(July 29, 2014 at 3:38 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Ontology, as a branch of philosophy, is about trying to understanding the unchanging ground of being.
Why unchanging? How do you know this from the start? Not sure how anyone can really believe in such a thing. Materialists will believe that a big bang was preceded by preexisting conditions sufficient to account for what we observe. Theists will believe the universe is a total invention of a creator god. How can we refer to either of these situations as an unchanging ground of being? For the materialist the preexisting conditions are seemingly an inaccessible mystery, while the theist relies on the equally mysterious mind of god.
(July 29, 2014 at 3:38 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Any ontology worthy of the name would be valid independent of a society’s level of scientific knowledge. The ground of being can only be something that is itself Absolute.
Can you then be sure there are any ontologies worthy of their name? What individual has valid knowledge of the mystery which surpasses sum total of the knowledge of all mankind?
