Out of interest, what do you make of Hegel?

What do you think about the various concepts in the understanding of consciousness? — Jack Cummins

Which of these concepts are more helpful or unhelpful in the twentieth first century climate of philosophical thought, especially in relation to the mind-body problem?

I prefer duotheism to monotheism — Agent Smith

Put differently, isnt the aim of philosophy to address within its practice such inclusive concepts as world, existence , reality and truth? — Joshs

Can you unpack the quote? Also, can you cite its source? — ucarr

ucarr considers philosophers as detectives — Agent Smith

instead of two entities, one with two mutually cancelling properties, — Agent Smith

I thought the Tao was a dualistic entity consisting of two opposites. — Agent Smith

What does Planck say? ... not a metaphysical digital ontology. — noAxioms

As apokrisis once said, nothing is not nothing, but actually everything. Something can come from everything which to those who don't know of this equivalence is nothing. Creatio ex omnia (syn. nihilio). — Agent Smith

In sum: order (i.e. dissipative structure)
is a phase-state of disorder – disorder's way of generating more disorder. — 180 Proof

Philosophy, IMO, begins (again and again) wherever the question "How do we know our assumptions are true or our givens are real?" predominates like an itch that grows as we scratch it.
— 180 Proof

As I understand it, your above statement claims the question therein seeks a way, a manner or a means of knowing our acceptances-without-proof are real — ucarr

What's your way of defining "real?"

Its expansion does not encompass both truth content of particulars and precepts about general attributes of truth?
— ucarr

Those aporia (logically) come later ... — 180 Proof

I'm aware [misinformed] that Materialists see no difference between Physical and Mental phenomena, because their (blind in one eye) worldview blocks-out Metaphysical features of the world — Gnomon

(stick to appearances; those who promise ultimate truths are usually charlatans, oui 180 Proof?) — Agent Smith

... realized that we only ever 'know reality' – orient ourselves – approximately, or superficially, via myths, metaphors, maps & models. — 180 Proof

Is it incorrect to characterize the above question as a spark igniting epistemological inquiry? — ucarr

Its predomination as an itch that grows as we scratch is not an investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion?

Its expansion does not encompass both truth content of particulars and precepts about general attributes of truth?

Modern problems require Ancient solutions. — Agent Smith

So the spark of philosophy is epistemological and philosophers are knowledge detectives? — ucarr

How often do you change or modify your views on philosophical questions? — Tom Storm

I never assumed reality is knowable — Tom Storm

Is atheism then a concern of theists only, and atheists concerned only with refuting the theist conception of God? — Ciceronianus

Enformationism is merely an attempt to answer an ancient Ontological question : "why is there something instead of nothing". Big Bang, Multiverse, & Inflation hypotheses simply dismiss that conundrum as an unscientific "who cares' riddle. Likewise, Universeness & 180proof seem to prefer to leave such transcendent questions unanswered, even on a philosophy forum full of "go for it" conjectures. — Gnomon

↪Andrew4Handel

So you value facts more than values? How's that? — Banno

Clumsy thinking still. Communism, for example, is not an iteration of atheism in the way e.g. Judaism is an iteration of theism. Theism is a broader category containing all religions, such that they can be considered subcategories or iterations of it--or "theistic belief systems" in a proper sense. Atheism is an element of communist ideology. There is no sense in which communism is a subcategory of atheism or an iteration of it. — Baden

Atheism has no ideology. Thats why you always have to mention communism and marxism etc along with the atheism. Atheism alone has no edicts, no rules, no goals…its merely a position on theism. — DingoJones

You can't complain about religious oppression by theocracies and not complain about religious oppressions by atheistic governments. — Hanover

It seems like we'd be better off with the ten commandments because they are less ambiguous. — Andrew4Handel