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No, I'm not approaching from "the natural attitude". Your attempt to dismiss what I have said, without addressing it on it's own terms, by labeling it...

The other logical possibility is that consciousness is uncreated.

I think Schopenhauer is either wrong or doesn't mean what you think he does. It doesn't seem to me that you understand the concept of transcendental i...

Are there determinate entities we might call "thoughts". I would say 'no' because thinking is a process. There is certainly thinking. When we say ther...

It's true; there are many conceptions of God from impersonal deistic conceptions to personal theistic ones. And I agree it could all be "edifices made...

Yes, I agree that this is what I think Kant means. Right, exactly what I've been saying to @"Wayfarer" above; but he seems to think it amounts to tran...

Kant says there are things in themselves, but that we can say nothing about them other than they must exist; how is that different to what I've said?

Assuming continuation of life after death, what leads you to believe that the conditions of that existence will be worse?

The fact that people can think different things about God is not relevant to the point, though. We can think, and many things have been thought, about...

The fact that people can think different things about God is not relevant to the point, though. We can think about God was the point.

On the assumption that we continue to exist after death, is death still to be considered harmful? Would the answer to that not depend on the condition...

I don't know why you would say that in view of the existence of a very long history of theology. God is not a determinate object, obviously, but peopl...

It's a long time since I've read Jung or The Hero With a Thousand Faces, but what you say seems right to me; that Jung, along with Campbell, posits a ...

We are part of the world of course. But it doesn't seem that the world depends on us, on our perceiving it, in order to exist. Of course to exist in t...

OK, these ontological positions are not the bare phenomenological position of the epoché; wherein the question is bracketed for methodological reasons...

I don't agree. I think the idea of God is not nebulous; it is the idea of an infinite intelligence. Likewise the idea of a person as subject is not ne...

The problem with this is that Jung did not posit a collective consciousness, but a collective unconscious. In any case the idea of either is nebulous,...

Yes, exactly, which is to say that the both the thing perceived and the percipient are necessary for the appearance of phenomena.

Right, "material cause" does seem somewhat inapt given Kant denied space and time and the twelve categories of judgement as being applicable to things...

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We perceive others, so there seems to be no reason to deny they are real. What could it even mean to deny that there are others? To put it another way...

I'd say what needs to be explained is the commonality of experience. I see a cat, and others will also see it just where I do. Even my dog will see it...

Indeed, for Schopenhauer the will is mindless; only the representation is a product of mind. And insofar as the will or primal energy drives the repre...

That's a good question: only if we want to think of one or the other as prior I guess, so the problem with what I said is that it should have been 'de...

What are real possibilities, as distinct from merely logical possibilities, other than actual potentials; things which, given the way things are, coul...

Yes, I think that's exactly right.

You haven't addressed my points as far as I can tell. Doesn't the cat have its own life,nature and attributes, which contribute to constituting anyone...

I agree that identity is an idealization; the thing in front of us is a cat, not an identity. And of course there are differences in the ways the cat ...

Right, affect can be considered to be something acting upon us, primordially speaking, even unconsciously. It can also be considered to be a felt impu...

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The involvement of an inter-subjective aspect would only be possible on account of agreement. If the cat were not a certain way: tabby, ginger, male, ...

Cheers.

I found this, which seems relevant to your question, Tom: Husserl rejected Kant's distinction between appearances and things in themselves and wanted ...

I don't know enough to give an adequate answer to that. I have often read that Husserl's phenomenology owes a lot to Kant (as does just about every mo...

Doesn't affect feel like energy to us though? Something moves us, and we know from our embodied experience that all movement requires effort (energy);...

I don't understand why you have gone from talking about cats to talking about brains. How do we know anything about brains if we don't know anything a...

The distinction there is between inter-subjectively evident and subjectively evident. It seems to me that whatever cannot be evident in any way more t...

I would say the phenomenologist is not concerned with noumena. Remember Husserl's injunction to "return to the things themselves". The cat is the thin...

I would have thought it is a collaboration; otherwise solipsism rears its boring head.

If you and I were in the presence of a fairly ordinary looking cat I can say 'look at the cat, what colour and pattern would you call that, tabby or t...

Of course it can; it talks about the world all the time.

Yes, any serious thought about it dispels the illusion that it can be anything more than faith. Which is not to say that belittles it, since faith is ...

I think it's the same for any philosophy; it's just a matter of different scales.

Lucky you having been at Monterey! In Australia we only had very scaled down, provincial versions of major festivals like Woodstock and Monterey.

For me it was sixteen or seventeen, although I was more of a fan of Jimi than Bob. I acquired a taste for Bob much later in life. Back then it was Hen...

I agree. And in the religious context the truths of such undecidable things as karma, reincarnation, resurrection, nirvana, heaven and so on are taken...

Thanks for posting that Z, it's a lovely statement!

:up: If that's so, Dylan is to be applauded. I think he's a truly great songwriter, musically speaking, but I don't think much of his lyrics.

No, even if God exists holiness is a human concept reliable on the responses, on the feelings. of humans. Something is holy only insofar as it evokes ...

The empirical observations that underpin science can be made by anyone who has been trained to use the equipment or to know what to look for. People c...