Wayfarer

Forums are too often a hall of mirrors; they lack the experiential dimension of philosophy. Even though there are many different voices, it is all med...

maybe, find a new hobby.

'Most folks are as happy as they want to be' ~ Lincoln

Indeed. Now you’re getting it. :ok:

Good luck with that in a Kant tute. :wink:

Your second sentence contradicts the first; because the precise import of Kant’s ‘Copernican revolution in philosophy’ is that things conform to thoug...

They exist independently of particular minds, but are nevertheless only perceptible to a rational intellect. Hence, ‘real ideas’ - which is close to t...

Is there anywhere in the Bible, or other sacred texts for that matter, where a promise or commitment is made ‘there shalt be no suffering or evil in t...

Well, considering the nature of the physical world. This one, in particular, happens to be volcanic, i.e. has a hot core, and the tectonic plates shif...

Christian doctrine says that individuals must be free to choose good or evil. If you could only do good, then it wouldn't have any meaning - you'd be ...

“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make t...

How could it be otherwise? We're intelligent rational beings who are required to interpret the meaning of things. It's simply that your post is pervad...

Your post assumes that everyone else feels the same way. They might not; it might be a matter of perspective.

This is the post in question. Actually the first response to that OP was from 180 Proof, who responded quite positively. (Indeed I think it was the on...

My first forum post, way back, was about the reality of number. I argued that numbers are real on the basis that they are the same for anyone who can ...

A straightforward Christian response is that the consensus view of what amounts to ‘good’ is flawed. Nowhere in the Bible or other sacred texts, is it...

I really don’t think you can appeal to evolutionary biology in support of logic, as I tried to explain in my initial response. When you’re asking why ...

Of course I agree with you, and that is the way I see things also. But in a great deal of modern philosophy, there is an assumed conflict between fait...

Well I agree with Banno there’s a fair amount of goatism on this board right now but you have to realise, goats will eat almost anything.

From a Chinese Buddhist scripture: From the Parmenides: They're both 'axial age' sources, hence the parallels.

Children who recall previous lives. Pondering Miracles, Medical and Religious .

:pray:

That's not really what I'm saying. What impressed me when I was given the Eastern books that I mentioned - Watts, Suzuki, etc, very popular in the 196...

Aw shucks, and bollocks. It is, of course, abhorrent, but not what I had in mind as the main cause of the perceived conflict between faith (church) an...

Apologies for my many shortcomings in explaining what I mean. I do tend to follow flights of ideas. Anyway - my basic view, without trying to launch i...

I think it's quite a defensible argument, as a matter of fact, and 'the Western cultural tradition' is, or at least was, a Christian tradition, and ma...

I read an insightful and witty analysis of ‘Internet atheism’ once, comparing the species to the moray eel. Morays are always located in a crevice fro...

Got any in mind? Hey, I’m not a Stanley Jaki fan in particular. I’ve run across his ideas and books over the years - actually was introduced to him by...

Yeah good luck with that. :smile:

Really interesting questions. I have the view that it is misleading to try and expain logic, (or more broadly speaking rationality) as logic is what i...

Is mathematics real 'in and of itself'? I would have thought that it is inextricably bound to the act of calculation. I don't presume to present any k...

What do you mean, 'do'? Have you ever encountered Eugene Wigner's essay, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences? It was...

What is at issue in all this is as per the title of the book: what is real? It seems blaringly obvious to me that quantum physics challenges any reali...

:up: I've just about finished Adam Becker's recent book What is Real? He says that Einstein's scientific realism was right all along, and Niels Bohr e...

What you - not just you - are loosing sight of here is the understanding that there are things, the very knowledge of which are transformative. Meanin...

You would only ever expect hooey from a monk, wouldn’t you? Even if he did have three doctorates to his name.

Which uses maths to account for anomalous observations. The whole history of physics is littered with them. SO maths makes predictions which then eith...

I wonder what use would have been made of fossil fuels in the absence of engines which burn them. In any case, I think the argument that Western cultu...

Religious organisations who print religious books and hand them out for nothing; charitable orders who create soup kitchens and provide services to th...

I have had the subversive idea from time to time that 'God' is not actually 'a god' at all, but that the only way the 'first principle' or 'original c...

Well, if you want to forego the obvious advantages of having dedicated care-givers who act from a sense of duty to God and mankind, in favour of them ...

Interesting. I'm increasingly of the view that 'religion' encodes some fundamental understanding, among other things. But this fundamental understandi...

There's an asymmetry underlying this question though. From the atheist point of view, all that is at stake is a fallacious belief; because it has no r...

I read The Bare Faced Messiah (which 'the church' bent over backwards to prevent from being published) in the late 1980's, it depicts Hubbard as a cha...

you're doing great fdrake, it's been a maelstrom on this topic of late.

You might enjoy this review of Daniel Dennett's attempt to 'explain' religion in just these terms.

This is a philosophy forum. I suggest you find a Christian forum - there are many - and pose your question there.

David Stove would be chuckling in his grave. Metaphorically, of course.

You need to understand 'line breaks'.

I'm actually interested in philosophy of religion. And it's interesting that there is a foment of threads about spiritual and metaphysical issues on t...