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The conception of the wealthy "taking from the impoverished" is a ludicrous belief

Noah33 August 11, 2018 at 23:43 14150 views 49 comments
The wealthy nor the impoverished, cannot deceitfully take what is not theirs; as this idea is impossible. The idea of wanting is a mere faculty of desire. It is the desire for one to want what is beneficial. However, man is satisfied by mere material representations, as they satisfy his long term desires e.g,. Hunger, fixed desires, constant. These material representations in pure form, correspond to things that also benefit man materially, or are a means to satisfying us materially (excluding artificial representations e.g,. money). In the artificial forms of material representations or objects of purpose, material things like money are accounted for. Money is by no means something that bears with it immediate satisfaction. Money is rather a purposeless material object that only, when applied, leads to a purpose within purposelessness. Meaning that money satisfies an objective goal to find what is materially beneficial e.g,. food, protection, etc. However, money itself shares no objective purpose. This form of material deception, then often, affects the wealthy class and the impoverished class. The impoverished class, sees the wealthy class as 'stealing" from it, and is therefore oppressive. However the wealthy class sees the impoverished class with the exact same view. What both of these representative classes do not see, is the fact that money is merely a false material representation of value. Therefore, money in a pure material form, is valueless. From this proposition, we can then conclude that no class can oppress another class with the superficial existence of 'money' as a mere concept.

Comments (49)

Noah33 August 11, 2018 at 23:48 #205101
In addition to money being merely material, this concept is very similar to Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgement. It correlates with Kant in the sense that it is critical of mere aesthetically beautiful forms. These forms share no rational purpose, besides their subjective universal communicability.
Blue Lux August 12, 2018 at 00:44 #205117
Reply to Noah33 Research corporations in the early 1900s in America, specifically 'scrip' or 'company scrip.' A wealthy class can and does oppress lower classes, not by means of money itself, that is absurd... Money is an inanimate being. Oppression comes via time, work and control of resources, which money merely represents.
Have you read Marx?
Akanthinos August 12, 2018 at 01:11 #205122
Quoting Noah33
However the wealthy class sees the impoverished class with the exact same view. What both of these representative classes do not see, is the fact that money is merely a false material representation of value.


Ok. Can I have all your moneyz?

:smirk:
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 02:01 #205130
Reply to Blue Lux

Re-read the text. There's no mention of corporatism or corporate enterprise. This is the examination of materialism and its value.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 02:03 #205131
Reply to Akanthinos

Re-read if you have to. I discuss how material value holds resourcefulness as a means to worthy material satisfactions e.g,. food, lust, sexual gratification. However, materialism is simply a MEANS in this sense and remains only MEANS unless it holds direct value.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 02:04 #205132
Reply to Akanthinos

So no, i wouldn't want you to take something that holds extended meaning, although I can object to it only being a means of necessity and not a necessity itself.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 02:13 #205136
Reply to Blue Lux

I have read Marx along with positions on him. Read Marx's Concept of Man by Erich Fromm. This position explains Marx's conception of 'Alienation' along with the Hegelian concept, as a means to man being alienated from himself (species-life, species-being as 'collective'). In this book, Fromm lays down the psychoanalytical interpretation of Marx's Socialism as a revolt against the dehumanization of man through materialism. Namely one of these concepts is "money" as only being held as material capital. However, he states this form of materialism enslaves man as a mere product of his creation. This leads to the objectification of man, as he sees himself as separate from his concept of creation.
Blue Lux August 12, 2018 at 02:18 #205138
Reply to Noah33 I agree that a materialistic 'worldview' enslaves and is essentially fatalistic.
Akanthinos August 12, 2018 at 02:29 #205140
The hell is the difference between "resourcefullness" and "value"? If something is a resource for someone, that thing has value for him.

Quoting Noah33
Money is by no means something that bears with it immediate satisfaction.


Clearly you never dated a stripper.
Sir2u August 12, 2018 at 02:35 #205145
Quoting Akanthinos
Clearly you never dated a stripper.


