I would be interested in your view of this interpretation: I understand the in-itself to refer to the world (or object) prior to or outside the way it...
I’m afraid to say nothing about Clive Palmer is fresh. Everything about him is stale, verging on putrid. That media organisations have to feed off his...
A single sentence does not make an original post. If it's worth stating, it's worth spending at least a bit of time on spelling out an argument. See H...
The 'substance' of Aristotelian philosophy resulted from the Latin translation of the Greek 'ouisia' . But ‘ouisua’ is the Greek verb meaning 'to be'....
This is another example of the use of amorphous terms such as 'The President's Agenda' to rationalise actions that Federal Judges have found illegal a...
There is an unstated allegory lurking behind this example, or so it seems to me. Here the effect of an electrical impulse on the key is an allegory fo...
It requires a philosophical stance that doesn’t axiomatically take the human situation as an end in and of itself, and so is not so solely beholden to...
But it also needs to be made clear that Trump has no intention of balancing the budget. Yes, Trump-Musk will take the chainsaw to many government prog...
Don't know if that's true. One of the painful facts about Musk is that he seemed he might have been a genuine business titan, considering how he boots...
I agree. There is a sense in the great traditions that being born is itself a kind of fall. Plato says as much in a number of dialogues. In Buddhist l...
I recently watched an interesting documentary on Mt Athos, the Orthodox monastery complex. Towards the end, the head monk re-affirms that final union ...
Why oh why does Clive Palmer keep appearing with his buckets of money and gormless advertising campaigns? The Australian Trumpets or whatever he's cal...
Unlike what Trump says, Ukraine does have some cards. They’ve agreed with Trump - EXTRA BONUS POINTS - plus they have something the US wants namely ra...
It's important to understand the link between Kant and cognitive science. Scholars recognise that Kant understood, in a way that nobody before him did...
Kant was an empirical realist, from which perspective he would say, 'of course'. But he was also a transcendental idealist, so he would ask you 'what ...
I think - and I think Kant also thought, although he was not explicit about it - that knowing the truth has a spiritual dimension. There is an insight...
I would ask you, what about the human faculties do you think enables them to arrive at an understanding of the true nature of reality? I think the hal...
All due respect, if you wish to study philosophy, this is something that you will need to be able to question. It seems obvious, but then an important...
On the distinction between the noumenal and the in-itself. They are distinguished, but the distinction is subtle. Ding an sich (Thing-in-itself): This...
Schopenhauer invokes the antinomies of reason in respect of evolution: Bolds added Kant's great idea: that science is the science of appearances, and ...
Not surprising when a secessionist is put into the Oval Office. America has elected an enemy of the state to lead the state. He’ll work on destroying ...
So, never mind that Trump's hare-brained tarrif wars are tanking the share market. Never mind that his war on US Aid is greatly excacerbating the worl...
From the article ‘the most potent examples of irony emerge from scenarios in which objects and the expected meaning in their context appear perpendicu...
No, I think you’re on the right track. It’s a little like humor or explaining a joke - if you have to explain why a joke is funny then it’s not funny....
I have many arguments in this forum as to whether humans are categorically different to other animals. Most say they’re not, but ironically that’s som...
It ‘indicates’ that most of the 80,000 workers were offered $25,000 to quit their jobs. Poor Elon! Must be just awful for him. When all he’s doing is ...
Now they're coming for public medicine: Doesn't it matter to anyone that Trump is attacking and dissolving essential government services from within? ...
Agree. I think nowadays everyone is tremendously over-stimulated by media and advertising. Two of my grandchildren are boys, 3 and 6. They're totally ...
Now we read that Trump has started to attack the CHIPS act, which is aimed at boosting US self-reliance in advanced chip manufacturing. It has strong ...
One of the paradoxes of current culture, although far more obvious in the US, is that fact that on the one hand, we are so ready to expect government ...
There's a book by an analytical philosopher, Mark Johnston (Princeton, from memory) - Surviving Death. He attempts to stay firmly within the naturalis...
Inclined to agree. But most will mistake consciousness for one's own conscious self-awareness, which is but the tip of a very large iceberg. In Buddhi...
I was responding to the OP, not to you. ....although I will say that individuals are born into specific times and places, with some kinds of apparentl...
I’ve always had the belief that what is understood in the east as Sa?s?ra - the eternal cycle of birth and death - captures some fundamental truth abo...
Don't agree. The US system has its problems, but it has held up for 237 years - until now. And now a convicted criminal and secessionist with an emorm...
Now Trump, having said an Lies Social that he would put harder sanctions on Russia, then turns around to reporters in the Oval Office and "expressed u...
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