Oh I think the benefits of the US trade deal is just more puffery by Trump and his toadies. That’s what I meant when I said that I don’t like the peop...
Although there is something I feel impelled to say - which is that when the protest movement broke into and trashed the HK Legislative Assembly buildi...
Thanks for taking the time to present such a thorough explanation. The difficulty seems to me to be that the protest movement is not able to articulat...
It's possible you're not understanding it. My reading is that the problem it seeks to resolve is the dichotomy implicit in cartesian dualism, i.e. tha...
It's a feasible philosophy but why oh why does it always remind me of a grey-haired man in a grey overcoat wearing a bowler hat on a cloudy and cold L...
They are, therefore, subjects of experience, not simply objects, even if very simple examples. Life could be seen as the emergence of the subjective. ...
Of course, he's legendarily idiotic, but at least even he gets it right in this case. That's why I posted it! I should have said, 'against all expecta...
I think you're mistaken, but at least here, we can be very clear about the confusion, which should be instructive. My thought is that there is no 'for...
Those quotes I referred to make a very clear point: the material senses (eyes, ears) perceive the particular being, the intellect perceives the form. ...
One of the things I hate about Brexit is the kinds of people who think it’s a great idea. And actually a point against Corbyn is his equivocation over...
I suppose Corbyn seems vastly more authentic than the current occupant but I must say the prevailing narrative has persuaded me that he would be too f...
Having Corbyn leading the opposition is, I don't know, having Neville Chamberlain in charge of the Battle of Britain. They sorely need a charismatic R...
Of course, I agree with you and also with your earlier comment which makes the same point. But it's something that only becomes obvious when it's been...
Commentary in today's SMH from A C Grayling. Key paragraph: Despite all the noise and dust, there is no majority for Brexit in the UK. In the referend...
I read about 'angels on the head of a pin' recently. It's held up as an example of the vanity of scholastic metaphysics. But the real debate was about...
Here's a snippet from the Wiki entry on Aristotle's concept of hyle: My bolds. I had read previously that 'mother' and 'matter' were etymologically re...
Nobody could accuse the Vienna Circle of being dumb, they were all super-smart. I think one way to understand them is historically: that they were try...
'Spiritualism' is a strange choice of word in the context. It is usually used in reference to the Victorian interest in spirit-mediums, seances, and t...
I think the question would have to be asked, then, why Aristotelian philosophy is not nominalist. Because nominalism denies that 'forms' or 'types' ha...
Fair point. I feel there’s an answer to that, but I’m not going to say that I know what it is. (I notice the Complete Works from which I sourced that ...
However, he also says it is 'clear that it is indivisible and is without parts and without magnitude' (which is the basic argument of the whole sectio...
It was the question you were asking i.e. ‘how can ‘God’ see if He doesn’t have eyes?’ To me, it conveyed incomprehension of the subject. The point abo...
The point for me is that numbers (and the other intelligibles) are implicit to virtually every thought and speech act - and yet we don't understand th...
Your words don't convey any real understanding of religious discourse. And I don't think metaphysics is particularly meaningful outside the framework ...
I encourage you to contemplate that question. You write very carefully and clearly; if you're in a position to do so, I think you would benefit from s...
Avicenna? John Scotus Eriugena had a similar idea: SEP Metaphysics makes perfect sense within a domain of discourse. That is why for instance Thomism ...
It’s looking very dicey to me also. I think Johnson is manifestly incompetent, all this kind of ‘can-do’ bluster is completely baseless. 'Chin up chap...
Thanks, seems a good summary. I read The Theological Origins of Modernity (Michael Allen Gillespie) a few years back. One of the underlying arguments ...
It's a translation of Ecclesiastics 1, usually given as 'Vanity! Vanity! All is vanity!' Which I think is quite comparable with the Buddhist teaching ...
It’s a highly idealised view. From what I’ve read violence was endemic in many hunter-gatherer cultures. You seem to be reciting Jean Jacques Rousseau...
One of my ways of thinking about this is that it's 'the shadow of the Enlightenment'. I mean, I believe in Enlightenment values - progress, science, d...
I think the notion of subjectivity and objectivity is specifically characteristic of the modern epoch. It is part of the transition away from the 'I-t...
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