I'm still unclear why any of this matters. Are you saying that you want to identify the nature of the human (beyond culture) in order to determine who...
I'm not sure that idol is a useful metaphor personally, but I understand the general sentiment. I tend to hold that what we call knowledge is continge...
I like Rohr but I am not sure what he means there. Guess I would need to read the full text. As it happens, Rohr often rolls his eyes and says 'that's...
Well, I'm not sure about 'doing' philosophy. I don't do it. I read a little about it. But my interest is superficial. People seem to take an interest ...
Nice summary of Kastrup. This is a good point and wherever anyone says this I think, yep that's true. Unfortunately in reducing spirituality to such a...
Is it not the case that Camus and Nietzsche, start with nihilism, more or less as foundational - there is no inherent meaning, value or purpose - and ...
Can you say some more about how Deleuze, Derrida and Heidegger put consciousness into question alongside subjectivity and objectivity? Does this come ...
This is interesting. Existentialism comes in various forms, including Christian existentialism. But isn't existentialism of the secular variety built ...
I'm not arguing that Camus isn't an ethical thinker. This all depends what you understand a nihilist to be. I don't think all versions of nihilism pre...
Do they 'disappear' or is it the hope if we frame things this way? I suspect we could do an entire thread just on this paragraph. My understanding of ...
Interesting. Would you mind saying a little more about A? D resonates with me but I am not well read on this subject. Does A equate with Metzinger's '...
Interesting. I understood that Camus rejected the idea of inherent moral values or an objective meaning to life, but he didn't deny the possibility of...
Barry Humphries' two memoirs - More Please and My Life As Me. How did you get on with it? It's an extraordinary book, I thought, but hard going in all...
It makes sense and I have no great answer given that my view is that language begins as sounds we use to try to 'give voice' to the prelinguistic and ...
Yes, I was thinking along these lines. I'm not certain these pre-linguistic concepts are 'word resistant' as such - are they not in a sense foundation...
Yes, I hinted at this myself earlier. Got ya. Fair point. Interesting. New one for me but I guess I've felt this intuitively. Ha! Yes. Apart from this...
Could be. Certainty seems to be a kind of pragmatic continuum. I am certain Bob Hawke was a Labor Prime Minister in the 1980's. I am not certain if he...
That's intriguing. Especially the 'elevated experince and understanding' part of it. What would be an example of this? Are you thinking enlightenment....
I've also generally held that there is no absolute certainty. And no realm where certainty or truth lives (in the Platonic sense). But I sometimes won...
Cool. I was just wondering which behaviors associated with 'alcoholism' you were referring to. It is possible to use alcohol habitually and at harmful...
Ok. That's reasonable. Oops, you're right. I misread my own comments. Apologies. But can't I say that something might seem open ended now but who know...
I do claim ignorance of many subjects - origin of the universe, idealism, gods, consciousness - 'I don't know' seems reasonable to me. Pretty sure no ...
What Wayfarer also points to is that Christianity (like most faiths) can be made to argue anything at all - it's in the interpretation you choose whic...
How so? I'm saying it could be more 'a woo of the gaps' situation, or a fallacy from ignorance, perhaps? Who says it is open ended? It might seem that...
But are you satisfied that it demonstrates the experience is non-physical? How would we demonstrate that conscious experience reflects a non-physical ...
Your example of heroin didn't make your point for you. That's all I am saying. There are a range of interpretations or perspectives available to us ab...
Not sure. I guess courage, honesty, etc, are always relative to some criteria of value and a perspective. I think we all tend to imagine that our own ...
Oh, I get that. But isn't it interesting that from the perspective of many deceitful, dishonest and devious people, they are courageous and enlightene...
[ That's interesting. I haven't thought of virtue ethics this way, but it makes sense. I often find myself using aesthetics as prism for viewing much ...
I guess it is a vested interest of many religious views to imagine that only the right god/spiritual belief can provide morality. Of course religious ...
And the person for whom the drug has made it possible to continue living by making life bearable has a differnt perspective. I don't think its so easy...
Why? What demonstration of this do you have? This sounds more like an odd compulsion. There's nothing to heal. You have chosen to view it like this. B...
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