I'll have to think about it. Like I said, the layout seems right, at least as respects the common flow of things. But this seems more "what usually ha...
I don't see what your reply has to do with my point, re advice on how the particular person should live versus how society gets on as a whole. You see...
The devil is in the details here though. What is meant by "observer" and "observed?" Decoherence seems to even suggest it might be a gradient. It woul...
The breakdown of types seems fine. It just seems to be missing something to say only that: "love leads to suffering." This is surely true, but just as...
What is determined though, what our measurement will be? Or maybe the possibility that was actualized is retroactively determined? Or maybe all possib...
No doubt, although they might hate to be reminded of it. Anyone who forgets this ends up emotionally stunted. A way forward in moderating the Hegelian...
An interesting element of John Paul II's thought is his views on love and marriage. He takes it, partly from Scripture, that man and woman are created...
No, particularly if we widen the window for when different policy interventions could occur. The easiest way to defend Israel would be to have the bor...
I'm not super familiar with Schopenhauer, but wasn't his take that this is sort of an irrational takeover by the "will to life?" His whole: "If childr...
Do words have to "be" the things they refer to have content? I don't see how this line of reasoning doesn't similarly make talking about "triangles" i...
As to "dogmatic" attitudes against teleology, I came across this today. Generally, it's not considered good form liken opponents to immature children ...
Recalls to me the idea of Plato's "giving birth in beauty." But then this: and this: ...make me think as well of Heraclitus' tension of opposites, or ...
Probably not as much as we'd hope. Theories to the effect that history is "caused by everyone," with no one person being particularly important, have ...
True, although this seems like a partial explanation at best. We'd then need to explain "why" human language is like this. The advocate of personalism...
Exactly. Although, I've heard pessimists chalk this up to all the ethnic cleansing in that period, which effectively homogenized many areas. I think i...
I would say the latter. The "world-historical individual" only ever wields their great power through the emergent whole. This is not to say that singl...
Speaking of Girkin, apparently he is running against Putin as a presidential candidate? But last I saw he was arrested and disappeared, and the last p...
Well, you could consider phenomenological personalism, in which "persons" and thus "personal identity," are ontologically basic. Of course, you could ...
I don't think the US shows the Occupied Territories as part of Israel on any official maps either. The US generally refers to them as "Occupied Territ...
So what's the theory of "what love is here?" I'd be interested to hear a take on Nietzsche where love is a critical element of our overcoming ourselve...
That's actually the context for the current conflict. Stalin, worried about Ukrainian nationalism, which had been a potent force during the Russian Ci...
I didn't say Nietzsche didn't have a theory of love, I said I didn't recall one that stood on its own (without having to be tied to the rest of his th...
Did I? I think I've read just about everything Nietzsche ever published. However, I don't recall a "theory of love," that is easy to pull out from the...
Might we consider that history is the arbiter here? How many morally loaded ideas have fallen "on the wrong side of history," and become widely anathe...
I see the Galileo connection more than the Newton one. I feel like you could almost call 20th century reductive materialism "neo-mechanism," because i...
Fingers crossed. The size of the prisoner exchange is at least a good indication that it might hold though. But I do wonder when/how Israel will withd...
Ha, but how much of philosophy is just that! :rofl: Perhaps you're right. However, in my experience, there seems to be a strong similarity in the way ...
I think you have what I was intending flipped around backwards. It's not the observed outcomes that can be correct/incorrect, it's the models that gro...
I think the causal closure thing is a red herring. Strong emergence only seems to violate causal closure in the context of systems that have already b...
Given Hume's critique of induction, I find myself wondering if the larger problem in the Guillotine isn't that "is statements" shouldn't also be "ough...
From your own sources: The ultimatums Ukraine refused were tied to its"demilitarization," and mechanisms that would ensure it, which would amount to l...
I find explanations of emergence in terms of computation quite convincing. "More is different" seems ostentatiously true in terms of the "Game of Life...
It seems to me like "purpose" is all over the modern sciences. Functional explanations in biology are filled with references to the purpose of organel...
I'm just going to throw it out there that the worst parents I've known also tended to not care about things like "needing a license." Things like: "do...
lol, makes me think of the current thread on affectation. I don't think you could blame the monks who ended up beaten to death in fights over nominali...
It depends. If "sticking your head in the sand" works well enough, then you never have an incentive to go out and try to learn more. People tend to be...
Better yet, how can we know that the entire universe, along with all our memories and "evidence," wasn't created an hour ago? And how can we know that...
Uhh... I'm not sure about that. Unless the proof started with: "Let there be astronomical observations equivalent with the empirical observations we h...
For one, the idea of first person experience being strongly emergent, rather than molecules having their own phenomenal experience. Panpsychism seems ...
Where have you been the last two years lol? Of course they were wildly over confident. They accidentally published the articles they had prewritten ab...
It only seems like apples and oranges in retrospect. In 2014, Russia saw a good deal of defections from the UAF and meaningful local collapses. There ...
What is this "rock solid evidence," that no form of freedom can exist? Consider this: If volition has "no effect" on behavior, i.e., it is epiphenomen...
Like the Afghan National Army? Or the Iraqi Armed Forces in the face of ISIS? Or the South Vietnamese Army? Those three all received significantly mor...
The Gulf War campaign had about a million coalition troops. The Iraqi Army was no longer considered nearly as well supplied or competent in 2003. Sanc...
Interesting. I get what you're saying; I'm not sure if I understand the circularity of it though. But is there an example like this that doesn't invol...
There is widespread agreement on many of the properties of water, its identity as H2O, its boiling point, etc. But there is also widespread disagreeme...
I found that post quite hard to follow TBH. But you seemed to be talking about the problem of first cause, and a self-determining will somehow solving...
It occurred to me the other day that one of the difficulties with Aristotle's other causes is that they don't make sense without the concept of potent...
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