Wayfarer

Plotinus defined much of what we now know as philosophy. That his teaching has much in common with Vedanta is because they both arise from the same he...

They won't impeach. The Republican party has shown utterly craven and contemptible disregard for Trump's obvious incompetence, because he won the elec...

Amongst the many dispiriting and depressing things about Trump is the amount of air-time and column inches are devoted to stories about things he's sa...

Yes, speaking figuratively, but nonetheless truly.

Hey porn is fantastic, but the problem is, it belongs to the devil.

As I explained above, views have shifted on what's normal. Accordingly, this is a conflict of views that are essentially incommensurables. Sooner both...

I'm commeniting on social attitudes towards sexuality and porn from a conservative point of view. The views I express are not exclusive to myself, the...

I've been called worse. Isn't everything? That would make an interesting discussion.

You mean, you were astonished when you discovered ethical subjectivism?

Well, the Wikipedia article says that the main two waves of the Sexual Revolution were the 1920's and then the 60's, but the term itself hails from th...

Something that I think should be mentioned is the Sexual Revolution which unfolded during the last 100 years, culminating in the 1960's. A lot of peop...

Agree with Noble Dust

Hey, good advice, and what I've decided to do.

actually I will say, nobody in the workplace are creeps, they're generally very nice folks, and considerate. But I really don't think they need what I...

I think it's reality for very many people nowadays, specially young adult males. They find it impossible to relate to actual women because of their co...

I wonder. Performers of both genders frequently engage in acts which would have been regarded as degrading or inherently immoral not too long ago. Now...

At the time it started, I was blithely unaware of the implications. There had been a family that used to drive up from the City every weekend, which h...

I kind of, sort of, dropped out after high school, which I had done badly at. It was just after Woodstock, there was this feeling in the air of there ...

Isn't it more that for those who cannot be persuaded by reasoned argument are likely to be less swayed by philosophy? So for them, a carrot-and-stick ...

Totally relate to that. I stumbled into an accidental career in computer technology, when I went back to finish my Honours year in comparative religio...

It would help if you cited a few passages which illustrate what you claim Plato to have said. The Greek Gods were far from morally perfect and are oft...

Definitely not. It would have grossed nearly 6 figures, for working from home, on cutting-edge technology. It is the kind of job you get, to avoid job...

thanks mcd. I'm already feeling bad for bleeting. I'll have to balance while bleeting;-)

There's an asymmetry at work in this question. For the atheist, all that is at stake is a belief. As far as they're concerned, it is simply a matter o...

Are you aware of the Platonic dialog The Protagoras? Many of these concerns are anticipated by this. It is the source of the oft-quoted saying 'man is...

That's great Woz - glad to hear that. If you can string it together, that kind of work brings a great sense of freedom with it.

Thanks BC - although the Buddha only points the way, it's us who have to walk it. Part of me wants to walk away from the workforce, but I could potent...

Thanks Woz, but it's whether there is another chance, that is at issue. I mean, a lot of people are in this situation, what with the 'casualisation' o...

Well, sure, from the perspective of history and comparative religion (which I majored in, by the way). But the point I was making with the 'water' ana...

It's interesting how so many people are willing to attribute the kind of liberalism to Islam which Islam itself seems to be doing everything possible ...

I think your issue is with religious authority, or authority figures. As you say, Western religion is very different in Buddhism which empowers the li...

Actually it's from Genesis, when the Lord is asked His identity, he answers 'I am that I am'. Nietzsche, as you're no doubt aware, predicted that nihi...

I think that is rather more modest than what Hegel was shooting for. ;-)

Ahok, the ethnic Christian-Chinese governor of Jakarta, has been found guilty of blasphemy, for disputing the fundamentalist interpretation of the Kor...

One thing I find problematical in many of these quotes is the usage of the word 'ego'. I think my understanding is more in line with Freud's who of co...

I think there is a lot of misunderstanding about God 'sending people to hell'. I really don't believe in such a God. I interpret it more broadly, but ...

It was this:

I think because he believes it. Ever read Stephen M Barr - physicist and Jesuit? There are many Catholic teachers and intellectuals for whom I have a ...

Notice that I had amended that last barbed comment I made which was written in haste, before your quote of it appeared. That's what I mean by the 'one...

Noticed that a couple of years ago, put it on the list of things I ought to read but probably never will. (I have Taylor's 'Secular Age' and it's most...

And, why do they matter? Why all the sturm und drang, about this idea, in particular? I don't believe that 'the Christian God' is comparable to Zeus o...

But it does condemn comparative religion holus bolus, doesn't it? The question that it leads me to ask is: do you think all religions are false, or th...

You can go beyond metaphysics, or you can fall short of it. There's a big difference.

Nice obituary in First Things with some insightful commentary on Dreyfus' particular philosophical concerns.

The condition of nobility is the absence of egoism. It's all downhill after that.

. Nietszche was in some ways like a necessary corrective, or a harbinger of the enormous changes that he was on the cusp of. His was an insanely creat...

What utter bollocks. The scare quotes serve a useful purpose here. What actually happens is that the mind constantly vacillates between 'self and othe...

So - when Jesus says 'he that drinks of the water of which I speak will thirst no more', what this is a reference to, is this scam whereby one of the ...

I think the formal theological understandiing is 'transcendent yet immanent' - appearing in the world yet not of the world (John17:16). If Jesus means...

Isn't that historicism, or historical reductionism?