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Chit-chat / Re: Domain name ideas (poll)
« Last post by Mackie Messer on July 10, 2020, 02:44:59 am »
Your biggest challenge, whatever you choose, is going to be giving people a reason to come here instead of going to the rather large groups on Facebook. I've discovered over the last few years that most people don't actually care that much about freedom of expression.

By the way, do you have a first name I can call you? It doesn't have to be your actual one. I just get tired of calling people "Mighty", "Flying", and things like that. It's so uncivilized.
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Chit-chat / Re: Domain name ideas
« Last post by Mackie Messer on July 08, 2020, 11:26:16 am »
Yeah. I think a lot of people know "scholastic". "Patristic" might be a bit unusual.
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Chit-chat / Re: Domain name ideas
« Last post by MightyFool on July 08, 2020, 09:42:18 am »
>Well, what you do is up to you.

I'm the new guy here so I think we have to decide democratically.
I agree somewhat. I didn't know about 'Classical Theism' too, but I also didn't know about the terms you're talking about. But that might also be because English is my second language.
After reading https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/scholastic-philosophy , I'm more convinced and you're right.

I hope you keep posting on this forum :)

I'll add the options to the list in the OP, and if possible make a poll out of it.
If nobody responds, I'll go with scholastic-philosophy.com or scholasticphilosophy.org
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Chit-chat / Re: Domain name ideas
« Last post by Mackie Messer on July 07, 2020, 11:58:33 am »
Not just Christian philosophy, but a specific tradition of it. It's not like we would stop people from talking about other philosophy or theology related subjects (or in off topic other subjects entirely), but the official focus of the forum would be on scholastic philosophy, or scholastic and patristic philosophy (patristic to include e.g. the Church Fathers).
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Chit-chat / Re: Domain name ideas
« Last post by Mackie Messer on July 07, 2020, 11:55:44 am »
Well, what you do is up to you. I'm inactive and "retired". But I always felt that "classical theism" was both too specific and too broad. It's too specific because almost nobody outside of certain relatively small philosophical circles and parts of analytic philosophy of religion even know what it means. So, nobody knows to look for it. It's too broad because it doesn't really give people much to identify with, and marketing for groups like this is often a matter of identifying a niche (which, preferably, lacks much competition) and focusing on it. (When I called it "bland", I was referring to the "too broad" part of this.)
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Theology and religion / Re: Anyone read the book Ressentiment, by Max Scheler?
« Last post by MightyFool on July 07, 2020, 10:39:52 am »
I think René Girard also wrote a lot on this topic. Haven't read his books yet.
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Chit-chat / Re: Domain name ideas
« Last post by MightyFool on July 07, 2020, 10:09:13 am »
That goes into a deeper question on what would be the purpose of this forum. It seems to me that we're discussing Theism mostly from a Christian perspective, philosophy, and scripture.
Is the therm 'Scholastic' covering all that? Also, why do you think 'classical theism' is too bland?

We can also remove 'Classical' from the name and get the domain theismforum.com (which is still available).
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Chit-chat / Re: 'Belief' field on profiles
« Last post by MightyFool on July 06, 2020, 03:16:05 am »
I'm from the Netherlands. My first language is Dutch
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Boy, I remember wracking my brain over that issue for awhile--it's good to see I've contributed something useful to the age old canons of the elder forum. I'll need to dust off Feser's book again and have a look into how he spells out the argument precisely. I've taken a hiatus from philosophy for the past several months and I'm starting to realize it wasn't a very good choice. I feel like my mind is goop.
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You end up needing to argue for the actualization of existence, which is basically the existential proof in De ente et essentia expressed with a focus on the terminology of actualizing potencies.
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