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But Opel isn’t even Spanish. Cheers to them anyway. I’ve often thought that Opel (in the UK, Vauxhall) cars were the least attractive cars in existenc...

Good to see Discourse Dog back to his old capers again. I like it, despite the laboured pun. Laboured! A pun about a pun! I should be a cartoonist or ...

That one’s great, and I understand it too!

Finished it. Tremendously enjoyable and stimulating, but because the lectures are improvised it’s definitely not a “Dialectics for Dummies” or a usefu...

Yes, I’m pretty sure I thought it was great but it’s fallen through a memory hole.

I can recommend all three of the books set in the same world: Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and Iron Council. Haven’t enjoyed his others as much. ...

I read it 15-20 years ago and was amazed. What do you think?

I just wrote an elaborate refutation of the transcendental deduction of the categories, but the dog ate it. So I'll just say that I don't think I'm an...

Javi is correct, although I think you need to change your email notification settings accordingly. Otherwise, you can also click on "Bookmarks" in the...

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Too small, but I recognize the pike and the perch (bass if it’s American).

Yes, but in context it might have suggested you were thinking about setting fire to your place of work and your boss and perhaps even the whole city.

I wish you every success. Although, the fire emoji is slightly ominous.

I confirm that it’s ok to be contrary. You’re a beacon of hope. Asserting oneself successfully in a world that can make one feel powerless gives one a...

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That’s progress. :up:

The latter. https://youtu.be/54CeL2z9yrs Postmodern power is dishonest, but it’s even worse: it tries to control not only what you do but what you fee...

interesting. It has the power to take me back through time to the early nineties. It’s as if it was the soundtrack to my life at the time and I didn’t...

We could assign points to a piece of knowledge based on how many other pieces of knowledge depend on it, which is the same as how many facts would los...

Fair. But don’t take it personally and don’t get me wrong. I’m not recommending the Will to Power, elan vital, macho glamorous clamour, or anything li...

That’s the spirit!

I banned @"invicta" for persistently low quality posts even after multiple warnings and a one-week suspension.

I don’t disagree with your description of medieval thinking, but it’s significant that Horkheimer does not identify the loss of objective reason with ...

That's a good summary of the Pinkerian arguments for progress, but I'm not going to get into it here, since that would take things way off-topic. All ...

I'm afraid I haven't read anything except After Finitude, and that's not even object-oriented ontology. I found an interesting blog post that partly a...

You are forgiven. Incidentally, did you notice that he mentioned woke politics? That's possibly a clue to his motivation: he sees "wokeism" as a civil...

It’s curious that both you and @"Banno" associate critique with analytic philosophy, because until now (and probably still, not sure yet) I’ve been th...

They’re the same thing.

The bottom line is that reason can become merely instrumental, such that rationality leads to outcomes that are irrational when viewed under a richer ...

Family resemblances, language games, alienation, positive and negative freedom, sense and reference. These concepts are at least useful. I happen to t...

By “making shit up” I’m guessing you don’t mean anything like the “coining of concepts” proposed by Moeller in the video as one of the things philosop...

I just read it. Fell asleep. I doubt those heuristics are self-consciously used by either. Continentals might say they’re trivial and obvious at best,...

Yes, that’s what I did in the OP and have been doing in the discussion since. The video made me think, and the resulting thoughts diverged from anythi...

I have one from the UK: red lorry yellow lorry.

Yes, and this is what gives the word its rich ambiguity, ripe for creative use by meal poets such as you. It wouldn’t surprise me. In the UK we often ...

Relish of course is already a verb. Perhaps the only true condiment verb.

I totally haloumied myself yesterday.

Great post, thanks. I agree.

I've read the whole of your post and that's what I'm responding to, but I'll just quote this bit and go from there: Philosophers who are critical of t...

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I’m not so sure they can be so neatly separated.

But that’s too neutral and aloof for my taste and I want more.

I’m very sympathetic to this. The instinct to identify a use or function might be associated with the instinct to commodify, to put a price on it. Phi...

Ok, I’ll go along with that. In the video, Moeller actually identifies three things that philosophy is for: questioning religion, coining concepts, an...

That’s a good argument, and I think @"Ciceronianus" and @"Banno" were saying roughly the same thing. I think it’s basically in line with the OP, in wh...

Interesting. Seems reasonable. My own interest in some sort of secular sacredness is in a different direction: immanent and earthly rather than transc...

Yes, I like this way of putting it. Feuerbach’s critique was similar. What we see then are different kinds of nihilism: from the devaluation of earthl...

Yes, it’s a liberal view that’s hard to disagree with, namely that philosophy helps us moderate our ideas and prevents the descent into fundamentalism...

It may be a modern conception, but philosophy has been doing it since ancient times.