The Philosophy Discussion Forum

That’s fine if one can reconcile this contradiction: 1. Everything you do is a reaction. 2. You are responsible for everything you do. Contradictions don't exist in nature. They're only in the noggin ... which is part of nature's big picture. Walker, That is not logical, my friend. 1 and 2 don't ma...

Give me one example of human behaviour that is not motivated from without. Hunger for food, and the hunger to satisfy curiosity, are reactions to the inner world, not the outer world. One can experience the outer world and either be curious or not curious, depending on innate curiosity. The physica...

Actuality! Actuality depends upon the individual or collective of individuals, and their subjective experience, for truth is true to the biology doing the experiencing, and apparent reality is a biological readout. Truths are an emergent quality of the energies surrounding one and the alterations/c...

no, the ability to choose one's action is innate crowd control methods were invented and enacted by certain theologians -Imp Give me one example of human behaviour that is not motivated from without. Motivations spell reactions, not actions; actions are perhaps for the gods. There is no such thing ...

There is no such thing as a naturally closed system. There is also the fact that there is no such thing as an independent existence. Extremely complex electrochemical systems are both enabled and limited by their lower-level relations. The system is its relations. If there is no such thing as indep...

The common sense understanding of truth is the correspondence theory of truth. From now on referred to as CTT. If the CTT is true,what does it refer to? Another CTT? Depending on your perspective that is a tautology or an infinite regress. So what is truth? PS;The CTT is the theory that a propositi...

"Life can only be lived forward, and understood backwardly." “It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks it over, it becomes more and more evident that life can...

There is nothing in the world that has meaning in and of itself, but only in relation to subjective consciousness; perhaps loneliness is the sense that one's life is meaningless when one does not have those relations with others. We could say that a human being is its own object in the world and thu...

If you're interested in aesthetics, I recommend John Dewey's " Art as experience."

"Well, you might be more knowledgeable about Kant than I am. I'm a relative novice on Kant. However, it seems to me that the very fact (as stated above) that we wear "tinted glasses" (apply categories of the understanding) means we don't truly possess objective knowledge of the world ...

"Life can only be lived forward, and understood backwardly."

Forms die, qualities incarnate … according to the definition of incarnation, but only one number such as chocolate doesn't win the lottery. Given all the billions who have come and gone on this earth, and given the common traits and peculiar traits of all these people, the odds seem reasonable that...

are you saying that if another organism reacts to stimuli exactly as I would have were I alive, that said organism is a reincarnation? Milton Hershey enjoyed chocolate candy. is everyone who enjoys chocolate candy a reincarnation of Milton Hershey? -Imp The entire body is a sensory interface to the...

Walker wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2026 4:50 pm If so, then bovine executions are justified.

Only in societies is morality relevant; in isolation, morality is meaningless, even absurd. Life lives upon life, the inescapable harsh reality of nature.

How to classify the causes of increased awareness of the world outside the skin? For example, expansion of awareness can overcome the cigarette habit so that beginning now, one never again smokes. In that way, awareness ensues that the craving now has become eternity, and that awareness itself is w...