Wayfarer

That is a major assignment in a University course on philosophy or intellectual history. Here's a summary by a philosophical theologian, David Bentley...

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Well, it happens to be, but to be honest only a part of that is due to me. And life is also fleeting. But then, the remark above from ‘Intrigued’ sadd...

I would like to agree, but it makes philosophy redundant. If there is no wisdom to seek, then there is no need to contemplate life’s sorrows, or their...

Makes life tough for deaf-mutes - might get hauled up on anti-discrimination grounds :-( @mitchell - you might find this interesting. Meaning and the ...

I don't think that's right. Again, I think you attribute far too much significance to the notion of the individual. It was barely present in classical...

The traditional terminology for ‘discrete things’ is ‘particulars’, in distinction from ‘universals’. I think in the classical understanding, ‘particu...

Incidentally, CloserToTruth has just published a series of interviews with David Bentley Hart, philosophical theologian. Available here.

I think the notion of 'evidence' ought to be considered a bit more deeply (and here, I'm not speaking as a Christian apologist or church-goer.) But wh...

One useful word from the lexicon of religious studies is fideism which is generally interpreted to mean that knowledge must rely on faith. ‘I believe ...

Sorry, but that's just defeatist bullshit. You might not have a grand purpose - you might not be designing a space probe or curing cancer. But even or...

It is very shocking footage, but it is also deeply perplexing, because, as you say, the monk seems to be completely poised whilst his body is being co...

I think there are compelling arguments for dualism* provided that it is clearly understood at the outset that the 'mind' is never an object of cogniti...

I don't see any reason why Thomists would say that. After all the Bible states that 'God is no respecter of persons'; and 'He who loses his life for M...

It is still predictive - you wouldn't be responding on a computer if it wasn't. In that post I was responding to subjectivism, that numbers are 'only ...

Big Pharma would certainly like you to think so.

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Buddhism avoids the term ‘saviour’, to use that terminology somewhat stereotypes the discussion.

It's an excerpt from a text on Thomist philosophy and psychology. I didn't quote it as an example of what I believe, but because it addresses the poin...

Which is exactly the conclusion you intended to reach at the outset, I suggest.

Again, an assumption of subjectivism and relativism. It is a Buddhist principle that 'each must traverse the path', but not at all that everyone has t...

I don’t think that’s true.

From Thomistic Psychology: A Philosophical Analysis of the Nature of Man, by Robert E. Brennan, O.P.; Macmillan Co., 1941.

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I was musing on the extent to which morality is dependent on thought and belief, rather than vice versa - that was all.

That was what I had in mind. It was a spontaneous reaction to Jorndoe’s post which I rather butchered, due to posing a clever riddle with an incorrect...

Thanks, Agustino - very good points, and very succinctly expressed. I will think some more about them.

‘Fall’.

I’m attending a wake at a hotel in the country.

AH! Sorry! Four letters! Must admit to ‘typing under the influence’ and made the error on account of my condition. (Consider that a hint.)

Good questions. It’s a bet situation. We aren’t really going to know but we have to try something. Many would say ‘ah well, you’re simply accepting a ...

You think? I did Landmark Education, one of their lessons is called ‘chocolate or vanilla’. It’s the way things come at you from a completely unexpect...

Thanks! An important qualification, and one I would be inclined to agree with. You’re neglecting a crucial factor, even it it’s somewhat mythical. Hin...

There are divergences. Kant did a dissertation on the Ideal Forms in his early days, but changed his view later. But arguably they became internalised...

Well there’s always Jill Bolte Taylor......

Hey, not fair. I've read the Pattee paper, Physics and Metaphysics of Biosemiotics numerous times, and also a longish essay on Peirce's idealist philo...

Hyle, matter, in the Aristotelian scheme, is incommensurable with the modern conception of matter, I suspect. Crucial point. This is something that al...

Where are numbers?

The difference I am trying to express is in respect of the use of the term ‘objective truth’. I think referring to ‘objectivity’ as a criterion for ‘w...

Is that you, tED? It seems like déjà vue, all over again. ‘No metaphysics’ is a kind of metaphysics; the worst kind, as it usually works out.

It was only because of your appeal to ‘an objective truth’ as if ‘objectivity’ is the sole criterion of truth. That is the kind of thing Rand would sa...

Are you an Ayn Rand enthusiast, by any chance?

You have not conveyed any insight into what the parable is about.

There is an abundance of leaves and twigs.

Have a look at the second half of this post

Whereas I find it comforting to know. ;-)

The other point is, many people would be flabbergasted by the simple fact that the truths of philosophy are not obvious, judging by a lot of what is w...

I think a point you’re missing is that there might be things that can only be known in the first person, that are true, but not necessarily ‘objective...

Don’t understand your beef. There are better and worse tennis players, pianists, writers, artists, scientists - not everyone has the same degree of sk...

How would 'investigating the nature of the Universe' in this manner, be any different to what science is actually doing? Again - is this something whi...