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Count Timothy von Icarus

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We can though, at least for St. Thomas, since they're valid conceptual distinctions. For comparison, consider that goodness and truth (and all the oth...
July 21, 2025 at 22:00
Yes, I suppose that's a possible response, although I Peter 4 suggests that Christ suffered.
July 21, 2025 at 21:47
Sure, but that doesn't imply that Pilate isn't blameworthy, or that Pilate lacked freedom in any special sense when he chose to crucify Christ (i.e., ...
July 21, 2025 at 21:44
Yes, that's a fair point. Although I think this is precisely because the sunny Popular-Mechanics style realism doesn't fully eliminate teleology or te...
July 21, 2025 at 18:57
Creatures, on pretty much all mainstream accounts of the Fall. Does it? What's the assumption here, something like: P1. If anyone does evil, it is alw...
July 21, 2025 at 18:26
First, I agree, I think it's fair to point out that ignorance reduces culpability. However, isn't it fair to say that both ignorance and culpability e...
July 21, 2025 at 16:28
:up: On something like the satisfaction view of Saint Anselm's Cur Deus Homo, this is the general approach. I know some Catholic thinkers (e.g. D.C. S...
July 20, 2025 at 23:34
The Fine Tuning Problem is a relevant example that is often pointed to in terms of cosmic teleology. Nagel addresses this sort of thing for instance, ...
July 20, 2025 at 18:13
Have you read any of the great Christian classics, such as the Divine Comedy, The Brother's Karamazov, Dostoevsky's other work, Augustine's Confession...
July 20, 2025 at 17:56
Agreed. But, against the ancient skeptics (or at least most of them), I don't think it's a useful goal in itself. That is, apatheia and ataraxia, even...
July 17, 2025 at 16:28
That's an interesting point. I wonder how far that sort of thing could be expanded, since there are similar moves made against truth and beauty. Histo...
July 17, 2025 at 15:53
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How is it cheap? Even charitable reviews of Davidson on this point allow that: Which is exactly my point: I can't really fault Davidson for doing this...
July 17, 2025 at 09:35
This definition requires certain metaphysical assumptions. It's worth noting that the classical definition of truth is something like: "the adequacy o...
July 17, 2025 at 09:00
I think it would be more appropriate to say "knowledge" in English perhaps; "all men by nature desire to know." This is why the life of contemplation ...
July 17, 2025 at 02:15
Also, I'm curious, do you really think there can be a "science free from values?" You say there has been an "intrusion." Does this imply that there wa...
July 17, 2025 at 01:23
I haven't said anything about about a bias towards or away from reason. If anything, modernity, and particularly the Reformation, is a reaction agains...
July 17, 2025 at 00:59
:up: Exactly, and most Christians have the Church itself as an interpreter, and its most respected saints as anchors. You have the Church Fathers as a...
July 16, 2025 at 19:44
Well, I was thinking of some of the more extreme premises of the reductionist model. For example: -Your thoughts, planning, and sensation of volition ...
July 16, 2025 at 19:34
How so? People can have ideological blinders and biases without being involved in anything like a "conspiracy." Consider that in ancient Greece, power...
July 16, 2025 at 19:25
I agree in principle, but I would question the exact way in which this is "mainstream." I don't think it was ever overwhelmingly popular as a position...
July 16, 2025 at 12:25
Does it? It says Noah has his sons when he is 500 years old. His sons are all a century old when the Flood comes, when Noah is aged 600. Noah's sons a...
July 16, 2025 at 01:34
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Behold! The power of analytic philosophy! What's the reasoning here: P1: Any phrase could be used as a password. P2: ???? C: Therefore there are no la...
July 15, 2025 at 17:31
You mean: As noted, the story only mentions men, most of whom are several centuries old. I don't see how it isn't selectively reading to add what you ...
July 15, 2025 at 13:31
Let's start here. I don't see how you're getting that. If some emotions are sensations are, ceteris paribus, bad, how does it follow that anything tha...
July 15, 2025 at 12:40
Not briefly lol. Consider that the Noah story is rarely tackled in isolation and is normally always considered with everything that has happened up un...
