We each have a different grasp on this subject, yet just as there is a straight line between two points there should also be a single truth. Or at the very least a close approximation.   

I have believed the future is deterministic for almost a year now and its beginning to make me see things very differently, and that's very good.

         

Kant, "the anthropologist"  the only way we can know if we have character is to know that you are trying to be honest with others and well as yourself.

 

"If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement."
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), Italian political theorist.

 

 

 

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.
J.F. Kennedy

Stoicism

The Nature of Consciousness debate from the Australian Science Festival

What do you consider to be the most pressing philosophical issues of our day?
The most pressing issue is that philosophical knowledge has stopped progressing and is now regressing. This is due to the fact that increased knowledge of a philosophical topic required increased number of specializations and sub-specializations in the various disciplines, leading to the same situation that is current in physics, namely, that experts in one area of specialization are not only unaware of other areas but also unaware that some or many of the premises adopted in their specialization have been disconfirmed or rendered false or unjustified by work in other areas. The consequence is that much or most of the output in different areas of specialization are not recognized by the authors and readers of this specialized area to have been disconfirmed, rendered unjustified or false by other areas; this is as true of me as of every scholar. I am most interested in the task of slowing down the rate at at which philosophical (and scientific) study is regressing. Obviously I can only make a small dent in several areas and specialize in two or three, depending on how you define 'specialization'.
Quentin Smith, Ph.D
Western Michigan University

The Caused Beginning of the Universe: a Response to Quentin Smith." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 44 (1993): 623-639.  Dr. William Lane Craig

Yeats, the second coming

There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth; how to define and identify truth; what roles do revealed and acquired knowledge play; and whether truth is subjective, relative, objective, or absolute. 

This above all — to tine own self be true;  And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Polonius, scene iii
 

Kant's Moral Philosophy

Nietzsche Birth of Tragety
 

video schopenhauer

Dr Dean Simonton

Timeless Block-Universe Determinism
 

lies

Willard Van Orman Quine

"As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits".

MACHIAVELLI