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Nishitani's 'nothingness' is ??nyat?, 'luminous emptiness'. Not like Sartre's 'god-shaped hole'.

Rosenberg’s mistake comes from treating science as religion. He crystallizes that error.

I read once, as a throwaway line, in a polemic by (I think) Rowan Williams, with an allusion to Heidegger, that ‘there’s no such thing as a thing’. An...

Well, if there is such a world, then these are precisely its denizens.

matter only 'has being' when appears in human form. That's why we're 'beings' and things, just 'things'. In regards to the nature of matter, science h...

Well, in relation to fundamentalism, in particular, what is it issue is fallacious interpretation of religious texts - reading literal meanings into a...

Three years, in this case. :razz:

I think you're creating a false dichotomy there. The basis of philosophy comes from apprehending 'what truly is', which provides the lodestar for what...

This is a philosophy forum, and the concern ought to be what is real, what is true. Just because fundamentalism provides a kind of artificial refuge f...

The Trump Infallibility Doctrine

I think this is very likely true, and is supported by the science. There's a recognized issue called the neural binding problem, which basically comes...

A lot of people - probably most - think the whole question has been finished with. So why bother reopening a can of worms? My view is that much of wha...

Agree with this characterisation. I don’t much like philosophy as it is understood in secular culture. To me the purpose of philosophy is practical an...

Indeed and I responded like so: Most of what I write here falls under the rubric of spiritual philosophy and related subjects. But I’ve noticed this f...

fair call, I was perhaps being facetious. But I don’t think this is the thread to pursue the discussion - it’’s already a meta-topic, so a meta-discus...

hey you’re the one vaping cannabis, ain’t you? :wink: And don’t think I’m being censorious, I used to love to toke. But it tends to put you in la-la l...

well, that is a lovely sentiment, but it doesn’t rise to the level of a philosophical idea.

I don't think that Kant lent his arguments to the notion of an 'intelligent designer', and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have agreed with today's ID arg...

If you were a very technologically advanced alien, you would probably be able to deduce an enormously detailed picture of the evolution of life on ear...

But I still feel as though you’re missing the vital point here. In Greek philosophy, such principles are said to be real independently of any particul...

That doesn’t address the point, however, which is kind of reality that such principles as the Pythagorean theorem possess. They’re ‘intelligible objec...

There’s more to it than ‘don’t know’, isn’t there? Quantum mechanics works, it provides the principles underlying much of current science and technolo...

What about Pythagoras' theorem? Is its reality dependent on someone thinking about it?

'I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.' ~ Nobel Laureate Richard Feynmann. And yet, without it, there would be no microp...

from the p-o-v of the mystics, God is indeed the only reality. Us hoi polloi are completely bamboozled by appearances and are clinging to the unreal.

Needless to say when it all comes crashing down, Trump and the Trumpets will always have someone else to blame. Absorb all the praise, disown all resp...

Republicans on 'civil war if Trump impeached' - a number of GOP reps (e.g. Louie Gohmert). It's another example of how the Trump-owned GOP is threaten...

Hey I'm only a popular science reader, but I think this is wildly innaccurate. The cosmological constant was introduced by Einstein as a counter to th...

No - and this is the crux of the issue for philosophy of religion. Western culture has lost the ability to understand or envisage different modes of b...

That God is transcendent and beyond material form is not an idea of my devising. Even without any explicit faith commitment, who or what the name ‘God...

It really isn't. It's a fundamental idea in philosophical theology. The trouble is, whenever I try to explain it, you first become exasperated, and th...

They might ask you: what would you be prepared to do, to find out?

No, I would not concur with that. The issue with reducing 'God' to an idea or a projection, construction, or social consensus, is that it deflates it ...

Trump, and the GOP, are directly threatening the viability of constitutional law in America, by refusing to recognise the legitimacy of the enquiry, a...

Where the anthropic principle is a problem for the mainstream p.o.v. is that it thought it had done away with the idea that 'intentionality' is fundam...

The requirement to take other lives and to fight over land and resources does seem very much intrinsic to the human condition. Maybe it's one of the r...

Well, I agree with you, but that is precisely what is at issue: Copernican principle: In physical cosmology, the Copernican principle states that huma...

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I think you're probably right, but as election platforms go, I think Johnson's claim to have an agreed deal in hand, even if it's not strictly true, i...

The mystery, or the problem, is that the Universe can't have 'known we were coming' because it's supposed to be vast ensemble of inorganic matter and ...

Seems to me that 'a vote for labour is a vote for more Brexit delays and confusion'. I don't see how that can be a winning proposition.

I think the only thing the argument does, is put paid to the notion that 'man is the outcome of the accidental collocation of atoms' (Bertrand Russell...

Still flabbergasted by the hypocrisy of the Republicans. They're defending the active solicitation of electoral interference by a foreign power, and a...

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The point I made with respect to Russell's essay was his view that 'man is the outcome of the accidental collocation of atoms'. I contend that the 'fi...

Well, there was: Which sounds very much like you frame the alternatives as (rational) science vs (irrational) religion. Whereas, I am appealing to the...

Vilification of witnesses in the impeachment enquiry, the latest being Lt Col ALexander Vindman, who joined the procession of officials to cry foul of...

I see the point of this. But that doesn't simply make it fallacious. Indian philosophy is often sceptical or dismissive of conventional religion - may...

You think the ‘fine-tuning argument’ is a straight-forward question? But then, if it can’t be reduced to an acerbic aphorism then it’s probably not of...