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by AshvinP
Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:25 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Phenomenal self vs. rational subjectivity -BK & alii
Replies: 5
Views: 1207

Re: Phenomenal self vs. rational subjectivity -BK & alii

SanteriSatama wrote: Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:22 pm
AshvinP wrote: Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:15 pm There's another thread about this debate as well - viewtopic.php?f=5&t=44
It's not the same video.
The first link on the other thread is the same video. I don't really care, just saying it might make sense to combine the two discussions.
by AshvinP
Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:23 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Long term effects of Idealism
Replies: 12
Views: 2140

Re: Long term effects of Idealism

It appears to me the Christian 'rule' is that we may never conduct warfare against anyone based on their beliefs, or anything else short of an imminent and serious threat to our own survival. No doubt that rule has been violated by countless people in the name of Christianity, but we do not judge e...
by AshvinP
Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:17 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: William Blake // Dostoevsky: Marriage of Heaven & Hell
Replies: 5
Views: 1105

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...
by AshvinP
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!
by AshvinP
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 ...
by AshvinP
Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:15 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Phenomenal self vs. rational subjectivity -BK & alii
Replies: 5
Views: 1207

Re: Phenomenal self vs. rational subjectivity -BK & alii

There's another thread about this debate as well - viewtopic.php?f=5&t=44
by AshvinP
Mon Jan 18, 2021 3:19 pm
Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
Topic: Knowledge
Replies: 32
Views: 11607

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...
by AshvinP
Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:56 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: William Blake // Dostoevsky: Marriage of Heaven & Hell
Replies: 5
Views: 1105

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...
by AshvinP
Mon Jan 18, 2021 3:00 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Evolution and Idealism
Replies: 1
Views: 591

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...
by AshvinP
Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:18 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Life after death - Is Life ultimately absurd?
Replies: 34
Views: 4143

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...