Philosophical Speculations

AshvinP,
I read the essay and I guess kind of agreed to most of it, but didn't find it particularly relevant...

Stranger,
Thanks a lot for the list! And I personally use the official Chrome plugin, you can preview before sending, or send only selected text, pretty handy.

In that case, I will refer to you an author who is alive and writing here on this forum. Thank you! Just sent the essay to my Kindle. In the meantime, I stumbled upon this thread "Which contemporary philosophers are idealists?" https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/4364/which-con...

Greetings! I find idealism both persuasive and hard to accept. On one hand the intuitions ring true, on the other they have to face the deep conditioning of thinking of the world in material terms. But my purpose behind this post was to ask you for other modern idealists apart from Bernardo. I apol...

Greetings! I find idealism both persuasive and hard to accept. On one hand the intuitions ring true, on the other they have to face the deep conditioning of thinking of the world in material terms. But my purpose behind this post was to ask you for other modern idealists apart from Bernardo. I apolo...

Hey, I just now read your post and really related to it. How are you doing, OP?

Wikipedia does a pretty bad job describing the argument. The best source I've found are the audio series starting with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGWuZ0h4DN8.

Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:42 pm I've nothing to add to the previous discussion of this topic in the old MS forum.

Ah, thank you, I forgot we already had this discussion back then .

Are any of you familiar with the Kalām argument, popularized by William Lane Craig? To me it feels like a very strong argument for positing an uncaused and eternal consciousness as the cause of the universe. And from it one doesn't necessarily need to draw conclusions towards Christian theism - that...

Eugene I wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 4:40 pm But imagine if you find the answer. This is it, there is no mystery anymore. Would not it be boring?

Actually no, I think I would feel much better having an answer to this particular question. I could still enjoy the neverending creativity inherent in the world.

It is simply a fact that any fundamental explanation must end with an inconceivable phenomenon. Kant makes this clear. Reality lies beyond the categories of thought. It should not be disconcerting. All this is explained in the Upanishads. This 'bottomless pit' mentioned here is the chasm into which...