Wayfarer

Sorry if I hadn't made my point clear.

According to Christianity, by experiencing the very worst of it.

One of the interesting facts about the state of current cosmology, is that many scientifically-inclined philosophers, or rather, scientists who philos...

The problem with many of this arguments is a complete absence of understanding of the historical dimension of them. FIrst and foremost, what is 'trans...

I’ve asked a simple question directly relevant to the OP. But I know, already, if I or another poster was to venture ‘a basis’, then that would provid...

Asking 'what constitutes evidence' is a perfectly reasonable question. You say there is no basis for such a belief. So what would constitute a basis o...

It's a philosophy forum, there are philosophical arguments for and against, which are the subject matter of 'philosophy of religion'. The question is,...

We see them. These are what are called apodictic truths - those truths it would be implausible to deny./ The declaration that you don't believe in a G...

What would you be looking for? What would constitute such a basis?

RIght. Well, thanks for clearing that up.

So what are some schools or authors that avoid dualism, that are not explicitly or implicitly materialist? What kinds of current philosophy accomodate...

The thread isn't about theism or even atheism. It's a broad question, in which the only demonstrable interest you have is baiting 'theists'.

David Stove, under whom I studied Hume, observed that all of these questions could also be asked of Hume’s book, and that the answer would be negative...

I don't agree; there is voluminous evidence for the reality of such states, trans-historically and cross-culturally. It is a major aspect of neo-Plato...

It's called 'rolling with the punches'. He found out that he wasn't standing in front of one of his rallies with the bleachers full of bussed-in fans.

I will try to explain something. You and I have met personally, one of the only such actual acquaintances I have made via philosophy forums, and I tho...

Many of your arguments mine begin with ‘I can’t see why......’ No you wouldn’t. What you would like, is to argue about it. Your sole interest here is ...

Does Reason Know what it is Missing?, Stanley Fish.

Sorry but that's bollocks, unless you're talking about people like Jung, and nobody takes Jung seriously outside arts faculties. Psychiatry is a branc...

No it's not - it's an alternative understanding of the meaning of 'religion', which has been overwhelmed by the dominant narrative.

But it's not - it's situated in a domain of discourse. Again - your only modes of interpretation are limited to positivist (empirical-mathematical), o...

But, what is 'religion'? There are actually two derivations: one is 'religio', 'attitude of awe and reverence towards the Gods'. But there's also anot...

Sadhana: You see, because Protestant Christianity has made 'religion' a matter of believing the dogma, on pain of eternal hell, then we have collectiv...

Anyway, this thread and this one should be merged (and, probably, locked, but I'm not a mod.)

As I said - firewalled off. You know - 'don't mention the war'.

They might. Or they might not. A parish priest might know nothing else, but a Tantrik Sadhaka might cook a meal on pages of scripture. What I'm gettin...

To think of a few examples at random - the sacred feminine/motherhood/Mother Mary/Kwan Yin The Hero's Journey, the hero with a thousand faces. Sufferi...

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I think this idea is something very specific to modernity, mainly because of the emphasis of Luther and Calvin on ‘salvation by faith alone’ which tra...

Philosophy of religion is a perfectly respectable subject. Units on it are included in almost every philosophy curriculum. Your ‘dead-end god thing’ i...

I hope that Trump is not re-elected In fact I’d like to see him impeached for degrading the office of the Presidency and ultimately jailed for corrupt...

I think that is a reification. A field is ‘a region in which each point is affected by a force’. It occupies space and contains energy. But I don’t be...

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That is one for the scrapbook. By way of contrast, Daniel Dennett, poster-boy for materialism, insists that the first-person reality of being is itsel...

But you're barking up the wrong tree - all due respect. Not objects, forces, and stuff.

I don't think particles have any ultimate reality. In fact, I think that is one of the indisputable findings of physics. Furthermore, what I'm suggest...

Which lands you smack bang in old school materialism again, by exactly the means it was arrived at in the first place. First through Descartes' divisi...

I think you're starting, consciously or not, from a version of Cartesian dualism, which depicts the soul and the body as radically separate although j...

this is the better entry. I like him because I think philosophy is, properly, 'philo~sophia' - love-wisdom, as a way of living. Key paragraph: Transpo...

I am responding to what you say here which is about ‘salvation by faith’. That is what I am saying is not amenable to debate or discussion, whereas th...

The point is, this is a philosophy forum, and philosophy is what is being discussed. I am not at all opposed to the Christian faith, but it seems to m...

I believed in it, I woudn’t bother with a philosophy forum.

Which is exactly why you ought not to be wasting time here. And I'm not saying that to flame you or troll you, but because your attitude makes 'reason...

This is not 'pyrrhonian scepticism' but sophistry. It misses the practical aim of Pyrrho and his ilk, which is to attain the state of imperturbability...

Right. But here, you’re putting forward a philosophical argument, rather than evangelising as such. I am very open to reasoned argument for religious ...

Fair point. But I still feel that appealing to scriptural authority doesn’t have a place in a philosophy forum, unless in support of a philosophical a...

I know it was Tertullian, although the point stands. The relationship between Platonism and Christianity is actually very interesting; Origen, Clement...

You have a perfect right to believe it, but it's not really that relevant in a philosophy forum. Paul, after all, was dismissive of philosophy; 'What ...

I honestly think that many of them are driven by what Eric Fromm called 'the fear of freedom'. The freedom that is offered by the modern conception of...

My reading of 'uncertainty' is NOT that battleships will miraculously teleport, but that when you drill down to the so-called 'fundamental constituent...