--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" <willy...@...> wrote: > PaliGap wrote: > > The "categorical imperative" was the central > > plank of Kant's moral philosophy, not > > epistemology... > > > Yes, I stand corrected, it was Kant's 'theory of > knowledge', the thing-in-itself, that I meant to > mention, according to Kant in his 'Critique of > Pure Reason'. Kant argued that there are synthetic > 'a priori' truths. > > My point is that statements of 'soul' and 'self' > mentioned by the Turq, are speculative in nature > and so cannot be addressed by the human mind since > they are not based on sense perceptions.
But as you've just stated, Kant believed in "synthetic 'a priori' truths"? Translation: non-trivial truths that are not "based on sense perceptions". If Kant can do it, why can't I? Or Barry? > Apparently the Turq read about the 'reincarnating' > 'soul-monad' in a book, or he was told it. He has > never seen the 'soul', otherwise he would have > been able to describe it and to locate it in space > and in time. It doesn't prove causation to relate > his experience of being a reincarnated soul-monad, > because of the factor of suggestibility. > > It has already been established by the Turq himself > that the 'TM Program' and the 'Rama Program' left > him and many others highly suggestible to the point > of being almost 'brainwashed'. > > So, Turq may have 'thought' he saw feats of real > levitation and 'thought' he remembered his previous > lives when, in reality, the Turq was programmed > by his teachers to a very great extent to believe > such things. >
