No, I don't. Many secular Buddhist followers reject it outright and regard re-birth as something that occurs moment-to-moment (which is true in one se...
Right! For anyone else, it might be a ‘sad commentary on the state of politics’. Or an ‘outrageous attack on democracy’. But for the campaign, it’s an...
‘The FBI has identified Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pa., as the suspected shooter at former president Donald Trump’s rally, in what the...
Do animals deliberate and choose courses of action? Are there malevolent or evil monkeys or lions or wolverines? I'm inclined to doubt that. Which is ...
Yeah only an assassination attempt on the leading Republican Presidential contender, missed by about a centimetre. https://youtu.be/NuAKnbIr6TE?si=3Up...
Yeah I'm watching CNN live coverage, there's a blurry photo of the shooter. It seems similar to the assassination attempt in Day of the Jackal - long-...
To understand nominalism, it's best to understand how it originated and what it opposed. Its origin is usually assigned to William of Ockham, famous f...
As you (and @"Paine") will well know, in Plato, the source or upmost level of the hierarchy of being was 'the idea of the Good'. The Idea of the Good,...
Odd that there are no reports of other injuries, though. You'd think that if a bullet grazed his ear, it must end up somewhere else, and he was sorrou...
I'm looking at the footage of him being hustled offstage by the Secret Service. He's loving it! The crowd loves it! Trump is repeatedly pumping a clen...
This factor is another wildcard in the election. The right are already preparing the ground for militias to take action to 'preserve democracy' (i.e. ...
I’m interested in a specific philosophical question, which is the subject of the quote from Lloyd Gerson. The thread is about Lloyd Gerson’s interpret...
It’s worth mentioning the origin of the term ‘karma’. It is derived from the Sanskrit root ‘kr-‘ which is ‘to do’ or ‘to make’, As a kind of common-se...
As an aside, ‘intellectual’ is a very poor translation for what I take to be the intended meaning. ‘Intellectuals’ are stuffy fellows - they’re nearly...
Indeed he is not, which is why it was not relevant to the question I raised, which was about that relationship. When Plotinus says: which 'gods' are t...
But they don’t cut it mate. I’ve said before, I respect your intelligence, I’ve learned things from you about philosophy of math (mainly, how little I...
And The first statement explains the second. And, it’s more than ‘a little’. But there’s no way to make someone see what he or she doesn’t want to see...
You know that Trump on multiple occasions has sucked up to Putin? That he stood on the world stage with him and said he trusted Putin above his own in...
Trump says border bill ‘very bad’ for Lankford’s career As mentioned, Lankford was then censured by his own party. This for a straight up-and-down Rep...
Recall a few posts back, you said: I have been arguing that the passage you referred to from the Enneads at that point is specifically about the disti...
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're saying. For the last several posts, I've been addressing the issue of the interpretation of the paragrap...
I don't think so. There used to be a lot of talk about Buddhism being a 'scientific religion' in the early 20th c based on the idea that karma was a k...
Well, I'm not among them. I'm too old to go into either Heidegger or Strauss in any depth, I only mentioned it to @"Fooloso4" because it is through hi...
Incidentally, and apropos of Leo Strauss, I find a section in his SEP entry on Philosophy and Revelation: Something with which I'm in agreement. I won...
That the Darwinist account tends to invariably be reductionist, because it looks at the question solely solely in terms of the benefit it has for repr...
Looking at it, again, from a kind of biological anthropology - the evolution of the h.sapiens forebrain was one of the most (if not THE most) spectacu...
They're foundational questions in this context. 'The gods' are, of course, those of the Greek pantheon, but from comparative religion, we learn that h...
that contemplates any ‘concept’. Conceptualisation relies on abstraction, the ability to represent and to imagine. Is there evidence that any species ...
I studied non-dualism (actually Advaita) as a unit in comparative religion, and one of the first things we were taught is that non-dualism is *not* mo...
According to the Advaita, as I understand it, it is only a matter of speculation for the ignorant (in which I include myself of course). As for whethe...
Senator James Lankford is a strict conservative GOP member who was on a bipartisan committee tasked with addressing border issues. He drove a very har...
We discussed the various examples of what I'm referring to in an earlier thread on esoteric philosophies. I seem to recall I gave the examples of Adva...
Hey this is in Pollitico today, about weed drinks (i.e. beverages infused with THC.) Gotta say, if THC Iced Tea were available near where I live, I'd ...
So you'd know the name Senator James Lankford, and why he made news a couple of months back. So you think Mike Pence should have hung? I'm convinced t...
However, the Gerson paper you linked to 'The Unity of Intellect in Aristotle' (and thank you for it) says right at the beginning 'This (i.e. 'agent') ...
Actually I went back and re-wrote that passage, it was the opposite of what I had meant to say. I meant to say there's a strong tension between tradit...
Don't worry! You could live your whole life in Sydney, as I have, but never cross paths with a migrating eel. I only know about it because I read of i...
And on a similar note, there is actually quite a strong relationship between traditional philosophy and suspicion of modern culture. Traditional philo...
Indeed but much can be lost by judging the past by today’s standards. I was never much moved by the complaints about the cultural hegemony of dead whi...
His policy of splitting migrant families resulted with many children being interred away from their families. My liking him or not is irrelevant. His ...
Good and cogent post in my opinion. At risk of some crossover from Tim Wood’s post on the nature of purpose, which seems to have some convergence with...
I agree that it’s a very murky question, but I think there’s something fishy about it too. Sorry about the mixed metaphor, but speaking of murky and f...
He was from another epoch with a vastly different ‘weltanschauung’. But there are elements of Plotinus’ philosophy that remain vital in my view To ret...
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