Thanks for producing those particular paragraphs, as it toucheth on something ( ;-) ) which a neo-thomist such as Edward Feser would say is radical sh...
I did post about that too, but I also heard that the Musk crew access was read-only, which means something. But still, it's an absolute outrage. Peopl...
This is getting really, really serious. Musk is completely out of control. When the idea of the government expenditure review was mooted, it was suppo...
By the time Nietzsche arrives, the concept of 'the immaterial' has been largely misunderstood. Reconstructing it, the original term in Greek, (as I un...
Another egregious and disastrous set of decisions are completely undermining US Agency for International Development, the main vehicle by means of whi...
:up: I think this requires qualities of character. Notably, poise. And the appropriate orientation or attitude. The society we live in is such that it...
Actually one thought that came to me during that talk. Schopenhauer says life is a pendulum swinging between boredom and disappointment. When you do s...
You're welcome. I'm Sydney born and bred although now live about 90 minutes west in the picturesque Blue Mountains. Anyway, it was a salutary reminder...
I'm going to comment in this thread because the Trump thread has it's own dedicated MAGA troll. So, two utterly and profoundly worrying developments. ...
3.4 Holding a True Thought I spent quite a bit of time on this section, partly because it seems so repetitive and I am becoming a bit exasperrated by ...
I recall you mentioned Eric Marcus, 'Rational Causation', who writes extensively on this theme. Could you perhaps say a little about him in this conte...
That’s not something I postulate, and something that I question in Schopenhauer; I’m much more drawn to the ‘idea’ aspect of his philosophy, than the ...
On the same grounds as Descartes’ ‘cogito ergo sum’: even if you suffered complete amnesia and forgot your identity, you would be aware of your own be...
Agree, but the awareness of will is not an appearance. We may not know what it is, but that it is, we can have no doubt. But the uncertainty principle...
that'd be right. Some other imaginary bogeyman for him to winge about. Everyone knows that whenever the Tories cut the public service, they then open ...
Not necessarily what it is but how it appears - and it's an important distinction. Neils Bohr: “Physics is not about how the world is, it is about wha...
I’ve been thinking about a way to express Berkeley’s esse est percipi without the theological commitment to an all-seeing God or even the (Brahman-lik...
Don’t forget the Supreme Court ruling giving Presidents absolute immunity for official acts. And that he’s had two major felony charges tossed by gett...
The scientific method relies heavily on limiting the kinds of questions it tackles to those that can be meaningfully addressed within a defined scope....
Might that be because of the materialist underpinnings of current philosophy and science? After all, according to its populist advocates, h.sapiens is...
Hope you're right. But he could do a lot less than the most dire, and still be dire. Consider what is within his power, a misjudgement in an internati...
Very interesting question! Again I'm impressed with Schopenhauer's attitude (although recognizing the thread is about Berkeley). Schopenhauer sees the...
(A general point to note: within the premodern metaphysical vision, particularly in Neoplatonism and Christian theology, being was understood as a for...
The first of the Trump Internment Camps for undesireables is on the drawing board. Meanwhile, the 'funding freeze fiasco' is an example of the always ...
It is common knowledge that in the cosmic scheme, h.sapiens has only existed for the merest sliver of time, and mammals and higher animals generally r...
:rofl: Since when are Trump’s activities ever in response to ‘the public interest’? He’s driven wholly and solely by what Buddhists call ‘the three po...
I have a number of such books, although they're by science writers rather than physicists (Manjit Kumar, David Lindley, Adam Becker.) But the fact tha...
Yes, I'll concede that, but there's nothing in Berkeley's philosophy that corresponds with the 'morphe' of Aristotle's hylomorphism. But you're correc...
I agree with @"Count Timothy von Icarus". As I put it in an earlier post: Note the 'and transformed'. Berkeley was very much at odds with Aristotelian...
3.3 Second Order Judgements. Rödl starts this section by examining the idea that when we judge "things are so," additional reflection on the judgment’...
Isn't it interesting, though, that with David Hume and the advent of modern philosophy, the whole concept of natural causation is thrown into question...
I think I'll defer again to Schopenhauer. While he came along much later than Berkeley, his insight ‘no object without a subject’ encapsulates a key i...
Of course. But I'm of the view that it was this emerging modern view of the universe that the good Bishop wished to oppose. That the reason idealism a...
Similar territory traversed by Nagel's What is it Like to be a Bat, isn't it? Although I think I can imagine that bats, being warm-blooded mammals, ha...
Agree. That's why I described him as a naive idealist, although a bit tongue-in-cheek. But his commitment to nominalism and rejection of universals un...
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