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Saussure & Wittgenstein both seem to echo Herder. Turns out that much of what I like in Hegel goes back to Herder. softwhere

It's unfortunate that you misunderstand the situation this way. I'm not especially invested in Marx. He's one of many thinkers who brought philosophy ...

I think it would have been much better had you focused on a particular concept to examine and avoided obvious polemical intent. You could have either ...

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You might like this one. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01b.htm

It seems to me that you are basically suggesting doing exactly what you are accusing Marx & Engels of doing.

Strange. I'm quoting Marx and Engels, the actual texts. Is that pro-Marx literature? Is The Symposium pro-Plato literature?

I'm not a partisan, or only inasmuch as I think Marx is worth reading, just like Plato.

You might want to read a bio of Marx. I think you'd find this theory highly implausible afterward. Here's some nice work from Engels, which gives us a...

Hi. Marx and Engels were philosophers. I recommend making no more of the word 'Marxism' than of 'Platonism.' Let's check if they sound philosophical. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(semiotics) I think what tempts us to think of language is a nomenclature is that a simply noun like 'cat', unders...

You might like this: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schlegel/

I found a Roy Harris book that treats Saussure & Wittgenstein together. https://monoskop.org/images/b/be/Roy_Harris_Language,_Saussure_and_Wittgenstei...

Those details are also known as their philosophies. I think I'll trust Schop when he implies a significant difference. http://afreeleftblog.blogspot.c...

In Feuerbach's first book, which ruined his gig in academia when it was insufficiently-anonymously published, he rails against the personal immortalit...

I agree, and great post in general. The 'divine' virtues are human virtues. It's no accident, I think, that we could only care about a God (view him a...

I actually wrote about that via David Strauss in another thread. Humanists optimized Christianity, made it worldly and optimistic, fused it with the E...

This is something he shares with his hated Hegel. As I read them, myths are a 'lower' intensity but still significant form of an insight that philosop...

That's exactly how I see it, agreeing with Feuerbach that God is a projection of human virtues. You mention becoming. Becoming what? What is the goal?...

Continuing, we get to the clear abandonment of the old theology. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/64037/64037-h/64037-h.htm#s150 The surprising part her...

I thought I'd add some perhaps little-remembered thought from David Strauss to the quote above. A theme that continues to fascinate me is the emergenc...

Basically I was describing humanism in terms of the incarnation myth. Metaphorically we are 'God' in the process of getting himself born. Or, 'we' (an...

While I suspect that tranquility can never be completely independent of circumstances (food poisoning, torture, and so on), I very much respect it as ...

http://classics.mit.edu/Plotinus/enneads.6.sixth.html I think the 'form' is a social fact, a living convention. To say it's ideal is not IMV to add so...

Not sure if anyone wants to pull this thread with me, but, returning to artistic esotericism, I'd like to share some mystagogic music. source That's u...

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I think (roughly) that only scientism thinks science can replace philosophy, and that philosophy has made genuine progress, at the cost perhaps of mys...

I thought so & hoped you wouldn't mind the criticism. I found a nice essay on the evolving notion of rationality, which treats something like the 'mel...

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I do agree with you here. The evolving and ever hazy concept of rationality is itself an in-the-works product of that very rationality which is to be ...

Here are some passages that are almost metaphysical. I wrote about the 'saxofoam' (my term) of 'thought-sound' (So-sure's) in the Blue Book thread bef...

http://faculty.smu.edu/dfoster/cf3324/saussure.htm Constituted by differences. A sign is (only) what it is not. Somewhat analogously, money is not 're...

I think this project is haunted by an inescapable ambiguity, as argued for by an army of philosophers who I think have made a strong case. Is this a n...

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Sorry, Wayf, but this seems way off to me. In (relatively) free (relatively) democratic societies, a person can vote their conscience, for the prohibi...

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/derrida.htm By air or ink, the 'same' language, despite entirely different mediums, one...

Like I said, fair or not. Even adult-looking sex-dolls are somewhat taboo. I imagine that most users don't advertise their use of such dolls. Even leg...

Food for thought on the Sage: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/future/future1.htm

Classic empiricism is indeed crude by today's standards (well demolished even by secular thinkers.) But it's as if you are criticizing a brand new Tes...

This longing for unchanging, certain knowledge seems to me to be associated with religion and old-fashioned metaphysics ('rationalized' religion). As ...

My theory is that the 'fake porn' or 'doll' case summons to mind (fairly or not) a person without an actual lover who is therefore perceived as more l...

Consider Hume's problem of induction. If you mean necessity by the 'laws of logic,' then (as noted) quantitative models include it in their pure math ...

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That's a tough one. I can only guess what this or that author intended. Personally I'd make sense of the unconditioned in terms of the 'system' as a w...

For me antifoundationalism != nihilism. Personally I don't embrace/defend scientific realism. Electrons are no more real or unreal than chairs. Also/o...

Whence this power? It's not the average guy in the bar who knows about him, talks about him. It's skeptical, critical, egotistic, pugnacious foolosoph...

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I know this comment was not for me, but I think we can imagine a system of entities each depending on one another for their identity or meaning. In la...

Bingo! If you are interested in Saussure, then Culler's book has a great chapter that sums it up in 20 or 30 pages (pdf link in first post.) Glad you ...