From the point of view of inductive reason limited by our senses which is the visible realm, forms are imagination. However from the intelligible real...
Darwin argues from inductive reason. Appreciating Plato requires deductive reason. Is a perfect circle the result of an evolving species or the first ...
Society has many conditioned concepts of justice. They are all part of the "many." But justice itself is a form. It is an unchangeable universal ultim...
Forms are thus mind-independent entities: their existence and nature is independent of our beliefs and judgments about them. The Phaedo contains an ex...
I'm not sure of what you mean by imagination. We use the same word for conscious contemplation or opening to the experience of noesis and also escapis...
Simone can have an effect on a person. When Julia Haslett was living in depressing times she discovred Simone and it saved her life. She wrote a docum...
I'm a great admirer of Simone Weil. Listening seems to be as difficult as it is necessary She wrote. “The capacity to give one's attention to a suffer...
You may appreciate how Jacob Needleman described an experiment pertaining to listening. Is listening the beginning of morality? If it is, then compass...
The more human "being" descends into fragmentation at the expense of wholeness, compassion becomes less relevant. "The whole idea of compassion is bas...
I meant that Man has forgotten his objective purpose so only success in his subjective purposes offer prestige and the feeling of value. A man may be ...
The answer is the acquired need for prestige. It takes the place of recognizing universal purpose. Prestige than offers us the feeling of value "The c...
“Knowledge has three degrees – opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, ...
‘ “Big Brother is Watching You.”’ He knows you need to be loved. Once you learn right from wrong you will be loved. It is just a matter of time and pr...
It depends on what you mean by intelligent. An intelligent woman wants to know you while a shrewd woman wants to judge you. Yet we use the same word f...
Does the human brain create consciousness or is it a receiver of consciousness? "My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from whi...
If you want to begin to understand the origin of NOW have you considered Plotinus' idea of the ONE? https://iep.utm.edu/plotinus/ a. The One The ‘conc...
."Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. It is given to very few minds to notice that things and beings exist. Since my childhood I ha...
From 1984 ‘ “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossibl...
Experiencing the contradiction rather than denying it can open the door to "meaning" Simone Weil explains: “When a contradiction is impossible to reso...
We begin with the experience through efforts to "Know Thyself" That the human essence is in three parts or mind, appetites, and sensations. These part...
No but the ideas are: "Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? ... And once they are dead they are no more than co...
No, Socrates was more concerned with the minds of the young rather than their bodies. Pedophilia was common practice in those days and nothing to be k...
The husk of the acorn is analogous to human personality. We are not born with it but it is acquired in life. It is the source of the OPINION of oursel...
But sometimes a person's voluntary obligations learned by experience is hated by normal people. They will have to drink the hemlock. They can avoid th...
For me the phrase I Am doesn't exist for Man in Plato's Cave. In reality the totality of the human organism can be described as "We are Many." As I un...
Have you considered this question from the point of view of the "Great Chain of Being"? https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Great_Chain_of_Bein...
Personal liberty is not the same as societal liberty. They require different qualities of obligations. I may demand the right to kill you to enhance m...
NO. For a free society to sustain itself the majority must recognize and support the value of free speech and oppose a minority which would be against...
What is your aim for yourself and for society in general? I believe in the rights as recorded in the Declaration of Independence and the freedoms that...
Who defines ideal moral standards? Initially God did nd we killed God. Now science proves facts but is ignorant as far as moral standards. So the next...
Kenosha Kid That said, "cancel culture" is overstated. No one is obliged to give you a platform for your opinions, and every employer is free to fire ...
Raul There is a dark side as it has always been in history, unfortunately we have to deal with our human condition, that has not changed at all, our b...
The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard 20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his...
I agree that details can be misunderstood but the New Testament has an essential message that a person can grow to understand by pondering it. The ess...
But explain to me why if all a person needs to be a Christian is to have faith in Christ yet the Apostles asked Jesus to increase their faith. Obvious...
I'm a little unusual. My great great grand uncle was an archbishop in the Armenian church and as I understand it, was friendly with Madam Blavtsky so ...
Faith IN Christ as I understand it is emotional faith. However the faith OF Christ is conscious faith leading to freedom. When we create something to ...
Why did Jesus say the faith of the centurion was such great faith? Many people have faith in Christ but why is the faith of the Centurion so exception...
I'm not being critical but obviously you are unaware of the difference between faith IN Christ and the Faith OF Christ. Yet people attack Christianity...
Are you familiar with the concept of a conscious universe? The universe is analogous to a living organism structured on levels of reality. It is an an...
It's a good question K but IMO you are approaching it wrongly. For example the meaning of a car or a house is defined by its service to us. It is easy...
As I understand it, objective morality as opposed to conditioned morality is apriori knowledge we experience as conscience. Plato referred to it as an...
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