All these pages are about nothing, then. In any case, there were big protests about the jailing of Ahok in Indonesia, with many moderates, and non-Mus...
'Logical positivism' is associated with a book called Language Truth and Logic, published in 1936 by A J Ayer, and still on the curriculum in many phi...
It's not about people, but the politics and religion, and their relationship. All of your comments on the issue are motivated by respect for individua...
Fair enough. I think what I'm trying to get at is a 'domain of real values', which in itself seems a paradoxical idea in today's world. But I think yo...
There's a revealing article in the NY Times today, about how the 'conservative media'/Trump supporters are depicting Trump's problems. According to th...
It's more that you can't really get the detail of the arguments from just reading reviews. The one I started with was Gillespie's book, which I think ...
please do note that I referred to two books and a journal article in support of the point, which I acknowledge would be a very hard argument to make i...
Fundamentalism in the sense that it was accompanied by the dissolution of the understanding of the 'great chain of being' and the 'intelligible nature...
Right - perfectly true. But, it's not so simple, because each of us are also instantiations of cultural and psychic archetypes, so are born with innat...
Essay question! 'Comment on the attraction of Plotinus to the early Greek-speaking theologians, and the ways that they agreed with, and differentiated...
I think your children will absorb and reflect the environment they're raised in. What they want most is security, love, predictability, and the freedo...
I only quoted it. So 'what I mean' is not particularly relevant. There is a page of commentaries on the verse here. I am taken aback that this is rega...
The quote provided is perfectly unequivocal, and is accepted by all the Christian churches. 'He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.' Joh...
Come off it, MU. That 'God is love' is a central plank of Christianity. If you're going to argue about that, there's no point in discussing it, becaus...
I suspect that Nietszche's misunderstanding and subsequent mis-representation of Kant's 'copernican revolution in philosophy', set the stage for the '...
That latter book is the foundation text of the San Francisco Zen Centre which I think is fair to say has become a major cultural influence in contempo...
I think that value could be describe in terms of qualitative judgement, rather than as being simply subjective. Certainly it's subjective in the sense...
However, a lot of Platonism was absorbed into Christian theology, through many of the Greek-speaking Church Fathers, not least Origen and Clement and ...
Actually that is much nearer to what I probably meant to say. It is that recognition, not of something you didn't know previously, but the meaning of ...
The other poll question, 'open to conversion', prompts me to say a few things about 'conversion'. When I first encountered 'spiritual philosophy' (I p...
Western convert to Buddhism from a Christian cultural background but brought up in non-religious family. Read a large number of spiritual books and so...
Science informs us about aspects or parts of reality - and is an indispensable method for doing so. But the modern scientific method deliberately excl...
Not at all true. I am a scientific realist but a transcendental idealist. I have huge respect for science, progress, and democratic and liberal values...
. Tendentious, maybe, but that's ad hominem (again). Unfortunately for Einstein, he was proved decisively wrong in this matter, as 'god' does indeed '...
I think 'siezed upon by modernity' is closer to the mark. As the Kelly Ross article says, I think that he's much nearer to medieval Jewish and Islamic...
I did study Spinoza as an undergraduate. But his philosophy is, like all philosophy, a corrective. It is a cure for the condition of ignorance that th...
Right. Which rules out him being materialist. I don't think that Spinoza understands 'nature' in the way that 'modern naturalism' understands 'nature'...
That can't be right. If he was a materialist, all he would be doing is saying 'the cosmos is God'. Carl Sagan might believe that, but I don't think Sp...
Unless one suffers from the lamentable condition which the Greeks knew as 'akrasia', or weakness of will, which manifests as 'acting against one's bet...
I think I understand, but I would be mindful of the use of 'love' in such a context. I wonder what the original was? I think his original works were L...
What is now known as 'science' used to be called 'philosophy' - for example in Newton's day, he referred to his own work as 'philosophy', as did Galil...
There was a PBS documentary on porn - it's more than 10 years old but still relevant http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn/ There's also ...
The issue with love is that it has so many meanings and dimensions. In the ancient world, there was a distinction between agáp?, philia, eros, and sto...
@Apokrisis - interested in your take on the article from which this excerpt is taken. It uses a notion of 'potential' to address some of the well-know...
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