The proposition that information is as fundemental as matter and energy is not uncommon in physics. There is also the proposition that information is ...
I would start with physicalism re philosophy of mind. In the body doesn't in some way "produce" the mind, then why does ingesting certain chemicals so...
That's a very good point. I didn't mean to portray it as necessarily universal. I wouldn't want to even actually call anyone a "Last Man," as the term...
Yes, they are two different outcomes. But the need for the Overman seems to be born out of the condition the Last Man to me. Fukuyama's only point is ...
My favorite is Julius Evola titling his book "Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul." I find esoterica quite interesting, ...
Peterson is talking about both. He, and the movement as a whole, is very hostile to critical theory and critiques of objectivity, even as they also em...
:100: , that ship sailed a long time ago. And the point has been mooted by how ineffective the Russian Air Force has been. Most of their activity is l...
Well, IMO, while the modern nu/alt-right certainly shares a lot with/ in some way grows out of more venerable right wing traditions, it is itself some...
This is certainly true. I feel like philosophers themselves can be more or less culpable in how their work ends up perceived. For example, we end up w...
I think Rorty actually uses something close to the example in the OP. "Cats are animals." But suppose we discover tomorrow that "all cats are actually...
We seem to be going in a circle. We've already acknowledged that the world would be a different, better place if everyone acted morally, or that there...
This would seem to apply to almost anything. E.g., it's not my wife cheating on me that makes me unhappy, but my belief that she has been unfaithful. ...
They have been actually, people just pay less attention, but it still goes on. The Armenian diaspora is one of the most effective diaspora groups in t...
Isn't it begging to question to assume the correct moral beliefs are distributed such that being correct about them is a 50/50 proposition? The same s...
This is true only if you assume that people's beliefs about morality have nothing to do moral facts. But if people have the moral beliefs they do beca...
Well, the non-natural moral facts would be involved in the consequences of your actions to the extent that your family won't come to see you because t...
Well, God can't actualize A instead of B AND actualize B but not A. Aquinas is clear that God cannot perform contradictions. God's freedom is that God...
That's a question that would seem to deal with causality, which would tend to require a naturalistic answer. The difference for someone like Moore wou...
Of course. My main concern is to uncover the true nature of reality, to fathom the real, the absolute. Inside the machine I will be free from the hust...
There might not be any immediately discernible difference. This can be true in the case of the car battery as well. You might actually have a live bat...
This objection seems applicable to almost all actions. If my car won't start and I attach jumper cables to it, it's my belief that the battery is dead...
:up: Sorry, I wasn't very clear there. Those questions were more rhetorical questions that came to mind given the topic covered in the OP vis-á-vis wh...
I didn't write that passage. It's by one of my least favorite philosophers, the wonderful Bertrand Russell. It's really a case study in the pitfalls o...
How so? In what way is Nietzsche's "historical analysis" more actual historical analysis than Hegel or Vico's? I would say Marx actually has a leg up ...
Umberto Eco is pretty good on this apparent contradiction in political narratives. His "Eternal Fascism," is a good example. You see this quite a bit ...
I think sums it up rightly here. It just doesn't make sense to think of God as in any way contingent in Thomism, which the "possible worlds" style of ...
I suppose it depends on how you define "ego" and "conscience." It would seem to me that saying, "people are not free because their actions are dependa...
The way I understand it, divine simplicity is tied to God's total lack of contingency. For Aquinas, God's essence includes existence itself, making Go...
This certainly seems to be the case in Harris. It doesn't fix the problems re epistemology and scientism though. Plus, it seemed historically short si...
Right. And if humans generate meaning and value, and humans are part of the universe, then in an important way the universe generates meaning and valu...
Nice article. Seems pretty much to be the common argument for panentheism you see in Plato, the Patristics, etc. However, they generally say things li...
Very well written piece. I think your conclusion probably works, provided you accept a lot of the assumptions it rests on. However, I find the premise...
Catholic theology is quite broad, but in general the idea isn't that we can do meaningful things for God, at least not in the way we would do things f...
Probably nearly infinitely wealthy, since ideally we'd live in some sort of Star Trek, post-scarcity society where we can just replicate things, beam ...
I'm currently reading the book below. It advances a fairly plausible, though highly modified variation on Saint Aquinas' "intention in the media," to ...
Just got another way of looking at it, we could consider Maimonides argument for the via negativa re: statements about the Divine Nature. Following Ar...
One way I've heard Meister Eckhart paraphrased on this is that God "boils over" in love and creates. In this way, creation is necessary, although it's...
Some languages certainly seem more suited to rhyme. The Inferno sounds far better in the original for example. English is not a particularly great lan...
Lots of people spoke out against the Iraq WMD claims and the claims of a connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq. If this was a short term liability, it ...
"Scott Ritter is an unreliable source who often makes things up," doesn't entail "the opposite of what he says is true in all cases." It means he's an...
I would not look to Scott Ritter for information about anything. He's not even a Tucker Carlson-tier propagandist but a full on state mouth piece. He'...
Sure, but so is "if mind creates nature..." If mind (and rationality) is completely sui generis, then I'm not sure why solipsism and radical skepticis...
German land forces are indeed very anemic. Their ground forces are below 63,000 and their reserves are not large. In general, if you're going to rely ...
Doesn't this sort of beg the question by assuming that rationality can only exist as part of mind? If mind emerges from nature, and nature has no orde...
This really depends on how you conceive of free will. I personally find compatibalist arguments for free will that are grounded in process metaphysics...
Hamas has participated in one fair election. It was held almost twenty years ago now. In that election they won a slim plurality of the vote, not even...
Right, interpretations of Kant have broken into differing camps. However, the more popular one seems to be the dualist camp, the camp that draws a har...
There is Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, which attempts to include a number of other factors in explaining evolution. It focuses on genes less than t...
There are varying interpretations on Plato, but my take would be that desire of the good is in everyone. However, this desire is often corrupted or ov...
I will just note that all the cases of overcoming you mention are about (extremely rare) individuals overcoming barriers to self-actualization. This d...
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