Category talk:Mysticism
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Request for your aid dealing with actions from a user against Religious, Spiritual and Esoteric articles
editUser:Baphomet. is damaging Wikipedia: he his trying to label Religious articles as Superstition (from a POV view of positivism, that he calls Science). At the article Reincarnation he just went on to add to category "Superstition" and later on without discussion put a POV msg in the article. Please see the discussion page between both of us Talk:Reincarnation#Superstition.
Through the use of a Culture created by extremism in Science, he is clearly trying to do the job that the Inquisition did in the Middle Ages in a Culture created by extremism in Religion. He is damaging Wikipedia in a subtle invious way!
- Please see also the Alert message I have created at Wikipedia:Wikiquette_alerts#September_4, Thank you! --GalaazV 20:25, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
Pseudophilosophy
editBy the standard of "Pseudophilosophy is a broad system of theories or assertions that claim to be or appear to be philosophical, but that are not accepted as valid logical thought by the scholarly academic community" continental philosophy also becomes pseudophilosophy, as does Platonism and Neoplatonism, which are central in western mysticism. So I'm looking forward to some valid sources. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 06:10, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
- All the examples you give are well accepted within mainstream academic philosophy. In the case of Platonism, and Neoplatonism, they are historically accepted as philosophy, and do not qualify as pseudophilosophy. Mysticism, on the other hand, is usually one of the first examples given of pseudophilosophy. This isn't to say that it isn't a wonderful thing for some people personally, just like religion. However, mysticism involves essential logical contradiction, and accepting that a claim is true and false at the same time, etcetera. Therefore it is not limited by reason and logic, as valid philosophy is. Greg Bard (talk) 06:15, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
- It's a nice irony that philosophy, 'love for wisdom', started with the search for the remembrance of 'The Good', and ends up with strict rationalism, excluding the origins and later descendants of this kind of philosophy. Nevertheless, I'm still looking forward to sources. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 06:38, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
- All the examples you give are well accepted within mainstream academic philosophy. In the case of Platonism, and Neoplatonism, they are historically accepted as philosophy, and do not qualify as pseudophilosophy. Mysticism, on the other hand, is usually one of the first examples given of pseudophilosophy. This isn't to say that it isn't a wonderful thing for some people personally, just like religion. However, mysticism involves essential logical contradiction, and accepting that a claim is true and false at the same time, etcetera. Therefore it is not limited by reason and logic, as valid philosophy is. Greg Bard (talk) 06:15, 3 July 2013 (UTC)