OK, it's a long time since I read the text and I had forgotten that. But again the problem in the context of the Greek gods is not only that they may ...
The theistic presumption is though, that there is just one God and that that God is omniscient and omnibenevolent. On that presumption there seems to ...
I disagree: science is the understanding of certain aspects of reality. Those understandings are not infallible and are always subject to the possibil...
Yes, my objection to the anachronistic use of the "Euthyphro problem" to attempt to refute theism remains unaddressed here, so I have re-posted it in ...
No one has addressed this yet in the other thread, so I'll post it again (with slight alterations) here: The "Euthyphro problem" for theism is commonl...
The problem is that philosophy is not a monolith; so it might not be all that easy to decide who is "degrading" it. If philosophy is being degraded it...
Sure, but you can't force philosophy on people. France has philosophy taught in school. I think that's a good idea, but do you think France is a bette...
I agree that such myths can become entrenched. The idea of "survival of the fittest" has been co-opted as an ad hoc justification for capitalistic thi...
Sure, that's an idea, an ideal, but I don't think it reflects the reality, wherein people simply have whatever influence they have acquired via their ...
I agree that people are malleable, and that compassion can be cultivated, like any other capacity. But you cannot force people to cultivate compassion...
You seem to reject the idea that there is and should be a range of views, opinions and responses to questions of social order. It is not ideology, but...
I think the key point is that people must care enough to change what is unjust or cruel. If religion achieves the aim of inducing compassionate respon...
I would not say we find something better as though it were already implemented. Instead I would say we see a better way, and then we fight to implemen...
I reject the idea of a social contract, as I have said, and as you have acknowledged, so I have no idea why you are now saying that I insist on it. We...
Yes, science is the source of climate change and pollution, int the sense that, without it they would not have existed. Science is the source of techn...
This Euthyphro is commonly misrepresented; as its central question being "Is something pious because it is beloved by God or is it beloved by God beca...
For me this characterization of the situation is absurd; economic utility grows out of the complacency brought about by prosperity. When you are econo...
The notion of a social contract was stillborn at birth. Social arrangements and widely held mores and beliefs evolve organically like everything else....
I think he was referring to David, the painter. The significant divide begins when science begins to question, even repudiate, the more central articl...
You're ignoring the obvious fact that believers hold the scriptures to be revelatory of what God wants and my be certain in their faith. Certainty is ...
My original point was that the difference between your definition and other definitions is not merely "grammatical". Which of the definitions is "more...
So? You were responding to a post stating that, in this context, there are different definitions of "relative". That you stipulated one and presented ...
The difference is more than merely grammatical. To say that all justification is relative is not necessarily to say that all justification is equal.Ju...
For a different view, you might enjoy reading this: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/06/07/viewpoint-why-the-wuhan-lab-escape-theory-explaining...
Not a good analogy. All this stuff about disembodiment is really a red herring. You haven't shown that the idea of disembodied life or consciousness i...
A narrative about how history has changed our understanding of things does not equate to any idea which is not consonant with that understanding being...
That's it; when all else fails, resort to insult and mischaracterization of your interlocutor; it does wonders for your credibility! LOL, that's arran...
The ancients in both the East and West, thought in terms of disembodied life, or rather "subtle body" life after death. Of course that is considered b...
It's only incoherent if you conceive of life as inseparably linked to the body, to physicality. This does seem a most plausible assumption, but it rem...
I think I did. You were trying to cast the idea of afterlife as an incoherent logical contradiction like a "square circle". I pointed out that the con...
Continuity of personal experience. It's not logically impossible is all I'm saying, not that I believe in it myself.. Yeah you could say that would be...
True it must be fun in the sense of interesting, but don't you acknowledge a dimension of philosophy that may inform the living of life? Proof is alwa...
I agree that we cannot know for sure that some proposition is true without having proven it, and thus it would seem to follow that we cannot know that...
I seem to recall reading somewhere that Gödel was a mathematical Platonist. Are you suggesting that Gödel's incompleteness theorem would be trivially ...
I didn't say you did say that ( although I guess it might follow from what I thought you said). You said: There may be statements which are definitely...
Point me to the post you are referring to and I'll be happy to comment on it. And don't worry about Banno, he's egregiously pompous and opinionated. T...
Fair enough, but I don't think the fact that we cannot even begin to imagine the form such a purported experiment would take gives us much reason to b...
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