However, Wittgenstein, Tolstoy and the Folly of Logical Positivism Stuart Greenstreet, Philosophy Now. I think it’s quite arguable that Wittgenstein’s...
I don't agree that the Greek philosophers 'broke with mysticism'. Parmenides, Animaxander, Plato, and many of the other seminal figures of Greek philo...
Ontology is the study of ‘being’, not of ‘what exists’ - a distinction which I think cannot be made in the modern lexicon which generally treats the t...
Noted. But the point that interests me is the article distinguishes the sense of ‘being’ from our customary use of the word ‘existence’. This is the d...
Fundamental to modern science is quantification and quantitative analysis. And that really starts with Descartes, Newton and especially Galileo. 'That...
There's a really important point about this word, (and one that I am criticized by StreetlightX for raising, on the grounds that my reading is tendent...
That is an artificial distinction. You're making it more complicated than it is. His hypothesis was: there are children who remember previous lives. F...
I really like your reasoning in all of this, and have been pondering similar questions. Let’s say, you can never be in a position of weighing up all t...
The underlying issue in the 'nature of ethics' and 'nature of reason' argument is that of neurological reductionism: the contention that by understand...
It's a completely different issue. 'The nature of reason' is a philosophical question par excellence. I dispute that it will ever be subject to empiri...
Such misunderstanding! The whole point of the other conversation was entirely different. What I was arguing about then was that you couldn't understan...
Sure. If you could show his results were bogus, then you would falsify the children's claims. That's what I kept saying to MF. His cases comprise thou...
As a matter of interest, have you read any of the research, i.e. interviews with children who claimed to recall earlier lives and whose claims were in...
On the other hand, to answer my own objection, 'it has to work on TV'. This being the situation we're in, whomever was chosen had to be telegenic and ...
Actually not even policy, so much, but ideas. World seems barrelling full-tilt towards some kind of Armageddon, yet the headline is....well, you know....
From where I sit (Australia, but with a son who is permanent US resident), Kamala Harris looks great. Liked her from the outset (and follow US politic...
It’s simply fatalism. It is characteristic of religious cultures like India’s, where everything that happens is thought to be a consequence of actions...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/10/chicago-looters-riot-magnificent-mile/ I've visited that part of Chicago several times in the last fe...
Stevenson interviewed children who claimed to recall previous lives. He documented many such cases over a period of 30 years - something in the vicini...
My thoughts are that karma ought never to be the source of blame or of resignation. If you say 'it's their karma' or 'it's my karma' to rationalise mi...
What about the argument that the fundamental constraints - that very small number of constants and ratios that Lloyd Rees describes in 'just six numbe...
So, BC, if the police move to enforce order and dispersed the protesters to protect the precinct, wouldn't that have been instantly called 'police bru...
I'm saying modernity still relies on reason, but it often narrows its scope to what is measurable, what can be represented in scientific terms. Wherea...
It encompasses all of what is designated by the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious aspects of the psyche - much of which, as Freud showed, is no...
I agree, but reason is indispensable to it. The problem is that today, 'reason' is simply assumed to be 'scientific reason', and scientific reason, in...
I don't see much of either in you, but I do see there are certain topics which just 'push your buttons'. There are quite a few philosophically-literat...
Although I do have to say I think this is incorrect: Stevenson's research includes thousands of cases of children who recall very specific details of ...
The more general a term, the more difficult of definition. A hammer is easy to define, 'consciousness' or 'soul' much less so. But my pragmatic defini...
I'm sure that biological evolution occurred just the way science says that it did (although that account is by no means fixed). But it has not much to...
It's an interesting point in Buddhism in particular. Buddhism emphatically rejects the idea of an individual person or same consciuosness which migrat...
:up: //ps// I would hate to be thought of as ‘anti-science’. The chief manifestations of ‘anti-science’ are anti-climate-science and anti-vaccination ...
Actually Stevenson was careful not to say that his research proved reincarnation occurs. He said it suggests it, but was willing to consider all kinds...
Yeah, I do think Stevenson does actually consider that possibility. But in many cases, prior commitments are unlikely to be swayed by such considerati...
One issue is, in today’s culture the ‘sensory domain’ - the world perceived by the physical senses and its electronic enhancements - is regarded as th...
Discussion of reincarnation is a taboo topic on this forum in Western culture. If you really want to know what research has found, google Ian Stevenso...
I would be really uncomfortable comparing the scientific slant of modern thinking to ‘racism’. Not least because, unlike racism, the scientific mindse...
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