It says something about reality as you judge it to be. Others may not judge reality to be as you do, and reality may not be as anyone judges it to be,...
Some would argue that it is not at all possible to remove us from our conceptions. be that as it may, I see two justifications for using "rocks": Firs...
Why must there be a cause of material existence? Thinking of the universe as being of finite age and consisting in temporal successions of causes and ...
The idea that information is ontologically fundamental, not to mention non-physical, is very far from being a consensus view among contemporary physic...
That's right, but from a human perspective a table is a table, and a cup is a cup. A table is a table even if there are no cups on it and a cup is a c...
If there mist be a first cause, which is by no means established. I see no reason why it could not be a material cause. With the idea of an immaterial...
I think everything you have said there is consistent with what I have said, in that I have acknowledged from the start that visualizing something is g...
I agree that to imagine something is to imagine it existing. Of course, it doesn't follow that the imagined thing necessarily actually exists. So, whe...
You make a good point, and perhaps "imagining" is not the right word; certainly not if the term is equated with "visualizing". So, there's a differenc...
I can't imagine a particular rock without imagining it in terms of perceptible attributes, but I can imagine that a rock could exist without anyone pe...
If the material forms are evolving, then how do the "immaterial forms" evolve prior to them in order to give rise to the former's evolution, and why w...
By "somewhere else" which I originally presented in quotation marks I was referring to "some transcendent realm". Previous oaks are not, in this sense...
I can't even begin to imagine a rock having a perspective, but I can imagine a rock existing without there being any conscious observer of it. Of cour...
So that passage quoted from Magee, which I have no argument with, puts paid to Kastrup's notion of mind at large, and even to Schopenhauer's notion of...
Does that mean it is nothing but an amorphous mass of nothing? :lol: I can see absolutely no reason to think that individuation relies on conscious ob...
But I know that my perception of the tree is not the tree, right? My perceptions are constituted by phenomena: sights, sounds, tactile sensations and ...
I already acknowledged that Aristotle's hylomorphism was prescient, so I don't know what point you think I missed. I do disagree with "metaphysical fo...
Yes, I also find the question of the difference or sameness of noumenon with thing-in-itself can be somewhat confusing. I think of the noumena as bein...
Yes, I'm familiar with that parable and it is very pertinent. We all seem to enjoy thrashing out these issues, maybe by way of diversion. I don't see ...
That says nothing about having to entertain any particular metaphysics in order to practice. Of course if you are drawn to a particular tradition with...
I think the idea of noumena is derived from the pretty much universal belief that the objects of perception are independently existent, coupled with t...
That passage is not from Hadot. In any case, I don't think one's metaphysical views have any bearing on one's spiritual practice; on one's ability to ...
Looks quite interesting, but I cannot access the book. Anyway, it's probably a good thing given my list of books to read is already of ridiculous prop...
Well of course they were a kind of precursor, since as I already said above, Aristotle thought the form of the oak to be immanent within the acorn, an...
As I remember it (it's a while since I read the book) Pierre Hadot in Philosophy as a Way of Life understands the various ancient Greek philosophical ...
Taking the example of the acorn: I would say the form of the oak is inherent within, immanent to, the acorn, and I think Aristotle thought the same. Y...
I accept the other sense, but all I am asking for is textual evidence for the above sense as being more, something ontologically fundamental and at th...
The issue I have is that our understanding of mind comes from our human experience of "minding", or to put it another way our understanding of conscio...
Again, you are making unwarranted assumptions about me. I am willing to accept anything that seems plausible to me, that is sufficiently enough suppor...
This is the crux of the issue for me. I am unconvinced by Schopenhauer's (and Kastrup's derivative) claims that we know the "in-itself" on the basis o...
Right, it is merely a logical or conceptual distinction, and according to its own lights cannot ever be anything more than that. And yet the distincti...
Can you cite a passage from Aristotle where he speaks about abstract pattern or design? Thanks, I'll check that reference. Thanks for giving me a rund...
So, you agree there is a mind-independent world, you just don't agree that it is physical? I have no argument with that since the definition of 'physi...
I agree Aristotle makes a distinction between potential and actual. but I don't read him as thinking of potential as 'Insubstantial form" but as "prim...
Right, we all follow our instincts or intuitions and in some cases our intellects if what to do is a concern at all for us. Personally I remain unconv...
You are being very kind and understanding to those short, ugly, vicious morons. But seriously, I agree; much of the viciousness and stupidity is cultu...
You seem to be putting the cart before the horse; how could we be doing "what we are supposed to" if that should be according to a cosmic purpose no o...
Many different cosmic purposes have been imagined; they are as diverse as the cultures that have imagined them; they each tell different stories. Say ...
Not good enough! I've met short ugly morons in happy marriages - and not always with short ugly morons. — Vera Mont Right, but that short ugly morons ...
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