The concept of 'understanding' is extremely important because it goes into the inner nature of ideas. It even goes into the territory of 'insight', wh...
I think that you are correct in seeing the dichotomy between subjective and objective aspects of understanding. Even the idea of the intersubjective m...
I can understand why the idea of metaphysics confuses you because it involves what lies beyond 'physics' ideas of physics evolve alongside development...
I guess that part of my philosophy problem.is about the connection between the outer and inner aspects of human understanding. I may be involving an u...
The juxtaposition of the subjective and objective seems complex in my understanding of philosophy. The idea of the mind of 'God' may involve questions...
The shifts between different models of mind and behaviour is where philosophy and psychiatry is an important interface. I have read Jung and I often w...
Evidence about medication is important. It is a complex area because it involves quantitative and qualitative evidence and both subjective experience,...
I am rather surprised that you challenge questioning the medical model. Also, I am not sure about your division between experience as being subjective...
Your reply is important in pointing to the way in which the philosophy of mind is inherent to psychiatry. It may be asked to what extent can the 'cure...
Psychiatry may still be seen in a negative light insofar as it involves treatment to 'normalise' people. Often, the medications given have problematic...
The idea of philosophical counselling does sound worthwhile. There was a tradition of pastoral counselling but this was often in conjunction with a re...
Thank you for your detailed reply to the outpost. Often chemical treatments of what is regarded as 'abnormal' are the focus within psychiatry. I am al...
I hadn't come across the Boulder model, so thank you for pointing to that. It does seem that Szasz and Laing have lost their influence in the critique...
Psychology does draw upon the meaning aspects of understanding experience as well as neuroscience. Of course, there are different schools of thought w...
It all comes down to whether gender is seen as a biological given or not. What constitutes being a man or woman? In gender rulings, the problem may be...
When I have been interacting on the forum, I find that it affects both my conscious experience and dreams. At times, the communication seems more real...
There is an 'almost giddiness in approaching the question' of my thread. I do see it as connected to Sartre's idea of 'nothingness' and his ideas of e...
I do see your interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy, especially the idea of 'eternal recurrence' as being helpful in contemplating living in the 'h...
The problem is that the contradictions about free speech to address hate speech incites cultural wars. Of course, unexpressed hatred exists as an unco...
I am glad that you make a connection with my question and life reviews. That is because I was led to this point while ill in hospital a few months ago...
What is the 'tyrant' within, or the internal saboteur? Is it metaphysical and hoe does it come into play in the dynamics of the moment, as in conjunct...
Yes, there is a lot of scepticism towards scepticism about introspective starting points for philosophy. However; the philosophy of relativism, especi...
What is wrong with the idea of the 'supernatural'? Is it because it is disembodied? I can see the problem of disembodied existence, especially in the ...
I wonder to what extent 'desire' is about bodily aspects of physiology. There is also the realm of attachments, which may be physical but also based o...
I wonder to what extent the idea of 'Know Thyself' is a basis for all understanding, especially the foundation for ethics. How one sees one's own basi...
I think that you are right to raise this question and it is essential to the thread. That is because self awareness and introspection is at the core o...
I wonder to what extent the emphasis on the value of hate speech is libertarian humanism turned upside down. It may miss the spirit of civil liberties...
I am also wondering about how my question ties in with @"Baden"s consideration of ''What Can Go Wrong in the Mirror'. That is because that thread look...
The question of the difference between the 'minds' of women and men raises important issues of what it means to exist in a male or female body. Of cou...
Each person can see the tragedy of having not existed. This is contrasted with the way in which each one is participating in mythical quests of a univ...
Going back in history there are very few female philosophers and it was only in the twentieth century that the voices of women became present. Also, t...
I have big issues in thinking about the nature of inner and outer reality..The inner perspective is a way of focusing on the outer, but it is not abso...
You make an important point because the anonymous experiences of dying, or life, may be equal, if not more than those held up as exemplified examples....
I can see that the dichotomy between inwards and outwards exist to some extent. However, the panorama of this may be a little more complex, especially...
You may have a point of how the idea of the 'here and now' may be translated in.practical terms, such as 'get a job'. It can become a philosophy of su...
What does it mean to 'think'? Is it a product of the nervous system or something more? Descartes understood thought to be an essential aspect of exist...
Yes, I am unsure of the exact differences between pantheism and pansychism, beyond the labels. Both seem to point to some kind of underlying conscious...
It does come down to how the unique and individual drops are seen, reduced or magnified, like grains of sand. A human being may be seen as insignifica...
I do agree about the importance of taking care of another in the here and now. If anything, I see this being more problematic as people live in the vi...
I should probably read the 'Tao de Ching' asi I have seen it referred to a lot on this forum in the past. It probably represents a far 'softer' form o...
Yes, the biological aspects of 'desire' is important and Maslow's hierarchy of needs begins with the physical. It involves the spectrum of animal and ...
Philosophy often looks at the problem of consciousness, but the idea of the subconscious may get overlooked. It involves layers of memories and condit...
To a large extent, living in the 'here and now' may be about dealing with the practical and pragmatic aspects of philosophical awareness. There is so ...
After writing the post above I am also aware that all the people I refer to are men. This shows the way in which the power structure is also significa...
The aspect of this which I see as curious is each person's unique contribution to life and understanding. If some of those who are considered to be im...
If there were no 'if's would philosophy exist at all? I don't subscribe to an idea of 'self' independently of processes and we exist in a web of many ...
I do agree that picking out the coherent from the incoherent is an important marker. If anything, I regard my own thread as a rather strange one. I do...
I do see what you mean. It's all imaginary scenarios. It can be a futile way of going round in circles of 'what ifs and maybes'. The only thing that I...
The block universe may be true. It does also seem that we relive so much of the past and it does take a lot of processing to reach some acceptance. Th...
I am not sure that it as simple as, 'Bad experience comes from bad people'. There is some way in which the way we experience unpleasant behaviour from...
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