:rofl:
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 03:09 #205164
Reply to Akanthinos

Resourcefulness and value are distinct because of their nature. Resourcefulness is defined as supply. Value, is defined as the supplier. These two distinctions separate the meaning of what is being supplied, and what the material worth of what has been supplied is.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 03:11 #205165
Reply to Akanthinos

Resourcefulness is not the same as value in the sense that a resource can have a definite purposive element. However, value is the simple judgement of that object that is resourceful. This is a simple question of semantics.
Akanthinos August 12, 2018 at 03:13 #205166
Reply to Noah33

Quoting Noah33
Resourcefulness and value are distinct because of their nature. Resourcefulness is defined as supply. Value, is defined as the supplier.


You could hardly be more arbitrary.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 03:13 #205167
Reply to Akanthinos

Immediate sexual gratification does not count as immediate satisfaction. True satisfaction is gained by means of satisfying a fixed desire i.e,. hunger.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 03:14 #205168
Reply to Akanthinos

Please explain how this argument is arbitrary.
Blue Lux August 12, 2018 at 03:16 #205169
Reply to Noah33 Money is a means to an endless end, and therefore it is the focal point of 'work' and 'resources' as if work and resources are endless. This is the illusion. And this is not only why money has absolutely no real meaning, only an artificial and synthetic meaning of sign, but why materialism is incapable of giving any existentially significant meaning. Meaning must be created. Nothing is inherently meaningful. Money is given a meaning by those who do not need it for those who need it. It has become more and more invasive as well with the constant production of absolutely meaningless things that attain a meaning by simple association with other things people find meaningful, like fame, popularity or novelty. A great book called Simulacra and Simulation explains this in greater detail.
Akanthinos August 12, 2018 at 03:22 #205171
Quoting Noah33
Please explain how this argument is arbitrary.


Quoting Noah33
Immediate sexual gratification does not count as immediate satisfaction. True satisfaction is gained by means of satisfying a fixed desire i.e,. hunger.


This categorization is purely arbitrary.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 03:25 #205172
Reply to Blue Lux

The abundance of what is resourceful in nature, must follow a naturalistic faculty. This means that an object can only be resourceful if it contains within itself a rationally natural purpose to it. The architectural construction of a house is a perfect example of this juxtaposition of purpose. A house can be used to store different items of human purpose or human need, even though one may not be willing to live in this space. However the rational motive applied by cognition to this 'house', depends entirely on the buyer and his predetermined motive for the object in question. Money in this sense is not only synthetic and illusion, but it is also a treacherous thing. Meaning must not be created without purpose like money, as this is applying human cognition to an object, and therefore only applying purpose to something that may not have purpose (meaning).
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 03:27 #205174
Reply to Akanthinos

No, it is reasoned. When you dissect the meaning of linguistic interpretation you realize that many different interpretations can be made from different words.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 03:28 #205175
Reply to Akanthinos

There is no absolute definition of "resourceful" or "value" in philosophy. I have acknowledged the linguistic meaning here, and stated that they both have similar standards and relations. However, nothing is absolute in this sense.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 03:30 #205178
Reply to Akanthinos

By this argument I could call your statement arbitrary. It's about the interpretation of what is worth, and my proposition is simply a proposition. However, if you wish to tell me how sexual gratification that is artificially produced is not secondary in importance, then you can do so.
BC August 12, 2018 at 04:07 #205185
"The conception of the wealthy 'taking from the impoverished' is a ludicrous belief" he said.

So let's try it the other way around: "Give me your money -- all of it, right now. I'm impoverished. I don't care what your philosophy is, how you got your money, or what you were planning to do with it. Just hand it over. Cash will do nicely. If you don't give it to me, we (me and some well armed associates) will just take it. Hey, taking money from the rich is an honorable revolutionary action. It's traditional. And rational too. What's the point of making the peasants hand over their scarcely edible spoiled potatoes?

Once you give us your money and are poor, you will be in line to inherit the kingdom of heaven, or some such thing.

Lucky you!
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 04:45 #205191
Reply to Bitter Crank

I agree. If I am interpreting you correctly this is what I said.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 04:51 #205192
One thing that is also important, is the elucidation of how 'Impoverished' as a system of oppression is defined. One could simply be impoverished from his lack of spirit or will (poverty of one's soul), or one could suffer from the impoverishment of his morality (if we are referring to no position of moral relativism). Then of course the common material explanation behind poverty as having a lack of a material necessity. The latter is a judgment over whether such material system is universally valid (imp-acting everyone) or whether it is only relative to one man or his group's interpretation of value. If poverty itself is based up-on the false system of money, then it alone cannot exist a phenomenon.
Akanthinos August 12, 2018 at 04:58 #205193
Reply to Noah33

"The abundance of what is resourceful in nature, must follow a naturalistic faculty. This means that an object can only be resourceful if it contains within itself a rationally natural purpose to it."

