Sin is ‘missing the mark’. In Buddhism (which I practice), there is no word for sin and Buddhists will often say that Buddhism has no equivalent conce...
I bought a book of Monbiot’s columns and generally agree with him. Note that central to this thesis, from the first piece, is this: I think neoliberal...
To which I should add, the renaissance humanists (which is where 'humanism' got started) were generally anti-Church but at the same time highly spirit...
The trouble is, atheist humanism has no conception of why humans are in the universe in the first place. Like them or not, religions situate mankind i...
There are 'real possibilities'. That a banana can turn brown is a real possibility, that it can turn into a fish is not. So that 'domain of possibilit...
One point of caution is that the Aristotelian term that was translated as 'substance' was Ousia which is nothing like 'substance' in the every day sen...
Interesting. But how do you allow for intelligence? What is it that recognises concepts? And what are concepts? Is that intelligence something you thi...
Interestingly, the original debate which was thus parodied, was about whether two immaterial beings could be located in the same space - which I don't...
Philosophy of religion is more concerned with clarification of the subject and the application of philosophical analysis to religious doctrine. Theolo...
He'll campaign on the fact that 'the Mueller report said there was no collusion', and will be believed. Although I also think that a lot of very influ...
This seems very similar to your other thread, 'rant on belief'. In any case, the answer to your question is 'no'. A belief might or might not be corre...
:up: Absolutely correct. 'Metaphysics' is shorthand for 'anything vaguely spiritual'. Accordingly most criticism is criticism of 'anything I think is ...
There doesn't seem to be much insight in this debate as to Christian doctrines of the soul. Those doctrines are by no means uniform or consistent, but...
Justice ought not to be avoided simply because a case might not result in conviction. I think the dems are duty bound to make the case to the 'america...
To hell with it. That is 'politics over principle'. He must face impeachment. I don't see how the Dems can face their electorates without bringing imp...
The original intuition of scholastic metaphysics is that 'intelligible objects' (such as arithmetic proofs and geometric forms) are known in a way tha...
Yeah, I think the Dems should 'impeach and be damned'. Even if it's true that the Senate (or is it Congress) will then vote to acquit, there's no way ...
What I'm getting at is that the subject of archetypal psychology (which is not at all a mainstream academic pursuit) might provide an interpretive fra...
Actually now you mention it....if he had come along 40 years ago, I would probably have talked about him instead! But I think you'd still find James H...
I wonder if you're familiar with the subject of 'archetypal psychology'? It is generally associated with Jung but was considerably developed by one of...
I would imagine that people in this kind of state will generally 'see' what occurs in terms of their cultural background; a Hindu might say 'Krishna i...
The particular problems with space programs are that: first, they take enormous amounts of money. There might not be another chance for a lot of the i...
To understand philosophy, take an arts degree and also read a lot of history and history of ideas. Context is so important in interpreting philosophy,...
The article from which the Quine quote is taken goes on to say 'Instead of starting with sense data and reconstructing a world of trees and persons, Q...
But your argument, at that point, depended on it. You were arguing that one didn't have to be a materialist to be a nominalist, because you could posi...
Einstein didn’t predict the expansion of the universe, or rather this theory made no such prediction. I think it was Hubble and Le Maître that discove...
What would an example of a 'nonmaterial particular' be? Incidentally, I find the argument for 'scholastic realism' quite persuasive, because I believe...
And I’m no Russell fanboy, I disagree with his philosophical outlook in almost all respects. But I still honour him as a teacher, and admire him for j...
I didn’t know that, but then, at the time, Stalin appeared almost as threatening as Hitler had been. It was the Cold War, and there is a sense of desp...
In Isaacson’s bio of Einstein, the way the story is told is that a grad student approached Einstein after he gave a talk and told him his theory led t...
As I said before - these questions can only be meaningfully discussed within ‘communities of discourse’. In the mainstream Christian community, the no...
Trump does a lot of stupid things, and constantly demeans the office of presidency. Yet just when you think Trump can't do anything more demeaning, mo...
Rather a desultory article, I felt. Doesn’t do anything to come to terms with the possible imminent collapse of the Western social order. I have these...
I don't disagree that there are objective facts and that there are better and worse ways of understanding. The facts that have been disclosed by moder...
The view I am coming around to is that 'nothing exists without a perspective'. Even if we are to picture the early Earth before life began, and even i...
I read that Corbyn’s polling is dreadful. I must say I couldn’t vote for him, if I were British it would have to be Lib Dems but I can’t see them form...
The EU don't want a 'no-deal' any more than most people. But on the other hand, they're quite entitled to deny any further extension on the basis that...
How could it be irrelevant? There is indeed an action being taken to prevent it, namely, a law that disallows leaving the European Union without an ag...
he's practically as good as, as far as I can tell from 12,000 km away. :naughty: As I said yesterday, I kind of admire the conservatives who stood up ...
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