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Nonsense, for Hegel material history just is the evolution of consciousness. The democracy of the Greeks of antiquity is very different to what we cal...

Sure, but that is a truism.You could say it is impossible to achieve society without law; and love is meaningful only within society. But even then, I...

I don't think it's true at all to say that everything necessarily remains. Today there are still remnants of monarchical rule, but there may come a da...

Yes and in the Western tradition the revelation of Law (the Torah) comes before the revelation of love (the Gospel). This is certainly the situation v...

To be sure aufheben is a nuanced term , just as overturn is; and they could thus be thought to be everything from exactly equivalent to not equivalent...

I don't think you have read that passage thoroughly The point is that a revolution that lacks the right means, that is lacks the right spirit will nev...

Enjoyment of the suffering of others, and the far less likely enjoyment of your own suffering, however deserved such suffering might be, is not the sa...

Your interpretations are too black and white. Nowhere have I said that I think Love consists in the annihilation of Law. Love consists in the fulfillm...

This definition, though correct in prinicple, is actually an empty generality. Who knows what another or even oneself deserves? Only God, if anyone. I...

I agree it is not science per se that leads to devaluation and attenuation of lived experience it is scientism; which as you rightly point out is phil...

But I stiil can't see the reasoning behind why, if you respect their right to do what they will in private, you also think that they should be deprive...

You have managed to convince yourself that you know what Trump will do if elected. I'm not convinced; if anything I think swstephe's analysis is proba...

No problem; not that big of a deal. It's commonplace for extreme narcissism to cause people to temper the expression of it; so what? :-d

I believe that one can choose what to believe; in fact I believe that one's present beliefs are the result of many past small more or less rational de...

Bullshit; all it shows is that he had half-decent project managers. :-}

>:O (Brackets mine)

I agree that there are biological differences between the sexes; that is obvious and indisputable; but I think each individual manifests a balance of ...

But is it not by definition a case of bigotry to discriminate against anyone on account of what they are? Also it seems you are thinking of marriage i...

But that's only one interpretation of the meaning of marriage; an interpretation which justifies itself on the basis of what is supposedly 'natural' f...

There is nothing wrong with being outcast on account of holding egregiously unreasonable views, it is something the individual can avoid if they want;...

Should we think that some-thing must be the case?

That's not even true in the case of all churches today.

The problem is that even if there is a plebiscite it is not likely there will be any rational public debate on the issue; just the usual trumpet-blowi...

It's really not; it's a polite way of saying that I don't have any interest in pursuing this any further. I know what I mean, and I know what I think,...

After reading what you wrote, I doubt we mean the same thing by "incomprehensible". So, we'll just be talking past each other if we continue.

That's a pretty cool cartoon of Gordon!

Been photographing drawings and paintings today, so here's a couple of each. A portrait of a friend, and one of myself, and a couple other works. /upl...

8-)

This is all nonsense, I'm sorry to say. I have taken DMT numerous time, and I've read DMT: the Spirit Molecule, and I've read quite a few "trip report...

I have never seen it when I have ingested DMT. And even if I had I don't see how it would prove String Theory to be anything more than a mathematical ...

I actually do agree with what you write in your first paragraph; I think Sellars is ultimately aiming at the primacy of science. And I do agree that s...

Except there is no stage, except for all the coordinated stages inside the black boxes. Well... actually.. there are no black boxes either...except fo...

I don't see that there's a necessary connection between Sellar's distinction and representational realism. Husserl pointed to the same phenomenon, tha...

You are conflating what it might be thought that what we experience 'really' is, with what we experience it (whatever it might be) as. Put another way...

Yes, you're probably right that the entailments of the idea of predestination are not made explicit to themselves by those who are not philosophically...

Existence is not, in and of itself, absurd. Camus formulated the absurd as being the situation in which questions ( the most serious questions of all)...

That's a good point; I probably by default read Wayfarer to mean "predominately a destructive influence". The thing I have always found that does my h...

Yes, I agree. That's interesting and new to me what you say about 'synergy'. :) This 'middle way' would seem to be more compatible with the Buddhist d...

The idea of predestination is already in Augustine's writings, and is apparently based on his understanding of humanity as a spiritually whole entity ...

By using the caveat (iff the assumptions are wrong) I assume you've won a cigar...damn! :s

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That makes sense in the context. I first heard it from one of the tradesmen I employed to help me in my landscaping business. He expressed in exactly ...

I disagree for two reasons. Firstly, we don't experience space-time as being curved; we experience the 'weight' of gravity, and the curvature of space...

Shouldn't that be "you or me" ( depending on who assumes)?

That is enigmatic and being a prosaic fellow, I am not getting you here. Would you care to explain what you mean by "all white"?

OK, but the fact that there are extremist 'black and white' Calvinist doctrines does not entail that all Calvinist doctrines are necessarily extremist...

There are theological subtleties, which your apparently black and white thinking will inevitably ignore. For example, does the fact that God eternally...

OK, but the 'greater reality' I had in mind would be a greater dimension of possible experience. And I don't think String theory qualifies; it is noth...

I'm not too sure what you mean by "two parallel evolutions" Punshhh, are you thinking of something like cultural vs natural evolution?

I can't really see what DMT has to do with this discussion. What is experienced, according to my own experience at least, under the influence of DMT i...