This is were I must disagree completely. Natural objects do not have a purpose, they have a history, or a trajectory, but certainly not a purpose. Something is a resource for someone in that this someone's umwelt and ontic constitution allows for that thing to gain value. Folic acid is an important resource to a tick, it has value for it, because half of a tick's umwelt is about using folic acid to represent the world. Folic acid barely has a value for me, except as a marker of effort and bad hygiene.

But folic acid has no purpose in itself. Just a list of observed characteristics and interactions with other chemicals.
Akanthinos August 12, 2018 at 05:01 #205194
Reply to Noah33

"Immediate sexual gratification does not count as immediate satisfaction. True satisfaction is gained by means of satisfying a fixed desire i.e,. hunger."

Satisfaction is satisfaction is .... If it wasn't true satisfication, it wouldn't satisfy.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 05:14 #205196
Reply to Akanthinos

If you examine the natural faculties of objects and their disposition to other objects, like you have done here, you do get to a point in which objects in themselves, may serve no objective purpose. Objective p-urpose as defined, is anything which does not effect all concepts or objects on a universal basis. However, subjective universal validity does exist. Subjective universality as a concept, entails that different objects that share a similar relationship, may be classified taxonomically in this perspective as simply sharing a similar concept in nature. So in a simplification, what may have an impact on you or me is not universally valid by any means, unless it was a subjective interpretation of universal validity e.g,. all humans have hands (excluding abnormalities). Those chemicals that are classified scientifically by their respected taxonomical classifications, exhibit uses in themselves, as they provide the necessary stimuli for the object in question (tick) or resource (Folic Acid).
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 05:18 #205199
Reply to Akanthinos

The phrasing I presented on sexual gratification and satisfaction was poor. What was meant to be interp-reted, was that certain forms of satisfaction are worth more then other forms of satisfaction. This is p-roven by the mere fact that satisfaction is not a constant desire, as it changes from subjective interpretation often. What satisfies me today, could maybe not satisfy me tomorrow is the dilemma here, and it's important. Only the forms of universal satisfaction like hunger, taste, and pleasure as aforementioned, are fundamental. Forms of satisfaction that have a natural motive grounded in their motive e.g,. sexual gratification from prostitution, is exploitation.
Blue Lux August 12, 2018 at 05:25 #205200
Reply to Noah33 My name is Noah too btw.

And in a nutshell, though it is off topic, I see your picture of Heidegger.

So...

What is the meaning of being?
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 05:33 #205201
Reply to Blue Lux

I myself am not necessarily a fan of Martin Heidegger, mostly because of his postmodernist persp-ective. However, Being can be defined in Being and Time as simply Being in itself. This means that Being cannot be determined by any other standards besides the fact that beings are beings in themselves. It sounds odd, but his main rational behind it is that a Being is not the literal Being like a man or a woman, but rather something of a conscious nature. Sense is also a large aspect of this as a motivation behind Being. I haven't read Heidegger in a long time, and I will p-robably have to revisit it eventually.
Blue Lux August 12, 2018 at 05:33 #205202
Reply to Noah33 What constitutes a 'natural motive'?
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 05:35 #205203
Since I am not the best at explaining acquired knowledge, here's an example of what I was referring to:

"If we grasp Being, we will clarify the meaning of being, or "sense" of being (Sinn des Seins), where by "sense" Heidegger means that "in terms of which something becomes intelligible as something."[9] Presented in relation to the quality of knowledge, according to Heidegger, this sense of being precedes any notions of how or in what manner any particular being or beings exist, and is thus pre-scientific.[10] Thus, in Heidegger's view, the question of the meaning of being would be an explanation of the understanding preceding any other way of knowing, such as the use of logic, theory, specific regional ontology.[11] At the same time, there is no access to being other than via beings themselves—hence pursuing the question of being inevitably means questioning a being with regard to its being.[12] Heidegger argues that a true understanding of being (Seinsverständnis) can only proceed by referring to particular beings, and that the best method of pursuing being must inevitably, he says, involve a kind of hermeneutic circle, that is (as he explains in his critique of prior work in the field of hermeneutics), it must rely upon repetitive yet progressive acts of interpretation. "The methodological sense of phenomenological description is interpretation."[13]"

