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- Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: William Blake // Dostoevsky: Marriage of Heaven & Hell
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1119
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: 598
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: 4202
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: 4202
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: 1236
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...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:18 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Knowledge
- Replies: 32
- Views: 13201
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. Knowing requires a dynamic process of developing internal models of the world with certain assumptions, exploring the world, unlearning some assumptions when encounteri...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Atlas & Jason Reza Jorjani ~ Metaphysics & Geopolitics
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1189
Re: Atlas & Jason Reza Jorjani ~ Metaphysics & Geopolitics
Ashvin ... Thanks for taking the time to watch it, and giving your usual perceptive feedback, as I was a bit concerned that viewers may struggle with the interviewing style, and give up on it. 'Atlas' is not my favourite interviewer ~ a lot of pregnant pauses ~ but he does seem to have an intuitive...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: IAI - Consciousness and the world
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1229
Re: IAI - Consciousness and the world
In connection with BK's comments about Thomas Kuhn and that "most people did not understand Kuhn", I just came across this passage worth thinking about from Barfield: "I have had to mention science, because science (I mean the causality-science which is all we yet have [1962]) is clea...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 7:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Schizophrenia, Sin and the Self (Owen Barfield)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4752
Re: Schizophrenia, Sin and the Self (Owen Barfield)
There was a time in my late teens, then an art college drop-out, when I went through some psychotic break for about a year, extreme anxiety with panic attacks; bat-shit crazy/vividly 'real' hallucinations, including envisioning committing mass murder of ex-classmates; periods where I could be stepp...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 6:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Long term effects of Idealism
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2170
Re: Long term effects of Idealism
C. S. Lewis once made an analogy between a person's worldview and a map. Your worldview is your map, by which you make life decisions. The more accurate your map, the fewer wrong turns you will make in your journey through life. He was a Christian philosopher, and as such, IMO recognized that Chris...