July 15, 2025 at 12:24
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It's an assertion about a "name" right. So if I say: "an example of a proposition is: 'The cat is on the mat.'" I am saying something like: "it is tru...
July 14, 2025 at 16:01
First, those examples don't rely on the goodness of survival per se. Presumably, even people who want to die don't want to be tortured and to undergo ...
July 14, 2025 at 12:21
Well, consider that: - It is bad for human beings to be lit on fire; and - It is bad for a bear to have its leg mangled in a bear trap ...are both sta...
July 13, 2025 at 13:20
One difficulty that jumped out to me is that, despite ending with the quote from Socrates, Greek ethics is not addressed. Neither is traditional Chris...
July 13, 2025 at 12:30
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At least most commonly. I am not sure however, if other uses really get that far away from assertion. Of course, if "the cat is on the mat," is used a...
July 13, 2025 at 10:28
Origen isn't saying the wars didn't happen. He is speaking to how the Scriptures tie into the spiritual life, which is their main function (i.e. how t...
July 12, 2025 at 23:58
Well, my initial point was merely that reading the Scriptures in English translation, without additional context (from the Jewish or Christian traditi...
July 12, 2025 at 22:21
Certainly, some parts of Divine Law (revelation) are hard to understand in terms of Natural Law. God's command to the Israelites in the Book of Joshua...
July 12, 2025 at 00:58
I'm not sure if it's a contradiction per se, but I would suggest that it's going to prove impossible to justify any standards while denying philosophy...
July 10, 2025 at 01:53
The tradition Dostoevsky comes out of recognizes acedia (despondency) and tristitia (sorrow) as part of the Eight (Seven in the West) Deadly Sins/Thou...
July 08, 2025 at 17:05
That's an idea I'm amenable to; I mentioned it in the current thread on aesthetics. However, I don't think it's what @"Banno" or the original article ...
July 08, 2025 at 15:11
Sure, it was pretty common to see the highest goal of philosophy as intelligentia (understanding), as above scientia (knowledge), wisdom (sophia) bein...
July 08, 2025 at 02:18
There is a pretty big trend towards eschewing wealth and status in philosophy, and instead choosing to live a life of ascetic discipline and relative ...
July 08, 2025 at 00:13
IDK, it's normally offered up as the paradigmatic example. At least in most forms, it makes ontological claims that are independent of human experienc...
July 07, 2025 at 13:58
This seems a bit much for me. Consider the most popular variety of ontological realism, physicalism. Is this based wholly on whim and faith? I should ...
July 07, 2025 at 13:17
All language games involve ends, but of course which ends aren't always obvious. I've had many a person tell me that "good arguments" are just those a...
July 07, 2025 at 11:56
IDK, it seems to me that the opposite is generally the issue, at least in analytic "scientific" philosophy, where the "scientists" are absolute author...
July 06, 2025 at 15:14
I think that's fair. Although, with Socratic dialectic, it's often that the sophist simply lapses into silence and refuses both to accept the argument...
July 06, 2025 at 12:19
Might this be a poor criteria though? Praxis is almost absent from the academy, it's been wholly privatized by the dominance of philosophies of secula...
July 05, 2025 at 11:32
I will add that, even in translation, late antiquity is a sort of golden age for style, and style helps, even if it doesn't make bad philosophy good. ...
July 04, 2025 at 19:07
I'm currently reading David Bentley Hart's first book, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth. There, he takes on post-modern t...
July 04, 2025 at 11:55
Oops, forgot that, it's in Looking East in Winter: Contemporary Thought and the Eastern Christian Tradition pg. 51-54
July 03, 2025 at 18:52
Well, since Descartes there has been the idea of discarding all past thought and, through the adoption of the proper method (plus supporting assumptio...
July 03, 2025 at 15:23
You could frame this in information theoretic terms. You can sum up laws very simply, they have a low algorithmic complexity. Whereas, if behavior was...
July 03, 2025 at 02:19
Maybe a bit of an echo chamber effect too. Like I said, the "obligatory" paragraph about how the art critiques or combats racism/patriarchy/capitalism...
July 02, 2025 at 19:50