Philosophical Speculations

In traditional theism one does not have this problem, because God is defined as morally perfect and good. Evil does not have its own ontological category, and is instead simply considered to be the absence of goodness. In Christian theology the fallen angels were not created evil, but by their own ...

Hello Shajan624, Thank you for your response, I’ve had a go at some replies. I would echo your cynicism of an a priori approach leading to consensus. I can’t see this being the thing that makes the Michael Schermers of this world throw their hands up and declare: ‘Oh now it all makes sense!’ Case i...

Grant, Thank you for considering my criticisms-feedback with an open mind. Let me just state my position up front which I felt was at odds with your conclusions - there is no principled reason that Mind cannot fully know itself, as in cognize itself in detailed resolution, without any "epistemi...

Cleric, you said it very well, thank you. But raising the cognition level above the intellectual one was part of most spiritual traditions of the West and the East. "The path from the mind to the heart" is how it was described in the mystical Christianity. "The state of no-mind"...

Don't take this the wrong way... No worries with that. Call me a shiftless waste of space for all I care. Your analysis above is helpful, as well as Scott's, so thanks both for that. All I can offer as a gesture of gratitude, and a plea for patience with this mod's own foibles, is this deep gassho ...

Now that Matrix 4 (Resurrections) is about to be released (December 22th), this might be a huge opportunity to introduce BK's idealism to the world. According to Wikipedia: Philosopher William Irwin suggests that the idea of the "Matrix" – a generated reality invented by malicious machine...

Don't take this the wrong way... No worries with that. Call me a shiftless waste of space for all I care. Your analysis above is helpful, as well as Scott's, so thanks both for that. All I can offer as a gesture of gratitude, and a plea for patience with this mod's own foibles, is this deep gassho ...

Anyway, when Ashvin accuses your ego of getting in the way, he is merely referring to a problem we all have with our intellectual-soul-bound egos, that of attachment to intellectual abstractions. He is pointing out cases where your particular attachments hide a latent dualism, for example. Most spi...

What, in particular, do you consider "preachy" in how Cleric or Ashvin have presented and argued for their views, as distinct from the way BK, say, presents and argues for his? The distinction is fuzzy but there is a difference. BK created his own platform and keeps all his content there....

With this clarification in mind, claiming mind = reality as an ontologically primitive (OP) is no different than saying mind is reality. This does not assume a quantitative equivalence any more or less than it does assume a qualitative equivalence. It's just saying that mind = reality. Plain and si...