Some people think that. Faith is the excuse they give for believing in something when they have no good reasons. If you have good reasons to believe something, you give those reasons. If you have nothing, you can say it's down to faith. And there's nothing you can't justify using faith - I remember well some devote Christian South Africans telling me that apartheid was god's will and that they had this on faith. No reason necessary.
Many people know aristotle believed in a prime mover.
You disputing that? — Adamski
I tend to think that ALL belief is unjustified. Until I actually KNOW FOR CERTAIN, how can my belief be justified? I even go so far as to say belief is the enemy of knowledge. — Yohan
Natural science relies on verificationism?: "only statements that are empirically verifiable (i.e. verifiable through the senses) are cognitively meaningful, or else they are truths of logic (tautologies)."Yohan So what justifies the epistemic standard of justification?(re: verificationism — 180 Proof
We won't know now since he was banned.Yes, Aristotle believed in a "prime mover" but I guess your God doesn't fit in this: — javi2541997
Is there something wrong with prostitution, Tom?
— Tate
Why do you ask, are you a Catholic? — Tom Storm
What was your point? If you didn't have one and were just randomly mumbling like an Alzheimer's victim,
That was disrespectful as hell...
What Tom said to you is the fact that he doesn't care about how old religion is. Prostitution is also an old profession, so what? Didn't you get the ironic tone? — javi2541997
thought he was condemning religion and prostitution at the same time. That's why I asked if he had a problem with prostitution.
He answered that by asking me if I'm Catholic.
I have no idea what's going on there. — Tate
It is interesting indeed. But I see it as good research about anthropology. — javi2541997
a sign for a prostitute's workplace.
It's also associated with Astarte.
'Monogamy' (re: prohibitions / stigma of prostitution) is a very recent cultural development of our species and 'denial of mortality' (e.g. religion) is an atavistic coping (anti-anxiety à la placebo) mechanism that might have given rise to culture in the first place. They are legacies of the childhood of the species, IMHO, and nothing more, and their antiquity no more justifies them than e.g. cannibalism is justified by its antiquity.Why have they been with us for so long? — Tate
They are legacies of the childhood of the species, — 180 Proof
Ancient Egypt was polytheistic and represented all their reality through the so-called hieroglyphs.
We can be agreed that the figure can represent a "prostitute's workplace" but it is complex because their representations tend to be arbitrary. — javi2541997
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