Wayfarer

All the links work for me. When you do have time, have a read, I'd be interested in any feedback as I think I'm making a novel and valid point.

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hmmm - the prospect of Brexit being delayed again until 2020 seems unbearable - and I’m not even there! Anyway we’ll see - Monday is going to be a piv...

Yours is the 'hotel manager's theodicy'. You expect existence to be like a well-run resort, where all the guests are happy, the service is always perf...

What do you think the world should be like? No predation? No possibility of disease? Nobody would ever die, get injured? How would that work? How coul...

As this is a philosophy of religion thread, I would like to contribute something on the reality of soul. I believe there is a way into understanding '...

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As for definitions of the 'ground of being': From review of D B Hart 'The Experience of God'.

So, you're saying that "substance" is "a conception", and as "a conception" is "not itself something which is in itself" then "substance" is logically...

https://nyti.ms/2J69xTt There's an argument that Trumpism has some of the characteristics of a cult, and that cult followers are generally immune to p...

I can't see what possible incentive the EU has for extending the deadline again. They've already made a 'final offer' and then been persuaded to chang...

I did two years of philosophy as part of a four year bachelor of arts. Units in philosophy of science, early modern philosophy, Pre-socratics, David H...

As a foreign observer: Twinge of admiration for Johnson’s chutzpah; twinge of exasperation for the prospect of Yet Another Delay; twinge of hope for s...

If I were EU, I’d say: ‘three choices. Vote YES for the deal on the table; leave without a deal; or rescind Article 50. No extension. They’re your cho...

Can you elucidate why? This sentence is very strangely parsed. What are you challenging, exactly? I’ve read it half a dozen times and I can’t really p...

It’s no secret that Dennett is a moist robot, although he also paid his way through college playing jazz piano, which earns immediate respect from me.

Discussions about 'what it is like to...' are essentially discussions about the nature of being, although nobody puts it in those terms. When Nagel wr...

There are religious cranks..... :roll: And there are also secular bigots.

Comparative religion covered a very broad range of material. But there was a big emphasis on 'history of ideas'. 'The history of ideas is a field of r...

Over the course of 4 years we made some progress, but better to keep it short in this environment. I'll contribute if anything relevant comes.

Another useful definition to consider is fideism which ‘maintains that faith is independent of reason, or that reason and faith are hostile to each ot...

I majored in comparative religion. In the first class we sort of ‘workshopped’ possible definitions of religion. We found, to my surprise, that we cou...

Now there’s a term paper in epistemology. 'rather than discussing it in a framework familiar to me', you mean. If it can't be reduced to the kinds of ...

It's the meaning. Your thinking has a ceiling on it, delimited by empiricism - exactly what a smart ape might think, pardon my impudence. (In fact, I ...

Of course it's evidence-based. That is not at issue, nor why I made a point of it. I'll see your Adorno and raise you a Horkheimer: My bolds.

Look at it like this: that the general acceptance of evolutionary theory carries with it - or may carry with it - philosophical implications that can ...

It's not that I think everyone else is wrong'. There are genuinely very few people on here whose interests converge with mine, and when I try to expla...

I'm not really addressing what social scientists do, or how science on that level operates. I studied and greatly enjoyed anthropology, and I've also ...

Smoking gun, bleeding corpse. No question. The only question is how effectively the deluge of bullshit can conceal the crime.

What’s abnormal about it in this case it its motivation, which is personal benefit and political gain, not furtherance of the interests of the state. ...

Wikipedia chapter on Tolstoy Religious Beliefs He was described as a 'Christian anarchist' and later in life corresponded with Gandhi.

Touchingly written. I have never shared the sense of there being a literal life after death with your loved ones, but then, I never had the idea that ...

I apologize for the snide remark, I deleted it but alas not fast enough.

For those following the impeachment proceedings - Mick Mulvaney, Trump's acting Chief of Staff, just said in a room full of reporters that *of course*...

I regard science as 'reductionist' insofar as it reduces the scope of discourse exclusively to the objective domain. Look at it philosophically. The i...

You can't argue with someone who doesn't understand the argument, which you plainly don't. Yes, it's presented in a peremptory form - as I said, I'm b...

Not a subjective opinion. A matter of fact. And all the rest of what you write is as much 're-affirmation' of what you think, as you're attributing to...

Modern thought is not over-emphasizing reason. It's over-emphasizing sensate values, what can be weighed, measured, felt and touched. That's what 'emp...

Excellent, thanks. But all the same, if it comes to 'freedom of religion' many jurisdictions are unable to differentiate them. Here in Australia, they...

I did give an argument earlier in this thread, which I think was ignored, as often, but here it is again. It is quoted from Ed Feser, a neo-thomist, n...

Secular culture by its very constitution provides no criterion for differentiating Scientology from Catholicism, but I think it's a crock, and Hubbard...

You can, although it's certainly not something I claim to be. But it is a domain of discourse, with recognized luminaries, and wide historical scope. ...

That's the reason I quoted this example. The double negative there has me completely stumped, but I bet that if I asked you for an example of what 'my...

I protest. There is a reasoned argument that is not ‘something that exists’. Certainly not an object, and probably not ‘a being’ at all. I don’t expec...

News just broke here the DUP are saying Nay. Is that it for the prospects of any deal by Halloween?

...because it remains a possibility that the world, and all of what we know in it, remains a consistent illusion. There's nothing a scientist would be...

You'd go to a scientist. What Hume is saying is not relevant to science, per se, so to interpret him as a lousy scientist is to misunderstand the poin...

Was that specific term ever used, and by whom? I mean, were you taught it by school counselors or by parents? In saying that, I agree that it's wrong,...

The problem is that here you're begging the question. Hume's work is called 'a treatise concerning human understanding'. Hume is questioning the natur...