Living through a genocide happening before our eyes, with 10000+ children dead, and yet apologists think this time it’s an exception.

History will view them poorly — Mikie

Why didn't the ICJ demand a cease-fire? — RogueAI

How is it I could be a mind that cannot know what a mind really is? — Fire Ologist

Does it mean then, Spinoza was an atheist? — Corvus

Perhaps would it be the reason why he had been excommunicated from his religious authorities?

In that case, what is Spinoza's definition of God or reason for non-existing God?

How does he explain the physical world we live in, souls and the meaning of human life?

Could it be Spinoza? — Corvus

I am asking to what extent does the existence of 'God', or lack of existence have upon philosophical thinking. — Jack Cummins

Nothing about eternal return or the ubermensch rings true for me. — schopenhauer1

What do you want me to say?

Ideas for and against God, which involve philosophy and theology, are a starting point for thinking about the nature of 'reality' and as a basis for moral thinking. — Jack Cummins

The idea of nihilism ... — Jack Cummins

If god doesn't exist, then it's business as usual. Philosophical thinking thrives on argument. — jkop

Ethics do not depend upon a transcendent lawgiver but are based on the pragmatic need to live harmoniously with others. — Janus

, I am asking to what extent does the existence of 'God', or lack of existence have upon philosophical thinking. — Jack Cummins

... what does the idea of 'God' signify in itself?

However, in this thread discussion, what I am asking is about materialism as being compatible with atheism, or idealism with a belief in some kind of 'spiritual reality'? — Jack Cummins

Does the stripping back of ideas, and ideals, especially in terms of the philosophy of realism lead to the most objective understanding of the existential conundrums of human existence?

Where does materialism, idealism or philosophies of non dualism lead in the search to put such ideas together in the most synthetic and meaningful ways?

So, I would ask how does an underlying assumption of theism [or] atheism result in an underlying philosoph[ical] viewpoint for living, including ethics, and a wider understanding of the purpose and ends of human life? — Jack Cummins

I wonder to what extent if God does not exist, if as Dosteovosky asks, whether everything is permitted? — Jack Cummins

I still hope for a moderate candidate to arise from the quagmire in which we wallow. — jgill

I despise the far left — jgill

And I despise both Biden and Trump equally.

I practice harm minimisation in politics. Clearly some options are far worse than others, even if the less worse is still fundamentally flawed. — Tom Storm

I despise the two candidates. — jgill

So, there is no category of apriori facts?
— @Wayfarer

"A priori facts" as far as I can tell are generalizations derived from experience. They cannot be discovered in the first place without concrete experience — Janus

If a mind can know neither itself nor its thoughts, how can you call it a mind? — ucarr

Get out of my light. — Tom Storm

It has been said that all of today’s philosophy is built on Kant. I would add that all of postmodernist philosophy is built on [deliberately misreading] Nietzsche. — Joshs

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us. — Franz Kafka

Nietzsche goes hand-in-hand with individual self-involvement, and so it resonates with the modern man's sensibilities. — schopenhauer1

I'm more Nietzschean (i.e. 'Dionysian' in approbation of the daily Sisyphusean grind) whereas Schopenhauer relies on music in a decidedly 'Apollonian' sense (i.e. to momentarily quell the (his) raging Will). — 180 Proof

And Canada might build a border wall. :) — jorndoe

That's how I see it: indivisible. But then, I'm a simple-minded biped, not a philosopher. — Vera Mont

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Courage. That is the enabling virtue. All the other virtues are empty without courage. — Cornel West

... you claimed that mind is matter. — Corvus

I'm not here to [think] challenge your beliefs. — Pantagruel

Mind is immaterial substance.
— Corvus

How do you/we know this? How does the "immaterial" interact with materiality, as "mind" apparently does, without violating material-physical laws of conversation? — 180 Proof

In saying void is both physical and meta-physical... — ucarr

All of the above: energy, mass and matter are material_physical. Your job, as immaterialist, involves showing the structure of the immaterial making causal contact with the material. — ucarr

Mind is immaterial substance. — Corvus