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I have this great metal detector. Nothing else can detect metal like this thing! And I think it shows beyond doubt that the only things worth collecti...

‘It’s neither an engineering problem, nor a problem of any other kind!' There's a passage I sometimes refer to. I was going to post it earlier in this...

Not the point at issue. Nobody disputes that modern engineering is a marvellous thing, but it’s applicability to the problems of philosophy is another...

Although I wanted to make the point about the idea of ‘suspension of judgement’ being not the same thing as ‘unbelief’.

Maybe what you’re trying to reconcile Spinoza with is evolution?

I like Rohr. I got his book Falling Upwards. We had Merton’s Seven Story Mountain in the house when I was growing up. Merton was a highly charismatic ...

Only if it's properly disciplined. It's very easy for 'meditation' to just go off on its own tangents. But, yes, there is a definite parallel between ...

:snicker: the point I was trying to make, is that naturalism "brackets out" the subject and generally adopts a realist stance; phenomenology is concer...

What I never understand with Nietzsche is how the negation of all philosophy can itself be included with philosophy. Naturalism is the study of 'what ...

Yes, further research shows that metanoia was a later development, although the 'turning around' or 'noetic conversion' is its exact meaning. Also sim...

Thanks - very helpful. That is a reference to 'metanoia' is it not?

Climate science IS science, not shit philosophizing.

that's why in ancient societies the aristocrats always had one or more long fingernails.

Did you ever read or study Weber's classic work, The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism?

Incorrect. Climate science is clearly empirical. You have an explanatory hypothesis, and clearly observable results which confirm that hypothesis. If ...

Let’s all join hands and sing Kum-by-a :-)

An appropriate start to a thread by 'Bartricks'.

(Returning to the Nietzschean theme.)

Oh, and yes that is emotive language. :yikes:

I do want to make the point, though, that the pop-intellectual-science types wrongly appeal to the prestige of science in support of their generally l...

I try and refrain from emotive language. Yes, I do think that Ditchkins, as Terry Eagleton named the composite figure of Dawkins and Hitchens, is a lu...

See https://www.friesian.com/ for info on the other choice.

It’s interesting that you perceive this criticism as ‘hatred’. Says something, I think.

Well I’ve never thought so but it is a terribly unpopular thing to say so I generally remain shtum.

The point of philosophy is the gaining of insight-wisdom. That is something that can only be grasped in the first person. You might attain great wisdo...

I have encountered Peter Kingsley - I bought his book, Reality. But it seemed to me a bit portentious. I'm looking for something which is a little nea...

I can't find a tradie to fix a leaking downpipe for love nor money. :meh:

The point is, it addresses your question of 'what is not grounded in the physical'. It's a question that doesn't have an easy answer, but then, you di...

Check out this discussion.

I’ve noticed Talbott’s book a number of times and it’s been mentioned on various forums, but I never bought it. The principle of holism is another mat...

My view is, these 'thinnest and emptiest concepts' are indeed of a higher order of reality, but unless you're able to comprehend them properly, they d...

That's all I can come up with at the moment, sorry. There was a savant, Kim Peek, the basis of the Rain Man character, who could read two books simult...

Very perceptive and interesting question. The last book my dear departed mother gave me, as a Christmas present, almost 20 years ago, was Steve Pinker...

Thanks, will look it up. (The other book struck me as somewhat rambling.)

There’s some remark from one of the ancients that I can never source, along the lines of, without the consolations of philosophy, man would be the mos...

That’s where Darwinism is a negative force, because the implicit assumption is that the only thing that matters is surviving. Hey, we’ve survived. You...

I’m not so assiduous about avoiding all religion as yourself. I bought Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals for a relative for Christmas last, I...

I'm woefully under-read on the topic of forms. Where I started this thread was the broader topic of Platonic realism, which is basically the idea that...

Which amounts to the same! He explicitly denies the idea of 'natural order' or 'natural law' as an anthropomorphism.

:up:

Ultimately Nietszche is impelled to not only deny God, but also science, because science originates with the acceptance an order, and Nietsczhe is com...

Actually, Dennett seems a really decent guy, but if that's so, it's not by virtue of anything in his philosophy, but in spite of it. He doesn't say th...

Plus, he worked his way through college playing jazz piano. That, I respect.

That is a belief, also - practically the defacto belief in today's world. But a belief nonetheless.

The way I put it is that, in respect to formal ideas such as math and logic, that the ability to grasp such ideas evolves, but the ideas themselves do...

Thanks! I'll be around.

It's not so much that he likes him, but that he seems him as someone who is really prepared to grapple with the momentous nature of the so-called 'dea...

Glad to see you back. I see something in that, actually I have titles on my reading list to get around to along those lines. But overall I'm still of ...

By what measure are we 'good at it'? How do you ascertain that?