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by Jehu
Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:48 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Most Important Philosophical Question
Replies: 47
Views: 11543

Re: The Most Important Philosophical Question

Iolaus wrote: This is not saying everything that exists does exist. Rather it is a nondual, beyond being and nonbeing statement that reminds us that existence has no opposite. It is true that existence (being) has no complement, for if it did, then being and non-being would need to complete one anot...
by Jehu
Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:22 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Your concept of Rebirth
Replies: 97
Views: 14285

Re: Your concept of Rebirth

David Quin wrote: All along in this thread, you have been giving consciousness a form by describing it as an unchanging something or other which observes changing phenomena. You can't have it both ways. Either it really doesn't have a form, in which case it cannot have the form of an unchanging some...
by Jehu
Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:34 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Most Important Philosophical Question
Replies: 47
Views: 11543

Re: The Most Important Philosophical Question

ExpectantlyIronic wrote: You think that ontology is the most important aspect of philosophy, yet you immediately start in with epistemology and logic? Or--it seems from what you've said--you think that classical logic is the whole of epistemology. From Aristotle follows the single true take on ontol...
by Jehu
Sat Aug 11, 2007 11:43 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Most Important Philosophical Question
Replies: 47
Views: 11543

Re: The Most Important Philosophical Question

For me the most important question in philosophy is, “What is there?”, for it is with this simple question that any rational enquiry into the nature of reality must begin. I say, “simple question” because the answer is obvious, but its implications are far from simple. The answer to this que...