That is only one interpretation of karma. I agree if it is used to justify misfortune, then it amounts to fatalism - 'it must be something I have done...
Useful classroom tutorial on the specific issue of theodicy. Makes reference to some current Christian philosophers, i.e. Richard Swinburne and John H...
Well, in one sense superstition is very much a consequence of drawing untruthful conclusions from experiences. But there's a lot more to 'karma' than ...
That name 'Yahweh' - are you familiar with the etymology and the rationale behind the etymology? As I say, I think it's because of a deficient charact...
Careful, now. There are many things that science can explain about nature, and also a pretty big number that it cannot, some of which seem very simple...
Well, I don't know. I don't think the traditional doctrine of 'imago dei' is anthropomorphic. What I think is anthropomorphic, is to regard God as if ...
The reason I'm hesitant to go into bat for Christianity is because I don't self-identify as Christian and I don't want to come off as evangalising on ...
I think you will find that impossible to validate with respect to any textual sources. The problem is that you (not just you) don't understand what is...
It has turned out that way, but it's not the intent. I think that is how it is understood in an unreligious age. I found the quote I was thinking of: ...
Well, according to Loyd Gerson, Aristotle remains a Platonist, albeit a dissedent Platonist. And eudomonia includes as its highest form of activity, c...
Your post is entirely anthropomorphic. First, even though, on the basis of what you post, you don't profess to have any actual belief in God, you thin...
'Religion' doesn't have a single meaning; the word itself is polysemic (there's a useful bit of terminology). It goes without saying that hardcore ath...
I see the myth of the fall as being a parable about self-consciousness. It symbolises the origin of language and identity. I read the synopsis of a bo...
I think critters behave like it's a good universe. They have a natural exuberance. Humans loose touch with that - that is part of the predicament of '...
I've come to the view that magic is real enough, but that it's generally unwise to rely on it. Me too. The founder of behaviourism, J B Watson, believ...
I don't really see how 'imagining how something might be different' makes any actual difference. From a humane viewpoint, it is always sad to see anim...
What you're really asking is, how could God create people who can do that kind of thing? And the textbook answer is - and this is from one who doesn't...
No - but then, neither are a lot of the bio-sciences now, out of necessity. And physics, also. The Cartesian model of mind and matter, 'exhaustive and...
I'll have a go. One of the consequences of the scientific revolution was science as a 'mode of knowing' that proceeded by deliberately bracketing out ...
The idea that I have had, was for a sci-fi story based on an event which pulverises a good deal of the earth's radiotelescopes, and a very large numbe...
I think one of the key points of McIntyre's book is the loss of any idea of telos whatsoever. The SEP entry on Aristotelean ethics notes in respect of...
I simply wonder why the occurence of such evils is regarded as 'theodicy' when in fact they are done by humans. Natural evils are things like epidemic...
Last I heard, sexual trafficking of children was done by persons. As, for that matter, was the Holocaust, and indeed all of the deaths in the Second W...
It might be the cost of anything happening. Stuff usually occurs in pairs - up/down, north/south, day/night. And you can't have one without the other ...
I worked for eight years for a company with 'Global' in its name. I used to joke that when they had riots in Davos about the evils of globalism, it wa...
Are you familiar with After Virtue by Alisdair McIntyre? It is said to be one of the seminal texts of modern ethical theory. The central thesis is... ...
Strictly Freudian. Nothing to do with the romantics AFAIK. (New book out - Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity, Denis Noble. The first cu...
The nature of number is a fascinating philosophical question, best summed up as: are numbers and mathematical functions invented or discovered? Are ma...
You say 'all four causes', but one of them is a final cause, a telos, which is, I think, what your naturalistic ethos doesn't recognise. Isn't everyth...
Not 'understood to be', but 'misinterpreted as emotional manipulation', by you. Anyway, it is plainly pointless to continue, you haven't shown any int...
As I tried to explain, twice, the original citation wasn't about 'violence' but 'the degradation of culture', under the title Barbarism, but the point...
According to Steve Pinker. And I do accept in the overall upward trajectory in the way humans treat each other, much of it due to the civilizing influ...
The quote was from an essay called 'Barbarism', by a French philosopher, named Michel Henry. It was made in the context of the debate about Daniel Den...
I think 'competence without comprehension' describes Dennett very well. The word I used, and the passage I referred to, wasn't about violence as such,...
That's a very interesting post Ernest. I'm reading a popular account of Plato and Aristotle, received for a Christmas gift, The Cave and the Light: Pl...
Not at all. He set the template for much of later positivism, and also the emotive theory of ethics (a.k.a. 'boo/hurrah' theory.) The point is that li...
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