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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...
March 15, 2021 at 01:24
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...
March 14, 2021 at 23:46
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 If, as you suggest, all government intervention and support was withdrawn, the ultra-wealthy, the 1%, woul...
March 14, 2021 at 23:36
There's never been such a place. It's a purely intellectual construct, a castle in the air, a fairyland in the mind of libertarians.
March 14, 2021 at 23:14
Being and existing are not necessarily synonymous, but this is not the thread to hash it out. (example.)
March 14, 2021 at 23:08
Just providing some context. This is a philosophy forum.
March 14, 2021 at 23:06
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 ...
March 14, 2021 at 22:48
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...
March 14, 2021 at 22:43
The traditional cosmology of Buddhism is no more compatible with science than Ptolmaic astronomy. According to it, the center of the Universe is Mount...
March 14, 2021 at 22:18
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...
March 14, 2021 at 21:39
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...
March 14, 2021 at 10:33
All mysticism is supra-rational. It transcends modern rationalism, which is always ultimately anchored to sense perception albeit mediated by the inst...
March 14, 2021 at 08:53
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...
March 14, 2021 at 08:36
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 ...
March 14, 2021 at 08:32
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 ...
March 14, 2021 at 08:29
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...
March 14, 2021 at 08:05
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...
March 14, 2021 at 07:29
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...
March 14, 2021 at 03:56
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...
March 14, 2021 at 03:20
:up: :yikes:
March 14, 2021 at 03:10
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...
March 14, 2021 at 03:09
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...
March 14, 2021 at 02:16
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...
March 14, 2021 at 02:13
Yes - but it is highly contextualised and rigidly disciplined in its application. Trying to boil it down to verbal abstractions and then attempting to...
March 13, 2021 at 02:56
Relevant textual source; https://zenstudiespodcast.com/sandokai-1/
March 13, 2021 at 01:36
They’re not actually waves but the distribution of probabilities. Just so happens they can be visualized as waves. N’est pas?
March 13, 2021 at 01:25
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...
March 12, 2021 at 03:34
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’...
March 12, 2021 at 02:55
‘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...
March 12, 2021 at 01:50
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 ...
March 12, 2021 at 01:36
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, ...
March 11, 2021 at 07:12
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...
March 11, 2021 at 07:03
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...
March 11, 2021 at 06:36
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...
March 11, 2021 at 04:17
Universe shouldn’t exist, say CERN physicists.
March 11, 2021 at 04:10
:up: That essay was one of the first I encountered when I started posting on Forums.
March 11, 2021 at 00:16
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...
March 10, 2021 at 23:47
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. ...
March 10, 2021 at 23:05
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 ...
March 10, 2021 at 21:49
That's something that Paul the Octopus never considered (not to our knowledge, anyway.) But more seriously, being human presents a predicament. Animal...
March 10, 2021 at 10:46
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...
March 10, 2021 at 10:04
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 ...
March 10, 2021 at 09:42
Insightful. I have this mischeivious idea that science is unwittingly demonstrating the ancient notion that the physical world is unintelligible. Supp...
March 10, 2021 at 08:59
LSD
March 10, 2021 at 07:51
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...
March 10, 2021 at 05:14
:roll:
March 10, 2021 at 04:38
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...
March 09, 2021 at 22:45
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...
March 09, 2021 at 22:36
ah OK - a hit, and a miss!
March 09, 2021 at 22:30
I hope it doesn't! It's just a subject matter that often stirs controversy. You're not wrong!
March 09, 2021 at 22:06