Edited by: Abernathy and Langford, read in 2003

8 Reality is numbers - Pythagoras
10 Revelation historically common? - Xenophanes
10 Omniscience and creativity of God - Xenophanes
12 Nature of God - Heraclitus
12 Impulse - Heraclitus
13 Justice - Heraclitus
15 Sounds like an NDE - Parmenides
16 Why thought = truth = reality - Parmenides
16 Admonition not to follow religious doctrine - Parmenides
17 God is limited - Parmenides
17 yin/yang = illusion and error - Parmenides Yes.
18 Generation of sensible reality via concentric "rings" of differences - Parmenides
26 My cyclic transfer of omniscience - Empedocles
30 Characteristic pattern of evolution - Empedocles
30 Hindu reincarnation - Empedocles
32 Mind - Anaxagoras
33 Everything else is "internal" to mind - Anaxagoras
33 Because of weak sense perception, we can't judge truth - Anaxagoras
35 ff. Good lessons for living - Democritus
55 Body = remote-controlled rover - Plato
55 11 dimensions? - Plato
56 Men's idea of existence compared with reality - Plato
56 Hierarchy of status in life - Plato
99 Forms are thoughts that must exist in a mind - Plato
99 Forms = sets ; a set of one e.g. - Plato
99 Forms as thoughts; or else all things think - Plato
102 Difficulty in conceptualizing forms [Frege has done it??] - Plato
105 Soul as primeval element - Plato
107-8 Definition of 'soul' - Plato
108 Universe as mind [a la Bateson] - Plato
109 Proof of God's existence - Plato
113-15Death penalty for impiety - Plato
117 The universe: a living creature with reason - Plato
127 Innate desire to know - sight - Aristotle
130 Wisdom - Aristotle
134 Argument against infinite regression - Aristotle
135 Nothing infinite can exist - Aristotle
137 Law of non-contradiction: most basic principle - Aristotle
140 Speculations on what substance "is" - Aristotle
141 Substance, matter, predication - consider money & virtual reality - Aristotle
143 The essence of philosophy? (Burton's question) - Aristotle
148 The "All" or the "One" wrt elements. Yin-yang. - Aristotle
151 One soul? - Aristotle
151 Definition of 'life' - Aristotle
155 Cf. Soul : body :: music : lyre = radio
158 Actual knowledge is identical with its object - Aristotle
172 Long discussion of what Choice is not - Aristotle
173 What is Choice? (connection to QM) Choice involves a rational principle and thought - Aristotle
174 Deliberation precedes choice - Aristotle
174 Deliberation in cases of indeterminacy (like QM??) - Aristotle
174 Deliberation of means, not ends - Aristotle
175 Deliberation can't go on forever - a choice must be made - Aristotle
175 Deliberation, choice, action - compare to quantum collapse - Aristotle
183 Top-down learning - Epicurus
184 Importance of definition of terms - Epicurus
185 Argument for infinity - Epicurus
195-8 Epicurus' "Principle Doctrines"
197 #13 Good advice on national security against terrorism - Epicurus
197 #14 Advice for individuals wrt terrorists - Epicurus
197 #19 & 20 Limited vs. unlimited time wrt pleasure - Epicurus
198 #25 On making choices - Epicurus
198 #26 Ungratified desires [travel, or sailing around the world] - Epicurus
198 #27 Supreme importance of friends - Epicurus
198 #33 There is no absolute justice - Epicurus
213 #41 Gifted vs. ungifted people's activities - Epictetus
220 The end, or benefit, of scepticism - Empiricus
222 Why nothing can be proved - Empiricus
226-7 Matter described as if in a VR game - Plotinus
228 Soul : cosmos :: architect : mansion - Plotinus
229 Reason-principle generates the universe based on Idea - Plotinus
230 Divine mind: the first & greatest offspring of the One - Plotinus
233 We can each see that we are God by introspection - Plotinus
234 Intellectual principle must exist prior to soul - Plotinus
234 Infinity of the One is in power - not extension - Plotinus
236 Seeing God through visions (NDE?, OBE?) - Plotinus
246 The nature of mind and doubt - Augustine
261-5 Proof of existence of God. Proof of the finiteness of God - Anselm
262 Definition of God - Anselm
266 Platonic form = information. - Aquinas
274 Conceptions are likenesses of things - Aquinas
321 Descartes doubts the "I" in the cogito - Descartes
322 Consciousness - the only thing beyond doubt - Descartes
323 Descartes' analysis of the "I" - Descartes
326 Acknowledgment of the subconscious?? - Descartes
328 The question of the origin of ideas - Descartes
329 Claims of the almightiness of God - Descartes
329 Cause > effect. How about the Mandelbrot set? - Descartes
331 Definition of God - Descartes
332 [Weak] argument for infinity - Descartes
332 Could I be something greater than I seem? No: - Descartes
334 Denial of subconscious power - Descartes
335 Proof of existence of God - Descartes
343 3 causes of quarrel in human nature - competition, diffidence, glory - Hobbes
343 Every man against every man - Hobbes
344 Life of man: Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short - Hobbes
