It's a very deep and complex topic. That's why I said 'no blame' - I don't blame you for struggling with it. Stick with 'the gem' - it's a much more r...
I think you're making an argument for the conclusion of your OP, which you pose as a question, but is really a statement: that everything is quantifia...
I think there's a danger of conceptual over-reach with Darwinism. It is a biological theory about the process of speciation, but due to historical and...
Again, there's a difference between creduiity or gullibility and warranted belief. Everyone has beliefs - even (or especially!) those who claim to hav...
There's a distinction to be made between those matters beyond the reach of reason, and the merely irrational. Regrettably, the religous tend to slip b...
In terms of what it can compel people to do. There have been many evils committed in the name of religion. Just now I heard that in some English ethni...
Ultimately, theism is not a theory about some purported being that either exists or doesn't exist, and about which science might have something to say...
Recall the opening paragraphs of Russell's A Free Man's Worship: I think that proclamation, especially the underlined passage, is what the anthropic c...
The philosophical problem with Darwinism - and this has nothing to do with its veracity as a scientific theory - is that there can only ever be one ul...
You know, I think one of the reasons the Dennetts of the world want to deny the reality of conscious experience, is BECAUSE it's a mystery. I mean, th...
Chomsky has some interesting things to say on that. No, as I say, my knowledge is sketchy, but even if it was written later, it still serves as pre-am...
Socrates, as depicted by Plato. But I can’t help but think the image of ‘midwife’ is not mere coincidence. And - question - when he mentions ‘Meletus’...
Of course. But it's the modern emphasis on 'the quantifiable' as being the only true existent which is at issue. As I said, and I think you agreed, th...
Positivism, overt or covert, is the default view of a lot of people. Many of them don’t understand what it is, so there’s not much use criticising it ...
Sure - agree with that also. But the point is, quantification allows for precise measurement, whereas the qualitative is only ever a matter of aesthet...
Remember, the thread is about 'bad theology'. And theology presents a specific problem, which is that atheism often doesn't think that there could be ...
Dawkins makes himself a target. After all, he’s the author of a best-selling book arguing that God is a delusion. Thomas Nagel touches on a similar po...
Good essay. Many points to discuss, but I'll start with one of yours: But what then to make of this? So - I take this to be an allusion to the 'second...
that wasn’t really my point, but in any case I agree with Kenosha Kid’s observations. What you’re really talking about, although possibly without real...
Hey Don - ever heard the expression 'angels dancing on the head of a pin'? It is usually used to contemptuously dismiss Medieval metaphysics by showin...
I think you’re missing the point, but given that it’s a very difficult point, no blame. The mention of non-dualism is highly significant. This is an a...
well, that's the question! There is such a thing as the domain of natural numbers - where's that? It's a rhetorical question, of course, but it makes ...
Well, if he had put the 'in part' qualification before 'animals' instead of 'objects' it would change the meaning quite a bit. Anyway, Husserl's criti...
:up: I find all of that passage congenial, with the exception of the statement that humans are animal. Like the ancients, I believe they have an anima...
37 years :smile: But aside from the ameliorating effect of marriage, which is already noted in the OP, there’s something else that could be said. Masc...
Liz Cheney kept her leadership position in the Republican Party 145-61. It was a secret ballot. If it were not, I bet it would have been a very differ...
Some relevant observations by Thomas Nagel, drawn from his 2012 book Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost...
Agree. My major interest is philosophy of religion, I majored in comparative religion and did an MA in Buddhist Studies. I also see myself as part of ...
I don't think that's true, it's the residue of a kind of popular myth put about by positivists. Philosophy is concerned first and foremost with insigh...
I agree with @"Questio", that your depiction of what 'omnipotence' means is incorrect, but I will leave it at that, I won't respond further to your po...
Thank goodness someone else has joined this conversation who understands this distinction! I tried to venture it earlier in the thread, which of cours...
In that case philosophers ought to give the game away. :lol: Heidegger is obviously on the right track, but I'll never get over his association with N...
I argue that 'ontology' is derived from the first-person participle of the Greek 'to be' - which is, of course, 'I am'. On that basis, I argue that th...
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