Philosophical Speculations

Compassion seems to me to be a way of alleviating the dissociation. It is a recognition of underlying unity with other people, other living things, and Nature at large. It is a bridge over the gap that separates us. Indeed. And we know that to be true. But not through an analytic reasoning or the m...

I'm looking for some theoretical framework in the light of philosophical idealism or non-physicalist philosophies that account for the evolutionary aspect of life from a more metaphysical perspective. As far I can see neither cosmopsychism nor the theory of BK does this beyond positing a 'Schopenhau...

How do they exist in isolation? As said in the essay and mentioned to Eugene, the burden is on those who deny inseparability of thinking from the other categories. Because we all experience them as inseparable. Then we escape that conclusion of our experience by adding an assumption like "babi...

And the main point here is that all of those four categories - willing, sensing, feeling, thinking - are fundamental and do not ever exist in isolation from the others. I don't know... For me sensing an feeling are very different than thinking and can exist in isolation. But never mind... it is pro...

James said that in relation to a hypothetical human being who had never thought but only perceived. In reality, there can be no such human being. A newborn experiences perceiving-thinking as unified process of the world with no exterior-interior distinction. But, as far as I can see in babies, they...

James said that in relation to a hypothetical human being who had never thought but only perceived. In reality, there can be no such human being. A newborn experiences perceiving-thinking as unified process of the world with no exterior-interior distinction. But, as far as I can see in babies, they...

Let us pause for a moment to anticipate an objection - the above does not explain why sensing and thinking are inseparable. True, but that is not the question. Rather, the question is whether they are, in reality , inseparable. I would further argue that those who question the inseparability have t...

Thank you Marco! I'll take a look. In case you're not familiar, the following might be of interest: Goethean Science ( Chapter 9, Goethe's Epistemology is especially interesting) The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception Goethe's World View I have on my desk the second one and s...

I'm acquainted with Goethe primarily through Steiner's books on him, which do a great job to put his philosophy in perspective. As it's known Goethe didn't lay out his philosophy in some formal way. It's much rather than one has to read between the lines to get into the soul of Goethe and experienc...

Very nice. You display a powerful clarity of mind with spiritual insight. Something (still) seldom these days... I like also the methodological approach to losen the dogma of principles of parsimony. This has done so much harm in science and philosophy that it is time to question this critically. Gr...