Philosophy is a cripple

Are you sure it didn't smack itself in the head?

The free will/determinism debates did me in. Course that's what brought me out of the philforum and in to the rest of a2k. (Yeah... sorry about that)

That's a false issue anyway. There's no ego to be free or determined and causes and effects are false segmentations of what are really continua.

Not sure at all, but it did get smacked.

Philosophy is a cripple. How? like Stephen Hawkin?

Funny that you ask, since the idea for the headline came from his statement that philosophy is dead, since it has failed to keep up with the developments in modern science, particularly physics.

I sometimes think that it is strange that we can think of Stephen Hawking as a cripple. He is perhaps one of the most brilliant men alive, but he has some severe physical defects. On the other hand there are people who can barely do their multiplications and who are incapable of the simplest rational thought, and yet they are considered normal and healthy just because there is nothing that is obviously physically wrong with them...

You know, Fresco, might agree that modern physics is catching up with non-dualist philosophy.

I was never overly interested in absolute truth, be-ing, and nothingness anyway . Thankfully, I have within me a superpower unknown to other philosophy forum users - I don't actually have to click on the link to those topics

Yes, that is my view also.

I don't have that power...