Philosophical Speculations

Presently, your focus of work is to point out the path on which the mind realizes its self-supported illusions and moves into its foundations. From that vantage point the mind sees everything as mental pictures, for which it has no justification to say that they represent some distinct objective re...

As Schopenhauer has become subject of discussion in this thread, it's perhaps worth mentioning Bernardo Kastrup's blog post about his 2019 book, Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics. In it, he says: I believe Schopenhauer’s most valuable legacy is precisely his metaphysical views: they anticipate sal...

Well, I'd call that a constructive disagreement, and thank you for it, but will leave it at that for now pending some other responses and some more thought on my part.

Ask yourself this, would Kastrup or Schopenhauer or any serious philosopher consider this an 'explanation'? What I think is the issue with that passage I had been asked to comment on is contained in this statement: I must henceforth treat the table, of which formerly I believed that it acted on me ...

Steiner was first a rigorous philosopher within the German idealist tradition, before he started writing or lecturing anything 'esoteric/occult'. He wrote books like Goethean Science and Philosophy of Freedom, neither of which speak of esoteric wisdom in the least. They contain direct consideration...

The salient passage from the Upaniṣad: Nobody can know the ātman inasmuch as the ātman is the Knower of all things. So, no question regarding the ātman can be put, such as "What is the ātman?' 'Show it to me', etc. You cannot show the ātman because the Shower is the ātman; the Experiencer is th...

The thought about existence/non-existence itself must be undone. Correct! Hence the thread title. So, yes, that does indeed address the initial post. And please understand, I'm not claiming to have reached any great plateau of enlightenment, this is just how I see the point of philosophical idealis...

the phenomenology of cognition need not be labeled esoteric or occult at all, and it's a direct rebuttal of previous 'critical idealist' conclusions, as also detailed in Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom. It's just unfamiliar. PS - MAL is a term coined by Kastrup. I notice if you search 'Steiner' you...

No, it was a slip on my part, sorry about that. I have no Indian relations, although in my teen years I became rather converted to Indian philosophy. This might be a little too much to swallow in a single gulp but I just wanted to illustrate that what is here being talked about, is concerned with an...

Here’s my questions to you: > What is it that wasn’t clear in what I previously wrote? I've reviewed your first post - yes, it was very clear, but it came after Ashwin's post and made reference to it, and I wasn't very clear on Ashwin's initial response. But I thought the paragraph you highlighted ...