Janus

Again, instead of just succinctly answering the question here and now, you have diverted by referring to past instances where you have allegedly expla...

Looks like the same question to me! Seeking a higher truth may be seeking an ideal, but not all ideals that are sought are higher truths; in fact most...

I am, like you, circumspect about committing to any beliefs at all, particularly in the absence of any evidence one way or another. I think it is a ma...

The problem is that you can't say what that "higher truth" is. I don't deny that there may be higher truths for you. And I can assure you that there a...

What that seems to mean is just that philosophy is not for you. It's subjective and that's fine, but surely you don't expect others to feel the same, ...

How is "being a light unto yourself any different than what I have been arguing? I admitted that there are good elements to Buddhism. As to my stateme...

People who are interested in finding out about things, about anything, may be referred to as seekers of truth. This applies equally to science as it d...

Now, you seem to be trying to make it sound as though you have offered explanations, which I have failed to understand. I really don't believe that is...

I think expressing any opinion about God counts as theology; although it obviously doesn't have to be good theology....

What sort of comment is that meant to be; it's certainly not an argument. It seems that, when challenged, you can do nought but resort to insult. It w...

It's not that hard if you learn to think for yourself and there is nothing better than philosophy for learning that skill. Philosophy, not religion, s...

If you don't think we are seriously at risk of collective constraints in our modern society, I don't know what to say to you except: open your eyes. F...

Yes, but the unhealthy side of Buddhism lies in its idealization and deification of Gautama; he was really just a fallible human like the rest of us. ...

I think the only proper basis for any discussion of value is subjective and intersubjective experience, personal and interpersonal feeling. People kno...

It may well be a Utopian dream, but no one knows how it will all pan out.

Well, I did say "totalitarian imposition of meaning". Of course individuals are always influenced by the collective, in the sense that collective view...

That's fair enough, but I don't see how this is not still relativism, unless you are prescribing what you happen to have most affinity with for others...

But, these are all immanent and eminent common-sense ethical and political values; as such, they don't need to be underpinned by "higher" teachings an...

Why employ such a ridiculous term: "godsplaining", rather than simply using 'theology'? The former term seems to be pre-loaded with ridicule for anyon...

Apo will have his own answer, probably quite different from mine, but I couldn't pass over this since it is so relevant to the point I made about nihi...

How does that relate to what I had written?

Yes this is the kind of nihilism which Nietzsche saw Christianity as inevitably leading to; the annihilation of all *merely* human meaning by an impos...

It is obvious what you were referring to by "grasping abstractions", it is regarding the implications of that ability that the controversy is in play.

I think you've misunderstood: I was actually saying that it is the questioning of the reality of the shared world which is constitutes a performative ...

The correspondence of empirical claims with empirical reality is not made by comparing the claims to some absolute reality that we can somehow directl...

I think we mostly agree now, and I think the whole issue with the PSR really boils down to this question. I can't see how we can avoid thinking that t...

I don't have much sympathy for supernaturalism, or the notion of absolute transcendence. But I also don't define nature entirely in terms of the obser...

Yeah, I love those visionary moments. :cool:

I can't see anything in what you say here that would support a non-prejudicial conclusion that reason is, in any way, either prior to, or separate fro...

This is a contradiction: if a belief is "true for reasons" then it is (potentially at least, even if those 'reasons' are unknown at present) a rationa...

True, but in a like sense naturalists could also be wrong in arguing immanence over transcendence or unity over duality (or plurality), since just as ...

I don't think it can ever be absolutely definitive, but I think this approach can at least put to rest the interminable controversy over whether ontol...

I would say there is no burden of proof because there simply is no proof either way. Naturalism and ant-naturalism are just the dialectical poles that...

I'm not really clear on what you are driving at here, but, in any case, "the condition for being an object of experience is to be intelligible" is not...

On the other hand, everything begins in politics and ends in mysticism. (I think we've had this conversation before: I have a sense of deja vu).

He wasn't that smart; he left out the unknown knowns. :wink:

By 'generalizing of identities" I meant 'classing things in terms of kinds', I wasn't referring to recognizing particular entities in their singularit...

So, we must think that our seeing of particular differences is sufficient reason for our generalizing of identities?

Sure, but there have been significant other non-theistic treatments of the PSR.The following excerpts are taken from the SEP article on the PSR, and t...

I don't know what you mean. Explain?

I agree with most of what you say here. my only question concerns what you say about "underground guides"; is imagining you could be a guide on accoun...

When I say "Cartesian" I am referring to how that is usually understood and characterized. Whether Descartes was himself really Cartesian is a questio...

Rigjt, so the particular difference is sufficient reason for the general condition of being different?

Noooo, you're not allowed to be paranoid. :fear: It's possible I guess, I don't know. Certainly what ordinarily might appear banal may be imbued with ...

I guess that might be true for some, it certainly hasn't been my experience; I seem, if anything, to be more sure of my feelings towards others when I...

That it's my proposition, and I can cry if I want to? Fun? Yes... :lol:

So their difference is sufficient reason for their being different? Alrighty then...

I honestly don't know what gave you the idea that my responses have become "hostile". That seems to be an overreaction; maybe there is a tinge of frus...

How would you go about "getting too woo about it"? I agree you can benefit from losing mental habits, but I can't see how you could make a habit out o...

Does knowing that one knows something imply absolute certainty, like really, really knowing it? How do you know Paris is the capital of France, do you...