Jamal

I think I see what you mean. I relate this to the mundane fact that it's easier to criticize than to offer something positive, and it's somehow more p...

LND Lecture 4 This picks up the second question from the last lecture: is philosophy possible without system? The crux of the biscuit is as @"Moliere"...

As I write this I'm in Moscow on Russia's Victory Day. They have seeded the clouds with chemicals to produce a beautifully clear day for the parade an...

LND, lecture 3 (continued) Before I write a post about lecture 4 I'll say some things about the second half of lecture 3, even though @"Metaphysician ...

I don't think so. It becomes system in the context of Hegel, who has a grand idealist structure behind it (or both initiating it and culminating it, a...

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Great! You're in good company because my sources inform me that Adorno himself viewed Beethoven's symphonies as dialectical. There's a book, Beethoven...

I've always assumed that the secret of pixie and fairy happiness is that they don't have any such ambitions.

So that's where the good butter comes from? I didn't know; thanks. I don't always make the effort to read the labels, especially when they use the med...

Seems like a fair summary.

For Adorno it seems to be both, i.e., faith in reason is the target, but reason has that tendency. But, you might reply, since it's the actually exist...

The thing about cardboard is it doesn't have much taste itself, so you can pair it with anything.

Another thing I'm thinking about is how much Adorno's philosophy of the nonidentical and nonconceptual, and his materialist "priority of the object", ...

Yes, and also in the use to which it's put. So I do think it's right to say he's talking about something different. As I was saying before to @"Molier...

I sometimes use cardboard too.

Breadwise at least. Baking in general is a gaping hole in my arsenal.

I'd go with white bread for that.

:chin: Georgian wine, actually. The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.

Coincidentally, I just read this:

And it's like he's saying that this insight is in Hegel already, or more like ... Hegel's dialectic "wants" to rectify the violence, but Hegel himself...

I think I just picked it up in a nice wee bakery or supermarket. I did make some bread at home for the first time the other day, but it was just flatb...

Breakfast you say? https://i.postimg.cc/P5nGMbZX/PXL-20250422-055126605-2.jpg I had to get this fancy expensive Sicilian marmalade from one of those f...

That is quite Interesting. Regarding faith, I’ve only read a few of those posts. I guess the critical parallel you’re seeing between faith and positiv...

He does seem genuinely fascinated by those contradictory characteristics — horrible/beautiful and strong/weak. But I think that's just regular dialect...

I saw that review too. It’s wrong. Ben Watson is a massive fan of FZ with an encyclopedic knowledge of his oeuvre, and he got one of the last intervie...

Cool. Yeah the lectures are fun to read. But be warned: you will find a big difference in style when we get to Negative Dialectics itself, which is de...

https://i.postimg.cc/2599y89g/been-umming-over-this-for-ages-v0-fcckz5lv61pb1.webp Maybe I'll re-read this soon. I read it when it came out in the 90s...

Good choice. It was played at Zappa's own funeral. This is another thing: https://youtu.be/r5fIYQ0GDPA

Well put.

I suggest you sublate yourself by directing your negativity inwards. Like I said, I'd like to postpone criticism of Adorno till after we understand th...

LND, Lecture 3 This lecture starts by deepening the account of negativity he began in lecture 2, and then goes on to look at the question, "is negativ...

Interesting take, by which I mean you're dead wrong. Adorno wants to do what all good philosophers want to do, which is to overturn philosophy with a ...

This is a minor quibble. He says that all of his ideas are contained in Hegel's philosophy at least in tendency. That is, interpreted a certain way, e...

Cool, thanks :up:

LND, Lecture 2 (continued) covered some of this nicely but here are my own thoughts. He looks at what I'll call "pop positivity": His antipathy to thi...

I need to know who this little fella is. https://i.postimg.cc/44tQJS1J/IMG-1343.jpg

:cool: I'm in regurgitation of partly digested philosophical material mode.

Yeah it's interesting. It almost looks like he's chosen the evaluative descriptor, "negative," as a nay-saying gesture, which an uncharitable person m...

Good interpretations, and worded better than mine :up:

Cool, thanks.

I don't know, what do you think?

By "ditch the mysticism" I took you to mean a rejection of the mysticism among those who embrace his philosophy otherwise. Your more recent quotation ...

I don't know, because I have no opinion on the disappearance of freedom as Hegel's narrative progresses. I'll keep it in mind though :up:

Yes, Adorno makes that point explicitly in the lecture. Maybe I wasn't clear. Surely that describes all Hegelians these days?

LND, Lecture 2 At the end of the first lecture Adorno distinguishes negative dialectics from idealist dialectics (exemplified by Hegel) and also from ...

As far as I can tell, the OP is asking if Tarski's T-Schemas can be used to develop better LLMs, ones that do not come out with false statements, sinc...

I'm used to thinking it was just the Frankfurt School who reacted like that so it's interesting to learn there were many others. On the other hand, Ad...

I see. Well, if the belief that any philosophy loses its legitimacy when it oversteps the boundaries of material experience and claims metaphysical kn...

I think it’s precisely because they had ceased to believe the proletariat was the revolutionary class that they — Marcuse, most notably — had such hop...

LND, Lecture 1 (continued) I'll briefly look at one more thing in lecture 1. It's the passage where he puts his cards on the table: In other words, bo...