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In: Ennea  — view comment
There's the saying that the difference between a philosopher and a religious man is that a philosopher deals in expendable theories, while the religio...
November 03, 2025 at 22:06
In: Ennea  — view comment
The latter. Not to make this personally about you, though. Indeed, but it just might push you into looking for a justification for your existence. Not...
November 03, 2025 at 21:51
Then such is the predicament of the would-be philosopher.
November 03, 2025 at 21:41
Why blame China? Why buy cheap Chinese stuff? Stop buying cheap Chinese stuff, and China will have no reason to burn so much coal anymore, or even non...
November 03, 2025 at 21:39
These and further related questions tend to be taboo when it comes to discussing climate change deterioration and how to counteract it. Climate activi...
November 03, 2025 at 21:35
Writing about philosophy: what are the basic standards and expectations? Who is your intended audience? A habilitation committee at a university? The ...
November 03, 2025 at 21:26
How many people actually want mankind to survive? How many people actually want all the currently living people to die of natural causes? Is mere surv...
November 03, 2025 at 21:10
In: Ennea  — view comment
It seems like a rather normal reaction of someone under strain. Have you never been bullied? Have you never been told that you should do the world a f...
November 01, 2025 at 21:41
That's awfully generous, and it's the general consensus among Western philosophers, yes. But read his prefaces and introductions to his works. He wasn...
November 01, 2025 at 21:23
What I said is also in response to another thing you said: As if atheists invented the "rationalistic" approach to religion. No, it's from how theists...
November 01, 2025 at 21:06
In: Ennea  — view comment
Except when life gets hard and one wonders why keep on going.
November 01, 2025 at 19:24
People who merely think a lot, to the point of thinking too much, tend to end up in institutions with white padded cells. While I sympathize with you ...
November 01, 2025 at 19:10
Sometimes, the only appropriate place for a particular person to ask about the things that concern them is the privacy of their diary. It's naive to t...
November 01, 2025 at 18:53
Ask questions of whom? And yes, they are insolent: because being of lower status, one isn't supposed to ask questions, at all. There you go: they hara...
November 01, 2025 at 18:49
It's an absolute disgrace, to say the least, that Rene Descartes has come to be known as "the father of modern philosophy"! He and his followers are r...
November 01, 2025 at 18:38
Not at all. There are better arguments. For example, as summarized in the question, "How is it, that God, in his infinite goodness and wisdom, granted...
November 01, 2025 at 18:31
Yet when theism is preached, it is always preached as a proposition with a truth value. As a Jew, you don't relate to that, because Jews normally don'...
November 01, 2025 at 18:21
They've done those experiments where the LLMs had access to emails stating that the LLM would be shut down, and then LLMs devised various survival str...
October 24, 2025 at 19:46
Death as "discomfort". Now that's a new one, even for me.
October 24, 2025 at 19:33
Few people seem to notice that if an animal is treated like a rational agent, the animal behaves like one.
October 24, 2025 at 19:32
Coming from you ... eh ... That ship has sailed.
October 24, 2025 at 19:30
How do you cope with injustice done to you when you don't have the means to revenge yourself? For example: You get falsely accused of some wrongoing a...
October 22, 2025 at 19:18
Aren't you a daisy! The foundation of American culture isn't some profound humanist insight that "all men are created equal" or some such. It's just p...
October 22, 2025 at 19:13
Whose death?
October 22, 2025 at 18:54
Does that mean that, for example, a religious preacher or a boss who are completely unaffected by what they say (even though what they say can have de...
October 22, 2025 at 18:52
Notice how in traditional culture, but also in many situations in modern culture, asking questions is the domain of the person who holds the higher st...
October 22, 2025 at 18:50
Do you find that professional philosophers (people who have a formal degree in philosophy and who are payed for producing philosophical texts) are sym...
October 22, 2025 at 18:47
By that same principle, most people are not real, or what they say isn't real, because they are for a large part completely unaffected by what they th...
October 22, 2025 at 18:44
You didn't answer my question.
October 22, 2025 at 18:32
This is moot, because the person of higher status is automatically correct by virtue of their higher status. Someone with more socioeconomic power. Lo...
October 22, 2025 at 18:32
Here's the thing: How do you cope with blatant injustice done to you, and you have no recourse for rectifying it? Without becoming cynical and jaded?
October 22, 2025 at 18:22
Oh, somebody noticed this bit ...
October 22, 2025 at 18:17
What happens is that one can end up with a false sense of respect, which makes the objectification of the other more subtle -- and more insidious. Rel...
October 22, 2025 at 18:16
It's strange to equate belief in God with some other belief in some "higher entity" or some "higher power" and to then call the latter "theism". The w...
October 22, 2025 at 18:05
But it's not a religion. So what good is it? Who is David Bentley Hart that we could put our trust in him as far as our eternal fate is concerned?
October 22, 2025 at 17:59
How time flies!! It's simply an observation of mine. There is a lot of criticism of individualism going around, especially from religious/spiritual ci...
October 22, 2025 at 17:51
This also explains the trend of anti-intellectualism and anti-philosophy. People who are actually living in constant state of existential anxiety due ...
October 21, 2025 at 18:47
I've always thought that the reason why people don't think much (or at least don't seem to) is because they've already figured it all out, are beyond ...
October 21, 2025 at 18:10
I didn't mean to be offensive when I said earlier that you have a low treshold for what passes as theism. Your ideas of theism seem to be quite innoce...
October 21, 2025 at 18:00
Exactly. However, quite a bit depends on the type of monotheism in question. For example, what goes on in the mind of a Roman Catholic when they feel ...
October 21, 2025 at 17:51
More productive? What gets to me is that consulting online sources like LLMs takes so much time. Who has the time and the will to study thousands of w...
October 20, 2025 at 19:57
Once, in the very distant and very romantic past, philosophy was about having conversations; it was about what each participant could bring to the dis...
October 20, 2025 at 19:29
Then why did you ask earlier: in reply to my saying:
October 20, 2025 at 18:25
They're not necessarily considered infallible, they're untouchable -- at least for those low enough in the hierarchy. I was once talking to a Catholic...
October 19, 2025 at 20:40
No, that would require a divine revelation of your own, ie. God revealing to you, personally, whether something you wondered whether it is a divine re...
October 19, 2025 at 19:46
What isn't an interpretive lens?
October 19, 2025 at 18:34
So what is happening in slaughterhouses is that all those cows, pigs, goats, sheep, chicken, and whatever other species, are in fact giving their live...
October 19, 2025 at 18:27
Then why isn't everyone born into the Jewish religion? And why do the Jews outkill them by a magnitude of 65 to 100?
October 19, 2025 at 18:21
Thus you have a theism on *your* terms, *not* on God's terms. That's the problem with "natural theology". Divine revelation, even if accepted merely a...
October 19, 2025 at 18:09