I think perhaps we are thinking about different aspects of the problem of objectivity. I was alluding to what sometimes seems to be taken as the 'ulti...
Yes, I think that's exactly it for Leibniz; the degree to which the mind reflects the divine mind indicates its profundity/ shallowness. Leibniz would...
Locke appears as a character in the life stories of all those monads that know of him (i.e. those monads whose own stories are sufficiently coordinate...
The way I interpret Leibniz, the monads do not really see each other, they only see each other's physical forms, and the physical forms are not themse...
In some alternative reality Wankerz: Philosobabble and the Critique of Faux-Comedic Unreason was a great film about post-sense 'philosophers', their '...
Don't you mean "we have no good reason to believe that Bohr ever said that"? Then the question becomes: 'if we reject induction what good reason could...
I don't know; for whatever reason I can't see why fundamental particles as energized fields could not explain the existence of more or less (but never...
The problem I see is that without the work of a 'Master Monad', or some other form of spiritual work to coordinate the experiences of all the monads, ...
I started my working life as a gardener/ handyman when I was at art school around 1975. My ambitions to be a professional artist were soon quelled whe...
Where i disagree with Hoffman here is that while we cannot experience the same headache we have very good reasons to believe that we experience the sa...
Missed this one before! I'm not convinced that Hegel would agree with the idea that mind is the primary reality. The way I read Hegel, he thinks spiri...
Well I think there's an ambiguity in the idea of 'motivating existence', and I'm not sure what you want it to mean; but in any case I won' t pursue it...
Yeah, I know what it is like to dream absurdities that seem to make perfect sense. I guess another way of putting the point would be that we know what...
Yeah, as if you would know what may or may not help an individual in a unique situation. It was offered as one among a number of suggested activities ...
Look, don't worry about what others think; you need to decide for yourself and do whatever is best for you; to do, that is whatever enables you to alt...
Have you tried it at least, or are you just deciding from your present state of mind? Exercise, for example, has an effect on the levels of seratonin ...
But do you feel your life as rich with meaning? What about from an emotional standpoint, or rather why does it need to be "from a standpoint" at all? ...
Since you seem to be an avid reader perhaps try reading the Bible, along with works from the Western hermetic and mystical traditions, Rudolf Steiner,...
It's not so much that anything is being asserted that contains logical flaws (apart from the assertion that global skepticism is being practiced I sup...
The imagined centaur is composed of elements that do exist, and not of anything that doesn't, so what you say above seems somewhat superficial or at t...
Terms of reference that are dependent upon the reality purportedly being doubted, and which are absolutely indispensable to the coherency of the doubt...
More that there is no genuine skepticism because terms of reference parasitic upon what is purportedly being doubted are always necessarily taken for ...
Perhaps the impossibility of taking the castle of skepticism, as well as its failure to send out any marauding troops is due to the fact it is a mirag...
That's faulty reasoning: if the answer is "no", then there is no need to decide about "what is really true, and what isn't context dependent" because ...
The very possibility that you could be seeing something other than what you think you see presupposes that there is a truth about, that is a reality i...
It's funny how much you like to flatter yourself, in fact I didn't feel touchy at all; but I guess it's just another one of your sad attempts to portr...
I read his major works extensively about twelve years ago. He maintains that it is impossible to become enlightened, or even to make real 'cultivation...
To me it seems obvious that"comfortable " in this context should not be taken to mean 'happy', but in a very relative sense like 'as happy as possible...
I honestly don't know what you are talking about here. What you wrote seems to me to imply that you think that because Jimi believes the "mentally ill...
How else does anyone achieve excellence, whether in the arts or elsewhere other than by recognizing and correcting their weaknesses? How do you presum...
How on Earth do you come to the conclusion that it follows from the fact that one has "made the best bargain with life that they can" that the must, o...
No, I'm not speaking about superiority in relation to others, but about being the best you can be, and of not being satisfied with less. Whatsoever th...
It's interesting you should say that, because there is an older painting underneath, which is precisely of complex streams of water flowing over rocks...
As I remember Don Juan once saying to Carlos Castaneda about what it is to be a warrior (very roughly paraphrased); "He could be staring at Satan hims...
That's great! Is it oil or acrylic on canvas or board? Was your pain on account of veritas, or was it due to lack of clarity about it? This is from Wi...
It sounds like you did receive them, though, and that you found them helpful. A strong person may find condemnation and rejection to be just the stimu...
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