Necessary Being
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“We are nothing but duplicity, contradiction, and disguise; and we hide ourselves from ourselves.” - Pascal “We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers... for each of us holds good the law: ‘each is furthest from himself." -Nietzsche "Sounds right, but I could be fooling myself"-me
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Many theists alleged that Atheism is an inherently meaningless and depressing worldview. Quentin Smith's book "The Felt Meanings of the World" explodes such claims and elucidates a powerful metaphysics of meaning on a godless worldview. https://t.co/hTPso5FZ1u
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Plato and Aquinas: Companions in Good or Guilt? https://t.co/0YGM5DFebi
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if any of you bump into sam harris, will you please give him a copy of this https://t.co/R2KdBkqe0H
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European Journal for Philosophy of Science - According to the thesis of powerism, our world is pervaded by causal powers which are metaphysically basic. The aim of this paper is to defend the...
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You Are A Soul https://t.co/zGV5KP4ujo Ralph Stefan Weir joins me to discuss the myth of the interaction problem, the connection between theism and the soul, the implausibility of property dualism, substance dualism in Eastern thought, the causal closure argument and energy
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Sorry everybody, it’s actually completely justified for me to create the Killbot 9000 on the grounds that it is very good at killing things
Then would be missing a good that God chose to will: Animals which are really good at ripping other animals apart.
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have a joyous duration of charitable and/or transactional gratitude 🦃🍂💳📒
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I don't understand dudes who make Thomism their entire personality. ACTUAL Dominicans don't behave this way, its always laity. What's the deal, is it like some kind of expression of autism? Is Thomism like Sonic or Trains for autistic Trad Caths?
To all Eastern rite Catholics, this is gonna hurt, but I'm sorry to tell you that Gregory Palamas is NOT a saint, and his chance of being saved is as good as Luther or Calvin. Reject ecumenism and stick to traditional understanding of the Roman Catholic Church.
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a piece explaining why my radical platonism — making use of abstract Forms, concrete universals, and tropes — not only provides compelling metaphysical explanations, but renders a surprising and exotic conclusion: God is the only impossible object.
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The Death of God is achieved by a thousand metaphysical cuts.
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As a Naturalist, I like my explanations to be brute, my ontologies to be deserts, my theories to be simple, my meta-ethics to be in error, my consciousness to be an illusion, and my sins to be numerous.
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The origin of philosophy consists of a complex state of fear, confidence about the unity of truth and the essential reliability of our sense and intellectual faculties, and personal hope to achieve intellectual, volitional, and emotional satisfaction in the resolution of wonder
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Getting ready to do a deep dive into Calvinism. I hope I got the right edition.
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