Cool. Nice to see a definition. I also think that this self-knowledge is being aware of and being able to manage flaws or patterns in one's thinking a...
Thank you. Yes, Carroll seems fairly smug at times. Maybe not for this thread, but what would a culture look like which did this well - I am assuming ...
Sounds like an important point. I can guess at the answer, but for you, as a long time student of phenomenology, what is the significance of this poin...
It's not just me then... :wink: And I often wonder how having an insight into the nature of reality matters? What happens then... chop wood, carry wat...
:up: It's a very interesting question for us all here. I think terms like 'self-knowledge' are used imprecisely by many of us and self-knowledge is au...
Agree. And it's a point well made. I think this kind of thread is rich in potential triggers for all sorts of other related discussions. I'm aware of ...
Well, we do live in an era where expertise has been diminished and is often looked upon with scorn. Everyone believes that can say something profound,...
I am in agreement. Seems this kind of leaves us with the phenomenal world as our only domain for fruitful exploration. Which for me, as someone who pr...
Is such work 'physics without maths', or is it speculative fiction based on Dunning-Kruger level physics? I'm not thinking of anyone in particular, bu...
Would physics be just one aspect of how things appear to or are understood by us? I guess the only place to look for reality independent of human expe...
Is this the same as saying - if there is a reality outside of physics and how we understand our world, we are unable to access this and therefore can ...
I think I understand their thinking and for me it holds up ok as these things go. I'm an atheist in as much as I have no belief in gods and find the i...
Yes, I read that too. I've intermittently followed Eagleton's work in the area of literary theory and cultural criticism for some time. I think it's e...
I guess by this my own position is close to the dreaded scientism in as much as - I do think science is the most reliable way (but not the only way) t...
I doubt it. I have yet to see how philosophy of this kind is of use in my daily life - except as a general belief that I might have larger models of s...
Good point. I'm not sure that I would argue that capitalism is working, but as you say, what constitutes failure or success? No doubt anything can be ...
Interesting. Are you saying that you can't have perspectives without an objective reality from which perspectives are derived? I've never given it muc...
I can see your point here but then we would also probably need to say that your perspective that it's a perspective is itself a perspective... and I f...
Nicely done. A lucid articulation and a useful, accessible summary. I read your full piece. This is the key for me. You said something similar here so...
No. That is no different to an art forgery by a person and those works are not worth the same as a Picasso. What we are paying for in a Picasso is not...
I have some sympathy for post-structuralist notions of meaning in as much as this approach seems to contend that signs and signifiers are arbitrary, a...
Like the notion of truth, meaning is an abstract with a range of usages. The 'meaning' of a road sign is not the same usage as the 'meaning' of life. ...
I don't think that is always true across the board these days. Many public service workers I know have to meet strict KPI's and productivity outcomes....
This is a philosophy site not a site for proselytizing. All you've done here again is provide a series of claims - this time in the form of cherry pic...
Interesting TC. I can't say I like any of the images - it's predominantly theatrical - fantasy/sci/fi/surrealism and to my taste overstated and deriva...
This argument seems to be similar to the presuppositionalist position and some forms of classical theism. God is the ultimate source and standard of g...
Sounds like we are not getting anywhere and from my perspective you seem to avoid answering the tough questions. That's like saying that a liberal dem...
I don't think it is odd to compare things which are similar. Isn't that what a comparison is? But you're missing my point by focusing on that. My poin...
I think there might be many spiritually inclined, even theistic individuals who would find this reasoning muddy and the conclusions unwarranted. It's ...
Indeed. According to academic and theologian David Bentley Hart, literal interpretations of the Bible as records of absolute truth are a more recent a...
As a Jewish friend once said - Christianity was derived from Judaism by a mad rabbi. Such claims are not philosophy. Word games. If all you have to ho...
Problems with this argument for me - apart from being spectacularly unconvincing- is that I’ve heard Islamic apologists make the same argument. Also M...
I realize this, but the question beyond his particularism remains; which god is true and how do we establish this? It's the salient question for any t...
That seems to be some pretty mediocre apologetics. Simplistic, not 'simple'. If God is truth - which God and how do we establish this god is true AND ...
I don't think you lied. I think you have a particular value system that constructs atheism in a way which suits that system and the rhetoric which sup...
What is this meant to mean? Seems like you have a poor knowledge of atheism. Most contemporary atheists hold that atheism applies to one thing only - ...
This looks more like proselytising than philosophy. I think you need to make an actual argument and provide some sort of supporting evidence (as oppos...
I'm saying the policy is confused - for instance it never made much sense for cannabis to be illegal on the grounds of harmfulness, while alcohol was ...
My point (perhaps requiring clarification) is that the reasoning behind why some drugs are legal and others are not, is an unsystematic historical leg...
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