Philosophy Now Forum

So imagine my surprise when, while searching for truth, I stumbled upon a philosophy that is (in my opinion) beyond both the ecstatic mysticisms and these theleological established ways of experiencing life. I've become something like an "Eastern nondualist mystic", went through the proce...

The issue is that, for "skeptics" like me, that's just not good enough. I reject subjective evidence in general. I see it as just a standard psychological thing that whatever faith someone has, that person will receive subjective experiences consistent with that faith. For example someone...

But so far there's no evidence for any kind of objective morality, as to my knowledge. The way I conceive of this issue goes like this. I do believe that objective morality is real, and I do believe that it is defined philosophically and also religiously. But what •it• is composed of, the stuff of ...

I am much more curious about the strange phenomenon of objective moral truth, but nobody seems to have enough confidence in the idea to risk making a fool of himself by trying to explain it, except VA, of course, but the horse has already bolted in his case. Anything is possible, objective moral tr...

Though it should be noted that Kant's - transcendental idealism is neither transcendental, nor idealism - transcendental realism is neither transcendental, nor realism - phenomena don't mean phenomena and noumena don't mean noumena - empirical doesn't mean empirical - abstract doesn't mean abstract ...

Kant didn't view the mind as a separate, non-physical substance. Nor does indirect realism. Where do you have this random obsession from? Phew. So the transcendental ego is a physical thing that transcends mere sense data, as is the mind that experiences mental representations of reality, rather th...

Now, answer this question: If there are no noumena, then of what are phenomena phenomena? Or consider this: If there are no things-in-themselves, then appearances are not appearances of things-in-themselves. Or try this: What does a transcendental ego transcend? You haven't begun to think criticall...

By intersubjective consensus, the Quran will always be more credible than science. Thank you, second prophet, for your immortal contributions to Islamic world dominion.

Try explaining to an anti-realist Muslim that Allah doesn't exist. You can only try to do that in realism by pointing out that you can find rocks and trees and such in the external world, but you can't find Allah. But once everything is in illusory limbo, and we decide things by intersubjective cons...

How much influence do these Evangelicals have in the US now? Luckily there seem to be few of them in Europe. It is a pretty large block, and their influence is notably strong, but I could not say more than that. Christian Zionism is very strong in the US and all presidents since WWll have been Chri...

Not true. CHristians have always been front and centre of Israel/Palestine. Sir Arthur Balfour, a Christian wrote the Declaration handing the territory over to the Jews. Sykes/Pichot the ENglsih and French Officials that carved up the ME after WW1, both CHristian. Every president of the USA< and Fr...

The Jews dragged the Christian world into that conflict, otherwise the Christians don't even care about the Middle East. It would be fair to say that Israel has embroiled the US in the region, and to point to Jewish Neocons outside of Israel as instigators, but Christian Zionism preceded Jewish Zio...

Though his morals are christian, he is not the worst or most immoral christian moralist. There are thousands in the US egging on the Gaza genocide to bring about "rapture" and the final solution of Armageddon. It's not that theism erases a conscience, it is that theism justifies a hateful...

Not particularly relevent. He's only a sociopath because of his theism. And fuck his "conscience". His morals are disgraceful. That's where you guys (Harbal, FDP) are very mistaken imo, theism can't erase the conscience so universally from someone, especially not Christianity. Technically...

Yeah that didn't make a lick of sense. Yeah, I'm sure that is what I said about your post. Now you're resorting to "I know you are but what am I?" arguments? Pathetic. How did you go from 'there is no cozy basic thing like information or relations, that everything reduces to' to 'thinking...