Of course you can also trace the emergence of quantity to contradictions inherit in sheer, indeterminate being :grin: /uploads/resized/files/po/9mam0i...
Actually, on second thought, that might not be true. Various conceptions of panentheism have just one ontological entity. Shankara has Brahman and May...
It depends on how you define parsimony. How many "brute facts," does naturalism require? The jury is out on that. Seemingly, it might be quite a lot. ...
But why should God's rule be anything like that of a human leader? It seems possible that God might want to say different things to different people a...
Yes, that is the defining claim of a substance-based metaphysics. I fail to see how this is a knock against process-metaphysics. It's saying "if we as...
Ha, no I didn't mean the denial of these things is hardly a problem. I meant that it isn't a problem to teach well justified positions just because so...
I am not sure if this follows. Consider a basic sketch of compatibalist free will as one's relative degree of self-determination: A. Initially, follow...
It's worth noting that Tegmark justifies his view with the claim that it fixes the Fine Tuning Problem in physics. I do not think this actually works....
The Synoptic Gospels were very likely not written like War and Peace, set out for publication by a single author, and then distributed. Material in th...
Ok, but he chooses to present his opinion as something much closer to "consensus historical fact:" "during his lifetime, Jesus himself didn't call him...
Apparently there is a third Bart Ehrman who goes on NPR and states that there is no evidence in Paul that Jesus is divine, and this is what I find to ...
Really? I am familiar with him largely through his name being synonymous with a sort of liberal "debunking" of the Scriptures. It certainly isn't a co...
I would say Ehrman is vastly overstating his thesis, especially when including Paul in these assertions. Here is how Paul refers to Christ: Granted, t...
Is there truly "no agreement?" People seem to agree on a lot of the basics. For example, no one seems to think that being ruled over by instinct, circ...
Teacher to student ratios tend to be such that it precludes many types of activities, and this ends up being a bit of a problem. A focus on "critical ...
Right, I am speaking to my own prior ignorance. Just the way it is usually talked about, I had always assumed the Iran coup was something more like a ...
This is what I thought because it gets repeated all the time as an explanation for the poor US - Iranian relation. Having later looked into the relati...
I've been sipping in and out of "Miester Eckhart's Book of Secrets." It's a compilation of aphorisms, sort of a Christian version of Zen koans in a wa...
I'd argue this is getting things backwards. We only understand "things" in terms of what they do. What properties does any thing have when it is inter...
Well, in the case of some genetic disorders, e.g. pseudo-exfoliation glaucoma, the problem seems to be with the rules, not the execution. With PEG, th...
:rofl: yeah, the grey and black only look seems optional. I am actually aware of a few "intentional communities" that seem to accomplish something qui...
I don't see why this should be the case. Protons seem to have beginnings and ends, which is why it seems fair to think of them as underlined by proces...
There are a lot of Amish here where I live. The Amish don't have jobs so much as they are community members, although if they are particularly skilled...
I do believe this remains a primary issue even with the waning of particle-based conceptions of being and the rise of process-based (pancomputationali...
Quite so, just an area that interests me so I can't help but throw my $0.02 in. Yes, and I agree that social conceptions of virtue only get you so far...
I don't really disagree with any of this. For Aristotle, human beings are fundamentally social creatures whose well-being is intrinsically linked to t...
I'm simply not sure that this is a key distinction in these authors, particularly not in the Consolation itself. Virtue often seems to be defined almo...
I won't disagree with you that this is how the machine is often interpreted. However, critics came back with the argument that "real happiness" involv...
Well, here is how he describes it: It seems like it can involve simulated romances, friends, career success, etc. Given Boethius' definition of happin...
I know this thread is quite old, but I do find the topic interesting. On the bolded, I wonder how common belief in the primacy of particles still is? ...
Excellent points. And then the elucidation of certain natural rights gives us something ready-made to point to in order to show why a certain act is w...
Well, the intelligibility of things seems to be accessible through images of them. For example, if we have a picture of FDR, we would say "FDR is in t...
I don't know what to tell you, lots of rational people have embraced the idea of natural rights. You seem to be hung up on the idea of enforcement, bu...
This is a consequence of modern philosophical innovations and the Reformation. The idea that understanding requires training, asceticism, meditation, ...
I can only recommend looking up what question begging actually is. In your first post, you seem to have mistaken my pointing out a use for natural rig...
No it isn't. P1: Violating natural rights is evil. P2: It is (relatively) easy to determine when natural rights have been violated. Conclusion: Natura...
So perhaps the machine will first train our subject in the virtues and, when this training is complete, eject him? And if he doesn't know he is in the...
Ah yes, the war to control the vast oil exports of Afghanistan and control the ever potent Afghan-Israeli rivalry. The "war for oil and Israel," makes...
Won't they mean something in that we can point to the evil being done in their violation? Rights, as the defense of the good, seem like they should ex...
Well, Boethius was awaiting his death, and I believe he was already undergoing torture when he wrote the Consolation, and he was living at sort of the...
Strangely, there seems to be a lot of similarity between thinkers who are often labeled as "existentialists" and those who are called "personalists." ...
This is not in any way obvious. US foreign policy is the result of values, personal ambition, internal politicking, economics, strategic concerns, and...
I agree that its feedback, but isn't feedback a sort of circular causality? Right, it's protean and dynamic, in the same way that organic life is. Mor...
The reference to Hebbian learning was just an example of the extremely defuse number of phenomena that are "scientific," in the sense of involving cor...
What context? Judging the various merits of historical lines of thought? I should hope we have some basis for making these judgements, or else philoso...
But you can castrate pigs without anesthesia and leave them to wallow in pain, or pack chickens so closely together that you need saw their beaks off ...
No, I wouldn't say so. This would seem to flatten out what makes the "scientific method" distinct, why it only emerged in the modern era, etc. It rend...
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