Janus

Of course that is true, but the differences between individual animals' ways of being are not as great as those between individual humans. It is also ...

Sure human individuals have more diverse ways of being compared to one another than individual animals of other species do. But again that is on accou...

I think that's just not true. The problems the world faces have nothing to do with scientism or lack of thinking about the transcendental. They do hav...

I disagree because as I said different kinds of beings have different ways of being. We can argue about whether our taxonomies reflect anything beyond...

Naturalistic-minded Realists can, and often do, say that only a vanishingly small portion of reality is accessible to the senses. Perhaps you are conf...

There is an ontological distinction between human and animal, and it consist in different ways of being. There are ontological distinction between all...

The adverbial is a function of the verbial, or in other words expresses the way something is in terms of its activities (as opposed to say, its parts ...

You keep confirming my impression that you are not seriously interested in considering alternative views, and that your own views are not well-conside...

I just have a broader conception of spiritual philosophy than you do. All good philosophy is spiritual. As I see it you only count as spiritual the ph...

Right, but Maritain was by no means the first to question the empiricist idea of "raw sense data". Kant already critiques that idea with his "Thoughts...

To me eternal means non-temporal and infinite means non-finite. These are to be understood only in an apophatic sense, not to be reified as substantiv...

Insofar as you posit an intentional entity as first cause and director, I would say you have moved well beyond information theory, and into spookier r...

I don't know; I wouldn't say "expected". It is tedious reading through most threads, as much of the content is not very interesting, so I usually don'...

The quantum vacuum is, if it is real, not merely a hypothetical logical construct. It is understood to be, not actually, but virtually or potentially,...

Nice, I think that expresses the point exactly! Agree.

I made a similar suggestion early in this thread:

Your argument relies on equivocating between "affection" and "part". My affections are not a constitutive part of myself, they are activities, but the...

All of what you say is fair enough, but it is no less speculative, and I think even even more so, than quantum and akashic fields. At least the conjec...

Matter is not what Spinoza means by substance. According to Spinoza matter/form (substance extended or res extensa) and mind (substance thinking or re...

The teleology of evolution: a big question. I tend to reject the idea. Ervin Lazlo suggests that all the knowledge of the Universe is somehow held in ...

I've tried hard and failed to get a coherent answer, so I don't think the chances are looking too good.

I acknowledged you made the argument that moral values are contingent. Read again, more carefully. You seem to be both saying that what the faculties ...

I don't know why I am still bothering. Oh well, here goes... The argument you are considering to be a bad argument claims that moral values are not th...

If reason could value something other than what it values, or is valuing, per se, and not merely on account of differing circumstances, then what good...

Whatever might be thought to have given rise to the Big Bang, and be giving rise to the world of phenomena, for example the apeiron, the "quantum foam...

I think the question of reality has to do, in Spinoza's mind, with the question of necessity/ contingency. Something is Real for Spinoza if its existe...

Sounds great, do you think it would be practicable?

Perhaps you are too sensitive then?

:lol: I'll take your word for it, but I'm dubious.

What annoying bullshit? I thought your comment was on the money; it was a red herring that S produced there. @"S" seems to have barrels of them at han...

That's true of course regarding what you cannot but believe you know, but regarding what you don't know, if you really believe that, well it's a stifl...

Assuming your interpretation all and any kinds of cognition and intellectual intuition would simply be emergent illusory phenomena like all the rest.

:up: I agree with your interpretation of Spinoza. Puts me in mind of Rovelli too, who I have been reading recently. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=rovelli...

In a way I do agree with you, but I think it is just human, not divine, reason that is in play. For me moral truths are established by fair-minded thi...

Yes, I totally agree. There are a few posters on here with that kind of ugly ignorant style and I, for one, have called a couple of them out for their...

:up: Freedom and bondage are not absolutes. Interesting, I didn't know there were any sad gurus. :joke: Seriously, though, he seems to be following in...

Not all scientific thinking, or even much of it all seems to rely on the notion of "first cause" though. I never looked after a baby, but I have kept ...

You believe that because you believe you are not free.

I see that too. I am guilty of it myself at times. People commonly do become impatient, and get pissed off, especially when the interlocutor does not ...

Not all reasoning must be based on the kind of linear thinking that demands a first cause, though. The impersonal god model seems to be the same, for ...

I think you meant to write: "To pretend that there are not posters that are being demeaning and purposely antagonistic and not arguing in good faith i...

That hasn't been my experience at all. Sometimes things get heated between even reasonable people who generally discuss and agree or disagree in good ...

:up: :lol:

Yes I would, and yes I am; so where would be the advantage in your world?

I really don't mind anyone's conception of God. I don't believe in a God, but if I were going to I would believe in a personal God. I don't think deis...

For us there is definitely a sensed world external to our bodies. Whether there is a sensed world in any absolute or ultimate sense (which is what I g...

One line of reasoning may be used to establish premises for a different line of reasoning. I think you are looking at reason in too linear a fashion; ...

The question of what something is is a question of constitution, structure and function, though. We all know what a tree is in the sense of being able...

I didn't have that in mind; I was thinking of the incompetences that might result from people changing jobs willy nilly. But if working hours were not...

No, I am not advocating that people should be controlled by their passions, merely that they should not feel guilty about enjoying them provided they ...