Sourc(es):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Time
Blue Lux August 12, 2018 at 05:35 #205204
Reply to Noah33 Dasein is his idea; the being that has being as a question. Dasein has as an existentiele being-in-the-world as well as thrownness, ahead of itself, constituting a totality as an in-itself only as the whole that it would be if it were not in the world anymore, as in... Dead.
Akanthinos August 12, 2018 at 05:37 #205205
The reason why prostitution may be exploitative is not found in the nature of sexuality itself, but in the specific relation established between the actors. As such, prostitution may be exactly as exploitative as a sexual relation within the context of a longterm relationship.

Exploitation is but another aspect of an event seen as part of a beings umwelt. As such, what may seem exploitative on one side for you might not be for the actor you feel is being exploited. Thats why universal subjectivity is but a contradiction in terms. There is no such thing. I have often bitched at Wittgenstein's 'even if lion could talk, we would not understand them' on this site in the past, but comparatively to your position, he is much closer to the truth.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 05:38 #205206
Reply to Blue Lux

If you're referring to what I said, a natural motive is any motive that follows a natural law or princip-le. From the of 'natural law' or 'primitive law'. We can elaborate on how a natural motive usually constitutes a mode of existence that correlates to different objects. However, as the previous comment pointed out, different forms of naturalism exist for certain objects.
Blue Lux August 12, 2018 at 05:42 #205207
Reply to Noah33 But what is a natural law or motive, as it relates to human intention?
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 05:51 #205209
Reply to Akanthinos

"The reason why prostitution may be exploitative is not found in the nature of sexuality itself, but in the specific relation established between the actors. As such, prostitution may be exactly as exploitative as a sexual relation within the context of a longterm relationship."

That would be a correct proposition, if it weren't for the further extension of thought, in which certain forms of sexual gratification, even if not prostitution which is settled for material benefit on one party, are also exploitative. Then there's the idea that prostitution is not just material and therefore exploitative, but prostitution extends to the immaterial. This means that prostitution is not just involved with the factor of money, but is also involved with sexual gratification that is in a long-term relationship-. However, this gratification may be unnatural, and contain perverse actions.

"Exploitation is but another aspect of an event seen as part of a beings umwelt. As such, what may seem exploitative on one side for you might not be for the actor you feel is being exploited. Thats why universal subjectivity is but a contradiction in terms. There is no such thing. I have often bitched at Wittgenstein's 'even if lion could talk, we would not understand them' on this site in the past, but comparatively to your position, he is much closer to the truth."

A form of universal subjectivity which does not posses an equal distribution or balance on both sides, is not a universally subjective concept. Universal subjectivity, would apply between two parties of a similar natural disposition. If one p-arty is entirely different, then it cannot therefore be universally subjective.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 05:55 #205212
Reply to Blue Lux

A natural law or faculty of motivation for man, would involve a historical process, very similar to Hegel's concept of Hegelian Dialectics. The thing about natural motivation, is it must however, connect to something that is positive or negative to man. History is always either the two of those sides, and thus, is a natural process. In order for something to always remain a natural motivation (like history), it must always be in progression (not in the societal sense, or the ethical sense).
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 05:56 #205213
Reply to Blue Lux

What was previously said may have sounded like an informal false dichotomy. However, i'm not taking the position that man can not cultivate in history a middle position, but the outcome of this position will always have a positive or negative consequence.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 06:00 #205214
Reply to Blue Lux

In addition, naturalism as a motivation, can be divided into natural cognitive judgments, and natural material judgments. The former is a judgement of how the mind progresses and determines real world natural things i.e,. philosophy, ethics, logic, etc. Real world physical representations, must be purely natural and not distorted by human intervention in their natural existence. E.g,. plants, animals, etc.
Blue Lux August 12, 2018 at 06:04 #205215
Reply to Noah33 So this epistemology is one of realism?

Does not an object exist for me? How can it be said to exist in itself as a chair apart from the intentionality that designates 'it' as chair, apart from it falling into the nothingness that would be the undifferentiated everything?
Akanthinos August 12, 2018 at 06:11 #205218
So subjectivity suddenly becomes universal simply because it is shared by two actors? Is intersubjectivity some transcendantal gateway?

