That's the debate between Aristotle and Plato in a nutshell: Plato has it that the ideas are real quite apart from any instance of them, Aristotle tha...
That's a really excellent question, and a topic that is near to my heart. I've debated it up hill and down dale for years, but I'll try and sketch out...
The problem is that 'realm' is a metaphorical or allegorical description. It is not some place or ghostly ethereal realm. Here's a book called Thinkin...
Karma is really a kind of watershed between Eastern and Semitic religions. It must entail one or another kind of reincarnation or rebirth, if karma is...
How does that sit against Donald Hoffman's 'conscious realism', and his claim that we don't see reality as it is, but only as evolution has shaped us ...
Not in the least. You ask 'what is reality', my answer is intended to convey that it has to be meaningful as a lived reality, not as an abstraction or...
I completely understand your concern. My off-the-cuff answer is that reality is lived. That response is more in keeping with European philosophy, and ...
As an advocate for idealist philosophy, I hoped that Hoffman would provide grist for that particular mill. I've purchased and read parts of his The Ca...
Looks like Dutton (opposition leader) has lost his seat! If so I would think it likely that his political career is over. Won’t be missed, by me, anyw...
Yes, according to Chat: There’s no officially recognized or widely used clinical term specifically for a phobia of vote-counting. However, one could c...
There's always a fire hydrant of Trump news stories, but this one is major: a judge has struck down his executive order aimed at punishing the law fir...
Right! Most election nights, I've been with family and friends, pizza, drinks, and much conversation, till about midnight. Tonight, though, it will be...
You do wonder when what the media is euphemistically describing as Trump’s radical downsizing of Federal agencies and departments will be seen for wha...
In Jungian psychology, voluntary suffering refers to the conscious acceptance of life’s inevitable pain as a means of psychological growth and individ...
Surely you can understand how unknown planets and unknown universes are on a different ontological plane? The universe being ‘the totality of what exi...
Surely one of the issues that animates this—and many other—conversations about religion is the disconnect between religious and mythological imagery a...
The Sydney Morning Herald came out with an endorsement for Labor today. It was hardly ringing, saying that Albanese was a small-target, cautious polit...
Didn’t notice it. But then, Albo gave him more or less a red-carpet welcome when he was released// having also worked very hard for it// it would have...
One thing I've said before, is that it's bad that exploring the option of nuclear energy became a partisan political issue. I don't believe Australia ...
True. Fined for not turning up. I don't want to say anything about 'foregone conclusion' but it seems awfully like Labor will win another term. I don'...
We received electoral commission mail with fines for my adult son for not voting, for a few years after he moved to the US. He eventually had to fill ...
Might it not be along the lines that necessary truths don’t have further explanation? The epistemological buck has to stop somewhere. (I'm not at all ...
We have had personal tragedies in my immediate and extended family, but I’ve never felt that it was something God did. The question ‘how could God let...
Plato certainly did not believe that the Good was a human invention. That was more the view of Protagoras, 'man is the measure of all things', the anc...
In which case, they're completely irrelevant in any sense other than providing rhetorical elbow-room in which any claim whatever can be accomodated. I...
But of course! Dear Leader can literally do no wrong - whenever anything wrong happens, it's always someone else. Like with the poll numbers. Pollster...
I can see that. But I still feel that what we experience as divine indifference is understandable in the Augustinian framework of the privation (or de...
Well, Phase One of the Musk Plutocracy is apparently at an end. Musk has put down the chainsaw, although I have no confidence that the damage that was...
I was rather struck by the William Butler Yeats quote, 'man can embody the truth, but he cannot know it', written days before his death in a letter to...
I'm interested in the truth of the matter, not 'what people say'. It's obvious that a lot of what goes on in the name of religions is a complete trave...
But again this predicated on the expectation that existence ought to be a state of perfection, or a state of being where there is no suffering, predat...
So, 'salvation' is an empty word, a cruel hoax on mankind. There has never been such a state, the whole thing is a monstrous lie, foisted on mankind b...
As always, the Donald is immune to reason. He's besotted with 'strong man' Putin, that explains practically all there is to know. And he lacks the ins...
Poll results show that most Americans see Trump as a "dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy" (52%) co...
Not at all, but there is no evidence of such. I mean ‘rational intelligence’. And there’s also no grounds to entertain the idea of a universe with ‘di...
But the point about integers remains. I'm sure a better-educated Platonist physicist than myself could make something profound out of it. Re nihilism,...
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