Wayfarer

You might find this OP from Karen Armstrong relevant to the issue. You might notice that is not a response to the argument I posted from Bill Vallicel...

So called AI ultimately does comprise the actions of billions of switches. Of course their output is orchestrated by ingenious programming which is in...

I think a Christian would say that what it means is that you love your neighbour as yourself (in rather less archaic language, show unconditonal compa...

I’m attempting to approach it from a ‘philosophy of religion’ perspective, that’s all.

There's a matter of principle at stake here, though. The point is, the existence of alien life is an empirical question that can be resolved by observ...

That's because, as I explained, the way the problem is discussed in our day is mainly as a response to Descartes. That discussion has been ongoing sin...

Around 18 months.

That's not 'an obvious fact'. There really is no such thing as matter, per se or mind per se. They're abstractions from what, in reality, is a unity, ...

It was still legal, then. (Now I'm showing my age.)

Then there are those whose only strongly held, non-falsifiable hypothesis is that God is not. They will acknowledge that scientific hypotheses are fal...

following up on that the Wikipedia entry on Polanyi has some very good amunition for this argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Polanyi

Thanks for the reply. Never mind my instinctive reaction against materialism! That's just one of my things. But I see Taoism, in particular, as deeply...

That would be empiricism, broadly speaking. What you're getting at is close to the problem that emerged for verificationism. Verificationism was assoc...

I've been following this thread (and thanks to the learned exponents who have taken the time to spell out the detail.) I too find Spinoza quite diffic...

Which would be a rational fear. There have been numerous cases reported in America of individuals who have spurned medical advice or refused vaccinati...

It's from a lecture by Lloyd Gerson, Platonism vs Naturalism, which is available as a video on youtube and also as a pdf here. The passage quoted is a...

That is terrible about the police carrying machine guns - it wasn't long ago that the British police made a point of not even carrying guns. But then ...

The issue is in mathematical physics, that discoveries are made BECAUSE of the maths, not made first by observation, and then described mathematically...

Bolds added.

I have vague memories of a study showing that people tend to worry about the wrong things. This OP is a pristine example - unless you’re writing from ...

Your insights are appreciated. You’re one of the few sources that has made Spinoza come alive for me, when I studied the Ethics as an undergrad it see...

The reason being, I daresay, that it was a threat to ecclesiastical hierarchy and tradition, would it not be? Which is why Spinoza also was expelled f...

Thank you. Just so long as that is clear. It may be true that capitalism doesn’t have the best way of responding to this crisis, but what alternatives...

This doesn't make the COVID-19 vaccine 'a tool for extracting money from the population' (as it was described in the OP) - unless the same description...

My edit, based on the fact of the mistranslation of Aristotelian 'ouisia' as 'substance' (and a source of egregious errors in modern philosophy.)

The wiki entry on acosmism helps https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acosmism

Strange how someone who became famous for attacking sacred cows ended up becoming one. I though Nietzsche hated asceticism, he polemicised against it.

Schopenhauer said he admired Eastern religions, namely Vedic Hinduism and Buddhism. It is said that later in life he read the Upanisads every evening....

Clearly not a knight of anything. Master of deception would be nearer. I think US Evangelical Christianity has on the whole become corrupted. There ar...

It didn’t end well for Prometheus.

Don't give up! 'Illumination' or 'enlightenment' is a transformation of perception, such that what is real becomes clear to that percipient - usually ...

This blog page provides a credible account.

And I don’t believe his diagnosis of religion. He notes the ethical commands require ‘some other foundation’ - well, what? What has ‘organised atheism...

Makes much more sense as an image.

The essays I read of Freud were his general humanistic works - Civilization and its Discontents, Totem and Taboo, and others of that series. I recogni...

Well there's a lot at stake. They don't call it a culture war for nothing.

Does it stack up against the version given in the autobiography?

Sorry, but your Soul just Died.

Because he was not reductionist in the sense Freud was. Jung broke with Freud because he felt Freud's outlook was too constrained by emphasis on the s...

This is so redolent with irony that it's hard to know where to start. But a good start might be the fact that Freud's 'scientific' theories came to be...

Figures. Have you read about hermeneutics of suspicion? They're both given as examples of it. I disagree with Freud about everything other than his sp...

A link to an article on how Kant and Schopenhauer anticipated Freud’s ideas was posted here some time back. When you think about it, the provenance is...

I should add, as I’ve spoken up in favour of Jung, that if the opportunity came along, I think I would greatly benefit from Jungian analysis, in parti...

I'll line up as soon as it's offered, and if it has adverse consequences I'll let everyone know. (Here in Oz it was originally going to be end April f...

:up: Fair enough. I understand that.

I’ll cop to that. I don’t idolize Jung, what I said was that I think he’s underrated.

Well I agree vaccines ought not to be made mandatory (but on the other hand I think that antivax amounts to anti science in a lot of ways.)

Not the least, not the slightest. It’s an unbearably sinister view, that there’s this cabal of evil millionaire pharmaceutical companies scheming to g...

I failed my very first undergrad essay, in psychology, on the topic of IQ testing. Broadly my answer was along the lines ‘is intelligence something th...

That is similar to the criticism I mentioned, from Wolfgang Smith, an advocate of the 'perennial tradition'. He too says that what Jung is exploring i...