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Nothing I just thought it was an article of general interest.

The response that I'm now inclined towards is that naturalism has to exclude consideration of what it considers 'supernatural' as a matter of definiti...

Well It is a philosphy forum. Philosophers do aspire to something more.

that appears the two only options, right? So in the Old Worlde, it was assumed everything is guided by a divine intelligence. Now we know better!

I think there's a valid criticism of the role that science assumes as 'arbiter of what is real'. That used to be assumed by religion, but consider tha...

I take this to mean that knowledge that is only ‘attained in death if at all’ is not thereby shoved off into an unknowable never-never, although it mi...

Quite true, but the distinctions between ‘dianoia’ and ‘noesis’ can hardly be subsumed under the single English word, ‘thought’ which is so general as...

That is true. But then in philosophical spirituality, insofar as that is part of ‘religion’, detachment, or not wishing for anything, is intrinsic to ...

not that you’d ever do that :wink:

Positivism lives!

True, and explicated in detail in the Republic, Analogy of the Divided Line, more so than the Phaedo. However the general point of nous as 'the facult...

A paradox rather than a contradiction, perhaps. A paradox arises when the same thing is seen from different perspectives, and thus is different to a c...

You would have thought that with Trump’s defeat the crisis of Trump would be over. I did. Well, apparently not. As it transpires, Trump is still able ...

Addressed in another thread.

What Hume is saying, in a roundabout way, is that he cannot perceive a metaphysic of value. He can perceive relations that are expressed by the copula...

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:grimace: Quantify that!

As far as it goes. But it doesn't extend to value, which is, after all, the name of the OP.

The turn must have been in his grave.

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IN the context, he was referring to one of the implications of the equations of quantum physics. The particular point in question is the entanglement ...

That they're examples of the Ur-religion of the Ancient Greeks, relfected in Orphism, which was ultimately grounded in the pre-historic Indo-European ...

That's because we're uneducated worldlings, what Plato would designate the hoi polloi. 'The many live each in their own private world, while those who...

Buddhists pay very close attention to the nature of experience, or experienced reality, which amounts to the same. But they don't posit unknown entiti...

It originates with the techniques used in Galileo's physics and Cartesian algebraic geometery. It's very effective at whatever can be objectivised and...

The problem is, it is something that does not exist. Try as you might, with all manner of instrumentation or argument, you will never locate such a 'p...

Socrates despite his many virtues was probably in today’s terms not on board with gender equality. Don’t forget these dialogues hail from 300-400 BC.

I intend to stick with the narrative flow. Both those passages are from the first page.

This is a gem of the perennial philosophy - that pleasure and pain always accompany one another. Men foolishly chase pleasure and revile pain, not see...

Already on the first page I have a question. There is a reference to ‘the ship in which Theseus sailed to Crete’. Is this the same ship which is elsew...

They move around fine, but they don't consider their options, post on philosophy forums, or wonder about the meaning of it all. I'm always amused by t...

(First time I've worked out how to include a hyperlink in a quote!)

'More valuable' is already a loaded question. What value do you put on a human life? You're allowed to buy and sell pets, you're allowed to hunt anima...

He makes some interesting points, but I note his byline says 'Alex Lickerman, M.D., is a general internist and former Director of Primary Care at the ...

Also true. Anyway, I will butt out of this thread as it's about Dosteovsky about whom I know almost nothing.

Yeah all those rotten hospital systems and universities they set up. Along with all of those dreadful charitable organisations that went around indisc...

Citation?

Oh, it's definitely NOT nihilist. This is what was always thrown at in by it's Hindu opponents. It's one of the reasons it died out in India. Well, in...

This is where Buddhism is very different from the 'substance and attribute' metaphysic of Aristotle. It also differs from the Hindu view of an unchang...

But at least he’s discussing the idea in terms which are understandable to current readers.

Because it's simple. Whatever is simple can't be explained in other terms. Like, why does 2 and 2 equal 4? There is no answer to why that is, there's ...

I’ve given one, I’m asking you.

And you answered, 'because there's a problem of interpretation'. You didn't say why there's this problem.

Well you’re certainly right in saying that there would be no problem of interpretation if there was no problem of interpretation.

Right - the point being, ‘good’ is a simple idea - it can’t be explained in other terms, for instance, in terms of adaptive fitness. Being a ‘simple i...

No, that would be the naturalistic fallacy - that because something is natural, it's therefore good. A lot of what goes under 'evolutionary ethics' wo...

The point is that it can't be known. If it were simply a matter that 'electrons can either appear as waves or particles'. again, there wouldn't be any...

Current article, just published on Aeon Magazine: Why Modern Buddhists should Take Reincarnation Seriously, Avram Alpert.