Wayfarer

It's philosophy 101, right? That section of the Republic is plainly allegorical, with the Sun representing the knowledge of the Good, towards which al...

Hermeneutics, right? Interpretation of ancient texts. The allegory of the cave being on of the foundational texts of Western culture and being about t...

I’m happy to have delved into the book, as I’d noticed it before it was brought up here, but had been put off by the reviews and its perceived obtusen...

It would - but by what measure? In the absence of awareness of past-present-future then what is time? We of course can comprehend the world before lif...

:rofl: Isn’t it about our lack of insight? The absence of wisdom? Not seeing what is real? That’s how I’ve always interpreted it. I don’t think the an...

But its meaning is to differentiate the natural from the artificial, as per the examples given above. If you extend the meaning of ‘natural’ to encomp...

In which case ‘natural’ has no meaning, because it doesn’t differentiate anything. Three examples: 1. Light: Sunlight (natural) vs. LED bulbs (artific...

I already said

I guess he thinks <p>.

I know, I know. I've promised myself, and everyone here, to 'stop posting about Trump', about a million times. But I can't look away, it's just too aw...

Hey Pierre-Normand - Wrong thread, I'm afraid. This one is about the imminent demise of American constitutional democracy.

As I’ve said, I see the modern idolisation of nature as a kind of nostalgia, where nature is beautiful and nurturing and pure and innocent. Love of na...

Earlier in this thread, I paraphrased the old saying ‘when America sneezes the whole world catches a cold.’ America is doing much worse than sneezing,...

:up: Bernie Sanders never tires of pointing out that the World’s Richest Man made $150 billion in the two weeks following the election. It’s why I re-...

:lol: The commentary said that Trump seemed a sideshow in the Oval Office, seemed distracted by the kid (pet name 'X' :vomit: )

there's rather a good article on Aeon, just popped up, by Peter Harrison, who's books have been mentioned here from time to time, The Birth of Natural...

https://www.hydrotech-group.com/files/ckeditor/ostrov%20plastov/ostrov%20plastov.png Definitely not!

Just making the information available for those interested. You're under no compulsion to read it, you can keep enjoying your 'very nice life'.

Orwellian - says 'we are being transparent', when in actual fact, nobody has the slightest idea where Musk is getting his information from, what his p...

So ‘natural’ means ‘anything whatever’. Meaning, it has no definition.

The Musk appearance in the office was also reported by the NY Times. It's basically a hostile takeover of the functions of the Federal Government. It ...

Trump goes all in on DOGE How he's had time to 'find' billions and billions in the three frantic weeks since the inauguration is anyone's guess, altho...

Like I said: If nature refers to the ecosystem prior to or outside of human manufacture or artifacts, then I can't see how that is an especially probl...

If 'artefact' means 'something made' then only h.sapiens can really manage that, courtesy of the famous opposable thumbs (although that is common to a...

I question that, Russell. If you were parachuted into a completely natural environment with no artifacts and minimal clothing, I suggest you would fin...

You asked about Buddhism before. The 'co-arising of self and world' is not foreign to Buddhism. In many of the early Buddhist texts (known as the 'Pal...

It will become clear over the next few days and weeks the extent to which Trump and Musk intend to comply or defy with respect to court decisions. Man...

As I've said, my belief is that time has an unavoidably subjective aspect, so I agree that it is not solely objective. But then, nothing is is 'solely...

Not specifically. Mine is an intuitive understanding but I believe it can be justified philosophically. I’ve never researched the question from the pe...

These are big questions. There have been debates over them forever. I’ve explained, I say that time has an irreducibly subjective aspect. In other wor...

When astronomers scan the cosmos for signs of an advanced civilisation, they're looking for signals that wouldn't appear in nature; they’re looking fo...

Now there’s an oxymoronic phrase! I’m forming the view that ‘the world independent of mind’ is precisely and exactly what the ‘in itself’ refers to.

The US seems awfully backwards when it comes to metrics. And also their currency system is dreadful, considering how basic the US dollar is. Trump jus...

I generally refrain from posting polemical material but in the circumstances this is highly relevant. It points out that the only justifications Trusk...

Yes, but Argentina also has a large beef cattle industry. We have that in common also. When we visited California, we noticed large swathes of eucalyp...

Thanks for the explanation, although I'm hard pressed to understand how he can maintain that position viz a viz physics, and still claim to be a mater...

I can sort of see that, but my approach is more intuitive - more 'classical' if you like. What is outside time as ecstatic. Not that this is anything ...

yes, very good. I often find @"sime"'s posts illuminating, but had missed that particular one, thanks for calling it out.

I've made my views clear, I had thought.

Incidentally there was an earlier thread on the Bergson Einstein debate. The video lecture at the head of that thread is by the author of a book on th...

Well as far as Einstein was concerned, there could only be one subject of discussion. Again, as a scientific realist, he believed that the world is ju...

Now that I've joined this thread, I will say something about this statement, namely, that I think it's fallacious. Time can be measured according to i...

Isn't it natural to presume such a dichotomy?

We don't get to do that. We recognise it. That's how come we could build, you know, pyramids, and the rest.

Such forms don't exist in any material sense but they're nevertheless real, as their forms are givens. It would only be a reification if they were reg...

And I would say, that this relation exists as an intelligible relationship, a regularity that registers as significant for an observing mind. Furtherm...

He doesn't have to fire them, if he can just bypass them. There are a number of judgements that have already been made about some of his actions, righ...

Not enough information to form a judgement.

I'm one of those of whom it is said 'He doesn't know much about Modern Art, but he knows what he likes'. I like Albert, not so much Vincent. Seems to ...