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...
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...
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...
These and further related questions tend to be taboo when it comes to discussing climate change deterioration and how to counteract it. Climate activi...
Writing about philosophy: what are the basic standards and expectations? Who is your intended audience? A habilitation committee at a university? The ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Do you find that professional philosophers (people who have a formal degree in philosophy and who are payed for producing philosophical texts) are sym...
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...
This is moot, because the person of higher status is automatically correct by virtue of their higher status. Someone with more socioeconomic power. Lo...
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...
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...
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...
This also explains the trend of anti-intellectualism and anti-philosophy. People who are actually living in constant state of existential anxiety due ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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