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- Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:17 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: William Blake // Dostoevsky: Marriage of Heaven & Hell
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1103
Re: William Blake // Dostoevsky: Marriage of Heaven & Hell
he views the opposites as separate forces rather than inter-weaving and inter-penetrating. Not how I hear The Tyger. The Thoughts on Thinking guy was going over Marriage of Heaven and Hell . Based on my reading, I believe he had an accurate analysis. But don't get me wrong... I also think Blake may...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Re-imagining the humanities and the sciences around extraordinary-ordinary experiences
- Replies: 5
- Views: 960
Re: Recalibrating the humanities and the sciences around extraordinary experiences
Well, just as I am criticizing BK for not discussing enough religious questions in his interviews on another thread, this gets posted
I could have listened to these guys discussing those issues for many hours. The new Essentia foundation and its potentialities are very exciting!
I could have listened to these guys discussing those issues for many hours. The new Essentia foundation and its potentialities are very exciting!
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Presentation at the University of Arizona Consciousness Conference: Idealism, Cultural Narratives, and Social Change
- Replies: 2
- Views: 408
Re: Presentation at the University of Arizona Consciousness Conference: Idealism, Cultural Narratives, and Social Change
I am particularly interested in the following question: Other than convincing philosophical argument, what development is likely to push or pull the currently dominant cultural narrative from materialism towards idealism? (New quantum physics experiments, contact with intelligent extra terrestrial ...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Phenomenal self vs. rational subjectivity -BK & alii
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1202
Re: Phenomenal self vs. rational subjectivity -BK & alii
There's another thread about this debate as well - viewtopic.php?f=5&t=44
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 3:19 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Knowledge
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11427
Re: Knowledge
I am not a 'formal philosopher' by any stretch, but my 2 cents is to think of knowing and knowledge as process rather than a state. Can you give an example of such a process ? Knowing requires a dynamic process of developing internal models of the world That is science. Science is not knowledge imo...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: William Blake // Dostoevsky: Marriage of Heaven & Hell
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1103
Re: William Blake // Dostoevsky: Marriage of Heaven & Hell
This video is so artfully and beautifully created that I first thought of posting it in the art-form section, but given its thought-provoking ideas about polarity, good vs evil, individuality><mutuality, etc, it surely warrants a place here too ... William Blake // Dostoevsky: Marriage of Heaven &a...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 3:00 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Evolution and Idealism
- Replies: 1
- Views: 590
Re: Evolution and Idealism
I really cannot persuade myself from the Darwinian mechanisms of evolution; and as an objective idealist I do think that consciousness cannot have been evolved by means of natural selection. Maybe there are other means by which evolution can produce adaptive phenotypic characteristics. Saltationism...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:18 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Life after death - Is Life ultimately absurd?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4141
Re: Life after death - Is Life ultimately absurd?
"Many existential philosophers were arguably idealists, such as Kierkegaard, {maybe) Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Jaspers, W. James, H. Arendt, Colin Wilson, Paul Tillich." Do or did these existential philosophers really entertain objective/subjective idealism, meaning th...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 1:12 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Life after death - Is Life ultimately absurd?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4141
Re: Life after death - Is Life ultimately absurd?
Can one reconcile absurdism and existentialism with idealism? Many existential philosophers were arguably idealists, such as Kierkegaard, {maybe) Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Jaspers, W. James, H. Arendt, Colin Wilson, Paul Tillich. There is nothing incompatible between the two. Ob...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 10:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Mathematical Platonism and Idealism
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1215
Re: Mathematical Platonism and Idealism
Would you say that mathematical platonism and metaphysical idealism are compatible? If yes, to what extend are they compatible and how exactly? Mathematical platonism argues and postulates that mathematical objects/entities exist objectively in a platonic realm of existence. Idealism argues and pos...