Philosophical Speculations

Probably outside the conversational flow I offer my two cents that you've never been able to concentrate because you are attempting to concentrate on reason when you need to concentrate on faith. Without faith you will not recognize Grace. You'll pass it by without noticing or think that nothing is...

Ashvin, Federica, You've provided much to think about, so I will be off thinking about it. One thing that has occurred to me is that difficulty concentrating is not my basic problem, rather it is a consequence. The deeper (as far as my awareness goes) is a lack of self-discipline. Setting and keepin...

Probably outside the conversational flow I offer my two cents that you've never been able to concentrate because you are attempting to concentrate on reason when you need to concentrate on faith. Without faith you will not recognize Grace. You'll pass it by without noticing or think that nothing is...

I am aware I am just repeating what Ashvin and Cleric have many times expressed. It's because your posts, as I understand them, seem to refute this necessity. Would you say that’s accurate, since you disagree with it being a necessity, or would you say that you are mindful of it, and it’s just me, ...

I'm not sure. If something that involves forms is, how do you intend that forms are not there? I'm just saying that one will not ever encounter a form by itself. If one thinks of forms as concrete entities one can fall into the materialist error that Tegmark did -- imagining a world of just (mathem...

Scott, I think Ashvin’s metaphor above is the most relatable, fitting reply, but to add something specific to the Lessing quote: I understand the convenience of it, in this juncture, but I don’t agree with a literal interpretation. In fluid terms, I agree we can become more acquainted with our expe...

I view that task as similar to if our intuition led us to the brink of a committed and loving romantic or friendly relationship, but then we stop and wonder what assurances we can have that this relationship will work out and help us realize our potential and ideals. We ask to establish resonance w...

At this point of this interesting discussion I am prompted to pitch the following idea :) I consider the idea "idealism is true" to be esoteric. By "the purpose" I mean coming up with a text that provides a philosophical basis for anthroposophy free of any esotericism, but indic...

As for triangles, I can accept that "re-create" is not the best term. Re-imagine? I am thinking of the moment when one thinks "triangle". Yes, one is involving one's thinking with the eternal, single concept of triangle, but putting the three sides together is an act of imaginat...

Right, but my sense is that the supernatural cause will not allow itself to be argued for conceptually, only established experientially, at first in our imagination through phenomenological and metaphorical-analogical thinking. The latter serves as a bridge between the conceptual and experiential. ...