I might have time to respond in more detail later, but for now I think it's important to note that the Platonic Good is not absent from anything that ...
Anyhow re: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/957656, this article was by Gerson, which makes sense now that I see it. IDK how closely ...
The same issue applies to "motion" and "change." Lets not jump to "meaning is fixed," I'm just saying something must stay the same. But what's backing...
IDK, something about a cat or a dog seems to strongly suggest that it is a single cat or dog; I am not sure how much "choice" we have in the matter. I...
You might take it that far, but it can be far more concrete. Consider picking out a school for your kid or buying a car. You want a school/car that is...
My apologies, my question should have been phrased: "what would be an example of a philosophy that does "need an external, transcendent organizing pri...
You seem to be mixing together sufficient and efficient cause here. There is a pretty big difference between the Aristotelian Four Causes and Humean c...
Sure, in some sense. I've long held that, just as Hegel has institutions (e.g. the justice system, family, state, etc.) objectifying morality for a pe...
I have this sitting on my bookshelf because I really like his podcasts. I haven't read it yet though because I am pretty well versed in the period, bu...
Sure, those are all things that clearly are mutable. What about paths or time? What about process? Are these stable? To be sure, our intentions vis-a-...
It can. It often doesn't. Just for two examples, there is Robert Sokolowski's The Phenomenology of the Human Person and G.W.F. Hegel's Phenomenology o...
The sentence continues: in ways that require a new framework for its investigation. The first part has rarely been denied, although it is sometime mor...
Does this have to presuppose that all entities are mutable? That everything is mutable? Here is a difficulty in that case: for us to be able to “say a...
I suppose another common problem for modeling approaches and bundle theories is that they tend to have to ignore or demote the quiddity/whatness/intel...
BTW, this topic actually opens onto a host of interesting questions. There is a really good article on this in the Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism ...
It isn't. It shares some similarities with games.The idea that language, war, science, religion, etc. are all games requires a notion of "game" so bro...
Yes, obviously he can be wrong. However, there is a sort of open-endedness to questioning. Just as Moore pointed out that we can always ask "is it goo...
Sure, and this can absolutely be so. But there is a difference between noting this and appeals to the "language community" as somehow decisively settl...
Yes, it's useful to distinguish between them. Causes would involve individual instances, principles every case of twoness, a binary, etc. Here is a qu...
Really, it should be explainable by any metaphysics worth its salt. Explaining why we don't drink rocks when we are thirsty or give our babies razor b...
I will just add that it's helpful to recall that physics is the study of mobile/changing being here, so to have everything under it would be to imply ...
The quoted bit sounds to me much more like the early-modern-period-and-on's focus on reductionism (also a trend in the pre-Socratics). I don't think t...
Yes, but the response doesn't really act as a good counterpoint. We might very well use a PC desktop as a doorstop. However, we wouldn't turn into int...
That's a good point. I glossed behavior as "act." Right, epistemically accessible acts involve interaction. When we speak of (essential) properties, w...
You could also think of unit and measure as causes of number in that it does not seem that we would develop such concept if not for the fact that phen...
Metaphysics Book X, Ch. I is probably a good place to start. How familiar are you with Aristotle's treatment of the "Problem of the One and the Many" ...
It's a great example of what happens when you have no structure to your philosophy and end up putting philosophy of language prior to metaphysics and ...
Your post would make sense if I was claiming to doubt that other people exist. I'm not though. What I am doubting is that it is a logical impossibilit...
Does it? I'm willing to allow that radical skepticism is largely just insincere affectation, and that true solipsists are mentally unwell, but the ide...
Anyhow, what irks me about deflationist accounts is that they tend to ignore how radical a claim like "there is no such thing as truth, it's just a to...
I'm not sure about this whole "behavior/being" dichotomy. The old Scholastic adage is actum sequitur esse, "act follows on being." I have a few good q...
I don't think this is entirely true. While the movement has been quite inchoate, it has had a steady position of immigration: "we want less of it." Th...
Eco is pretty interesting on this point, although I don't know if I'd totally recommend Kant and the Platypus. He starts off by granting the advocates...
This critique of the article seems to me to be more a disagreement of definitions. "That's not true science, true science is methodology..." No doubt,...
Apples are a good example, but cats or whole apple trees might be a better. Are there no discrete individual, whole plants or animals in the world suc...
I've seen this done in a few places actually. Normally the metaphor people use is one of a number line. You have 0 in the middle and positive and nega...
That depends on the experience. The most famous theophanies, the Incarnation (and events related to it, such as the Resurrection, Transfiguration, and...
How exactly does this differ from any empirical claims? It depends on what is meant by "justified." Plato, in Letter VII, says of "teaching" metaphysi...
Well, we could always ask: "could good historical epochs always have been better if there was more prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance, as we...
It seems to me that you could just as easily make the case that good things have overwhelmingly involved cooperation, loyalty, trust, and love. It's a...
But suppose we run an experiment! We offer people two choices: they can have their favorite entree from their favorite restaurant, or they can eat a p...
I find Harris to be very interesting because there is a lot I think he gets right and a lot I think he gets woefully wrong. Of course, "goodness" rela...
I am not sure if this is a helpful way to think about free action. If something is uncaused then it occurs for "no reason at all." However, are we fre...
Well, you mention true crime. Consider evidence, which is a sign of the truth or falsehood of various hypotheses. Likewise, for the belief that "Bonav...
A pretty common position. I think Robert Sokolowski does a good job explaining the intuitions that support this position, and demonstrating the centra...
Sure, Charles Taylor speaks of this in A Secular Age. A dominant narrative, particularly with atheists, is that contemporary secular culture and scien...
They need to define their terms. There is a fairly controversial, obvious sense in which propositions exist. "Exist as 'abstract objects?'" Then what ...
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