A devout priest was once surrounded in his church by rising floodwaters. He climbed onto the roof of and trusted God to rescue him. A neighbour came b...
So now Trump is really pushing his ‘alternative narrative’ - that the Mueller enquiry was a Democratic Party/'Deep State' conspiracy, fueled by jealou...
That's because trying to explain logic, is like asking why 'why' means why. Logic is the basis of explanation, it is not 'what is explained'. If you w...
It has a bearing, because not accepting facts has consequences. If you're an engineer, and you measure something wrongly, or enter a wrong value, then...
But I don't think Nietzsche showed a mature, reflective awareness of these matters. Which is not to say he wasn't brilliant and insightful. But, was h...
Agree! I've read quite a few accounts of the Bohr/Einstein debates and I'm in favour of Bohr's attitude (which together with Heisenberg and several ot...
I will mention that I googled this book and looked at the Amazon preview, and that I think it looks a good book. However I suspect that the peremptory...
Nietzsche was undoubtedly a great thinker, writer, and agent provocateur. But is there in Nietzsche's writing any recognition of the idea of there bei...
No, I don't think Maritain had Sartre in mind. He was Thomist, after all. I first encountered him also through a Buddhist book also, called God, Zen a...
Bliss is an intrinsic attribute of being which is usually ‘obscured by adventitious defilements’. It's just there and at some point in yogic practices...
Trump is a teetotal, never drinks, never has there been any suggestion that he takes drugs. His problems are not in the least associated with intoxica...
However, 'law' here is not simply a civil code, but divine command; the Mosaic law. So, perhaps less elaborated in the OT than the NT, but nevertheles...
Indeed, and again, to refer to the Platonic epistemology, this is because mathematical and logical proofs are apodictic, immediately evident to the in...
We would do well to remember the Aristotelian saying that metaphysics is useless. (I've searched for it a few times and can't find it again.) But what...
The problem being, he’s the President. I have to believe this will come to an end before Nov 2020. Basically I think it ought to be clear to everyone ...
Incidentally none of this has anything to do with politics or policy, whether immigration or any other kind. It is not about Democrats v. Republicans....
William Barr an accomplice in Trump’s smearing of his own Department. And he’s been lying ever since. The Mueller Report showed he was lying, but as s...
That's true, but consider it in the context of the Platonic epistemology of the Divided Line, from The Republic (reproduced here from Wikipedia): http...
Drilling down on the story a bit more the consensus is that Trump didn't have, and couldn't get, anywhere near the trillions of dollars that he had be...
Trump storms out of meeting with dems As if the Trump administration weren't already chaotic and ineffective, as documented by Michael Wolff and Bob W...
That’s exactly the Augustinian doctrine of original sin - that all mankind is tainted by the original sin, transmitted by the act of procreation, and ...
However, you’re not seeing the whole point of the very verse you quote. The deathless, the imperturbable, is not simply ‘as some suttas say’ but the c...
I've got an assignment due and have to concentrate. :sad: But in response to a few of your remarks - my engagement with philosophy was really grounded...
IETP. I only have his Plotinus, but I've also read Philosophy as a Way of Life. I think his insight into philosophy as being a practice - praxis - is ...
There's an online edition of one of Bertrand Russell's books with the same title, Problems of Philosophy. I know this because the chapter on universal...
As I said, if the Buddhist path was simply that life is suffering, then indeed it would be pessimistic philosophy, but it says there is an end to suff...
Well said. To bring it back to the original question - does the spirit exist? I think the answer I would offer is that it does not exist, but it also ...
That it is a reflection of the predicament of the human condition, of which self-awareness and willfulness are essential ingredients. I'm curious abou...
I am analysing it differently. Actually I've developed considerable respect for (of all things) Thomism, and neo-Thomism - the philosophy of Aquinas, ...
I was kind of 'testing the water'. However, in your case, it's worth discussing in depth, because I think you're seeing the point. Bhikkhu Thanissaro'...
Buddhism is of not ‘theistic’ in the Western sense, but in Chinese Buddhism, the Buddha is treated much as a deity and the Bodhisattvas a pantheon. Bu...
What you’re talking about is mental image. What traditional philosophy means by a concept is not the same as an image. Consider for example mathematic...
Really? I would certainly equate irreligious and atheist. But then I suppose with Schopenhauer you have someone bitterly critical of religion but who ...
Buddhist culture doesn't employ the lexicon of sin and salvation, but it is nevertheless assumed that beings are born as a consequence of ignorance (a...
Do you have any source for that? Or is it more something that you take for granted? It seems to me that this kind of analysis is grounded in empiricis...
I’m afraid that is something that bodhisattvas do not suppose. The hallmark of the bodhisattva path is no essential self. So by all means believe it, ...
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