If you could go, would you go? — BC

The worst possibility is to become so burdened by the nature of philosophical problems as to be incapacitated or dysfunctional. At an an extreme point, it would be possible to become so overwhelmed as if one needed answers in order to live. — Jack Cummins

[T]he limits of our knowledge and as such is not a problem, but a demarcation or delimitation. The absolute nature of things is an intractable mystery in one sense, but in another it can simply be seen as a matter of definition: that is that we cannot by mere definition see beyond our perceptions, experience and the judgements that evolve out of those. Anything that we project into that space must be confabulation. — Janus

... esoteric thought as a way of going beyond literalism. Esotericism was also a way of going beyond the fundamentalism of many other religious ideas [ ... ] focusing on the idea of God, life after death and free will. Such ideas are answered so subjectively because there is no proof.  — Jack Cummins

... unreasonable expectations ... As if by asking a question there must then be an answer. — Fooloso4

Metaphysics [ ... ] the question shifts somewhat from what is the nature of the world to: "what is it that can we say, given the creatures we are, about the nature of the world." — Manuel

I was thinking more of the back and forth between different metaphysicians over history. — Count Timothy von Icarus

Tell me/us why "exoteric" philosophy is not sufficient or in principle, if not practice, fails to do what it sets out to do. — 180 Proof

Would it be fair though to say that such a project requires positive metaphysical assertions that they might be either rejected or granted a stay of execution? — Count Timothy von Icarus

It seems to me that metaphysics, like other disciplines, must be dialectical.

[W]hat is your  best description of Metaphysics? — Rob J Kennedy

It would help if he chose another VP this time around. Gavin Newsom, perhaps. — jgill

Hegel is often seen as obscure and disregarded. — Jack Cummins

:mask: 30Jan24 predictions:

• US courts will deny that a president or former president has "absolutely immunity" from criminal prosecution. — 180 Proof

Whatever immunities a sitting President may enjoy, the United States has only one Chief Executive at a time, and that position does not confer a lifelong 'get-out-of-jail-free' pass. Former Presidents enjoy no special conditions on their federal criminal liability. — Judge Tanya Chutkan of Washington DC Federal District Court

I don't know if philosophers are elitist. — Tom Storm

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes — an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. — Carl Sagan

If someone claims to have mathematical knowledge it can be demonstrated. Can the same be said of someone who claims to have mystical knowledge? — Fooloso4

Folk trying to do physics without the maths, again. — Banno

So what is 'mind'? AFAIK, basically mind is a recursive (strange looping, phenomenal self-modeling) aspect of More/Other-than-mind – a nonmental activity (process ... anatman), not an entity (ghost-in-the-machine ... X-of-the-gaps), that is functionally blind to its self-recursivity the way, for instance, an eye is transparent to itself and absent from its own field of vision. — 180 Proof

scientific materialism — Wayfarer

This post outlines why I don’t believe there’s any specific conflict between idealism and science.

First please demonstrate why idealism implies anti-realism in the first place. — Wayfarer

So, again, please demonstrate how, as you claim, 'the established facts of evolution and cosmology are "equally compatible" with idealism (i.e. antirealism) as they are with physicalism'.
— 180 Proof

First please demonstrate why idealism implies anti-realism in the first place. — Wayfarer

secular culture

I think the OP logical, but it doesn't connect to anything. Spinning wheels. — Banno

Wayfarer seems to be here to issue dispensations of authority, and confirm his own biases, not to question and subject his beliefs to the rigors of argument. — Janus

Folk trying to do physics without the maths, again.

It never works out well. — Banno

physicalism as a metaphysical view. It's physicalism as a metaphysic that I take issue with. — Wayfarer

If philosophy is the desire for wisdom we should be wise enough to know that we are not wise. In the Apology Socrates says that he knows nothing noble and good. (21d)Knowledge of his ignorance is the beginning not the completion of his wisdom. It is, on the one hand, the beginning of self-knowledge and on the other of the self’s knowledge of the world.

Socratic philosophy is zetetic. It is inquiry directed by our lack of knowledge. If Socrates is taken to be, as I think Plato and Xenophon intend, the paradigmatic philosopher, then the fact that he remained ignorant until the end of his life should be kept front and center. — Fooloso4

I fully accept the established facts of evolution and cosmology. But they do not necessarily entail physicalism. They are equally compatible with an idealist philosophy. — Wayfarer

The Israeli newspapers have spoken openly about what they call the 'Netanyahu-Hamas Alliance', and how Netanyahu intentionally sought to get Rabin assassinated. — Tzeentch