Grant: I accept your definitions of contingent, impossible and necessary, and I accept that all beings must be either contingent, impossible or necessary....
Kevin writes: ___________ Could it be that a critical aspect of having a virtuous disposition is to be unbiased in regards to impressions? ___________ Yes, I...
Jan quotes me: ___________ The philosophy of mind that follows from modern empiricism to me now seems quite in conflict with ancient philosophy of mind and so...
At least in classical Stoicism, the universe is not an event, but a continuously existing thing consisting, ultimately of Zeus and "matter," or, if you like,...
I am afraid you have a very simplistic understanding of Lakoff's theory, in part because you have not read his book and in part because it's been several...
Amos writes: ___________ For what it's worth, I agree with Daniel that philosophy cannot provide explanations of how the universe works or what the ultimate...
... This is sooo Douglas Adams! Robin -- "Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it." - Schkade and Kahneman ...
This sounds like Deep Thought, the supercomputer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy ...
Steve: You're right that we should use our skepticism to examine the beliefs that we are attached to. Generally, I have enough work using skepticism to...
... A normative 'ought' can not be objectively real ever. ... Unless one realizes that the very notion of an 'ought' is an ethical notion (something that is...
... continuously existing thing consisting, ultimately of Zeus and "matter," or, if you like, the union of its active and passive aspects. An event is...
Erika asks: ___________ In order to clarify your positions, could the people who have been talking about whether or not LNBs have agency please define the...
Grant writes: ___________ FWIW, I don't think there is any difference between "Science" [done correctly] and "Philosophy" [done correctly]. The rational thing...
Steve, It seems to me that there is a world of difference between knowledge (science) and wisdom (philosophy). Malcolm. ........................... Steve...
Some people on this list (well, maybe just one frequent poster so it seems like more than one) use the term "reason" or "rationality" as if it were entirely...
Jan writes: ___________ Some people on this list (well, maybe just one frequent poster so it seems like more than one) use the term "reason" or "rationality"...
Jan wrote: Some people on this list (well, maybe just one frequent poster so it seems like more than one) use the term "reason" or "rationality" as if it were...
Steve, I don't think you could be the secret forum member Jan is referring to. You have not even been posting much recently. On the other hand, I have posted a...
As some of you may know, there exist people called Jedi Realists - who are *not* STAR WARS fantasy roleplayers, but people who (inspired by the fictional Jedi)...
Interesting analogy, Malcolm. Do philosophers have the equivalent of the pantone chart? What they do have is a rich technical vocabulary that has developed...
Malcolm writes: ___________ It seems to me that there is a world of difference between knowledge (science) and wisdom (philosophy). ___________ I quite agree...
The pneuma is sometimes loosely rendered as "force field." It comes in at least four varieties, hexis, pneuma that gives unity to nonliving things (rocks, for...
It seems to me that a second- and third-person perspective is also important in ethics. Read books ii-iv of Aristotle's Ethics where he discusses moral virtue...
Sophia, It always seemed to me that, in Star Wars, "the Force" is an oblique reference to God; and the phrase "may the force be with you", is a paraphrase of...
The exchange below is a nice summary of my exact point regarding the roles of philosophy and science. -Daniel ... Science ... Virtue ... they? One ... ...
FWIW, my position is that there is no significant difference between philosophy and science [as I have already stated, at length] or between knowledge and...
