Generally agree with your sentiments. Internal problem, expressing itself externally. To be a quibbler, there is at least some possibility that some g...
Philosophy forums are overwhelmingly driven by emotional agendas. Rational positions are typically a thin veneer fig leaf used to hide the emotional a...
Could I please go on record as stating that I already know all this, so that members will be relieved of the burden of posting it over and over? :-) h...
Rather than post anything at all, because whatever is posted will inevitably generate yet another gotcha dance, I could continue posting empty spaces....
You could be right, and of course I don't know. But unless humanity goes extinct, such as in a giant asteroid strike, then I'd guess civilization woul...
The challenge makes sense to me. Is Plotinus claiming there is The One, and then other stuff which is outside of The One? Or is The One conceived to b...
Praxis does fall victim to a bit of lazy snarkiness sometimes, and I know, having invented that myself. :-) But here I think he's just being concise. ...
Seems a reasonable point to me. The Catholics got caught up in this mess too. On one hand they state that God is ever present everywhere in all times ...
No idea what this means either. If everyone everywhere understands Plotinus in his own words, then translations would be unnecessary, agreed. In such ...
What if "things" don't actually exist but are instead conceptual inventions of the human mind? When does a glass of water you drink become you? We cou...
Ok thanks. So the first challenge we face in understanding Plotinus is that few if any of us likely have any idea what that means. I do get this part....
Thanks for posting this, a fun trip down memory lane for me. Since reading his words so many times so long ago, I've come to this... Krishnamurti says...
My theory is that I think it's fun that a guy with "ban" in his name did that which he wishes members to be banned for. Should someone post the number...
Ok Gus, would you like to further explain Plotino's view on Praxis's claim above? I hope this is a relevant quote, perhaps you'd like to expand on it?...
The underlying mechanism pushing the modern world towards crisis and collapse is our relationship with knowledge. Yup, that again. Would you give a sh...
The perpetual survival of religion in every time and place for thousands of years argues to the contrary. If religion was a creature we'd have to say ...
The pendulum will continue to swing as it always does. If Roe is overturned that will energize the left like nothing we've seen in years and unheard o...
That could happen yes. Not all translations are of equal quality, agreed. I wouldn't however agree that every translation is automatically a distortio...
Plotinus is saying that by adding further thought, a medium which operates by a process of division, we are polluting an understanding of The One with...
Yes, good point, I agree. So to build on that... Why don't we realize we are experiencing the absolute? Imho, that's because most of the time our atte...
I feel bad for her as I imagine she was desperately trying to stay alive long enough that her seat on the Court would survive the Trump era, and she d...
Ancient texts is just some guy like us sharing his opinion at a time now long past. Being ancient doesn't mean anything in itself. TRANSLATION: The mo...
I don't think he's being evasive, but is perhaps using language which isn't on the right channel for many readers of philosophy forums. One way out of...
Math is real, but it doesn't exist. So if someone were to ask that we prove that math exists we would be unable to do so, as it has no weight, no mass...
Perhaps what's needed here is a translation from one cultural language in to another? A less fancy more secular sounding way to put this could be.... ...
Right. Like I said, you're comparing religion to science as if they were both fact finding enterprises, and then declaring science the best method of ...
I like this direction. If the focus is on experience instead of explanations then belief is no longer needed. Tradition can go too. Once explanations ...
Religion is not science. Like most forum atheists you want to compare religion to science as if they were the same thing with the same goals. That is,...
Human self delusion is so powerful it may not be possible to say much of anything meaningful about morality. Here's an example to illustrate... The Na...
Evolution and cosmology are certainly interesting, but they don't really serve the need that fuels religions because they are intellectual, not emotio...
Hi unenlightened, I think Krishnamurti provides a service in attracting we over thinkers to such subjects with all his intelligent insightful words an...
Good points fishfry. I can't say too much about Harris in particular, but your description seems a pretty good summary of atheist intellectual culture...
I read a lot of Krishnamurti in my youth and his ideas influenced my own in a lot of ways. He certainly was consistent over a long career spanning mos...
Yes, I know that, which is why I brought it up. You're trying to lecture me, when I've already demonstrated that my understanding of these particular ...
Correct, you have no idea what I'm talking about. By "high quality" I mean, for example, that you might have read the first post in the thread and res...
Ok, oops, you got me. You're not a mod, totally my mistake. You're just a regular member whom the mods allow to post here. And thanks for posting in t...
Ha ha! I plead guilty to this description myself, and got a good laugh out of recognizing myself in your self disclosure. So another question.... How ...
Yes, it wasn't my intention to evaluate a particular writer, but the field at large. It's my sense that obscure philosophers are typically not engaged...
Thanks for the tip, will review. No smiting for now, sorry. :-) Rather than me honking and smiting about your threads, I'll ask this. In your opinion,...
I see the obscurity as being a function of a couple things. 1) An inability to think the issue through to the bottom line, which can almost always be ...
Been there, done that already. And, I'm doing it again, right here, right now. If you want more, move the thread. If you want less, do nothing. I'm ag...
One point of my proposal was to discover if the mods are more skilled. No making any claim here, just asking for evidence. You know, this is a philoso...
Put up or shut up? The mods claim to know good quality from poor quality. Let's see a section where the mods demonstrate that they can deliver good qu...
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