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Could this be because it wasn't discovered until about 300 years after he died? Just sayin'.....

the problem with the common interpretation of 'idealism' is that it tries to conceive of mind as something objectively existent. But the mind is not a...

The original meaning of 'noumenon' is taken from the Platonic distinction between appearance and reality. Intelligible principles, such as geometric f...

The mainstream tradition is that Jesus Christ is at once human and divine. There were attempts to understand Jesus as two different beings or natures ...

I agree that the field of academic philosophy is a crap career choice but I don't at all agree that 'it's all been done'. A great deal of what was imp...

My thoughts also. I think you write very well and express your ideas clearly.

Yes, I can see that. But thanks for your reply.

Have a look at Paul Davies’ introduction to Heisenberg’s Physics and Philosophy: (Xii)

It is part of the Copenhagen interpretation. Remember ‘wave-particle duality’? that you see one or the other depending on your experimental set up, bu...

It is incorrect to say that God is ‘external’ to the Universe. God is understood as transcendent-yet-immanent - beyond and also within. Not so. That i...

I gave an argument, very early in this thread which is that there is no physical equivalent of the "=" sign. It can be extended to the argument that s...

Suzuki-roshi, in his well-known book Zen Mind Beginners' Mind, indeed says that the practice of zazen is to sit perfectly still, but completely alert,...

...according to the 'relative state formulation' of Hugh Everett, which, however, requires that the universe 'branches' every time an observation is t...

It’s that simple. Is 'eliminative materialism' an empirical hypothesis? Is there any conceivable way of determining whether it's true by empirical mea...

Impulsively!

An online comment on the NY Times by 'Deirdre': The comment has many responses, mostly in agreement (although it's a truism that NYT readership is ove...

I chose not to :grin:

But natural selection is a theory of the origin of species, and, as such, a biological theory. (Although it might be relevant to note that Alfred Russ...

In fact, following that google query, the first sentence of the 'featured response' is 'This fundamental limitation represents a breakdown of determin...

But it does, T. Clark. It's not that far from what you're saying about the impossibility of being able to know all of the factors that collectively br...

Right - just what I mean. That is an example of what I regard as the missapplication of biological principles to matters beyond its scope. True, these...

I don't believe so. I think the 'uncertainty principle' slays LaPlace's daemon. So it's directly relevant to the issue. It's a theoretical projection ...

I’m suggesting lines of enquiry, that’s all. The OP is a very smart poster, I’m pointing something out.

One thought that comes to mind, is that, unless you're a systematic philosopher, the world is not a system. It is rather more like what is required fo...

I had assumed some background to the issues at stake which perchance you don't have. Do you know who the most well-known proponent of eliminative mate...

Of course. But it’s a comment on something specific which I believe is germane to the discussion I’ve been having with the OP. ‘Representation of real...

I think there are genuine ontological distinctions between minerals, plants, animals and humans. Whereas, post-Enlightenment philosophy tends to rejec...

Also, the Buddha's day, nothing was written down, so it couldn't have begun there.....

things often don't turn out in ways that seem right.

:ok:

do you think there's an echo of A-T hylomorphic dualism here? Do you happen to know if this a question which has been explored?

Do you understand the reference? Do you know why Einstein said it? Do you know what, if anything, it has to do with determinism?

Like I said - it's simply an excuse for avoiding responsibility. Nothing is absolutely pre-determined, there is an element of chance in everything. Ev...

Curiously, I wrote a very early essay called 'God is not God'. It was about the idea that the reality of what is meant by 'God' (especially in the inn...

I suspect that many people, believers and atheists alike, actually (dis)believe in something like Jupiter, a name which is derived from the Indo-Europ...

Ah yes the thread is about the forgetting of being. I’d forgotten :yikes:

language, technology, science, arts, literature, philosophy.....what more evidence would you need?

(But then, we're not likely to see the problems it actually solves.)

Your questions all seem to revolve around the same issue, but, and pardon me for being blunt, your perspective is lacking depth. What we understand as...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XClIR19eufc The Nature of Reality (Death, Rebirth and Reincarnation) Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu

that’s exactly what I said - that if karma is used to rationalise suffering or as a theory of retribution (‘getting what they deserve’) then it is use...

Perhaps it was what the Glenn Magee quote was driving at. I really must try and get hold of that book. The preface is online https://www.marxists.org/...

Well, Christianity appropriated a lot of what was best in Hellenistic philosophy. Hermeticism continued to exist as a kind of counter-cultural movemen...

Actually Russell’s chapter on Hegel in History of Western Philosophy makes the comparison between Hegel and Aristotle, so it’s not something I origina...

I think the intuition behind the original sin still holds true. Granted, ‘sin’ is the most politically-incorrect idea possible in the modern lexicon. ...

Join a philosophy forum?

In other words, treat beings as objects, no?

I really don’t see karma like that, and it’s certainly not how it’s treated in the Buddhist texts.

You think many things I say about this topic are 'delusory nonsense', but I get by. I understand 'philosophy' in the broad sense of meaning 'love~wisd...

The nearest thing that Western culture had to spiritual enlightenment was Christianity, without it, it will relapse into Imperial Rome. You can see it...