. Yes, I know what CRI...

I really don't think that's true. Can you cite anything in support?

So, not accidental or coincidental but intrinsic. Karl Rahner floated the idea of the 'anonymous Christian': Perhaps they're members of the 'invisible...

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:up: :angry: It is common to all Christian denominations that God is immanent and yet transcendent. Basically 'immanent' means present, but transcende...

Mods note: is almost an exact duplicate of this thread

Yes, I understand that too, and I addressed it. Further down you say So, what does ‘a scientific understanding of reality’ mean, given that it must of...

Let alone superheated gaseous plasma into life-bearing mud. Maybe it wanted to have the experience of getting up late one morning and ambling down to ...

I am intending to read it thoroughly now this thread has started, but by way of preamble: one thing I think ought to be stated is that, I think, God d...

However, as the 20th C European philosophers discerned, the sense in which modern science frames the question of ‘what is real?’ has a distinguishing ...

The Perseus edition is here http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0170%3Atext%3DEuthyph.%3Asection%3D2a It is useful b...

A distinction is routinely made between intelligence guided by intention and planning, such as h. sapiens exhibits, and the instinctive reactions whic...

Fair enough. That's partially a consequence of the forum environment, and social media generally, where you have to keep your posts short. It's the su...

I think you're on to something but as it's such a huge topic, it warrants caution. When it comes to such foundational issues, a millimeter off at the ...

Don't know where to put this, so here will do. I have just discovered Remi Brague, who is a French scholar, philosopher and historian of ideas, 'speci...

I really, really do understand that. I make a living as a technical writer, I’ve worked for and with many engineers and software developers. I’m not a...

Which was grounds for investigation.

Not a bad deal, is it?

I'm sorry for being so thin-skinned. I will continue with that piece, haven't finished it yet.

I did do a BA Hons and MA in Arts including two years of philosophy proper, which I believe required a great deal of disciplined and detailed thinking...

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So, you're arguing that logic is contingent on biological evolution? What about the idea of propositions that are 'true in all possible worlds?' For t...

You’re kind of fundamentalist in your own way, you know. It’s a very black v white, good guys v bad guys script you’re running. Stay with it, I will t...

I think it one of those situations where if you have to explain the point, it’s not worth making. I’m sure someone will come along soon with another p...

Does the expression ‘biblical literalism’ mean anything to you? Do you know why it is criticised? What the alternatives are to it?

Not for a minute.

You know it cuts both ways. The vocal atheists of popular culture all weaponise evolutionary theory to ‘prove’ or ‘show’ that God doesn’t exist. So ho...

Remember how Trump was always bitching and moaning about 'the deep state' which was a cabal of corrupt FBI and State Dept officials who were trying to...

I can't see how any empirical discovery, even that of alien life, could have any bearing on such questions, which are a priori by nature. They are not...

:rofl: It's a pretty long document, I haven't read all of it myself, but it is on point.

Actually I found that paper, and it is directly about the question you've raised regarding linguistic expression and experience of the ineffable - Abs...

That's the kind of thing you'll always home in on, ain't it. Have a read of this.

It’s the second. Hence symbols, myth, imagery, which try to convey, invoke or otherwise impart the understanding of the ineffable. But that’s always g...

That's a deep question of religious epistemology. What does the (or a) Buddha know? To answer in any detail would require a great deal of text. A cano...

There's a lot of interesting writing on Kant and neuroscience e.g. Andrew Brook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Brook Noooooo. Not 'natural selec...