Tom Storm

Interesting and thanks. I seem to recall a quote pulled from Critique wherein Kant seems to say that the noumenal was a physical, but I may be mistake...

Quick question about Kant. His Transcendental Idealism seems to be based on epistemological grounds, right? In other words, he says there is a reality...

Sorry I don't know what you mean by duality of human 'nature' or the connection of a 'dualism' to a monist ontology.

Yep, this is how I generally organise my beliefs too. Nevertheless I am still keen to dip into idealism to better understand the model/s since this is...

This may well be true, but it doesn't go to whether idealism is right or wrong.

I've wondered about this in the past. It certainly provides opportunity for some folk to claim that their appreciation of art or ethics is informed by...

Yep - that's what I'm talking about. I'll mull over it. Thanks.

I guess what I am wanting is someone to defend or steelman a version of idealism for me so that I can better understand its potential use in the quoti...

So much could be contained in this one statement.

Sure. I specifically am asking for an idealist account of this so I can better understand the thinking.

No idea - none of this language resonates with me, so I apologise. I am trying to understand how such 'judgements' might work from an idealist model. ...

Yep, I can see how arriving at this conclusion might be problematic. We might end up back in a world similar to scholasticism and its transcendentals ...

I understand the basic overview, I'm just not sure I can accept the presuppositions at this point. What seems to be missing is a viable (albeit tentat...

I feel grateful for aspects of life but not life in general. Grateful for access to medicine, resources, electricity, health, not living in a war zone...

There are many different folk versions of Christianity - conservatives and radicals; literalists and allegorists. There isn't really a folk Christiani...

I'd be happy to pay something towards access.

This well written response reads to me like section one of a useful essay for laypeople. Would section two (hypothetically) be exploring how it is (un...

Silly speculative question, perhaps, but what do you think Nietzsche would have made of postmodernism and Derrida's reading of him?

They vote for President Trump because he is King Cyrus...

Generally I hear this called the problem of dualistic thinking.

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That's a nice piece of writing and reasoning. I sometimes wonder if idealism's great strength is its ineffability and its contrast to the materialist ...

Worth remembering too that there are many Christians who see the Bible as a book of allegories, not to be taken literally. This was the Christian trad...

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:up: Never look a gift messiah in the mouth, BC. I shall check out the Jesus Project.

Of course, there is no real consensus that much of this actually happened. While I am not a mythicist, it seems fairly clear there may have been some ...

Or being so elastic you can suck yourself off.

This is all true, but could it not also be said that some presuppositions have a better warrant for certain purposes than others?

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I'm with you to some extent. But I thought philosophy was about testing assumptions and presuppositions. You say there is no way to make sense of the ...

Is a biblical lens possible? Surely there any number of potential lenses? There is only personal preference tied up in biblical interpretation. Desmon...

Some of these long threads almost need a 'what have we arrived at so far' summary. Do we have a working definition for belief now? I always thought it...

I think that is the answer to a different question. I was wondering how you demonstrated those 'facts' to yourself. How did you arrive at : Which you ...

The problem, as your know, is your system is based on presuppositions which many of us don't share and find no evidence for. You've got a lot of juicy...

I think you are referring to Hubert Dreyfus' work, not the American actor from Close Encounters... :wink:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_of_Christianity As a first step this may give you some pointers. Don't forget that while Christianity may have en...

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No. I was referring to my take on the Abraham/Isaac story, not Kierkegaard's - fascinating though his probably is.

Nicely done. I think this point - - is easy to see but more challenging to understand in the fullness of its implications. Even having read some Evan ...

Or madness takes a form of hope. I think the god depicted in that particular story is a deity who abuses its power.

Agree. I ask not because I don't have position but because @"Wayfarer" is an articulate exponent of idealism and there is sometimes confusion about wh...

Agree. Would you be game to define idealism in, say 4 or 5 sentences or dot points (taking as given that there are various versions)?

No question. And another way some people look at this is to see Christianity as a derivative belief system that has cannibalized and borrowed from oth...

No question they think this. But we have to make judgements, and I argue the 'faith' camp inhabits a dubious space and have provided my reasons. If pe...

Good point, I forgot a word, I should have said without 'good' evidence.

In cults people often radiate happiness as a consequence of 'knowing' that god's will is being fulfilled and that they are part of a system of transce...

I also think optimism is one of those notions that works so well for capitalist societies. Implicit in such optimism is the notion that 'you can make ...

Sure, me too. Faith isn't one of those things, for the reasons I have listed. That's something I hear atheists say all the time. Are you a pessimist? ...

I don't use the word 'faith' as it is too drenched in religious baggage. I generally regard faith as the excuse a person gives for believing in someth...

I think that's a helpful frame. Thanks.