This analysis still sounds like psychological hedonism. Or some strange version of it where every ethical system is revealed to be ethical hedonism, e...
For me the point is that I know that getting in a car puts others at risk. Another question: should Bono take a private jet if it helps him fight clim...
I'm no physicist, but do you believe in quarks? If so, how exactly do they exist ? Talk about quarks has a place in the entire context of our civiliza...
First...welcome to the thread! I agree that 'meaning is public' clashes with solipsism. For me the 'one mind per skull' theme is interesting because i...
IMO, all concepts are more or less disputed and more or less unclear. — j0e So I assume that you do not believe in hinge propositions either. --MU A l...
OK, well I grant his relevance. I thought Wayf was using him rhetorically ('well, W was religious.' ), and that's what I was reacting to. I think we b...
I was being pedantic or uptight, but just for clarity: the metaphysicians are referring to observable things like chairs but debating whether they are...
That sounds right, and I haven't seen much philosophy by W on the subject. One can find a few quotes like: There are also spiritual-adjacent quotes in...
You make a good point. Hegel was explicitly annoyed by Kantian skepticism as a cowardly retreat from the manifest destiny of philosophy. But I think h...
To begin to truly believe (ignoring the ambiguity for a moment) in a benevolent creator would indeed seem to be an entry into a different kind of life...
Right, so the issue is what is this relationship? And what is experience? Obviously we have a rough, practical idea. We get by. For context, I think t...
While it does seem a little silly to doubt atoms, an instrumentalist view of them isn't obviously absurd. https://www.britannica.com/topic/positivism/...
Good issue, and a natural question here is what is correctness? What exactly do we mean by true? I don't think such words have exact meanings, though ...
I think you are reading too much into 'system,' putting your own spin on it. To me it's not surprising that what 'everybody knows' turns out to be wro...
That's beautiful, though it might be tough to not be understood by your family. That view reminds me of Peirce's view, and I agree. The idea is someth...
While the intention is seemingly to avoid gender, it does accidentally work against the unity of the mind in a subtle way. I should clarify that I'm n...
Right. I guess I was trying to develop your lead. It's a good issue. I should have answered your question more directly perhaps. IMO, beliefs like con...
I'm somewhat attracted to this view and have even expressed and argued for it before. I picture a continuum from familiar to postulated entities that ...
One point I almost made was that Kojeve is only right if order doesn't matter. I still think Kojeve is roughly right, but I consider this one a matter...
Right. I liked the Mythos thing but I recognized in it as my own appreciation of Kings and Judges, for example, which are like the Homer but possibly ...
Well said. I'd just add that it's easy to get sucked in if one is not wary. I once found psychological egoism plausible, until it finally clicked that...
Here's a Carnap quote that might be worth talking about: http://www.ditext.com/carnap/carnap.html To talk about the system as a whole is without conte...
That makes sense to me. On the second sentence: that's been my working theory for a while now. I don't believe that most people believe in religious d...
I'm with you on the Mythos, for the reasons you mentioned. To me that's just myth, literature, the freethinking study of famous religious texts. Life ...
That's a good objection, but you already mentioned the patch-up. 'If if don't work, you aren't doing it right.' As long as there is some secret interi...
One difference here is the 'subjective' element. A person could (I don't) take the view that it's impossible to tell from the outside if someone is 's...
You do a good job of stretching the concept. I am concerned, though, that psychological hedonism, like psychological egoism, ultimately says too littl...
Instead of two groups of people, I'd think instead of two tendencies in all of us. There's stuff that we believe 'authentically' and stuff that we bel...
Isn't this just a fancy way of saying that religion traffics in myths and feelings? These can be fine things, to be sure. But 'Jesus is the son of God...
Hi, Wayf (from you know who.) I think you are basically correct here but I did refresh my mind on Carnap and found some quotes that remind me as much ...
I'm hoping others will jump in, but I'll proceed in the meantime with a detour through Nietzsche, with a focus on the dominant habit of talking as if ...
Danke! BTW, found another quote that inteprets Nietzsche without the annoying tone. https://monoskop.org/images/8/8e/Derrida_Jacques_Of_Grammatology_1...
What's funny is the repetition of the 'getting out of the cave' motif. Eventually, the 'cave' is just the cave motif itself, so one tries to get out o...
Why not doubt then this need for subjecting the system to doubt? I think you are taking 'system' too much in a technical sense, as if it were a mathem...
Kojeve makes the point that an immortal can get around to all paths, so I think mortality does have a place here. I don't have the immortal's luxury. ...
Nice quote. I read 'indissociable' as not giving priority to one or the other. I like the critique of presence and punctiform 'now.' In some ways, phi...
OK, now I think I see what you mean. Autonomy draws the boundary. I was stuck in the more honorific sense of the word, as the sort of conscious goal o...
I don't like the tone either, though I liked it more when I was in my 20s (what a surprise!). I tolerate the tone for the richness of thought. I specu...
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