Ah, so you've read that work? Perhaps you could proffer a brief account of the key ideas in Hegel's conception of a transcendent God then. My understa...
Adoption of one metaphysics or another is not driven by "evidence" if that is taken in the empirical sense. People choose the metaphysics that seems m...
Yes, But spirit understood to be immanent in, not transcendent of, nature. So, it is not a supernatural conception of spirit. Nature just is spirit. I...
An objective idealist says that objects are ideas, are spiritual in essence, they are manifestations of spirit or mind. Spirit or mind is not separate...
And yet it seems obvious that animals' experiences do have meaning for them. One does not have to reflect on one's experience for it to have meaning, ...
If the "reality of abstract objects" could be known, then it could only be known experientially, no? By the experience of so-called "intellectual intu...
And yet earlier you said this: " I’m interested in the formal study of the Western philosophical tradition. It has an experiential dimension which I t...
I haven't denied that the modes of our experience are culturally mediated, but there must be raw experience that underlies that. You can experience th...
According to this no non-human animal's experiences can mean anything, and I think to say this is obviously absurd. Have you read A Man Without Words?...
This is such a simplistic view. Phenomenology is not empiricism (unless you think along the lines of something akin to Jame's "radical empiricism") be...
Perhaps "internal" has befuddled you. What I mean is that it is an intelligence immanently bound into the nature of things. I can't tell you "how it w...
It cannot help but appear to be a "third person account" when I talk about it; but in itself it is not so. That is what you are not getting here. And ...
It's not unrelated because under objective idealism experience is fundamental. This is certainly true of Hegel's (the original) objective idealism. Th...
Why can't it be organized by an internal intelligence? That would be the central idea of the alternative naturalistic process theology. Your claim tha...
OK, I should have added "loving" or at least "benevolent" to that, but it nonetheless seems to be a conception of love "from afar", all except for the...
Where we differ is that you believe nothing at all is to be known without the dualistic rational "stepping back" or "stepping out" of the living proce...
Doesn't that just mean that nature cannot show us any explanation for being? Does it follow from that that there must be an explanation for being? Wha...
The point is that that there is no way to definitively establish whether or not what we experience as 'raw state' is socially constructed or not. In d...
This is long-winded, but on close inspection all I'm seeing is a bunch of assertions, and no cogent argument that makes any sincere attempt to address...
Why not? Are you at all familiar with Whitehead's or Hartshorne's theologies? Even Spinoza's God is not a supernatural God, it is "deus sive natura": ...
The claim that any naturalistic account of religion must also be reductionistic is the very claim I questioned you on in the other thread, by asking i...
Your objection is misplaced, because I have already acknowledged that when it comes to empirical claims, the scientific method of collective observati...
No, for me it's not an idea at all, but a certain kind of feeling, undifferentiated of course (because pre-conceptual), but it can vary over a vast qu...
The point is that such experience is felt as primal; there is nothing beneath it that we can get to experientially; and such experience forms the intu...
Yes, I suppose it's natural enough for people to want to live in accordance with 'ultimate' reality. The problem is that there is such a plethora of d...
I'd say that, apart from ancient schools such as Pythagoreanism, Platonism, Neoplatonism, Stoicism, Epicureanism and so on, the only "experiential" pa...
This makes me wonder why we need a study of metaphysics, as opposed to, or in addition to, a study of ethics and/or moral philosophy in order to under...
I don't agree. "Public opinion" never seems to reach a level of coordination that would be adequate to think of it as an exercise of power. The closes...
It seems to be that in militarily sustained dictatorships, a few individuals or even one individual, can possess great power. This is power in the han...
I agree, it is possible that capping wealth would be a disincentive to those who, despite their aims, might be thought to create benefits to society. ...
This would seem to be a difficult thing to determine. Is Bill Gates more powerful than Rupert Murdoch? Does the degree of power, and kind of power, on...
You seem to think that those who are the most successful at accumulating enormous wealth are motivated, not by accumulating an ever greater fortune fo...
My understanding is that experience is fundamental. All that is is relation, and substance is merely a convenient idea for understanding the dynamic-a...
OK, but in your disdain for physicalism you seem to be assuming that for the physicalist the physical is reducible to objects and/or particles rather ...
I'm curious as to how both of you think that what Aaron says here would differ from what naturalism allows. Or to put it another why I wonder whether ...
That is really no different than saying that there is no distinction between belief about anything and the the thing the belief is about. You might ob...
IT makes perfect sense to me. I believe I have seen it in action, both in myself and others in many diverse ways. When it is observed of course it cea...
All the world's religions, mythology, hermeticism, theosophy and anthroposophy, as well as pre-critical philosophy should provide plenty of examples. ...
I would say the raw feeling becomes localized as self, allowing the distinction of other (wherever I do not locate the raw feeling). But my experience...
Now, that's a distinction I can get behind! It's true that we can talk about ineffability, but we cannot say anything at all about the ineffable by de...
Of course it is possible to deceive others or oneself without consciously intending to. Braggarts who. probably out of a sense of insecurity, bullshit...
Not a helpful comment unless you identify just what you are referring to and where it fails according to your criteria, preferably quoting the specifi...
Doesn't take much disagreement before you resort to insult does it? I'm not interested in trying to sustain a conversation with someone who doesn't ta...
Nothing prevents us from realizing , discussing and theorizing about our inability to discuss and theorize about some kinds of experience. It's not a ...
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