Reason and Meaning
Philosophical reflections on life, death, and the meaning of life, quantum neutral monism.
My last post elicited many thoughtful comments about monism and an artificial intelligence generated poem to describe it. Continue reading Quantum Neutral Monism →
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The monad’s dream.
A collegue of mine is interested in quantum neutral monism. QNM is a philosophical theory that proposes that the basic substance of reality is a neutral entity that is neither mind nor matter. It suggests that the mental and physical are nondual, and that the laws of physics, including quantum mechanics, are constraints on spacetime. Continue reading The Monad’s Dream →
The Best Christian Mother Is Pro Abortion
The typical regimen for early medical abortions (200 mg mifepristone and 800 μg misoprostol ).
[Editor’s Note. This guest essay, from a philosopher who prefers to remain anonymous, argues that it follows from Christian theological ethics that women should fertilize all their eggs so as to maximize the number of saved Souls created. If this is true then their is something wrong with Christian ethics. I express some critiques of the argument at the end of the essay.] Continue reading The Best Christian Mother Is Pro Abortion →
Escaping Religious Indoctrination
I just finished re-reading Lewis Vaughn’s autobiographical, Star Map: A Journey of Faith, Doubt, and Meaning , * a book I reviewed over five years ago. On this reading I was even more struck by the power of the narrative and the beauty of its prose. Re-reading it I felt as if I’m back in his 1969 (or my 1973) breaking the shackles of religious indoctrination. Continue reading Escaping Religious Indoctrination →
So Little Time To Learn
I finished my last post with the phrase “So much to learn, so little time.” I wanted to elaborate. Continue reading So Little Time To Learn →
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1.1 “Humans”Before we begin unpacking, it should be noted that the adjective“human” is polysemous, a fact that often goes unnoticed indi…
The main purpose of the paper is to prove that the essence of human nature lays primarily in person’s ability to reason; capacity that is uniquely human and allows people to make decisions that would shape their norms of conduct as shown in the works of ancient and …
Plato argues that if we truly understand human nature we can find “individual happiness and social stability.” [We can answer ethical and political questions.] Plato’s Life and Works – Plato “was born into an influential family …
But what is more exactly a theory of human nature? In this essay I survey a number of key issues which philosophers and other scholars have maintained that a theory of human nature, which pretends to be adequate and …
Aspects of human nature - like our capacity for language, reasoning or emotions - are amenable to scientific analysis that looks at where they come from and how they work, using tools like evolutionary biology, genetics, or neuroscience. But …
Kant repeatedly claimed that the question, “What is the human being” is philosophy’s most fundamental question, one that encompasses all others. The author analyzes and evaluates Kant’s own answer to his question, showing how it differs from other accounts of …
The concept of nature that emerged in the context of the “Common Human Pattern” differs considerably from traditional philosophical concepts of nature (such as coined by Aristotle), as well...
The question of whether human nature is inherently good or bad has captivated philosophers, scientists, and thinkers for centuries, revealing the complex nature of human behavior and the intricate interplay of factors that shape our actions.
In this essay, I focus on two different sorts of extreme theories that appear to give us some insights into the nature of morality as a subject-matter of ethical inquiry. What I call Externalism, as the term suggests, construes the connection between morality and human nature as …