Interesting thoughts in this thread. St. Augustine has a number of formulations of the Cogito and interestingly some appeal to memory. From De Trinita...
Well, Aristotle's notion of matter is much different from modern physics, and is perhaps more usefully likened to energy. But, the "void," space, does...
The book also covers the use of "anti-tank dogs," which seems emblematic of how Stalin's leadership tickled down in the war. Lacking material to make ...
"On A Knife's Edge: The Ukraine November 1942 to March 1943" — bit of a change for me because normally if I read hyper detailed military history doors...
:up: The problem of objectification can be seen in the Genesis narrative. Leon Kass' The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis has an excellent treatme...
I don't think know if these reasons are what St. Paul has at top of mind (and he speaks the most about the decision to get married): I Corinthians 7:7...
I think you are correct as respects particular instances, but I thought the OP was pointing to global denials of any laws/regularities/patterns/ration...
Ha, I still have a copy of that from my hometown's public library that I forgot to return. I was 16 when I found a copy of Journey to Ixtlan and I was...
Point 1 totally depends on the ideas in question. Deely for instance is making a case for a particular sort of answer to the epistemic issues that hav...
Well, that's sort of the crux then, being in a simulation is only good if the people running the simulation want what is good for you. It's Plato's Ca...
It's seems worth noting that chora/khôra conventionally means "space," since I didn't see the non-technical translation here. This is maybe a bit more...
I think you might be misjudging the sense in which these terms become "incoherent." MacIntyre does take a very broad approach, which has some deficien...
Might this simply have to do with the fact that most immigrants no longer come from Europe? It's fairly easy to find many of the charges laid against ...
I don't think this is MacIntyre's point. He goes into great detail on why he thinks the collapse into emotivism happens with a series of case studies....
:up: I suppose I was thinking in terms of metaphysics and a more general notion of goodness. You know, a plague spore would be "better" than a prion, ...
The last (and only) time US had migration levels (i.e. share of the population that is foreign born, or, alternatively, share that is either foreign b...
MacIntyre discusses Canticle at length in the opening, and I always thought Canticle itself was supposed to be a metaphor for the collapse of the Roma...
The issue with the Matrix for any human is that the humans are not in control at all. Suppose the machines discover that human beings not only are les...
Well, the people in the cave might have what they need and be having a good time. Recall, there is a second tier of people in the cave, those who, whi...
Ok. I don't know of anyone who has advocated such a position. We might be differing on what is considered a metaphysical claim. I am thinking of thing...
Nonsense, the central argument of the Metaphysics is quite simple: "being qua being is being per se in accordance with the categories, which in turn i...
I think it depends on what "logical" is supposed to mean. I would maybe think of these issues as somewhat analagous to software bugs. Video games are ...
Right, there is overlap on the background suppositions, but also differences that lead to different conclusions. I think the way in which "freedom" in...
Might the bolded part not assume the answer here a bit? Across history, there has been a wide amount of disagreement about the shape of the Earth (e.g...
Yes, it is tricky. This notion is developed in St. Thomas through the concept of "virtual quantity" (more on that at the very bottom if you're interes...
Well, this is partly why, for Plato, most people have to be left inside the cave, even if the philosopher must descend to recover the whole (since the...
Legislation was put in place so that it would require a 2/3rds vote of the Senate to leave, and that's frankly not going to happen. He has some option...
I'm not really sure what this reply is supposed to mean. Is the claim that Plato doesn't really buy into the psychology and means of self-determinatio...
The effect issue is sort of ancillary. The issue is that 1 only follows from 2 given elements of logic that seem to be more a bug than a feature—that ...
Right, appearances (as set against reality) are still really appearances. Radical skepticism sets in when one supposes that appearances can be complet...
I asked a while back, but can anyone think of an example where at least one premise of an argument is necessarily false and yet the conclusion will no...
What's the reasoning here, that Putin would have been forced out of power but for the invasion? I don't think I've ever heard any analysis along that ...
You could go back and analyze a millions different variables, but IMO it really comes down to: -the Russian invasion of Georgia (which didn't actually...
Right, and this goes right along with the psychology presented in the Republic, the Phaedrus, etc. The rational part of the soul has proper authority ...
Is this Socrates as variously encountered through Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes (probably not the latter I assume), and then "reconstructed?" Or t...
This is a fair critique. In particular, the widespread looting that occured during the second invasion poisoned public opinion against the US. The tho...
I didn't ignore it, I pointed out that your evidence to support your position is historically illiterate, listing colonial rebellions and literal staf...
Well, sure, in the same sense that if you regularly drive black out drunk you might have a "justifiable fear of car crashes." I'm not sure if the conc...
Yes, I'm painting with an extremely wide brush and vastly overgeneralizing. The article might not even be a particularly good example, I haven't read ...
Sure, look up how WWI started and how WWII ended. If starting a war, losing it, and getting invaded counts as "being invaded," then Germany was certai...
The Origen story is probably a smear by opponents. In his commentary on Matthew he considers an extremely literal interpretation of this advice to be ...
Well, we can consider the counter-examples: the Gulf War, the US interventions in the Balkans, the US' first intervention in Lebanon under Eisenhower,...
I don't think it's a bad piece. Like I said, I initially liked it quite a bit because it seems to offer a salve to some of the harsher egocentrism tha...
You mentioned Matthew earlier, but might you be thinking about Mark 7:18-19? "And He *said to them, “Are you so lacking in understanding as well? Do y...
Well, the 60 vote threshold to remove the filibuster doesn't require a constitutional amendment. It can be done with a simple majority. It's a very lo...
A public option for healthcare polls decently well (i.e. modest majority support, and support amongst a sizable proportion of Republican voters as wel...
This is a strawman. For one thing, a major focus of Al-Ghabi is the way in which elites choose to personally identify as "oppressed and marginalized,"...
I've seen the theory that it's a loyalty check, but also a way to create cover for other appointments. The Senate can reject Gaetz and show they have ...
Thanks for this. I suppose this might explain why the Greek Fathers tended to write off Mary having had other children. Sure, brutes have their hierar...
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