Jamal

I was talking about engineers.

It's a known phenomenon. People have written books about it. Political science academics Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog looked at why engineers are...

I was just talking about engineers. Don't take it too personally.

You ain't seen nothin yet!

I think it's pretty common among engineers to think their expertise entitles them to apply their skills to all the problems in the world. Biology, phy...

Thank you. This is a proud moment for me, nay for us all.

That's what she said.

There are around 270 million citizens of countries with a king, and this is an international site. Please do not presume that your "we" covers everyon...

Yes, we already closed the Politics & Current Affairs category and moved the active discussions to the Lounge, so to be consistent we should do the sa...

:up: If you're interested, there's a book of his 1965 lectures on metaphysics, which seems to be mainly about Aristotle: Metaphysics: Concept and Prob...

Good stuff. Since Adorno believes that in the interdependent subject-object relation, the interdependence is asymmetrical—the object has primacy, in t...

Thanks Leon, this is beautifully expressed, erudite, full of interesting ideas, and fundamentally misguided. I'm reminded of the famous charge that re...

Thank you MU, this is very good and clear. You and Adorno certainly disagree here, but I'd like to emphasize some things about his position with a vie...

I appreciate the effort, but since you still adhere to the promise of a transcendently correct question, I don't think it works. This implies that con...

I don't usually do it unless I'm asked to do so but on this occasion I wanted to remove as many traces of him as possible without actually removing hi...

For example, if you fill your posts mainly with quotations from a book you have written, and mention that book in every post, that counts as self-prom...

That is Timmy Mallett's mallet. You can buy one here: https://www.timmymallett.co.uk/shop/ Only £28.99.

It's not anything I recognize as empiricism. The idea is rather that questions are socially and historically mediated, never completely separable from...

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That's too big for a red cardinal.

You have one thing the crackpots don't have, which is humility. You don't claim to have all the answers, so don't worry.

I banned @"Pieter R van Wyk" for self-promotion and crackpottery.

You can count on my discretion. I shall take your secret to the grave.

Excellent! But I thought you were abolished in the early 19th century.

Well, if it was the funeral of a Janissary, that would be perfect. Otherwise, I'm not sure. If they had made the effort to dress up in full ceremonial...

:up: Yes, totally. It's not just about Heidegger, but he is in a way paradigmatic. I'm still struggling slowly through "Question and Answer".

As @"Outlander" said, it depends. For me it depends on the outfit. I would raise my eyebrow at these: https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/resources/ima...

You would say that.

True. Maybe I'd be in Bali, or Argentina, or still stuck in that Godforsaken midge-infested hellhole they call Scotland.

I'd just like to say, although it's a very eccentric and not at all important point, that since nostalgia is a feeling of pain when thinking of the pa...

Woah, you've gone too far now! This looks like total relativism to me, and I refuse to get on board.

Oh well, never mind!

Ah, the good old days. Do you ever pine or yearn or long for the certainties of the Cold War?

Indeed, you're expressing an important idea that's been coming up for me a lot lately. The validity of an idea is never entirely separable from its ge...

I'm totally on board with what Adorno is saying in this section, so maybe I can explicate it. For the moment I'll just address the bit about answers b...

The Ontological Need: QUESTION AND ANSWER Adorno, here very much on the side of reason, begins by attacking Heideggerian irrationalism and accusing it...

This is just self-promotion. I'm closing it.

I'm really enjoying the first section of "The Ontological Need". It's Adorno as we don't often get to see him so clearly, as staunch defender of the E...

I'll say some more about the introduction, particularly the linguistic angle. 1. Isn't the emphasis on expression a subjectivization of cognition? Doe...

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Thereby showing the emptiness and potential manipulativeness of aestheticization, since Humbert is not the author's mouthpiece.

Yes, it's clear the texts are different, even though the differences are quite minor. We can't quite treat them as alternative translations. EDIT: Act...

The introduction is not so much an introduction as the heart of the whole work. It's an essay outlining the problem and the program of negative dialec...

Thank you and others for the support. Questioning the sexual ethics of Western Europe is one thing; stating that gay people are degenerate and immoral...

Well, it's a reasonable summary of DoE, sure. Something akin to this is very strong in Adorno's works, though without the actual religion. However, th...

If you think Harry was in the same league as The Great Whatever and StreetlightX, I can only assume you didn't interact with him much.

What do you think follows from this? That I should never ban anyone? On the contrary, it is because I want to maintain and improve the community that ...

To exclude or demean others is to abandon reasoned inquiry for dogma or prejudice. You are lucky you are still here.

Part of Harry's last comment (now deleted).

I did. Low quality and obnoxious.