This statement in the OP is inane: She can do that because the law protects her from assault - as it ought to. Do you want to argue that it ought not ...
There is a political debate going on in Australia about whether there ought to be a plebiscite (like a referendum) on whether to allow same-sex marria...
It's also salutory to contemplate how easily the passages quoted by Ciceronianus could fall from the lips of the Taliban (especially the fourth. Which...
What I observed was that there are Christian philosophers who say that 'hell' or 'damnation' can be understood as the rejection of salvation, so, in s...
Sorry, I meant 'conventional and supramundane' (sa?v?iti and Param?rtha). The latter means 'supreme' or 'ultimate'; 'supramundane' is 'beyond the worl...
I think that is quite an intelligible middle way; it is original meaning of 'synergy', a term which was coined in just this context. (I think overall ...
That is a recapitulation of an ancient idea of 'man as microcosm'. And if you use the word 'subject' instead of 'substance' it makes a lot more sense ...
I don't think the interpretation of hell as being a consequence of rejection of the good, is the least unorthodox. That's why I quoted Lewis. I think ...
I have been looking into Herbert McCabe, noted above, who seems an estimable philosopher of religion. In his Wikipedia entry: With which I can only ag...
...for one willing to die for it! This is really a discussion about the nature of knowledge. I think there is a distinction to be made between 'mundan...
Well, what would? Hit me with an apodictic truth, and I'll see if I can doubt it. incidentally, adding entirely new concepts to something you have quo...
It's not circular reasoning, it is called apodictic truth, i.e. a truth which it is not feasible to doubt. The fact that you're able to argue the case...
I don't think you understand the purpose of the argument. It is simply that, in order to think, doubt, or say anything, there must be someone who thin...
I think you're crossing the line in your responses to the position of saying that nothing whatever can be known by anyone, in which case, discussion i...
I agree that pre-destination seems an extremely perplexing thing to accept, in light of God's supposed benevolence, and a stumbling block for many peo...
The parable of the blind men and the elephant is another thing altogether. It is about the tendency of pundits (philosophers) who cannot see the big p...
I think that the term 'object' is being used metaphorically in all of those examples. I don't think Deity is ever really 'an object' in any sense but ...
There's a saying from a rather controversial and radical Buddhist teacher, 'ruthless compassion'. Ruthless compassion is, well, compassion - it will d...
Actually I just briefly scanned the Wikipedia entry on Leibniz' Best of all Worlds argument, and something about struck me. Leibniz argues that God co...
Actually I think it is more radical than that, from our vantage point. I think the key here is that we're dealing with a metaphysic which is based on ...
They don't see each other. That's why they're 'windowless'. They/we all see the same things, which makes it seem that we see each other, but whatever ...
But I don't know how you would go about it. I mean, you can build public housing - we have that here too, but it's reserved for those who are permanen...
In this matter, no words are really suitable, Watts is trying to use a lexicon which doesn't favour any particular religion. That book, by the way, is...
Here in Sydney, it's also a huge issue. Perfectly ordinary small suburban houses, in very run-of-the-mill suburbs, now routinely sell for A$1.5 millio...
I read the Aristotelean claim as 'substance (ouisia) is that which is always subject, never predicate'. It is that which undergoes or bears. But wheth...
(De Div. Nom. I.3.77; quoted in Fran O’Rourke, Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas, p. 49) https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/st-tho...
The point is that in all the Semitic religions - Jewish, Christian, Islamic - the Lord is literally unknowable or inconceivable in some fundamental wa...
There's a book about that, called The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot, it's around as a .PDF. Holographic analogies are quite popular in current ...
Leibniz' 'pre-established harmony' is indeed a very far-fetched philosophical theory. BUT, in Yogacara Buddhism, which is 'mind-only' Buddhism, there ...
@Agostino - Sydney is indeed an expensive city, when both of us are working we make what would be considered a huge income in a lot of places, but the...
Physics! 'The atom' was supposed to be the 'indivisible unit'. Didn't work out! So Leibniz' assertion that 'everything extended is aggregate' still lo...
@Agostino - I work as a technical writer, doing systems documentation, configuration guides, and the like. Such jobs pay at the rate of around $500-$6...
New Zealand is great, only been there once but it is a great country. I think John Key is really capable political leader, its booming - net Aus-NZ mi...
But Leibniz would respond that both of us are monads, each with our unique experience, which is organised by a pre-established harmony in such a way t...
I do have some friends who have moved to Thailand. I think, if I were single, I might consider that, but family ties are strong, and we have dependent...
I do wish we were in geographical proximity, I'd ask you 'round for a cup of tea. In some ways, technical writing has been almost like an independent ...
I believe Hegel's word was 'geist', which is translated as 'mind' in some contexts and 'spirit' in others; the Wiki article on Phenomenology says, 'Th...
The idea that 'extended entities are infinitely divisible' makes complete sense to me and has been borne out by science, I think. But the problem is c...
In that case, try *NOT* turning up on public forums and saying that you are feeling like ending it all. There are particular comments that are 'trigge...
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