Because we are the phenomenon. We're not observing from a point outside life—we are living, embodied beings whose actions, thoughts, and values are su...
I appreciate your thoughtful response. You're right to say that there's a distinction between using teleology as an epistemological paradigm—i.e., as ...
Aporia can be seen as precisely the points where dialectic ends and noetic insight is required. The fact that language and symbolic thought is inheren...
Let's step back a bit. The question I was responding to was, 'is there good reason to believe teleology'? So to address that we need to clarify exactl...
The substrate is what is translated as 'prime matter'. In this, I will defer to the others here with greater knowledge of Aristotle, but based on ency...
‘Thought’ is a deficient term, though, as it seems so quotidian; we all think incessantly, often to not much effect. I don’t know if there’s a proper ...
Right - hence the distinction in ancient philosophy between praxis and theoria. Might I suggest (pace Hadot) that in modern philosophy, the former is ...
All the examples are artificial. It's like those endless discussions of the trolley problem. God knows what you would *actually* do in that circumstan...
I see what Count Timothy is getting at, though I don't think it's well expressed. (So I’ll agree with the impulse while questioning the formulation.) ...
However, I presume (not having read it) that he would maintain sanctions against pre- or extra-marital sex. I've had a long-running debate (sometimes ...
Reword it like this: matter is some thing. If it is 'a thing' then it has form. If it has no form, then it's not a thing. General question: I have the...
There’s shamanism, which is one of the very ancient roots of what was to become ‘religion’. So too yogic practices of mystical absorption. Buddhism an...
It’s instructive that biology, having rejected the Aristotelian idea of teleology, had to re-introduce telos, purpose, in a neologism, ‘teleonomy’, re...
You’re correct, of course. A salutary admonition. I have noticed from time to time a dialog will appear ‘do you like this personality?’ All part of su...
Remember what Michelle Obama said - ‘when they go low….’ I agree that Trump has been overall responsible for the atmosphere of threat and the promotio...
There's also constructive criticism - those who are willing to have their ideas criticized so as to better understand both them and their critics, whi...
As I’ve said many a time, my interest in philosophy grew out of my search for enlightenment. This is partially because of when I came of age in the 19...
It's notable that there has already been a modification to the mass arrests and deportation strategy, due to the indisputable importance of undocument...
P.S. Maybe this is why Étienne Gilson quipped that “philosophy always buries its undertakers.” For generations, we were assured that glorious Science ...
Yes, great question—but I think there's actually a deep connection between what Count Timothy said about the immaterial intellect and the point I made...
Hi Bob - if I may chip in here. I'm no expert but have been reading up on hylomorphism. First point is that the term 'hyle' literally meant 'lumber' o...
It's not so clear cut as you believe. The amount of documentary evidence that Stephenson assembled can't simply be waved away, although as he says, th...
As discussed previously in this thread, there are documented cases of children who appear to recall previous lives. Documented in the sense that steps...
Might that be on account of the fact that everything we know of reality is disclosed to, by and in consciousness? Not that consciousness is a constitu...
I read a book by David Ray Griffin, (although was later dissappointed to learn he was a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.) The view I'm advocating also draws ...
I know they do, but the article from which that line was taken was very detailed — many thousands of words — and it spells out what that remark means ...
many deep questions involved. I’ll revert to my initial post - material reality is an aspect of cognitive experience. //although I will mention the ti...
Mitch McConnell must rue the day he voted not to confirm Trump's second impeachment, for the disgraceful assault on the Capital Building, on the groun...
That's the process of decoherence. It explains why we don't ever find a cat that is at once dead and alive, but it still doesn't totally solve the obs...
Excellent question. To digress, as I so often do, there's an article I refer to , Quantum mysteries dissolve if possibilities are realities, which ech...
Don’t know, I’d have to do the research. But it has been said the last two days that in the Rodney King riots in LA in 1992, the Governor requested th...
Perhaps, but it also could be seen as a ‘Bring it on! Show us what you got!’ When Trump and Hegsmeth really start to order American troops to teargas ...
Nevertheless, the Buddha is also said to have taught that suffering has a cause, and also an end, and that there is a way to the end of suffering. Whe...
I don’t think the two-party system is specifically at fault. Trump is a textbook demagogue - to revisit the definition, a demagogue ‘is a political le...
In the context of the discussion with Vera Mont, I was making the point that humans are able to envisage possibilities and then bring them about - whi...
:100: I have an amusing anecdote. Way back in my undergraduate days I was looking for books in the uni library. I noticed one particular volume seem t...
I can see what you’re getting at - but in response to the particular question I was trying to address, why the need for faith?, I don’t know if it is ...
Don’t know if I agree with that. There are levels and kinds of knowing. In Greek philosophy, for example, there’s the ‘analogy of the divided line’ in...
I understand the legal requirement to remove illegal immigrants, but Trump is going about it in a particularly heavy-handed way. All through his campa...
First (not wanting to sound pedantic) 'divinity' comes from the Indic root 'deva', God or gods or divine beings. I think divinity can be distinguished...
Not from the future - from the possible, from the realm of possibility. Today's techno-industrial culture is able to 'peer into the realm of the possi...
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