Jack Cummins

Okay, that's useful to know, because it is just that the whole area of thought arising from the ideas of Jaynes, leads onto so many other ones. The qu...

In the discussion above, I was thinking more about relativism in thinking about metaphysics. I believe that moral relativism is more complicated. That...

Perhaps different writers have used the terms relativism and pluralism slightly differently. However, what I see as the main aspect is that we strive ...

I think that relativism and pluralism are slightly different because pluralism seems to be about competing truths, rather than just seeing them as bei...

I went through a phase a few years ago in which relativism did seem a really good option, because it did seem that there were so many perspectives. Ho...

I have been thinking through what I wrote to you an hour ago and wonder if I am stretching Jung's idea too far in suggesting that it could be that God...

I think that it becomes clearer that it becomes clearer that Jung developed his views into an idea or ideas about God is in his book ' Answer to Job' ...

You specify that you 'take issue' with my opening statement about establishing a connection between inner psychic processes and the idea of God, but y...

One book which I have come across on this topic is, 'The Eternal Now,' by Eckart Tolle. He suggests that, ' The eternal present is the space within wh...

From my reading of Jung, there seems to be a fair amount of ambiguity ranging from that which could be seen as supportive of traditional religious exp...

I have found Jung's ideas particularly helpful, since I first discovered him at school. However, I am aware that he remains on the fringe, and is prob...

It is hard to know, but I would not dismiss the visionaries and outstanding thinkers who have paved the way with their insights. It seems to me that r...

I saw that part of Pfhorrest's discussion as interesting because it is questionable whether we can find the correct answers to many philosophical ques...

I have thought a bit about how you say that I do not speak 'with education for democracy.' I think that is partly because I don't really have much sen...

I have read some writing by Sacks but I am not sure if he has written on colours specifically. One thing I am aware of is that if I am feeling low, I ...

I am reading and thinking about what you said to me about democracy, but I think that you replied to @"Pfhorrest" but did not click on the name, but I...

Bearing in mind that you may be more interested in the physiology of imagination, the ideas of Oliver Sacks may be relevant for your discussion becaus...

You may not like my answer, but the area of study which I think is relevant is art, and possibly physics, and the paint palette seems the best place t...

I was interested to see your links, which go back a bit before I joined the site. I think that your project sounds great. The one thing that I am not ...

I looked at the post you referred to and it seems that the philosophy of levels is about viewing from a closer level in contrast to seeing from the la...

Yes, I think that the very first post I ever communicated with you on was you speaking about the idea of levels, when I began referring to the dance t...

Strangely, I have found that some people do plan their lives in a very clear way. I have never felt able to do as much as I would like to, because I a...

Do you think anything it has been a predominant idea that everything wasknowable? I would imagine that some philosophers and other thinkers in the pas...

I find that the more I try to plan life, with possible courses of action, something different to what I expected seems to arise. Perhaps it is capture...

I was impressed with the book at the time but not entirely convinced by it. I think that fuzziness can be a way of brainstorming. However, I am more i...

I recommend a book which I read a few years ago on the usefulness of fuzziness in thinking, by Bart Kosko (1993), 'Fuzzy Logic.'

Yes, I think that it is unlikely that Socrates said that we can't know anything. Of course, we cannot know everything, but to settle for just saying t...

I do see 'standing around doing nothing' while the ship sinks as one of the dangers of the current philosophers. Also, saying we don't know anything, ...

I do think that it is debatable how much thinking is good for us. One model which I think is useful is Jung's one on the four functions: feeling, sens...

I think it resilience is extremely important because it so easy to end up to become broken down or defeated by suffering. Some people probably have mo...

Why do you think Cobra is trolling? I can't see anything wrong with her discussion, but perhaps I am missing seeing something.

You have raised an interesting discussion. I am not sure that the feeling of strong dislike and feeling hatred and that of wishing harm is absolute. P...

Perhaps, it is worth me paying more attention to him. Which albums do you recommend?

I listened to it on my phone with a CD playing in the background, so I didn't give it full attention. I only know his album, 'So'. I easily twisted it...

I like the Peter Gabriel song about monkeys. Actually, my first philosophical shock was the theory of evolution because it was not what I had been bro...

I expect that deconstruct and analysis are similar but deconstruction implies more of a situation of being thrown into an absence or suspension of mea...

I do think that we are at a crossroads and probably there will be changes, some bad and some good. It is hard to know who will be affected and in what...

Getting out of confusion is important, but the whole process of being in it and finding the way are central to understanding too. I am not talking pur...

I think that confusion can be a starting point. We would not need to find the way if we hadn't got lost in the first place. I have got lost literally ...

In what way do you think that philosophy stands out as the muse? Is it about analytic understanding?

As you are fairly new to the forum, I am interested to know your views of what it means to be a philosopher. I am not asking that to put you on the sp...

I am not completely sure that fearing change is an actual sign that things are so bad. Perhaps it is the opposite. Currently, many of us have the econ...

One problem which I see in England, and I am sorry if I seem to be not addressing America, is some ideas which I have seen such as specific plans to i...

I was read Bucke's, 'Cosmic Consciousness' fairly recently and I think that it is a fascinating area for discussion, but similarly I would not wish to...

I do believe that novelist are able to juggle and play around with ideas in philosophy. I have not read Hemmingway at present, but apart from existent...

You may find it strange, but I find the whole area of psychology of theories as one of the most interesting. I read ' Beyond Freedom and Dignity,' by ...

Of course, I am not wishing to suggest that anyone should not see themselves as a philosopher. You probably know enough about me to know that I am not...

It is interesting that Wittgenstein suggested that a philosophy could be written in jokes. I have never been a big fan of comedy, but I can usually se...

Yes, it is a tension between us fitting into the world mentally and the world fitting towards us. In many ways, it is easier to change our thinking th...

I see your point about the idea of the muse. I suppose where it gets complicated philosophically is whether muses exist or are a symbolic idea. I woul...