Wayfarer

Very interesting article, thank you. I think it is certainly true that different eras give rise to completely different forms of consciousness. A coup...

Secular culture is the culture of unbelief. It's very much the age we live in, it's a mindset, a whole package. When I was an undergrad, the view I fo...

One place I have found informed commentary on it, is on the ABC Religion & Ethics site, for example, this article on the meaning of consent. //also th...

Don’t know if it’s a scientific discovery so much as a cultural artifact.

Do you think that this idea is something inherited from Freud?

There’s a huge debate going on in Australia right now about sexual harassment in politics. There have been a number of scandalous incidents, not least...

This is obviously not true. Your posts are sometimes a bit awkwardly written but you’re by no means illiterate. You ought to ask yourself why you say ...

I think your philosopher friend is falling into the trap of scientism, i.e. trying to make a religion out of science. Science is not grounded in the n...

I read a story a couple of years back about what a correspondent in Japan had to go through to get a gun. Very difficult, many meetings and much docum...

Agree with @"jgill" - your posts are very hard to parse. I think it’s worth the effort, but the longer your posts become, the less inclined I am to ke...

The meaning of ‘release’ is release from all suffering, from the very possibility. It’s not like riding a wave or getting a hit or having some intense...

Well, I think that is up to us. Darkness doesn’t oppose light, it is its absence.

:yikes: I’ve gotten a lot further with Husserl than I ever did with Heidegger, in that, a lot of what I’ve read from, and about, Husserl, simply rings...

Just so as to NOT ignore you - Christians believe that the Bible is the ‘revealed word of God’. What this means is obviously not a simple question. I ...

God is not the kind of super-person you imagine. I understand how that kind of image is imparted by religion, but I think it comes from a misinterpret...

You’re depicting God as a responsible executive, a commander in chief who 'allows' or 'stands by'. It is an anthropomorphic projection. All of those e...

I still think that's because of the difficulty of conceiving of the sense in which numbers, forms, ideas, and so on, exist. In this post I frame the i...

Well said, and quite to the point. (I'm not institutionally Christian but have attended Buddhist services so I guess that makes me 'religious' in some...

That’s ‘cause he believes in science, and he thinks it’s one or the other.

:up: That’s pretty well how I see it too but it’s by no means the majority view.

Read The Teachings of Ramana Maharishi who is an illustrious Advaitin guru, died 1960. He explains it well. Mind you, you may not like it, or respond ...

Try squaring that with religions that believe in karma, because karma is only generated by the intentional action of agents, and it’s impossible to de...

I was responding to the claim that because there is illness, sickness, death, evil, etc, then there could be no God, because if God is omniscient, ben...

What I sought validation for, was the claim that ‘if God is good, then there could be no suffering’. I call this the ‘hotel manager theodicy’ - the ex...

In this matter the proposition ‘results from chance’ is itself self-contradictory. That something ‘just happens’ is not an explanation. Why is it that...

Hey thanks, I found that Der Spiegel interview you refer to. Obviously a very important cultural artifact. I’ve never read Being and Time, although ma...

I wonder if there's any point in trying to find a rationale for irrational behaviour. End of the day, there’s just too many guns, a cultural fascinati...

The whole point of what was to become form-matter dualism, is that the forms of things can be identical, or rather, particular things can ‘participate...

I think the unfortunate truth is that mass-shootings have become a meme. They’re a behavioural template for disordered minds. Right now there are any ...

Let's see. Yes, you make a good point. I was reading again the other day of the atrocious story of the murder and dismemberment of Hypatia of Alexandr...

This issue is fraught by the tension between spiritual enlightenment and The Enlightenment. Ultimately there has to be some form of rapprochement with...

Don't flatter yourself. ;-)

The problem is religion being treated as propositional knowledge - statements about some purported entity. That's not it. The point about the transcen...

Metaphysical question par excellence. The very first question i asked on the grandfather of this forum was about the reality of number - whether the r...

Be interesting to see how that hypothesis might be falsified.

I do have a better answer than dismissal, but it’s long. I’ve been contemplating the idea that the monotheist ‘One’, the source of the God idea, was u...

No, it’s not, although I don’t expect to be able to wade through the impenetrable barriers of your professed anti-theism so as to demonstrate why. Rig...

Yes, with the qualification that 'idea' in this context has determinate meaning, i.e. a real number or mathematical proof is an idea. Not simply an id...

I feel as though one of my frequently-quoted passages is relevant to this thread. It's from Thomas Nagel's essay, Evolutionary Naturalism and the Fear...

I'd be interested to know which Biblical or other religious texts validate this claim. This is true, but nevertheless Tillich, as a theologian, clearl...

Worth noting here - this is something I’m saying, I don’t know if the poster you asked will agree - that a number or geometric form is a noumenal obje...

I agree! I was trying to elucidate the point you made to that effect, but sidetracked it by my idiosyncratic terminology. This is suggesting of the id...

What I'm questioning is the degree to which the designation of these capacities as 'biological' is relevant. Certainly they're relevant or useful for ...

I managed to give up smoking before it killed me. Still probably drink more than is good for me. Nothing philosophical or wise about it, I’m like any ...

It has to be acknowledged that Plato was an ancient philosopher, and that the ancients lived in a very different world to our own, as Jack Cummins say...

Chosen consciously - 'Construe' is the same root as 'construct' but pertains to language and meaning, in particular. Just the point I was making, than...

I'm afraid this is a very lame attempt. Remember Lucy, the Ramapithicus skeleton, integral to the whole story of hominid evolution, right? What was he...

THe point of the Sam Kriss article is how (pseudo)-scientific conjectures such as the many worlds interpretation filter down into popular culture. I t...

In Kant's philosophy, 'perception' is one of the sources of knowledge, but it is 'the understanding' or 'judgement' which actually construes things. (...

Yes, true. But I was trying to apply the KISS principle, that categorisation is standard in all intro to philosophy University courses, sure it can be...