Flying swiftly through the air in the arms of Memory, I alight on the quiet street, amid scenes of the years passed by. A mist of impression. Like a picture,...
There is a Buddhist saying "we live in the land of ten thousand details" which is borne out in a reductionistic science that I imagine Chris represents; a...
Serious attention to the cultures of the classical world, and in particular to the glory that was Greece, offers some kind of respite, at least for myself,...
To all, dot you suppose that philosophers would prefer greater percision in their efforts to describe be-ing. There is the problem in which words are...
I remain confused as to why people who mostly embrace existentialism expect consensus of emotion and actions from others. Existentialism, analytical or...
"Ye gods! Have you no sense of shame? With your thick skin, and your crafty mind! How shall any Greek obey your orders Willingly - to go on expeditions, Or to...
In the evaluation of binary opposites, Derrida's Deconstruction is focused upon the paired-opposites that are expressed in literature and language; as extreme...
Friends, Well another monster hurricane seems to be creeping up to my front door. I am staying put. Should be very interesting. Wil ************** It's only a...
The sadness, of how men think, the species mankind, how individuals use one another. As an instance, that many males believe that if a woman is forced into...
Chris, I for one do not believe that science can achieve for humanity the kind of progress you envisage. Sentient beings, whatever their species, do not like...
Bvtswami has written the following on Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions": "Khun raises the problem of explaining why in the history of...
Herman, it seems to me that 'telos' is about a specified destination and that 'entelechy' is more about the unfinished movement, on it's way to get there. As...
It is obvious that few ,even of those on this list, have any working understanding of existential philosophy. The recent debate regarding nothingness...
Herman, it seems to me that every 'thing' that claims the status of existing, coincides with be-ing (a tautology). Parmenides statement that "being and...
Science has always had a difficult time in modern / "post-modern" philosophical schools, especially Continental schools of thought. Many analytical...
The philosophy of ancient Greece takes us to Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Philosophers throughout time have drawn from these thinkers and from...
Knott wrote: I put less and less hope in what communally seems to be a vision for what should be, than a vision for what simply seems right, good, pleasing,...
My last paragraph should have read: Paradigm changes occur because scientists reject old paradigms and accept new paradigms. I don't see any problem with...
He lives in my garden . He is the protector of his great daughter , Venus and loves the deep like we have never understood it.Csw, tell me of the sea. Is it...
Nitai, "...[T]here are rational arguments for theism. To consider all theistic thinkers as idiots is, well, idiotic." Response: Unless one is using the terms...
I wonder how this desire to be God is fleshed out in the activities of real people. And I have an idea I'm naming "surrogate mediation", which can also be...
A reversal of the tide of battle in the class wars would seem in the balance. The upper class has had a long recline in the lap of power. They are older, they...
