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But you hold that the things said, and said here, have an application beyond this forum, do you not? More about trying to do with words even things th...

Sure. Yet there is *my* mind, *your* mind, and some minds are superior to other minds. This is my focus. I would describe myself as an idealist, but w...

Trump sitting at the right hand of Jesus? This isn't funny. The moral implications of Trump being considered righteous are immense.

Surely that line wasn't meant in the context of a private (!) philosophy forum, was it? In any interaction, it is vital to discern what type of intera...

@"Wayfarer" Paticcasamuppada explains what you're getting at in this topic, including @"180 Proof"'s objections and the problem of solipsism. It's jus...

Well, you don't start off your posts by paying humble obeisances to a guru. :wink: My reference to following a guru is about bringing to the forefront...

Then how do you overcome the problem of solipsism? How does Buddhism overcome the problem of solipsism?

I think it depends on one's particular starting point. For me, it's the default to think of perception as an active, volitional process, my default is...

Here, we could bring up the difference between an introvert and an extrovert. Not everyone feels equally bound to other people For an extrovert, the e...

It's not clear where you're going with this. Obviously, I can't recognize something as the Amazon without having heard other people talk about it. Fro...

Why wouldn't it?

Indeed, but in order to philosophize, one needs axioms. Otherwise one is just manifesting mental-verbal diarrhoea.

But nomen est omen!

People have the uncanny ability to make a religion out of pretty much anything. Some people go about it systematically and explicitly, so there are th...

You don't justify them, you take them for granted, axiomatically.

And it helps to acknowledge that, otherwise we're stuck on a wild goose chase.

If there is such a thing as "moral facts", then there is nothing to discuss, no room for philosophy, only for pedagogy, dogma, and proselytizing. Furt...

You, too operate with axioms just not necessarily the same ones as other people's.

No. Hinge propositions are axioms, that's the point.

Of course. We need to navigate between the extremes of solipsism and non-individualism. That's solipsistic.

There is no society, right, there are only individuals doing their jobs, trying to survive.

Textbook example of doublethink on part of the Trumpistas. But doublethink isn't hypocrisy, though.

But what exactly does this "shared" mean? Is it an active and deliberate sharing, like when you offer someone an apple if you have two? Or is it a kin...

What else do we have to express ourselves but language? And who else can we communicate with if not other people?

It seems that in the minds of most people, religion and science are not equals to begin with, by default, one is given more legitimacy than the other....

The way I understand the qualifier "weakness" here is that it refers to what can also be called "minimal or minimalist theism". Such minimal/ist theis...

Religious discourse is a special type of discourse. It's meant to instruct the people in religious themes, praise the religious doctrine and the relig...

Can you list 3 ways in which it might benefit us, in real, daily-job terms? For many people, "realizing the tentative nature of many of one's position...

You don't, you follow your guru. And I don't mean to be uselessly confrontational. It's that you're introducing conceptualizations from a philosophica...

With the proverbial "heart". It seems to be perfectly possible to live a good life without any self-reflection or philosophical contemplation. You jus...

Of course. And where would we be without such taking for granted? Can you imagine yourself functioning as a human without such taking for granted?

The question is, how well does this outlook hold under the pressure of life's difficulties. If you were put in a concentration camp, or even just the ...

From the perspective of moral realism, the very discussion of morality (and philosophy in its entirety) is useless. By its nature, moral realism is op...

All those self-appointed doctors!

There can be no accountability among equals to begin with.

Or else: It's unthinkable to them that what they make could be mere assumptions (and as such subject to revision); but rather, they believe that what ...

It all goes back to what one hopes to accomplish through talking. I think talking is mostly overrated anyway.

But some people defend stances which are criminal, and as such if one remained talking to those people in a civil manner, one would in fact be support...

I'm a bit younger than you, but I've been outdated for a long time already. I grew up in the country, and there we're about 20 years behind the mainst...

That would be the case if the goal would be individuality as it was conceived in let's call that "old-fashioned" culture. It now seems that consuming ...

No, explain: Why should happiness and truth be mutually exclusive?

Then why do you consistently ignore my replies to you?

Yes, but I also think this is a thing of the past, a mark of the social dinosaur. People outrude me all the time, so I always lose and they win.

I think people want to be special in whatever way is available to them, or they don't. Some people primarily want to avoid trouble, and some don't. I ...

I think sane people are more cunning than you give them credit for. It seems they only pretend to "blindly comply or consent to the mistreatment of th...

There are more roads at that intersection than just those two. There's also "I'm tired of all this, let's do something else". Possibly others as well.

I think there are now new standards for what it means to be "deep, thoughtful, in touch with oneself". It's not that old-fashioned European ideal anym...

Sure, as the nature of life in this world is one of eating. You, too, eat others. But how concerned are you about the morality of that? You think that...

How could it even be possible to have one at the expense of the other??

Unless one had a NDE oneself (and a life-affirming one at that), one would still have to take other people's word for gold in order to get that hope t...