I think this is right. Is it Norman Rockwell versus Salvador Dali...? too obvious and pat, maybe. I've come to think that rival aesthetical perspectiv...
Appreciated. I now remember encountering this some time ago. Given the role an ethical system might have on the suffering of conscious creatures can w...
Nicely done. Yes, Nietzsche is like the loyal opposition, a human adversary against which to sharpen their beliefs. But a lot of Christians seem to li...
Could be. Rationalisation sounds like a more precise account of it. Indeed. I think that's what I'm saying - the aesthetics of atheism and nihilism is...
Feel free to use any Australianism you want, Mate. Enjoy. Occasionally, when I am in the outback, I am struck by the extraordinary star scape. The Aus...
You're a guy who loves life and has a sense of the numinous, whilst recognising the tragedies and pitfalls all around us, and you don't even believe i...
The point is they don't like sudden, far reaching changes. It's a preference, it's not as simple as right or wrong. I work in an organisation which ha...
The 'aesthetic faithful' was referring to the group of people we were talking about in the OP. This was a separate point to where we ended up - talkin...
Why did you capitalise because? Anyway... it's a very simple belief. They don't like sudden and big changes that are imposed by others through war, go...
I don't think the point I am making about the aesthetic faithful is connected to the loving life people. Many of those confounding folk who love life ...
Huh? I have not given my view on this subject, just an account of how some people think. I learned many years ago that some people adore life and cele...
I wouldn't think that example works, but you might find a better one that does. Radical change from the past is accommodated and becomes the tradition...
I find the thing in life is to remember that people don't share my experiences, my views or my accounts of reality and why should they? I suspect that...
Ha! That would be taking things too literally, even if it did make me laugh. I think conservatives are gradualists and understand that life has been u...
Well, they either don't see it or they choose aesthetic relief as per terror management theory. Most people I've met over the years think life is a pr...
Thanks. I guess my question is pondering the extent to which people find theism and, for want of a better term, the 'supernatural' attractive because ...
Not at all. Now that's interesting, I don't do games at all. But I have no interest in them. I played a few boardgames as a kid and that's it. No card...
I hadn't noticed. Digression. Do you think there is a math brain or a type of person to whom math speaks? I ask simply because I can't do any math at ...
It's a phase for some and a psychological affliction for others. I had a stage when I was around 10-11 of thinking everything was a simulation - altho...
I hear you. It's a wicked problem. Even the notion of consciousness is something I'm pretty sure we couldn't conceive of without language. But I can't...
All I know about H is that for a human being to be is to exist temporally in the stretch between birth and death. Being is time. How in essence does H...
Seems appropriate. But at some point experience becomes language and visa versa. Experience ends up being understood through language and I struggle t...
I will sometimes ask how a person is using a particular term as this is more useful than a 'correct' definition. People who get stuck on specific defi...
Thank you. I enjoy these kinds of discussions, perhaps because I'm from outside philosophy. You are an engaging and informed interlocutor. Agree. It i...
Ok. That's surely an outlier position, but let's get back to this later. You seem to have argued essentially that you don't like Darwinism because it ...
So you are still not providing arguments, you're just trashing Dawkins and now it's his fault that some bookshops put his work in the 'Religion' secti...
. As we all know Dawkins is not a philosopher. But none of this answers whether we have evidence that evolution is directed by a designer, however we ...
I'm no expert on Dawkins work but whenever I have read or heard him talk about the 'appearance of design' he is generally providing a rebuttal to some...
This just sounds like the rhetoric of resentment or an ad hominem based on impugning motives. It by no means provides us with any evidence that evolut...
Yes, I've read it and used to own it. I already said it was a polemical title, but you'll note the book is full of descriptions of a highly complex in...
Perhaps. I just watched him defend human morality as constrained by innate structural limitations - or something of the sort - against arguments by th...
I saw a t-shirt with a likeness of the Buddha on it. Underneath it said, 'Try not to be a cunt: The Buddha.' I think that's about as profound as I can...
Not just religious institutions. People who believe in transcendent meaning do it. It's not a point we can overlook if we are willing to put atheists ...
Just to clarify - humans rights are a construct and we can see them violated all over the West too. Try being an Aboriginal community member in this c...
Well, all that happens regardless of what we believe or what the truth might be, right? North Korea? Parts of Africa? But the consequences of an idea ...
Nice. I wonder though why we would need to build a metaphysics on such a transitory experience of surprise. Why pull out this emotional reaction and n...
Finding Dennett's account unappealing is an aesthetic response, surely? Personally, I've not discovered a reason to think humans are anything more tha...
No doubt you know this one. I'm amused by this becasue I have a dull, literalist mind. :wink: This Be The Verse BY PHILIP LARKIN They fuck you up, you...
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