Indirect realism is probably the most prevalent ontological view in the world today. — frank

The question is: does indirect realism undermine itself?

1. What is proto-consciousness? — Eugen

2. How is proto-consciousness differentiated from matter?

3. What is the difference between consciousness and proto-consciousness?

Is parsing out the difference between faith and religion in this way a kind of special pleading? You like faith, and dislike religion, so religion is responsible for bad things but not faith. — BC

If we take the premise "god = existence", then the question "does god exist" is redundant as its like saying "does existence exist?" — Benj96

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. — Galatians 2:16, KJV

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. — Romans 3:28, KJV

⁸For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

⁹Not of works, lest any man should boast. — Ephesians 2:8-9, KJV

All I am saying is: religion and faith are totally different things. — Raef Kandil

I know that you got to the point of questioning while you were still at school when you gave up 'God' for lent. But, was the decision based simply on the basis of the rationality alone, or irrationally of the idea of God?

... inherently superior to being a rock. — TiredThinker

I have never considered a higher power at any point and never had a problem with death, I have no idea with you mean by 'fate' but if you mean 'whatever happens to us' then I 've never had an issue with that either. — Tom Storm

But what questions could one ask to determine if one deserves to merely exist? — TiredThinker

An architect draws up plans for a building that does not exist. The plans are general instructions (commands) for the construction of the building. To complain to the architect that the building does not exist would be foolish; what matters is, if and when the instructions are followed, will the building stand, or collapse? And if it stands, will it provide whatever requirements for shelter and comfort were envisioned? — unenlightened

Thinking about it more, the way I see it is that truth, reason or understanding are based on experience. — Jack Cummins

Of course, each person is a unique person in an ongoing process of structuring a philosophy outlook but intersectionality is likely to have some bearing on this.

'is philosophy a quest for reason' — Jack Cummins

... competing 'truths' rather than these simply being simply relative.

So, I am asking how do you think about making sense in the maze of philosophical pluralism[relativism]? — Jack Cummins

Also, to what extent is reason a quest for reason, a search for personal meaning or connected to power balances or imbalances in social structures?

Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Diarmaid MacCollouch — Count Timothy von Icarus

I've been grateful to Heidegger, nonetheless, since my earliest philosophical studies in the late '70s for his monumental oeuvre as a/the paragon of how NOT to philosophize - or think-live philosophically (as Arendt points out) - as manifest by the generations of heideggerian obscurant sophists (i.e. p0m0s e.g. Derrida, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Rorty et al) who've come and gone in and out of academic & litcrit fashion since the 1950s - — 180 Proof

... anti-modernist, pre/ir-rationalist ("blood"), agrarian ("soil"), totalizing & oracular. — 180 Proof

I agree that it should be read in that context, do you believe the ideas he had should only be read in that context? — fdrake

This is a fallacy called reductio ad Hitlerum. — frank

I don’t know nor care about the details. — NOS4A2

Being and Time was published in 1927, well before Nazis came to power. There’s nothing in there about Nazism. — Mikie

Again, the Dasein was Hitler-compatible ... — 180 Proof

In 1969 Stanley Rosen published "Nihilism: A Philosophical Essay". It can be described as Plato against Heidegger. Rosen said:

"Nihilism is the concept of reason separated from the concept of the good." — Fooloso4

"Scarcity" seems the fundamental driver of dominance hierarchies and imperialism that no amount of "progress" has put an end to or significantly diminished — 180 Proof

I watched with glee
while your Kings and Queens
fought for ten decades
for the Gods they made!

Does the mindscape really exist? — Art48

Can metaphysical questions, in particular, the mindscape hypothesis, give us useful guidance into how to study and make sense of the world? — Art48

... you're on earth, there's no cure for that! — Samuel Beckett, Endgame