There can be a troubling contradiction in extending the value of liberal tolerance to those who don't necessarily support or understand the liberal at...
I agree with some aspects of your OP but I think it's framed in a somewhat inflammatory way. I agree with you, for example, that the European liberal ...
Well, glad we came to some understanding, although I wouldn't want to leave it with the tacit understanding that philosophies other the scientifically...
Yes, I do wonder how much of factor fantasy is in all of this. I think Trump lives in a fantasy world of his own making. He plainly believes whatever ...
I'll go back to your first response to this thread: I will try again to re-state the idea. Another way to explain it is to observe that reality contai...
I'm going to try to become more indifferent to US politics as it tends to dominate the news, and I have become too concerned with it. My family gets a...
There are domains other than that of objective fact. I will only say that Armstrong's style of philosophy is to assume that science provides the only ...
Welcome aboard. As we're discussing Berkeley, a limerick known to generations of philosophy of students ought to be mentioned: "There was a young man ...
I've gotten a very profound Buddhist text book by a scholarly Bhikkhu, recommended by our friend @"boundless". I am going to take refuge in this book,...
who happens to now be the most powerful man in the world. The Republicans now control the White House, Senate and House. Forget about environmental po...
I don't think that's in the least true. You know that Neils Bohr thought that his discovery of the principle of complimentarity was one of his greates...
And now he's protected by the Supreme Court decision that he's granted immunity for 'any official acts'. The Project 2025 ideologues are lined up to p...
RFK Secretary for Health. Elon Musk, Secretary for Government Expenditure. Steve Bannon, chief press officer. Like when your jetliner starts to fall f...
In Buddhist cultures, unlike Christian cultures, Buddhist don't feel generally obliged to impose their religion on others. So if someone said, 'I don'...
I went on a Buddhist retreat many years ago, and at one of the Q&A's I put my hand up, and asked a question, along the lines, 'modern life is very com...
It takes more than a denial, it takes an argument. The 'explanatory gap' is similar to the 'hard problem of consciousness', which is basically that ph...
Have a look for The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion, Mircea Eliade. He discusses the Mysteries and also (from memory) their relationshi...
Interesting to note that one of the etymologies for 'mystic' and 'mysticism' was precisely 'an initiate into the Mysteries.' I think scholarly opinion...
The world contains no immaterial things, according to materialism. An 'immaterial thing' is an oxymoronic expression. The difficulty of devising a nat...
You may recall Descartes’ famous meditation, cogito ergo sum. This takes the reality of the thinking subject as apodictic, i.e. cannot plausibly be de...
I will note here my conviction that time has an inextricably subjective element, which is a specific example of the more general observation in the OP...
I don't know if it does that. The term 'anti-realist' often gives the impression of someone who denies the reality of science or regards scientific fi...
Do you know that in addition to being described as idealist, Berkeley is overall categorised with the British Empiricists. Why? Like Locke and Hume, B...
Thanks, Javra. Very much in keeping with the OP. I was going to suggest to @"Relativist" whether he'd ever encountered 'constructive empiricism', asso...
Right. To draw on an element of the current philosophical lexicon, perhaps 'the Buddhist way' is to learn to deconstruct this sense of the alienated s...
That physicalism should be rejected, if the thesis is that 'everything is ultimately physical' while what is physical can't be defined. If it hasn't b...
There's a strong component of common sense realism in it, buttressed by the polemical and rhetorical skills developed by centuries of philosophical ar...
I love that Trump is having conniptions because A POLL puts him behind in Iowa. One poll. Sure, an influential and well-regarded poll, but all his sta...
I think so too but there doesn’t seem much awareness of it, let alone consensus. As for the relationship of time and motion, that seems obviously impl...
But you say: Sure it does. But what about this requires that the fundamental constituents are actually physical? What does 'physical' mean, when the n...
There is no such machine, because meaning comes from what matters, and nothing matters to a machine. It has no skin in the game, so to speak (only nat...
Right. As you say, similar to Schopenhauer, where he converges with Buddhist and Hindu ideas. But isn't it an inevitable consequence of being human, i...
'Axiology, derived from the Greek words “axios” (value) and “logos” (study), is the philosophical exploration of value. It encompasses the examination...
Well, look at the mythological description of the origin of Siddhartha's quest. He comes of age sorrounded by luxury and shielded from misfortune and ...
The question was about elementary particles and genes. These are part of scientific models. It is well known that the nature of the existence of forme...
Maybe it does. Consider this paragraph: This provides a connection between Bergson's concept of 'lived time' (or duration) and Kant’s idea of time as ...
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