I doubt it. I can't say I agree with your proposition. I have found it's often the reverse. People you assume to be intelligent because they appear 'a...
I almost forgot what my point was - it was simply a response to your notion about how more people are interested in philosophy today than in the past....
I've been involved in marketing so that's a given. But I think everyone already knows this. A no brainer, surely. How books work is pretty well known....
I know this is to Jack, but I wanted to make a comment too. I agree largely with this. But for me the issue is more about the rigorous understanding o...
No. This is an interesting discussion and confirms that tribalism is almost unassailable. I would have thought that working together to prevent the sp...
Not a great example. Even if one only lives in Paris, easy to find and definitive proof exists for anyone to check that there are other places, a whol...
Is this forum woke and politically correct? No. It seems too chaotic and random to me - a mix of crackpots, monomaniacs, educated, autodidacts and pol...
This is sometimes true, and may largely depend on the inferences you make from the history you accept. I studied history once. But it need not be comp...
No I meant Harris' ongoing discussion about wellbeing as the foundation for morality. He also uses human flourishing. He's a millionaire celebrity inf...
I hear you. I was being flip. Sorry. I was not saying anyone else had mentioned 'diminished' I introduced this as a personal reflection on missing bit...
Isn't this completely lacking specificity? 'Wellbeing' is one of those dreadful marketing words, suitable for bookshop shelving. What constitutes 'wel...
Well that may be because much philosophy is from the past and is rather obscure. Try getting even a well educated citizen to take an interest in Spino...
When I see diagrams like this I have to ask: 1) Who determines what one's ideal self is? (I have no substantive sense of my ideal self)) and 2) Who de...
Thanks for clarifying. I don't entirely disagree, however it would not be unreasonable to say that certain propositions are easier to be agnostic abou...
Yep. Pretty much what I said. Atheist - lacks a belief in god, generally because no convincing reason has been presented to support the proposition. T...
Interesting. Does your argument also support agnosticism in regards to Russell's teapot? I generally take the view that a responsible atheist is athei...
I find this fascinating. Given the critical role of language and definitions in ordinary discourse, I am not surprised that the context and usage of w...
What you choose to call anything has no bearing on whether it is correct. But I suspect, given your responses, that your worldview is based on a perva...
I nearly died watching a Marvel superhero film once. The soft-core, quasi-fascist iconography and we-solve-all-problems-with-a-big-fight were too much...
Unless you have an idiosyncratic definition of faith, I think that faith by definition can't be justified except as a first person experience. In Chri...
Indeed. Theism or belief in a spiritual reality does not bring with it ipso facto superior virtues or capacities. Among the people I've known who seem...
Would we even recognise such as person as omniscient; would they not seem mad or malevolent to us? What ethical perspectives and behaviours would omni...
Like most people, I discriminate carefully between the project that attempts to understand reality (which is fraught and speculative) versus living in...
That makes no sense and once again you are off on your obsession with status. You are not addressing the point and are returning again to hierarchies....
That's psychiatry and not all that many psychologists would take the DSM too literally - it has a very American/hard clinical and diagnostic bias. Tha...
Don't think that's true for good psychology. Eliminating emotions or reigning them in isn't the idea - it is developing an awareness of why overwhelmi...
Yes. The general idea is we develop emotional habits that are informed by thoughts. An initial impulse may well be a lighting quick, unreflective reac...
That can happen but that would be bad psychology and a generalisation. Some psychologists are religious (Jesuits; rabbis; Anglicans; Buddhists). I wou...
David S You can afford to be more ambitious. I have worked in the field of addiction and mental illness for decades, with a focus on suicide risk asse...
Hmmm... but what is 'spirituality'? It's not a word that resonates with me at all and can mean anything you want. And I am not sure that the notion of...
Perhaps you are talking about something else. For me, emotions are a reaction to something. It is that something that needs to be understood and unpac...
Psychologists are a diverse group, good and bad, a wide range of backgrounds, interests, and focuses, representing a vast range of schools and theoret...
An acute and lucid point. As per Wayfarer's point; but we all share fundamentalism as a common problem. These guys often view philosophical spirituali...
Goodness TC. I'm sorry. You seem angry. I read 180's response as an experience based account of how professed theists often appear to demonstrate a la...
Totally agree. As I have said elsewhere, much religion functions as social club membership, belonging/social contact - and in my view many theists don...
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