That wouldn't be it though. Necessity is not just a case of high probability. Obviously, many things might stop a ball that has been thrown at a windo...
Those all seem like physical necessity to me. Some things can pass through others without breaking them. For instance, a beam of light from a flashlig...
Right, I'd say the culpability and responsibility are a function of knowledge and strength of will, but these are also things we have control over (an...
My point would be that what appears as supererogation from the frame of history/man, and thus monstrous to compel, need not appear so from a corrected...
I don't think the two views are necessarily in conflict. Sokolowski has syntactical structure emerging from the phenomenological character of experien...
I think this might be tackled in two ways: First, yes there is a sense in which man must transcend his nature in order to become perfected. This means...
:up: Of course, this has been taken in two ways. As the mind's construction of intelligible reality, or as the mind's union and co-identity with reali...
Indeed, and ataraxia is the first 'medicine' Lady Philosophy gives to Boethius in the Consolation, although this is preparatory to the Ascent. Even if...
Things are present to us whenever we are experiencing them in any way. So, a thing might be present through sense experience, through memory, through ...
Here is one I like: John Deely also has a lot of interesting stuff on the emergence of the lebenswelt, and his semiotic approach bridges the gap on so...
As an historical analog, you might consider why Heraclitus felt the need to provide for a Logos at work in a world of unceasing, inchoate flux. The ch...
How so? What exactly is so expensive about study that you need to be wealthy to do it? All you really need is an internet connection. Is watching Netf...
Right, if I recall, part of the analysis relies on a (IMO, false) dichotomy. Either our wants are grounded in the passions and appetites, or they are ...
Critics of Hume have pointed this out. Likewise, the attempt to secure ethics through sentiment seems open to all sorts of attacks. For the egoist, it...
You should check out Land's concept and advocacy of "hyperracism." In general, Land tends to at least tacitly support the conclusions of some sort of ...
That true statements are necessarily true is an interesting topic. In Book IV of the Metaphysics, Aristotle points out that, taken alone: "it is true ...
Literally, de dicto is "of the said/expressed" and de re "of the matter/thing." For example, suppose some little girl says: "when I grow up, I want to...
For many, education in general involves denying America's racial history. People who want to do this can and will attempt to do it as much in one educ...
How should I know? I hardly see how this is the case. Obedience to proper authority is part of "right behavior." If children refuse to listen to their...
Indeed, still quite small. Homeschooling and private education as a whole has blown up since the Pandemic though, so that is part of it. Maybe, althou...
I don't see how a classical education entails this. I am aware that more than a few liberal outlets have put forth hit pieces advancing the theory tha...
Obviously, if people want to make a thread to discuss objections to climate change related theories or mitigation efforts, they are welcome to. I am a...
The old site is archived too: https://web.archive.org/web/20130925165535/http://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/the-dark-enlightenment-by-nick-land/ I ha...
I will say though that critical readings work very well for answering other sorts of questions. For instance, Isaiah very likely has writing from diff...
That is the "critical style" of reading the Scriptures, i.e. the focus on authorial intent and cultural setting. It is quite popular, obviously in aca...
Well, Ur-Trumper Steve Bannon has already had his ire raised and proclaimed that Musk should be "deported back to Africa." One can incite people witho...
The aid or presence of the Spirit does not usually suggest divinity though. The "Holy Spirit," the "Spirit of the LORD," etc. comes to/upon prophets t...
No, it is quite explicit about this. For example Surah An-Nisa - 171: O People of the Book! Do not go to extremes regarding your faith; say nothing ab...
:up: I wholeheartedly agree. And with the Patristics, it is often the nous in particular that has become subject to corruption and must be regenerated...
It's both philosophical and Scriptural. So on the latter, there is: Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Malachi 3:6...
Yes, God also "repents" of making Saul king over Israel in I Samuel. Aside from being immutable, God is often taken to be impassible, but there are ma...
That's certainly one way the difficulties have been taken, particularly in the modern period. The opposing view would tend to be that "human concepts ...
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are ...
Hmm, I get trying to mirror the Christian argument, and I feel like it mostly works, but it does leave room for a few weird objections to P1 on the gr...
I see what you're saying now. The idea is that something with independent existence, like a fox or a sandwich, can be an intentional object of thought...
I would assume this is likely true. But this is precisely why I don't get the blanket denial on letting people leave. In particular, some people had t...
Smart people are not always wise. They can be subject to ideological blinders outside their areas of expertise. At least some of the those pardoned fo...
I see. From my point of view, "nothing is really true tout court, but this varies by context," seems like a very consequential metaphysical position. ...
What about mathematical modeling? Or drawings, diagrams, sculpture, and other forms of artistic depiction? Can't lies be carried off with more than wo...
Truth is determined by whims? Am I reading that right? But surely someone can decide that it is "true" that their flying machine will work, "on a whim...
Where did I do that? Do you think I drew the comparison to between Israel and Assad, Hitler, the ethnic cleansing of the Jews from across the Middle E...
Let's have no more use of "sky daddy," "Allah snackbar," and the like. These will be subject to moderation. Aside from being derogatory, I somehow dou...
My post: To which you replied: Adding later: It's debatable if deflationary theories of truth "do not say there are no truths." They say that truth is...
:up: This goes back almost 1,000 years earlier too, and was the orthodox position prior to schism between the Orthodox and Catholic churches (both sti...
Exactly. This is why I see it as easily the most disastrous of his plans. The Feds also benefit from a great deal of prestige. People want to work the...
I am aware of him because I've read a number of articles put out by the Lonergan Institute. However, I didn't even know what the group was named for u...
It was a lot of things, a real witches brew. The derivatives were a major issue, but it was the entire structure of the US housing and lending market ...
At least not while being aware of it. However, you did spend an entire thread arguing that "truth" didn't make sense outside of satisfaction, while al...
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