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- Wed Nov 21, 2012 1:21 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Particular facts from general laws.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10619
Re: Particular facts from general laws.
I will re-direct the reader's of this thread back to its original title. Namely, Particular facts from general laws. The question before us philosophers, is how can particular facts ever be embodied or "come-to-exist" or "originate" in a universe which is run completely be symmetrical and mathemati...
- Wed Nov 21, 2012 1:04 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: End Equality and all Human Rights
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9729
Re: End Equality and all Human Rights
The simple fact that our human bodies are subject to decay is no "proof" of a war all against all. It's not proof. It's evidence . Do you know the difference between proof and evidence? You used the word "proof" yourself. Now you call it "evidence". No matter. That our human bodies are subject to d...
- Tue Nov 20, 2012 1:52 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: End Equality and all Human Rights
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9729
Re: End Equality and all Human Rights
All has been defeated by now. Nobody lives forever. Time takes its toll on the human body. You grow old, crippled, and die. You submit to nature. But dying of old age is no escape from the war of all against all. It is proof of it! . Dying of old age is passive. Young men should die in war, with pr...
- Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:46 am
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: The Meaning of Life
- Replies: 242
- Views: 34381
Re: The Meaning of Life
2 Timothy 3: 2-5 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobediant to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treachorous, rash, conceited. lovers of pleasure rather tha...
- Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:08 am
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: The Meaning of Life
- Replies: 242
- Views: 34381
Re: The Meaning of Life
There is? What exactly would the difference be? Anything like the difference between, well, AC/DC and, what? Stryper?reasonvemotion wrote:There is a difference between worldly and christian hedonism.
I am certain CW was not referring to christian hedonism. Indeed, it would be a miracle if he was. LOL
- Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:04 am
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: The Meaning of Life
- Replies: 242
- Views: 34381
Re: The Meaning of Life
CW wrote: Love and hedonism go together like peaches and cream One is self sacrificing and the other selfish pursuit of pleasure. I don't see any connection between the two. But they do go together: Love thy neighbour as thyself, as Jesus put it. It's when you want the best for others and yourself ...
- Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:25 am
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: End Equality and all Human Rights
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9729
Re: End Equality and all Human Rights
Equality and Human Rights must all end. Should I bother replying to this? Well, against better judgement, then... :roll: There is no such thing as "equality" in nature. Of course. No use looking to "nature" for guidance. Nothing is equal. Nobody is equal, ever. Exactly. Inequality emerges and incre...
- Sat Nov 17, 2012 1:03 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: The Third Rail of Consciousness
- Replies: 68
- Views: 26573
Re: The Third Rail of Consciousness
How about Consciousness is being aware of being aware ?? A good suggestion. But what does it mean? We know about consciousness because we are conscious beings ourselves, and we assume some level of consciousness in higher animals, because in some respects they behave like we do. But are fish consci...
- Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:01 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Philosophy is useless
- Replies: 208
- Views: 52484
Re: Philosophy is useless
Yes, I have my own speculation about consciousness, but that is not the topic here. Why don't you start another thread, then? :shock: Strangely out-of-place suggestion! I'd like to know more about MarkM's speculations. If he thinks it would be off-topic to further elaborate in this thread, I sugges...
- Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:18 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Particular facts from general laws.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10619
Re: Particular facts from general laws.
The "philosophers" on this forum make these dry, non-committal musings about science and knowledge. When pressed with the tough questions, they squeal the words "Religion!" and/or "God!" as if to terminate the conversation long enough to scamper away with their tail between their legs. Meanwhile, t...
- Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:09 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Particular facts from general laws.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10619
Re: Particular facts from general laws.
I happen to think Big Bang cosmology is flaky nonsense. Wonder if there are others. I expect philosophers should know the answers from science are dubious and flaky. It's not nonsense. Big Bang cosmology describes the history of the universe in a way that is consistent with the observational data a...
- Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:22 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Philosophy is useless
- Replies: 208
- Views: 52484
Re: Philosophy is useless
Hello again, MarkM. Thanks for your reply. :) You suggest that subjectivity and objectivity coexist as two sides of the same coin. In my opinion, this is a dualist account. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy presents dualism in the following quote. "The crux of dualism is the apparently unbridge...
- Tue Nov 13, 2012 3:20 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Finding different points of view
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3157
Re: Finding different points of view
You might find this old, long and winding thread of mine to be of some interest: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4768
- Tue Nov 13, 2012 3:11 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: God + Allah = ?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 16774
Re: God + Allah = ?
The Christian God is supposed to be The One and Only Omnipotent Creator. And so is Allah. Both are of course later versions of the original monoteist diety, the Tetragrammaton of Judaism, JHWH, I am that I am . There can only be one. (Or none, as atheists believe.) There is no point trying to add or...
- Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:10 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Philosophy is useless
- Replies: 208
- Views: 52484
Re: Philosophy is useless
You propose a dualist configuration of mental life. No, not really. I propose two complementary understandings of mental life. The first understanding is from within conscious itself. Everything we know, or rather believe we know, we know from experience, from within the "machine". This is a purely...