Philosophy used to be understood as the pursuit of the eternal truth or at least something beyond the transitory affairs of life. Of course the word '...
Once while resident at Ojai, Krishnamurti went on a picnic with Charlie Chaplin, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, Greta Garbo, and Christopher Isherwo...
https://nyti.ms/37aWw52 This was abundantly documented by trustworthy witness testimony in painstaking detail during the public hearings. Since the fi...
As I mentioned, Bishop Berkeley already addresses this question in his Dialogues: Third Dialogue, edition from https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets...
My thoughts also. I was taking issue with those who believe otherwise. However, no scholastic would have said you could have reached an understanding ...
As I understand it, the original Greek term that was translated into Latin as 'substantia' was 'ouisia'. The meaning of 'ouisia' is rather different t...
What I hate hearing is 'how likely it is for Trump to win a second term'. This doesn't mean I don't believe it's possible, because I do. It's just tha...
No, but it looks interesting. But anarchy can’t possibly be a solution to anything. Would every person be required to construct their own road? Would ...
But you’re still talking about managing others, about control strategies. Unless the culture has a sense of values which the citizenry can freely adop...
Agree. I don’t think science on the whole is nearly as philosophically aware as Janus suggests. There are individual scientists who are, of course, bu...
Christianised Platonism had an answer for that, in the form of Augustine's doctrine of 'evil as the privation of the good'. As illness is the privatio...
We’re watching Donald. Trump treat the law with contempt, and the Republican Senate aiding and abetting. American democracy is being destroyed from wi...
I have a couple of his books - Face of God, and one other whose name escapes me (might be Soul of the World.) I liked him OK - not one of my favourite...
Right. That is one of the reasons why I say that political theory has to be underwritten by Christianity, or something like it. I mean, if you wanted ...
'First philosophy' or metaphysics is concerned with the ultimate nature of reality. In a theistic metaphysics, then God is understood as being the sou...
A good example of one of Kant's antinomies, which lead us to conjecture about things that might be, or must be, on the basis of what we observe, but w...
Darwinian rationalism does not constitute a philosophy. The point about love is that it has to be its own rationale - as soon as it serves something o...
Although theoretically philosophy is said to be the antidote. Presumably by inculcating the realisation that, as everyone is subject to self-pity, the...
Agree. I don’t have much to go on but a hunch right now but am intending to devote some serious reading to Plato’s theory of forms. My basic intuition...
Even Bishop Berkeley had an answer for that! It really isn't so simple. Again, in physics, the question has been suggested by the conundrums sorroundi...
The notion that every shape corresponds to a different form is not necessarily what platonism entails. Form doesn't mean shape. For example, the 'form...
I do sometimes wonder if the very idea of templates originated with the Platonic forms.The separation of form and substance seems likewise indispensab...
This is a big, big controversy in current physics. There is a school of thought which is highly critical of string theory and says it's a dead end tha...
I think you're mistaken here. The reason is, it is impossible to conceive of 'pure being' in empirical terms, so we have to try and fit it into our co...
I believe that in pre-modern philosophy, there was an (often implicit) idea that individual beings and other denizens of the sensory domain belonged t...
I did acknowledge this fact in my response, if you read it carefully. I since thought of another way of putting it - there is no measurement without p...
More like a stream of fiction, confabulation, boasts and mendacity. Saying whatever comes into an addled mind is not a virtue. But as we've all learne...
In the early days of Christianity, theology absorbed a great deal of what was important from Greek philosophy. Subsequently logic, science, mathematic...
fdrake and I have discussed this also. It's obviously the case that there were no rational observers before h. sapiens (leaving aside gods and aliens)...
...something which I think is exactly correct. The whole point is, the advent of Galilean science combined with Cartesian dualism posited a complete s...
It now seems that it was the air defence system that mis-identified the flight as a hostile, which does seem plausible. However I agree that Trump's p...
I wonder why, today, Trump is insisting that the Boeing 737 was shot down over Tehran 'by mistake'? How does he know that? Would it be because if it w...
Agree. That is a subject I would like to read more about. As I said in an earlier post, it seems to have many points of convergence with hylomorphism,...
I suspect it is rather because he wanted to distance himself from scholasticism, as all the early moderns were obliged to do. But if you unpack the no...
IBM is an entity. As is the Australian Navy. It's a fancy word for 'thing' (as in, 'is that "a thing?"') Speaking of which, there's a Heidegger book c...
You're welcome, but as you know, the exchange consisted wholly of pointless impersonal neuronal reactions. ;-) (So, scientifically pointless, not just...
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