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I don't know anything about negative theology but yeah, it looks like it. As I understand it, how close negative dialectics is to negative theology—to...

Introduction: The Antagonistic Whole (continued) Sooner than I thought. Despite the idealist tendencies of dialectics, the contradictory system does n...

Introduction: The Antagonistic Whole This section takes its cue from the previous sentence: Within this concept of negative dialectics there is a tens...

That works for me :up:

Please stop spamming the Shoutbox.

I expect that in the near future this will be the opening passage of the holy Book of Karl, alternatively the Tablets of Stone.

Easily done.

Introduction: Interest of Philosophy We covered a lot of this when we looked at lecture 7. The five paragraphs go something like this: 1. The proper i...

Very nice. It reminds me of what I was saying about magical thinking a couple of years ago. Cool. I might be slowing down over the next week or two. R...

Thanks. I'm not persuaded but I'm not going to dig any further. I find your next post a bit closer to my wavelength: Very meta. I don't know what to s...

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And yet, there is more to the history of a concept than etymology.

Yes, I agree.

Good stuff. Right now I choose the way of dialectics: to ditch the metaphysics but also maintain the dichotomy. The dichotomy is not just a mistake—or...

Maybe it means the same thing. Maybe I'm bringing the concept back to its roots. But sure, point taken.

Great post. I hope to reply later. I suspect I will conclude that all of that makes objectivity difficult, but not impossible.

I’m not sure I’m understanding you, but maybe you just have a different way of reaching a similar interpretation. I think Adorno, particularly with th...

I think the “this” is either the ludicrousness of philosophy’s confusion of the scholastic with the world-concept, or the retrogression itself (retrog...

But these arguments are stupid. Since they are not arguing about something shared, their argument is meaningless. What people actually do is dress up ...

And I’m saying it implies there is an objective fact of the matter. If it were merely subjective, there would be no reasonable disagreement. It would ...

Disagreement doesn’t disprove objectivity; it presupposes it.

I don't know what “does no good” means. Maybe you mean that because they are not quantifiable, they are not objective? But that doesn't follow. When t...

Yes, your grammar and spelling were pretty bad 6 years ago. I’ve definitely noticed an improvement.

:up: But note that in this case he had spent many hours editing out the content of his posts. I don't know how far back he got but he got a good chunk...

I think we can identify several objective criteria for the evaluation of art. Since you mentioned books I’ll focus on novels. A good novel often has t...

So even the eternal Tao is not the eternal Tao.

Members cannot delete their own posts. They can edit them, so they can replace the entire text of a post with a single character, which is what happen...

:up: If they would like to join again, they can send an email to [email protected].

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Nicely put.

As a subtitle for the Shoutbox I can't decide between "The origamic enfolding of politics into topographically negentropic discursive events" and the ...

Yes, feel free to start a thread there asking for clarification, and I'll respond with information I've so far scattered across various threads.

For me it’s his fanaticism that’s the problem, and his desecration of the Shoutbox.

If he comes to regret his departure he could always send an email to [email protected], and I could send him an invitation.

I explained what happened in the Shoutbox. The whole story:

I will haunt you in your dreams.

You’re welcome, and I take back the “buffoon” comment.

Yes, but since unenlightened is so intimidating I project my resentment towards mild-mannered buffoons like you :cool:

:up: Since @"Moliere" had actually replied to the OP, he might have a different view of the matter. I don't think I’m exaggerating when I say it had z...

We can cross that bridge when we come to it.

The whole story is as follows. Mystery member posted a new discussion that consisted of a book title, a link to the book, and basically nothing else e...

If I went round deleting everything that was inconsistent with my sensibilities I wouldn't have time for anything else. I mildly resent your mad suspi...

One particular member began editing their posts to remove everything they had written, because they'd decided they didn't want to be a member of TPF a...

Introduction: Reality and Dialectics This refers back to the previous paragraph, where he mentioned the mainstream complaint that dialectics reduces e...

In this quotation I’ve replaced the ID number with the post’s full URL, which you can get from the share button at the bottom of every post. I’m guess...