2024年2月17日 · From Psychophysical Harmony: A New Argument for Theism, by Brian Cutter & Dustin Crummett: Abstract This paper develops a new argument from consciousness to theism: the argument from psychophy...

2024年12月9日 · If you see a star-shaped cookie, you may infer, ceteris paribus, we have a star-shaped cookie cutter. Likewise, what "comes of the mind" are thoughts, ideas, etc. and these have, to some extent, a nonphysical side to them.

Why this should have been so hard to discover shows that there are plenty of confused ideas around, not least due to misinterpretation of sublime sutras like the Diamond-Cutter. Vagrakkhedikâ or Diamond-Cutter XXII & XXIII

2022年7月3日 · This is humanism, in the sense used here: a set of assertions about the essential nature and rights of human beings; a cookie-cutter model in which 'The Human' is equated with 'The Good'. It's done with the best intentions, of course, but it's still (from this philosophical perspective), stifling, oppressive, ill-considered, and otherwise ...

From Psychophysical Harmony: A New Argument for Theism, by Brian Cutter & Dustin Crummett: Abstract This paper develops a new argument from consciousness to theism: the argument from ... philosophy-of-mind

I don't think for a moment that such a system would be a cookie-cutter set of rules as the thinkers of the Enlightenment thought. For example, based on what we see in the world today, some principles of a widely applicable ethical calculus could be something like this:

Without a set of rules existing beyond mankind to hold to (e.g. religion), it is difficult to imagine an objective answer to this question. If the purpose of life isn't assumed to come from some "greater being", then it is inherently a personal matter.

2022年8月18日 · See unmoved mover: Aristotle, according to whom all matter exists in some form. There is no prime matter or pure elements, there is always a mixture: a ratio weighing the four potential combinations of primary and secondary properties and analysed into discrete one-step and two-step abstract transmutations between the elements.

From Wikipedia:. Socrates initially earned his living as a master stonecutter... Several of Plato's dialogues refer to Socrates' military service.... In 406, he was a member of the Boule [group of governing aristocrats].

"The notions of individualism only exists in societies which have both a strong religious tradition to free themselves from natural law (can't beat your slaves, no human experimentation, no torturous punishment) and even stronger secular government traditions that free them from religious law (no imposition of religion, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech)."