Wayfarer

'Epicurus believed that what he called "pleasure" (?????) was the greatest good, but that the way to attain such pleasure was to live modestly, to gai...

Fair enough, I think you are considering it from a philosophical perspective. They're difficult questions. As I didn't get confirmed as a Christian th...

There are no points awarded here, or none worth vying for anyway. So I’m not trying to score points, merely to make one.

I do question some of the popular modern interpretations of Buddhism although I don't concur with the criticisms you made of it in the beginning of th...

Right! And also, not to be forgotten, Trump saying at a campaign stop around that time, that he would have 'really big news on Hillary' next Monday (i...

All things - i.e. all objects of experience - have three characteristics - anicca, anatta, dhukka - impermanent, not-self, and unsatisfying. That's ge...

This is really a question for a Christian forum, or a theology forum, rather than a philosophy forum. There are many philosophical arguments for and a...

I understand that. I don't know if Aristotle directly addressed that question, but I do recall that there was a sense in which he said that 'the conte...

I think it's relevant. I'm not sure how Aristotle conceived of the final end of human existence, but I'm fairly certain it wasn't in terms of maximisa...

And for a definite end. You might remind us again what that end or purpose might be, in respect of the world as a whole.

I recall they did. Then there was a very strong rumour that Snr. helped draft a statement about the meeting after the news of it broke, whilst on Air ...

Google Trump Cohen. This could be the dam wall going.

:yikes:

Modern psychology, as a discipline, has major issues, though. Whether it is really a science, and what the basic scope of its subject-matter is, are s...

I had the idea that human rights, generally, originated with Christianity, on the basis that Christ was believed to have offered salvation to all who ...

Nothing much - other than that the nous poetikos was subsequently abandoned (after its transformation by Descartes into res cogitans.) It was the semi...

The commentary in the fake media NY Times, Washington Post, The Daily Beast And Slate - all available online, although some pay-walled - provides plen...

Hope you're right, but it's terrible it's come to this. 'Transparency' has nothing to do with it - it is a blatant attempt to hobble a legitimate and ...

No, I don't think it is. But it's another topic. Maybe another thread.

But the point I'm making is that humans possess an essential requirement for rationality, which is the ability to form concepts and understand abstrac...

This just in: Republicans have introduced Articles of Impeachment against Rod Rosenstein. Disgraceful attack on the rule of law by corrupt partisan po...

I think you're correct, my presentation of it is revisionist - it refers to what Platonism became, rather that what the historical Plato said. My init...

I would be interested in your take on Feser's argument concerning the nature of concepts, then. A brief excerpt: I interpret Plato's 'mystical intuiti...

Thanks! Great to have such a learned contributor join. I've looked up your book and judging by the abstract, very much the kind of thing I'm intereste...

You know - 'real'. There is something beyond the will. There's your problem right there.:wink: I've seen all this discussion about living things being...

BUT - large 'but' - Schopenhauer at least recognized that what he described as asceticism provided a way of transcending the will. Granted, the way he...

As I said - first-person. It is about reality as lived, not as modelled or scientifically analysed. You can only discover how good a rock-climber you ...

Trump is plainly incompetent for the job. The only reason he got elected is that there are sufficient numbers of people who are incapable of comprehen...

Today in Slate - the sane Republicans are trying to reach The Donald through the only medium he pays any attention to, namely television: These Republ...

You’re prettty adept at complaining, yourself. :smile:

I am interested in the tectonics, so to speak. It is expressed outwardly in terms of belief and unbelief, but they're outer manifestations of a deeper...

Yes, it's remarkable that anyone that lived before yesterday could even tie up their shoes, really. Let alone say anything meaningful. I can imagine t...

Obviously, in a two-dimensional world, accounts of three-dimensional objects will always be dismissed or misunderstood. But the evidence is the accoun...

That's what a secular account would say, as by definition, it can't accomodate the soteriological dimension, as there's nothing in its conceptual fram...

I'm not denying empiricism. I am denying the empiricist dogma of 'no innate ideas'. And I'm denying that naturalism explains mathematics (and the rest...

It 'relates', because it is used to make predictions and calculations. Isn't it revealed when mathematical analysis is used to generate new discoverie...

Fair enough. Thanks for the feedback, and also for the very civil discussion.

Bush was a completely different kind of problem. I would never defend W., but I don't think there were ever grounds for impeachment. Trump's behaviour...

If this act of blatant perfidy doesn’t bring and end to the Trump juggernaut, then God help us.

What about livers? Did we have to know what they were for before they started secreting enzymes? Part of the definition of a thing, is the purpose it ...

‘There is overwhelming evidence that our president, for the first time in our history, is deliberately or through gross negligence or because of his o...

Congress should commence impeachment proceedings for treason immediately. That they won’t, signifies the extreme peril that the US has now placed itse...

Which explains nothing about it. Were early humans to have seen things like that, we would never have come down the trees. If there was no purpose for...

Fair enough, I will take that on board. However, essence and substance are basic to Aristotle, even if he differed with Platonism on the reality of fo...

For instance: I didn't ignore them. The post you're criticising was in response to a question about the differences between Plato and Aristotle in res...

I'll make another effort to explain how I understand it. The 'domain of natural numbers' is not a literal place, it doesn't actually exist, like the G...

That's more or less all I'm on about. For some reason, it seems vastly controversial. It’s one thing to improve on or supersede current knowledge and ...

It's a fair representation of what he says. There's a summary in The Core of Mind and Cosmos. But, in terms of causation, where does the process origi...

Do you mean 'intelligibility'? Assuming you do mean that - the Greek tradition generally distinguishes intellect (which is the faculty that grasps int...

I input that character string into Google Translate on a whim, and that is what it came back with. But then I thought better of it, and changed it bac...