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- Mon May 22, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Humans are Intricately Part & Parcel of Reality
- Replies: 70
- Views: 2877
Re: Humans are Intricately Part & Parcel of Reality
Advocate wrote: Epistemic meaning is a technically correct definition. Axiological meaning is desire for things to be other than they are. There's no inherent connection. But what most healthy humans seek from their lives is their futures, when they will eat more or better, enjoy themselves a bit mo...
- Sun May 21, 2023 7:03 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christianity
- Replies: 17085
- Views: 750195
Re: Christianity
I was indoctrinated from birth to be a liberal follower of Jesus. This has been my main motivation towards socialism. A socialist maintains that universally and without exception everyone is or should be equal in rights and needs. I and many others have concluded the only way to adore the good, the...
- Sun May 21, 2023 6:56 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Was Spinoza Actually An Atheist?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 11046
Re: Was Spinoza Actually An Atheist?
A self would be a self-contained unit, an independent existence, which is quite impossible. Yet each of us experiences selfhood and most take it for granted. Spinoza concluded that Nature is both the things of nature such as selves (Natura Naturata) and the workings of Nature (Natura Naturans) This...
- Sun May 21, 2023 6:49 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Does the "Free Will" point of view affect morals and character?
- Replies: 1047
- Views: 48702
Re: Does the "Free Will" point of view affect morals and character?
Change itself is integral to existence in this world of time and relativity. This world of time and relativity is all we can know, as we ourselves are temporal and relative beings. The baby does not breathe because he chooses to do so but because he must; he is immersed in change. Biology presumes ...
- Sun May 21, 2023 11:09 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Humans are Intricately Part & Parcel of Reality
- Replies: 70
- Views: 2877
Re: Humans are Intricately Part & Parcel of Reality
So , apart from the meaning we bestow upon existence, existence means nothing?popeye1945 wrote: ↑Sun May 21, 2023 10:18 am All meaning is dependent upon personal subjective experience, as knowledge and meaning, that the subject then bestows upon a meaningless world.
- Sun May 21, 2023 11:04 am
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Was Spinoza Actually An Atheist?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 11046
Re: Was Spinoza Actually An Atheist?
yeah the concept 'self cause' is kinda sketchy anyway becuz if u are the cause of yourself, u have to exist to cause yourself, so you have to exist before u exist in order to make yourself happen. I'm like wuh. nothing to see here but paradoxes and antinomies. fortunately there wuz no beginning of ...
- Sun May 21, 2023 10:58 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christianity
- Replies: 17085
- Views: 750195
Re: Christianity
God, then, is immanent and in no way transcends nature. Can you explain how you reached that conclusion? Thanks again. I was indoctrinated from birth to be a liberal follower of Jesus. This has been my main motivation towards socialism. A socialist maintains that universally and without exception e...
- Sun May 21, 2023 10:46 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Does the "Free Will" point of view affect morals and character?
- Replies: 1047
- Views: 48702
Re: Does the "Free Will" point of view affect morals and character?
As I stated, the earth and the cosmos play biology like its instrument, which includes its biological circadian rhythms/internal momentum. And as I responded, your metaphor is giving the cosmos the role of agency. Now here you are acknowledging internal rhythms. Those are PART of the organism. If t...
- Sat May 20, 2023 10:40 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christianity
- Replies: 17085
- Views: 750195
Re: Christianity
Then He is not even as efficient as your local hospital. Here's a reminder of the constraints of the scenario: For this example, God is conceived of as very powerful but not omnipotent, and very knowledgeable and prescient but not omniscient. God on this conception lacks omniscience to the extent t...
- Sat May 20, 2023 10:32 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Reincarnation
- Replies: 1016
- Views: 28795
Re: Reincarnation
Has anyone here been a seventeenth century ship's rat?
As we know species are not immutable. Darwin The Origin of species By Natural Selection
As we know species are not immutable. Darwin The Origin of species By Natural Selection
- Sat May 20, 2023 10:28 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Was Spinoza Actually An Atheist?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 11046
Re: Was Spinoza Actually An Atheist?
yeah the concept 'self cause' is kinda sketchy anyway becuz if u are the cause of yourself, u have to exist to cause yourself, so you have to exist before u exist in order to make yourself happen. I'm like wuh. nothing to see here but paradoxes and antinomies. fortunately there wuz no beginning of ...
- Sat May 20, 2023 10:27 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christianity
- Replies: 17085
- Views: 750195
Re: Christianity
God's intervention is not whimsical but rather is consistent and thus just, leading to an eventual minimising of suffering. When? Oh, I didn't mean to imply the passing of time. Please substitute for "eventual", "overall". Then He is not even as efficient as your local hospital.
- Sat May 20, 2023 10:25 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Does the "Free Will" point of view affect morals and character?
- Replies: 1047
- Views: 48702
Re: Does the "Free Will" point of view affect morals and character?
It's against seeing us as passive until stimulated. It may feel that way to our conscious self sometimes, we can sort of pretend that internal causes and flows are not us. But the organism is active, not just reactive. Like so many things, it seems like the best description depends upon which level...
- Sat May 20, 2023 10:16 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christianity
- Replies: 17085
- Views: 750195
Re: Christianity
When?God's intervention is not whimsical but rather is consistent and thus just, leading to an eventual minimising of suffering.
- Fri May 19, 2023 8:18 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Does the "Free Will" point of view affect morals and character?
- Replies: 1047
- Views: 48702
Re: Does the "Free Will" point of view affect morals and character?
No. There is unpredictable but nothing is random. It does not matter what a dictionary says. The dictionary has many definitions of other fantasy concepts like god. But it is up to us as practicing humans to sort out the weeds and the chaff. I've never anyone try to deny the concept of freewill by ...