Wayfarer

I’ll only add, because of the title, a lot of people will read it to find fault with it, while others (like myself) will read it to find support for t...

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I think a lot of this conversation is rather lost in the weeds of Rödl's terminological minutiae. It might benefit from standing back and calling out ...

Berkeley denies the existence of matter as an independently real substance, but he does not deny the reality of the external world. For him, the world...

It’s not so much coincidence as parallel development. Have a browse of the Wikipedia entry on it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Age

Separate in what sense? You would at least have to agree that they are both held by the one mind. His book is titled ‘an introduction to absolute idea...

But I get the impression the more holistic Aristotelian view is making something of a comeback, precisely because of his anticipation of self-organiza...

If China Invades Taiwan, It Would Cost World Economy $10 Trillion A China-Taiwan War Would Start an Economic Crisis.

My interpretation is that it is pointing to the inadequacy of spoken language to convey the depth of meaning that is inherent in 'the Way'. Arguments ...

:pray: There’s an article on SEP about ‘divine illumination’ which links back to Augustine. It is said to have been an idea that more or less died out...

The original text probably would have had ‘created’ where this text has ‘composed’, would it not? I think it reads more authentically: 1. Created bein...

Of course - but context is everything! What I mean by ‘context’ is that meditative awareness and samadhi are embedded in a cultural milieu which facil...

Chinese dynastic polemics, I would say. Again I have very little fluency in these texts, better to find a Chinese speaker!

No that's definitely in the ball park! 'Axial age', as I say. That's a very useful idea in this context. It's associated with Karl Jaspers but has als...

I'm always reticent when it comes to this text as it is deeply intertwined with Chinese culture and language and my knowledge of them is cursory. But ...

That's not an idea of my invention, it is simply my paraphrasing of Buddhist lore - it is something any Buddhist would say. I can't say I understand a...

Re Michel Henri - not sure, I’ve only read some brief articles and excerpts although he certainly seems congenial to my philosophy. :100:

What I am may be a mystery, but that I am can only be denied on pain of contradiction.

Thank you, although whatever brilliance is there is of course the Buddha's. But apropos that particular point, it might be of interest to note that th...

Are you familiar with a term I've only recently acquired, 'ipseity'? It means precisely 'a sense of self' or of being a subject. And indeed only livin...

Very impressed with it, particularly the early chapters - the chapter on Plato is indispensable. It corrects the almost universal misconceptions aroun...

They're very deep theological questions. Better to ask a theologian. I still say the idea of kenosis is key.

Not what I had in mind. More a sense of purpose, not anticipatory processing. I'm not talking of scientific accuracy, either, but existential angst, w...

Right. And Rödl uses that to make a larger point in support of his overall thesis (although his analogy was not 'my hand hurts'.)

Both. I believe it was you who first first introduced 'my hand hurts' (here). I've provided a précis of the some of the discussuion in this post. I ca...

The real subject of the proposition, which is pain. Pain is never experienced in the third person. :roll:

Subject of Chapter 2: Propositions>2.2 Fregean Propositions - an argument to the effect that the idea of a 'first-person proposition' is incoherent. (...

Perhaps you're over-thinking it. Rödl's point is that the truth of propositions can't be 'mind-independent' in the way that Frege's objectivism insist...

Because pain is intrinsically first-person in nature. John can report that 'my hand hurts' but absent any visible injury or determinable cause, this c...

Not necessarily - it can also lead to hermeneutics, the art of interpretation of texts, often ancient texts, including Biblical texts. Much more chara...

The interpretation that makes the most sense to me, is that this is where Jesus was utterly and entirely human. He was one of us, or indeed, all of us...

I'm considerably more sympathetic towards your argument than is the Count. I will just make some additional observations. Isn't what you're referring ...

The non-difference of sa?s?ra and Nirv??a has never been accepted by Theravada but is taught in Mah?y?na cultures. Once again something I read on Dhar...

I'll only note that the passage quoted is suggestive of the non-duality of mind and world. I'm realising that I have to take Rödl's book in a few sect...

Some further notes: Chapter 2>2.1 Force and Content Distinction In Frege’s terminology, the “act of assent” refers to the force of a judgment, which i...

Is pain a suitable subject for the analysis of propositional content? I searched Rödl's book for an instance of 'pain' and the only return was from p3...

I don't believe it is, and the hard problem of consciousness suggests it is not, but naturalism assumes that it is. There was a lot of discussion earl...

Astonishingly, Trump still insists that the exporting countries are the ones who pay the tarrifs he's set to impose. He's setting up a 'department of ...

So the Jack Smith report has been published.

One of the Buddhist sayings I read on Dharmawheel was that ‘sa?s?ra has no beginning but it has an end. Nirv??a has a beginning but it has no end.’

Buddhism, it is said, does not accept the idea of original sin, however, it is understood that beings are bound by a state of beginningless ignorance,...

:clap: :clap: 'The eye cannot see itself, nor the hand grasp itself', says the Upani?ad. :clap: In the ancient world, reason qua logos was that which ...

Aha! Still seems overall positively disposed toward Rödl. I've seen McDowell's MInd and World mentioned here numerous times but it's just a book too f...

I asked our digital friend to oblige. They came back with: I've posted their rendering in symbolic logic in image format as it is difficult to render ...

Yes. Gillard's was exemplary, all things considered.

:lol: Fair dinkum…..

Agree. Dutton's only real policy, apart from appealing to fear, uncertainty and doubt, is the nuclear one we started with. I'm hopeful he doesn't win....

I think there's a larger issue. I'm not alone in seeing at least some elements of German idealism to be essential to larger questions of philosophy, a...

Yes I know that anything that existed before 10 minutes ago is now obsolete.

Neither coincidental nor misplaced. The seminal article of Frege's is called 'The Thought: A Logical Investigation' which explicitly identifies propos...