349 Why humans can't operate like bees and ants - Hobbes
350 Man is most troublesome when at ease - Hobbes
259 Definition of God - Spinoza
359 Incompleteness in Spinoza's definitions - Spinoza
360 Incompleteness in Spinoza's axioms - Spinoza
365 Argument for perfection and infinity - Spinoza
367 Extension and thought - Spinoza
368 Infinity - Spinoza
373 Ideas - Spinoza
384 Social life is better than solitary life - Spinoza
396 Arriving at the notion of an infinite God - Locke
397 Arriving at the notion of infinity - Locke
398 Definition of 'knowledge' - Locke
411 Leibniz on the possibility of a thinking machine - Leibniz
411 Definition of 'soul' - Leibniz
413-4 Assumption that God is unlimited, perfect, and infinite - Leibniz
414 Proof of the existence of God - Leibniz
415 #48 God is power, knowledge, and will - Leibniz
415 #52 Creatures as Wolfram's Cellular Automata - Leibniz
415 #53 Only one universe, out of infinite possibilities can exist - Leibniz
416 #60 Monads are like cells of a cellular automaton - Leibniz
419 Hierarchy of beings - Leibniz
420 Definition of love - Leibniz
446 Vernacular speech and correct ideas - Berkeley
453 God's "Book of Life" too extravagant for Berkeley - Berkeley
463 The "meaning" of Mathematics - Hume
472 The problem with like-minded association - Hume
485 On the infinity and perfection of God - Hume
485 On the multiplicity of deities - Hume
488 On the first cause - Hume
493 Interpretation of Hume's exposition of Cause and Effect - Kant
494 The "appeal of common sense" - Kant
495 The place of common sense and speculation - Kant
497-00 Mathematical judgements are all synthetical - Kant
498 Pure Mathematics - all a priori - Kant
498 The concept of number is synthetical - Kant
499 The importance of independent thought - Kant
501 Hume's error of overlooking synthetical judgements in math - Kant
502 Dogmatism, scepticism and the possibility of Metaphysics - Kant
502 "Pure Physics"? - Kant
506 The "certainty" of geometric principles and the possibility of hyperspace - Kant
507 Space is infinite - Kant
510 Multiple dimensions of time are impossible - Kant
510 Time is infinite - Kant
510 Definition of time - Kant
512 Consciousness is fundamental and primary for knowledge - Kant
512 Unity and permanence of identity of one individual (doubtful!) - Kant
513 I think the unity of consciousness should logically be extended - footnote - Kant
513 Sounds like an argument for the absolute unity of consciousness - Kant
513 Understanding [note on 513] - Kant
514 Phenomenon + consciousness = perception ==> object of knowledge - Kant
514 Imagination + perceptions ==> apprehension - Kant
516 Experience = apprehension + association + recognition - Kant
517 Understanding is the source of the laws of nature - Kant
517 Summary of understanding - Kant
518 Kant seems to make the case for a single universal consciounsess!! - Kant
533 The ugliness of human history - Hegel
533 Reminds me of Rush Limbaugh's characterization of Liberals - Hegel
534 Principles require will for actualization - Hegel
534-5 Characterization of my log house project - Hegel
535 Ideas and passion - the warp and woof of history - Hegel
545 Definition of God: The principle of reason or good - Hegel
551 Individual identity: can't be both subject and object [in my view it can] - Kierkegaard
554 Definition of 'truth' - Kierkegaard
554 Omnipotence in nature? [I doubt it] - Kierkegaard
554 No risk - no faith - Kierkegaard
557 God as "driver" interpretation - Kierkegaard
558 God, truth, uncertainty -- absurdity - Kierkegaard
558 Definition: the absurd: God coming into existence ["driving"?] - Kierkegaard
559 The absurd, faith, and belief - Kierkegaard
559 A description of me (Paul Martin), my faith, and beliefs - Kierkegaard
559 Absurdity comes from viewing becoming in historical time. Additional temporal dimensions would clarify this. - Kierkegaard
560 The "driver" must drive! - Kierkegaard
561 A parody which I think describes nearly everyone, including - Kierkegaard
568 Consciousness = self - Schopenhauer
572 Reason can't extend knowledge; only gives it another form - Schopenhauer
572 Greatest value of rational (abstract) knowledge: communication and permanence - Schopenhauer
579 A single universal will - Schopenhauer
582 Knowledge; this makes more sense in the context of my ideas - Schopenhauer
583 Transcendence through meditation - Schopenhauer
584 Immortality; consistent with my view - Schopenhauer
585 No need to fear death; same reason as mine - Schopenhauer
590 The purpose of belief? - Fort Knox? - Nietzsche
591 Fundamental metaphysical questions - Nietzsche
594 "My opinion is my opinion"...not easily shared - Nietzsche
594 No such thing as "common good" - Nietzsche
594 Sappy characterization of "liberal" thinkers - Nietzsche
594 Unflattering characterization of new Freethinkers - Nietzsche
599 Summary opinion of Schopenhauer - Nietzsche