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Belief, in 'divine madness'

Theia mania (Ancient Greek: θεία μανία) is a term used by Plato in his dialogue Phaedrus to describe a condition of divine madness (unusual behavior attributed to the intervention of a God). Do people who claim to experience divine madness believe…
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Is Architecture a Language?

I am puzzling over this question awhile, and I can’t find any good, clear reference on the topic without going way to deep into linguistics and getting too abstract. Can anybody explain to me if architecture can be considered a language?…
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Are "aesthetic experiences" limited to art and music?

I was wondering whether philosophers consider aesthetic experiences to be something that permeate through a range of day to day experiences or if they're limited to art. For example, can learning/realisation be considered an aesthetic experience…
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What is duality called when it refers to the separation between us and the external world?

Like many philosophical terms, dualism and duality are used differently by different people and in different circumstances. I am aware of Substance dualism (mind and body being separate things entirely or of different substance), Property dualism…
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Classifications of experience

By experience, I mean all the content that I receive, which I have sub-divided into three categories: Percepts, the content corresponding to the different senses (sight, hearing, olfaction, taste, tactile sensation, etc.) Emotion, including content…
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What is the name of this view, that consciousness builds reality?

The following is really my own conception, but I have no credentials in philosophy. Nevertheless, I find it quite compelling. It is said (Hegel?) that mind has the property that (a) it is inside something, and (b) its contents are personal and…
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How can the sensation of pain be explained materialistically?

Physicalism, be it reductionist or holistic, tries to explain every phenomenon by materialisic processes. These can be seen as noumenon, existing independently of human beings. But the true nature of the noumenon cannot be known. We cannot know the…
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Is there a view that only abstract objects exist, and being an abstract structure is enough for a world to be experienced by its observers?

I am looking for a view that would completely eliminate concrete objects by saying that being an abstract structure is enough for a world to be experienced by it's observers. If it is enough for a structure to be abstract for subjective experience…
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Is there an hypothesis about global features of polytheism and if so, what is it?

I understand that the fundamental well accepted definition of polytheism is usually The worship of two or more god deities But from studying about philosophy of god (concepts of god) and psychology and history of religion I understand that there…
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What tools exist to provide constitutive phenomenological analysis of religious experiences?

Considering descriptions of religious experiences, there is a call for abstracts for discussion in October 2019 and I’m looking for what tools may exist to analyze these experiences in a logical and consistant way, so such phenomenon can be…
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Is there a name for the concept that an object can contain its own history?

There is a notion that an object's history is contained within itself. For example, a rock that have been smiled at will be somehow different than a rock that has been frowned on. It has been humorously referenced to on SMBC. I wanted to read more…
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Experience as an initial value problem?

Question The argument seems to say just as I have a physical initial value problem and with the laws of physics tell the time evolution, similarly, I can have an initial value problem of experience and with the different time evolution laws tell you…
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What resemblance is there between Moksha and Nirvana?

Both Moksha and Nirvana are said to free oneself from the cycle of reincarnations/samsara. Other than this soteriological goal, do they have any resemblances? And how does/can one know in which path (dao) one should cultivate oneself?
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Will a person without memory be able to experience time?

Imagine a person who can't remember anything. Idon't think this is possible in reality but let's assume he misses the part of remembring that can be temporally related to other experiences. He will still be able to see forms, though a piece of sound…
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Is metaphysics justified in its conclusions?

I'm curious of the modern meta-philosophical viewpoints on metaphysical knowledge. That is, is it possible for arm-chair theorizing or rational pure thought alone to gain true knowledge about any metaphysical structure or facts of the real world?…
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