According to the depiction of Jesus in the NT Gospels, who would it be more reasonable to expect Christ to vote for in the 2024 presidential election: Don Poorleone or Sleepy Joe Biden??

What we do by choice either adds to or detracts from that essential being. A good deed, a positive action, a virtuous choice makes the inner personality better, stronger, more capable of facing challenges. A craven, underhanded, destructive act leaves pock-marks on the soul.
It's an old idea that endures in various guises in various religions.
And we do always know when we're committing an offence against our own best self. — Vera Mont

[T]he (foreseeable) consequence of every action (or inaction) either

• helps more than harns,
• harms more than helps,
• harms and helps more or less equally
or
• (mostly it seems) neither harms nor helps

by which habits of judgment (i.e. virtues, vices) are reflectively cultivated. — 180 Proof

Is there an universal logic/reason? Or only a circumstantial one? — Benj96

I think there is a persistent confusion between self and consciousness which messes up a lot of the discourse. — bert1

How does God prove that he is God? — Moses

Oh, of course, it is possible to knowingly sin ... There are a lot of ways to sin. — javi2541997

What is the true nature of the self?

The self is an illusion generated by the brain. This illusion vanishes when the brain dies. — Truth Seeker

Thusly, the most (positively) intrinisically valuable state is universalized states of eudamonia (i.e., universal flourishing and deep happiness); and this is ‘The Good’. — Bob Ross

Nonetheless, if sin is in fact some act (or thought) contrary to the will of God, then it’s impossible for me (and for most people, I’d argue) to KNOWINGLY sin.

QED.
Agree — Art48

Radical non-dualisms like that of Deleuze, Derrida and Heidegger put consciousness into question alongside subjectivity and objectivity, rather than elevating consciousness to supreme status. — Joshs

It's a fact. — Wayfarer

In other words, ultimate reality is not an alternative to conventional reality; it is the insight into the emptiness (śūnyatā) of inherent existence in all phenomena. — Wayfarer

My somewhat crude question is, why should we care? — Tom Storm

Is this frame[work] really just for people who enjoy 'wanking about oneness'

... or does it have a tangible use in daily living?

What is non-dualism? — Sirius

What is the nature of an illusion?

Does A equate with Metzinger's 'self-model theory of subjectivity'? — Tom Storm

Which seems more reasonable, or likely, to you, @Wayfarer (or anyone): (A) every human is a zombie with a(n involuntary) 'theory of mind'? or (B) every entity is a 'conscious' monad necessarily inaccessible / inexplicable to one another's 'subjectivity'? or (C) mind is a 'mystery' too intractable for science, even in principle, to explain? or (D) mind is a near-intractably complex phenomenon that science (or AGI) has yet to explain?
— 180 Proof

B is closest to the truth I reckon, but we can know other minds by inference ... — bert1

Politics... it isn't about logic and intelligence, it's a religion. — ssu

I hold that some concepts are primitive and absolutely simple [ ... ] the best example I have: being (viz., ‘to be’, ‘existence’, ‘to exist’, etc.) — Bob Ross

non-circular definitions — Bob Ross

all definitions are essentially circular — noAxioms

the counterintuitive phenomenon of "blindsight", in which patients behave as-if they see something, but report that they were not consciously aware of the object — Gnomon

There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun. — Gerry O'Driscoll, doorman at Abbey Road Studios

With this in mind do you think there things that aren’t immoral but you still shouldn’t want to be the kind of person that does them even if you’re the only person affected? — Captain Homicide

I wonder if we forget our place if we don't sometimes remind ourselves of the middle. — Fire Ologist

Is determinism true? — Truth Seeker

How can we know for sure?

My statement was that there's no reason to believe Biden is any better.
— boethius

Exactly. Which is absurd and, I’ll repeat (accurately); if this is your conclusion, then you’re not paying attention. Plain and simple ... My suggestion is to read less philosophy— it’s not doing you any good here. — Mikie

Now everything else can toss the coin (or when you do metaphysics, the coin can toss everything else). — Fire Ologist

I would say the two sides of the coin include science and philosophy together on the one side, keep the coin as the connector logic, but put everything else on the other side as the objects of science/philosophy. — Fire Ologist

I hope the T.O.E. fails. — ucarr

I read Robert Alter's biblical translation — BitconnectCarlos