When you say: You're presenting an idealised picture where the 'real' capitalism or the 'real' free market provides the best outcome for all, lifing e...
What you're talking about, what you're criticizing, IS capitalism. The fact that it has become so debt-riddled, so regulated, so corrupted, is 'realpo...
The system you are scorning IS that system. If, as you suggest, all government intervention and support was withdrawn, the ultra-wealthy, the 1%, woul...
Reality doesn't exist, it simply is. It is that from which all particular things arise and back into which they fall. That is something that can only ...
https://wp-media.patheos.com/blogs/sites/81/2017/10/Zen-monks-2.jpeg This an illustration of S?t? Zen monks sitting in meditation. The meditation mast...
The traditional cosmology of Buddhism is no more compatible with science than Ptolmaic astronomy. According to it, the center of the Universe is Mount...
What 'system'? Laissez-faire capitalism? The 'invisible hand' of the market? Those who can't get by without assistance - leave them to die so 'the sys...
The core principles of Buddhism are not logical syllogisms. They can be expressed as verbal formulations but as the Buddhist saying has it, the finger...
All mysticism is supra-rational. It transcends modern rationalism, which is always ultimately anchored to sense perception albeit mediated by the inst...
Oh of course. He made the memorable statement in his book on philosophy of science, Universe in a Single Atom, that any Buddhist principles overturned...
that excerpt is very like the material in the book I read. Shame I can’t recall it, but it was a long time ago and I don’t recall the title even well ...
My last year of undergrad history, we had an eloquent and charming Chinese scholar as lecturer for one unit. We considered the question as to why the ...
I recall reading that when Obama stepped in to save the American automotive industry in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, a faction within t...
You won’t find it. Very interesting. I was just reading a post from a Zen teacher about how Zen enlightenment is realised by and in the body. I have a...
I can't, too long ago. Taoism is traditional and is likely not 'woke' in my opinion. It's generally pretty indifferent to politics, Lao Tzu was anarch...
Oh, no, not at all. I just felt that I should call out the mystical aspects of Taoism. I'm not any kind of expert. I recall, when I did assigned readi...
I'm not saying you're wrong, and I agree the Tao Te Ching is a classical literary and philosophical work in its own right, but I don't know if it's as...
What do you think about the etymology of the word 'substance' that is used in this context? As you're aware, the Greek original was ouisia, which is a...
My image of a Taoist sage is aged, bearded, oriental. OK maybe that's a cultural stereotype. The Taoist practices are like forms of yoga, that are int...
Yes - but it is highly contextualised and rigidly disciplined in its application. Trying to boil it down to verbal abstractions and then attempting to...
Quite right. The origin of the name 'Yahweh' was a string of characters called the 'tetragrammaton', which was literally un-sayable. This was to conve...
Well, I did major in Comparative Religion, and although we didn’t spend a lot of time on Taoism, in particular, there are analogs for the ‘unmanifest’...
‘Objectivity’ is a modern idea. The word itself came into use around the time of Leibniz. It is associated with the emergence of the exact sciences. T...
This essay argues that the split between 'analytical' and 'continental' in philosophy is all due to the early death of R G Collingwood and subsequent ...
As a matter of interest, the first exposure I had to Kant, was through a book by an Oxford-educated Indian professor of comparative religion, namely, ...
Skipped ahead to the chapter on modern psychology as the pseudo-science of thought. There are so many quotable quotes in the first few pages alone. Sp...
I think this verse from the early Buddhist texts is comparable: The ‘unmade’ is the ‘unmanifest’ which I’m sure is at least an analogy for ‘the unnama...
It does look interesting. I like that it was written before mid-century, it still retains a kind of old worlde charm. I'll try and find time to read s...
Hey no probs, really nothing personal. I thought it might have been relevant, that's all. I find your knowledge of philosophy of maths really interest...
No. But the Wikipedia entry on it is quite good, especially the section which details the dialogues that discuss the forms, and also the biblography. ...
I think it’s a matter of fact, although I’d have to research it to find the specifics. It’s not that they’re not as charitable, but that Christianity ...
That's something that Paul the Octopus never considered (not to our knowledge, anyway.) But more seriously, being human presents a predicament. Animal...
The moment I had the epiphany about the nature of number was very, very simple. Suddenly the thought occurred to me that numbers don’t come into, or g...
Couldn’t argue with that. Although sometimes, when I’m pushing my trolley around our exquisitely-merchandised supermarkets, I hear a voice as if from ...
Insightful. I have this mischeivious idea that science is unwittingly demonstrating the ancient notion that the physical world is unintelligible. Supp...
It's not hate. It's the sense that there's a pervasive misunderstanding or 'urban myth' - something which 'everyone knows to be true', but which is mi...
I thought the rationale of Christianity was that it was open to all and any who believed. That it's not a path for spiiritual adepts, like Tantric Bud...
It poses a threat to the consensus, which is that psychic phenomena are imaginary and that the world is wholly physical. People buy into that, they ta...
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