Philosophical Speculations

SanteriSatama wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 10:39 pm PS: Ashvin, what do you mean Christo-centric approach?

An approach which centers around Christ as the quintessential archetype of Redemption through voluntary sacrifice and rebirth in His spirit.

It takes a little while to get your head around Tenet. It’s interesting that they have it such that it’s the intention to drop the reverse entropy bullet that picks it up... (I don’t think that’s too much of a spoiler?) For sure, Nolan explores the Fate-Free Will polarity in depth, while only havin...

This was a very good interview. It kind of perplexed me that Jorjani took so much exception to the idea that there could be a deep philosophical/metaphysical connection between Daoism, Buddhism or Zoroastrianism and the Abrahamic religions. In fact, he has said in other interviews with Mishlove that...

Maybe I’ll ask the question a different way, what do you see as the difference between the unicorn I’m thinking of, and the cat I’m looking at? From a thomist perspective, there is this correspondence to truth which he calls “being”. Is this what you call “inflated by god”? As Ashvin said, there is...

Yes I think there is definitely something in that. The unicorn idea probably comes from a rhino, maybe as some kind of unconscious cultural ‘memory’. However the cat has it own experience, and there is also something to it which is consistent to everyone else. I can picture in my head an alien with...

I don't know which it is more like, perhaps the latter. I see it as just a statement of idealism: that all that exists is being thought into existence. Maybe I’ll ask the question a different way, what do you see as the difference between the unicorn I’m thinking of, and the cat I’m looking at? Fro...

Barfield explores the phenomenon of modern mental illness, such as Schizophrenia, and how it reveals a fundamental alienation of the 'self' from the surrounding world and from the true Self in all of human society, with the Schizophrenics being the ones who are most aware of the alienation. Moderns ...

I know what mice are... what or who are they are they representing in this analogy? Am I missing something here? I understood that Santeri and Lou were literally referring to mice and mouse traps, and the ethical consideration of how to keep them from setting up house in an actual house, where they...

I know what mice are... what or who are they are they representing in this analogy? The analogy belongs to Santeri. I interpreted it as a challenge to my notion that 'kind regard' might solve conflicts. Basically, he likes to stress that there are no rules (including this one), with which I gotta a...

I guess I don't need to make anyone spell it out... but was kind of hoping my initial assumptions were wrong. This is exactly what I was referring to on the Jorjani thread when I said, I am convinced that such policies are the inevitable conclusion of 'post-modern' thinking which does not find any t...