Philosophical Speculations

Ashvin, Scott already alluded to this. The most down-to-the-core consideration of the matter (to my knowledge) has been expressed in Rudolf Steiner's Philisophy of Freedom (PoF). Because of the sensitive nature of the word freedom , it has been translated with different titles like Philosophy of Spi...

Thanks for the comments, everyone! There definitely is: it is the ever-present awareness of any perceptions, feelings, will, thoughts, concepts, ideas. The perceptions, feelings, will, thoughts, concepts, ideas are always changing and fleeting, the awareness of them never changes, it does not move a...

You might be interested in my essay Tetralemmic Polarity which attempts to put this into a form that can be used as an ontological basis. Thank you, Scott, for your comments! I started exploring your site few months ago but obviously I got distracted. Thank you for reminding me, I'll read it. Yes, ...

Just listened to Corbin saying that there's no knowledge, only knowing. OK. Agree. No knowledge :) But let's go even further. Let's unlearn as much as possible. Let's unlearn so far that we are like naked beings into existence. No prior knowledge of anything. Well, let's keep at least language and ...

Self-reflective quality, a tool to toy with. If someone wants to toy with that tool (or any other) it's their choice. If someone finds the greatest satisfaction in building thought structures in the space of imagination and admire their beauty - it's their choice. If its all about the ego and its o...

As others have already pointed out, as long as philosophy (idealism included) is considered an intellectual discipline, obviously it is expressed in thoughts. The interesting question is whether intellectual thought is the only possible form of cognition? It is clear that we can’t go beyond thought ...

I have not referred to a "we" and certainly not a nation of a "we" that can have expectations ! I have not mentioned a relation between truth and knowledge so please explain how you do that (and also the difference between truth and absolute truth) The fact that you ask me to ex...

Well, if I need to question it, how can it be knowledge. But here again we have a hidden preconception of what we expect knowledge to be. The above question implicitly restricts knowledge only to the domain of absolute truths. In other words I can only consider something to be knowledge if I thus f...

I think you should elaborate further on what you consider "knowledge" to be. You say: If I know something ... I know it by definition and I would not think of questioning it ... exactly because I know it. This implies that there are some things that you consider to be knowledge and you som...