I think at this point its fair to assume that we resides in different realities. Crap, does that also mean modal logic actually has some use? :groan:
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 06:13 #205219
Reply to Blue Lux

An object exists for you in the sense that you apply cognition into the tools necessary to define and construct the object in question. The conception of an object depends entirely on its creator (for man), and is in that sense, man-made of course. In questioning whether a chair in excluding the intention of its man-made conception, cannot be an absolute if this is what you are referring to. If it remains an absolute, simply because of its ability to satisfy human needs, then it would rather be an object of human purpose. However, it would fall into nothingness due to its uses as an object not being properly represented in cognition. This means that it could not exist objectively as a char as a chair has various meanings.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 06:24 #205222
Reply to Akanthinos

Transcendentalism, is rooted in our mental processes and cognition. Things that are rooted in cognition, may posses a natural rational interpretation behind them. Two objects that are not universally subjective because they share a common understanding, but groups of things that are united in some way, share a common understanding. This is what would be universally subjective. the intersubjectivity aspect, which can be sub-divided by the subjective group-s that share different preferences, is still subjectively universal. This is due to the simple fact that they share similar elements of understanding that unite them, which is irrelevant from the smaller molecular differences in their structures.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 06:25 #205223
Reply to Blue Lux

Yes, this epistemological examination would be introducing the position of realism.
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 06:26 #205224
I think it would be a good idea for the future to start a new thread on realism and naturalism as concep-ts.
Blue Lux August 12, 2018 at 08:42 #205242
Reply to Noah33 I am essentially between idealism and realism, having premised my epistemology upon intentionality; the fact that consciousness is always consciousness of something, which reconciles the split between idealism and realism, which both posit the knower as separate from any object of knowledge. The question is now, for me, a question of knowledge itself; relating to the authenticity of knowledge--how one can be sure that they know anything at all. I have myself witnessed in analysis the infinite regress the result of not distinguishing between knowledge by description and knowledge by acquaintance; however, I am uncertain whether or not this distinction is itself necessary to understand knowledge. I have reached conclusions myself, but I am trying to take it further. The inseparabilility that is the result of intentionality, which would be the knower versus the known, seems to me to render knowledge an interaction of being-in-the-world and a relationship as opposed to a pure apprehension of something separate. Regardless, another question has materialized for me...
If the realist valuation of epistemology is accurate... How could the true object be at all if all that is apprehended is the perception or conception of it? Would this not suffice to represent that truth?
Noah33 August 12, 2018 at 16:22 #205294
Reply to Blue Lux

I believe that in the realist valuation of the world, the conception of an object can only be true through man p-lacing his own judgments of cognition on the object or subject of question. However, where a conjecture arises, is whether an aesthetically beautiful object of taste, which provides its own colorful outline and geometrical outline can be perceived differently. An object that is organ as formerly regarded, can posses certain naturally beautiful features, however, it is only our perception that we are seeing the same colors, and not the absolute. Anything that is apprehended can also share a similar error in nature. However, natural objects do have an object form of attractiveness, which irregardless of the aesthetical form we perceive it as possessing, holds objectivity in nature. If the perception of an object as representation is held in nature, the natural form must always be held in cognition and physical representation. This diversion creates a distinction between one world of Cognition and Physical. If both of these aspects are shared in one, then it is absolute truth. However, if one is missing from the other, then it cannot complete itself, and is therefore an inaccurate representation of the real world and apprehension of truth.
gurugeorge August 12, 2018 at 23:02 #205396
Quoting Noah33
money is merely a false material representation of value.


This is wonky in two ways. In the first place, economic value is subjective, marginal utility. In the second place, in representing ratios of exchange of (subjectively) valued goods, money can't be "false," it either does its job or it doesn't (e.g. if the currency is inflated, etc.)

Value appears objective only because the multitude of economic actors, exchanging stuff according to their individual scales of preferences, results in relatively stable prices most of the time, but the system constantly adjusts to shifts in those preferences (e.g. something new is invented, lots of people now want it, and consequently some hitherto-valueless resource now has a value; people were sitting oblivious on top of coal and oil reserves that had no great value until various kinds of machinery were invented that everyone suddenly wanted to use).