Question by Anshun: Did Ancients have more knowledge of the spiritual world as we do material world?
Ancients are not more dumb than us moderns. Look at ancient Greek philosophers and Jewish prophets, they are smarter than most of us. We have more knowledge of material world because of accumilation of knowledge throughout centuries. Never be self-conceited. We learn if we are humble.
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Answer by bblbb647 definitely. the less pampered you are the more spiritual you will become. you need something to believe in. have you noticed how black people always thank god? i don’t mean that offensively, but it is true.
Question by c.linic_al: Do ancient philosophers’ theories of knowledge still influence us today?
For example, Plato’s ‘Ideas’ and his Allegory of the Cave – does it in any way resonate in our modern lives?
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Answer by joe carpenter Yes, absolutely, of course they do. People have not changed.
I’m making an attempt in order to gain some momentum with regard to guiding our society clear of a very frequently applied systems when it is about understanding things of life and the principal moving energies. Albeit that we shall subsequently need a closer look in to this specific matter, I would wish to give you a brief reference in advance. The basic mechanism that we are dealing with here is a division of all of our entire existence, even the entire world if we could, into countless numbers of ever tinier sub-divisions, smaller subjects which nevertheless remain everlasting parts of the cosmos as a whole.
This might particularly bring about the outcome that folks that concentrate on one or some of the smaller sup-domains of sciences, are starting to discover that what is actually enveloping us with an ever smaller perspective and shall come up with more and more reasonings which look perfect just then and inside their own assembly of experts, but from the all natural standpoint, it will expose that their extremely restricted standpoint and intensely small minded theories are damaging, and some could as well say that their theories are fatally destructive to us humans on one hand and the natural balance of all things in general.
One of the coming phenomenons is widely known as the: “Fallacy of Composition” which implies that the end result, produced by limited info only, when compared with full information, is usually inaccurate and if such findings in some cases are correct, seen as a happenstance. This usually leads to a very senseless and risky confrontation between the delegates of the most illiberal convictions that are attained via such myopia . As well it creates that inviting option in order to state things having very little substance but credibly explained for many of those that don’t have much or any wisdom at all.
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Routinely during politically correct conditions, meaning during times with exploited as well as publicly respected “hypocrisy,” this kind of discrepancies are actually leading to mediocre compromises, which are going to hurt no one right away, yet often, all of us in the long run. Yet not one of the problems has been openly named, let alone that any true and / or suitable resolutions are usually achieved. Certainly the true dilemma is not just in the niche for all of our cultural systems towards small sections of expertise and / or with the splitting up of tasks, activities and subjects into always tinier niches. One particular dilemma has become for example that universal natural laws are quite regularly not respected, now and again not even realized and consequently not properly followed.
The experts and their own specialized expertise, are actually strangling the basic integrated structure of mother nature by means of applying ideas, which are typically and also too much influenced by the “special interests” of only a handful and inspired by elite groups of people, which generally are related to a mixture of fields of expertise of our social structures. Excellent would be to clear the way for the principles of the greater system which is the cosmos of which all of us are a part, whether some of us accept it or not. A relatively modest total of experts who really are pushed in a more than healthy extent by their own EGOs, establish behaviors that will be taking place, and also they do it containing a nearly 100% risk that the entire structure, the fundamental universal concept, in segments or in its entirety, shall sooner or later disintegrate, at least some parts of it which will show to be relevant for the world.
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Peter G. Keller is a consultant who works mostly from home. He is currently working on various philosophy books. His hobbies are motorbiking, windsurfing & piloting floatplanes.
Thanks to the generosity of Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, Biola hosted Dr. Plantinga for a special philosophy lecture and Q&A open to all. Since 1982, Dr. Alvin Plantinga was the John A. O’Brian Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame until his retirement this year in May. Over his long and seasoned career, Dr. Plantinga has taught or lectured at Calvin College, Yale University, Harvard University, Boston University, Syracuse University and several other colleges and universities. He has authored or edited over a dozen books in philosophy, and several dozen more in top-tiered philosophy publications in the US and in the UK Cosponsored with Biola’s graduate and undergraduate philosophy departments and Talbot’s Philosophical Society. Video Rating: 4 / 5
DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE (chapter 1 or 2) – BBC: In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing – whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide. The film begins with Georg Cantor, the great mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of the 20th-century mathematics. He believed he was God’s messenger and was eventually driven insane trying to prove his theories of infinity Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (1845-1918) was a mathematician, best known as the creator of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved that the real numbers are “more numerous” than the natural numbers. In fact, Cantor’s theorem implies the existence of an “infinity of infinities”. He defined the cardinal and ordinal numbers and their arithmetic. Cantor’s work is of great philosophical interest, a fact of which he was well aware. Philosophy, religion and Cantor’s mathematics. The concept of the existence of an actual infinity was an important shared concern within the realms of mathematics, philosophy and religion. Preserving the orthodoxy of the relationship between God and mathematics, although not in the same form as held by his critics, was long a concern …
DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE (chapter 1 or 2) – BBC: In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing – whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide. The film begins with Georg Cantor, the great mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of the 20th-century mathematics. He believed he was God’s messenger and was eventually driven insane trying to prove his theories of infinity Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (1845-1918) was a mathematician, best known as the creator of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved that the real numbers are “more numerous” than the natural numbers. In fact, Cantor’s theorem implies the existence of an “infinity of infinities”. He defined the cardinal and ordinal numbers and their arithmetic. Cantor’s work is of great philosophical interest, a fact of which he was well aware. Philosophy, religion and Cantor’s mathematics. The concept of the existence of an actual infinity was an important shared concern within the realms of mathematics, philosophy and religion. Preserving the orthodoxy of the relationship between God and mathematics, although not in the same form as held by his critics, was long a concern …
