Tom Storm

That sounds reasonable.

I thought Hegel was a monist idealist, like Kastrup? Doesn't H see matter as a manifestation of Geist? Or is this what you mean by "unified world beyo...

Depends on what you mean by 'real.' If you mean our perception of reality, then perhaps. But you’d have to take that up with Kastrup or one of his aco...

Yes. I’m not committed to materialism or idealism; I just want to understand the arguments as best I can. But I’m not a scientist or a philosopher, so...

Kastrup is pretty up front about the large influence Schop has had on him. Jung too. I don't think "reheated" sounds right unless you hold a pejorativ...

He argues that there is no matter, only mentation.

Yes, I think this is close to where I am at present. How meaningful is it, exactly, to say that something exists if there is no perspective from which...

My guess is that existence, and any related ideas we might explore, are inseparable from consciousness. Without consciousness, there are no propositio...

I would never have expected a Western Christian frame from K. I use ‘religious’ as a synonym for spiritual system. I see him as moving away from the i...

Thanks. It’s tricky stuff, and it forces you to try to conceptualise something counterintuitive (given our conditioning and inclinations). Yes, his mi...

I’m fairly comfortable with the notion that Hitler was a populist armed with a hate manual: a list of resentments, given a little order by Hess. I don...

Thanks, yes I understand parts of his project in overview. But when I’ve read him it seems far deeper and more radical than the overviews would sugges...

Is it correct to say that, for Heidegger, an authentic life carries no inherent moral content? Does his philosophy largely avoid the concept of the go...

Are you open to the possibility that it may have no connection and is more concerned with his attempt to retrieve the way Being was originally encount...

I think this is right. As an Australian I’m very fond of America and American things; literature, art, architecture, music, cinema, technology, and th...

An ability which seems surprisingly rare. I was wondering what the difference might be (and its influences). Cool. Are you more partial to Husserl's a...

That's a useful exposition of Mr Bitbol's views. I've enjoyed a couple of his lectures. For yourself do you see his work more as a starting point for ...

Prepared to be wrong? But isn't this antithetical to antifoundationalism as it seems to presuppose a foundational standard of correctness. I think you...

There’s a popular trope that the present day world is in decline and that everything used to be better. You see it in YouTube comments under old music...

Not sure why we’re talking about relativism or what it can or cannot say. We’ve already discussed the well-established relativist fallacy in this thre...

It’s how people feel, so yes, it’s an emotion, though one that may stem from a judgment and a predisposition. A great deal of reasoning seems to me to...

Yes, that is close to a view I’ve held. One might say that some forms of empathy, when they are shared, amount to an intersubjective agreement that ca...

I can’t get a fix on what point you’re making about empathy and what exactly it tells us about morality.

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Different strokes for different folks. To me, that sounds more like an encouragement for suicide, not an escape. Of course, it’s just personal taste. ...

Thanks. Yes, there often seems to be a default fear or suspicion of people or things we don’t understand.

To some extent, although you’ve phrased it as “the way others see us” - do you mean that we only do it for show? I think we are just as hard-wired not...

This seems to me to be an important insight, despite its apparent simplicity.

Thanks. :up:

:up: People experience empathy very differently. I overheard a man talking about the mass-murder of Jewish people on a Sydney beach the other day. He ...

But even in instances of the most belligerent replies here, we can really make no substantive claims about people’s real world commitments to ideals. ...

But this doesn’t resolve the problem, since empathy is unevenly distributed across causes and cohorts. How are we to decide whose empathy sets the sta...

Got ya. Thanks.

Thanks for your thoughtful post. What I'm trying to do is articulate what an anti-foundationalist position might look like. Anti-foundationalism isn’t...

This may well have some merit and probably explains the English speaking world’s (no doubt others too) taboo on talking about religion or politics.

Interesting response, Joshs. So for you, trans identities are real and grounded aspects of personhood, not merely self-chosen labels or socially scrip...

I’ve sometimes felt that I was an emotivist. One could say that shared cultural responses to right and wrong emerge because, at an intersubjective lev...

Great movie; a much more devastating satire of Hollywood than many modern films like Babylon. The songs belong to the Great American Songbook, a loose...

Gotya. That's a useful insight to me. Cheers. I wouldn’t have expected this, but I can see the merit in the view, precisely because, as you say, … I t...

I don’t really have a dog in this fight. People have very idiosyncratic views about what Christianity stands for, both from within and outside the fai...

Firstly, great post. Cool. I'll have a look. That's helpful. Nice. I need to refine my understanding of this. That's a great point well put. Yes, I ha...

Agree. One of the problems for me is that each side in this discourse seems to think the other is sociopathic. Today’s discourse is polarized and anta...

I can see that. Seems to me that on a discussion forum feeling superior or better informed to the other person is a frequently occurring idea. Maybe p...

It's a reasonable quesion. I don’t think there is a single “Christianity” as such. There are multiple religions that use the title Christianity and of...

When I talk about positions, I mean (as one example) how one constructs the notion of human flourishing. I know a number of academics who are conserva...

I don’t have one. My understanding is that it’s the view that moral facts, if they exist, are grounded in natural facts about the world rather than in...

I apologise that I didn't respond to your very thoughtful contribution. I must have missed it. Yes, that’s true. The anti-foundationalist would probab...

I understand your point but (and I'm not trying to be a dick here) I'm under no obligation to be consistent. My views on many things are inconsistent....

Good points. This is heading towards a position of moral naturalism, isn't it? To me most philosophy is a can of worms. :wink: It's one direction I le...

Yes, you’ve made that point already. I can definitely see the argument. I’m tempted to pose what if no one really has a foundation for morality, some ...