One would think, but then it wasn't. They punted because the "right" party wasn't named even though it is the state that enforces private rights of ac...
Perhaps the early death rattle of the republic. The court is packed, the Senate unresponsive to the majority, and a temporary allocation of power to t...
Yes law, but no, not always things that can be solved with money. There is, perhaps, a difference between conversations in which you want people to do...
I was actually going to mention negotiation/mediation, but figured it might be too far afield. Often in a negotiation (shuttle diplomacy style), you c...
Why? I appreciate the sentiment, but reject the premise. People actually do have different ideas about “the good” or “justice” or the proper relation ...
I’ve never understood you two with your seeming commitment to practicality while at the same time being committed to the law of non-contradiction. Som...
Or maybe the name is about a particular sense of “boredom” that is more about the lack of joie de vivre brought on by existential angst than momentary...
@Banno But really, philosophy is a conversation with jargon that hopefully facilitates more efficient communication. I can’t possibly ask you a 15 wor...
My hope is that the quote and linked article provides some context. My question relates to these quotes. You use the word "phenomena" in much the way ...
Remind me, Banno, did you ever address mereological nihilism or process metaphysics? I can't recall if you think "thingness" is necessarily object bas...
So you are saying that I’m being misleading by using the English word “religion” in a way that would do injustice to a culture that died 1,000 years p...
I am not quite so dismissive. Banno, for instance, knows what rhetorical devices are and he isn’t naively employing them. And the bashing of religion ...
I vaguely feel like that was the question I was trying to pose in my OP, but with a little less normative flair. I was trying to explore if there was ...
And yet when we try to talk of religion we hear how science gives us keyboards and religion gives us the Taliban. Being aware that everything has its ...
This is a muddled idea that I’m unsure how to clean up. We’ve got some agents (with undefined capacities outside of the ability to “mean” or perhaps “...
Shooting the scientists alive today would be like closing the doors after the cows are out, no? Perhaps you think it was the Taliban that invented the...
Like two ships passing in the night. Our context is such that despite our willingness to play the game, we lack sufficient commonality to get off the ...
And yet science brings about climate change. So maybe it is people are shitty and you pick the narrative for why they are shitty that advances your ag...
You are right, of course. We are in a culture that can't help but keep fighting the dead god as if it lives. And in some ways, it isn't just the undea...
Language is a game, so why not have fun? But really, the post started off with a discussion of religion, language, and meaning, so I'm not sure how it...
That is an interesting pragmatic take on the discussion - that religion is such a loaded concept that applying it to the secular context would break t...
Not sure what you are asking here. What is spirituality if not religious? Besides saying, “Spirituality is not religious,” what is it that spiritualit...
I’m confused by this. The theme is pretty expressly that “religion” is the proper term to describe a language community engaged in meaning creation re...
Indeed. So let’s say I did this with the comment animating the exchange… “ ...electronics provided one of the most satisfying answers to that engineer...
I imagine we agree on a variety of things, but don’t you think it a bit odd to divorce “spirit” from “spirituality” in a conversation where I am inves...
I get the temptation to jettison religion, but isn’t there more than just Islam and Christianity? Like if we go into a department of comparative relig...
The same as the point of calling it religious 200 years ago, no? What is the point of calling anything anything? My use is hardly here or there, it is...
One might say that existential meaning is what we orient to while symbols are what we use to convey meaning. Symbols (or words) do not merely refer (i...
Nothing so fancy, Banno. I had hoped my allusion to the gordian knot and alternatives to untying would amuse you. My suggestion is no more or less tha...
Come now, Banno. Surely Alexander can provide some inspiration and a deft word or two will be the knot’s undoing. Is it at least a pretty knot? There ...
As a historical matter, what community discussed these things besides religious communities? Even in philosophy, I would venture that much of the conv...
To the extent that "objective" is in opposition to "subjective" and whether something is "known" is an evaluation of subjects, I find the idea of "obj...
But I’ve never verified it, provisionally or otherwise. I’ve just accepted that the reports of others (in word or picture) have been helpful before. A...
That would be metaphysics (rather than epistemology) and I don’t talk about such things. As for talking about myself, that is the way language works. ...
Not sure why you’d think that is solipsism and not nihilism. In this case, we are discussing epistemology and, so far as I know, epistemological nihil...
Frankly my views on it are anathema to a civilized audience. Justification strikes me as an ethical evaluation, i.e. that given a particular set of ci...
One does not define things logically (cf. systematic definition), one simply defines them and sees what, if anything, their logic can do with those de...
Unfortunately, I am a nihilist so…. On the upside, I like T Clark’s recent quote. So I’d say something is true when it would be counterproductive to s...
Are we talking about facts or facts? So far as I can tell, facts are the things we putatively make statements about and then judge such statements tru...
This is probably the trouble. Beliefs simply are - the way that they arise is the subject of study in a variety of fields. You seem to have reached a ...
Corvus, Though there is some romantic appeal to the idea that beliefs arise from some sort of mental evaluative process, I don't think that I agree, e...
I think a quick detour is in order. A language community is not meant to be simply "people who are using language with one another limited to the cont...
Corvus, Your division seems a bit "just so" and contrary to how most people would understand the interaction of belief and certainty. "I believe X" is...
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