bloodninja

I don't know what it means to have a metaphysical experience.

I think it depends on how one understands 'meaning'.

It's the economy, stupid!

are you simple?

I think you two are talking past each other in that you have different understandings of what counts as being. One of you two seems to slide in and ou...

does not every language user already have a concept of suffering? Is your concept, or your extension of its usage, different to the everyday concept a...

I see what you're trying to express. But I think it is totally misguided. Try replacing 'knowledge' with 'understanding', and 'good' with 'true'.

I have to agree with Janus here. Another way to put the same point is that the practically wise person is phenomenologically open to the unique situat...

Heidegger argues that we are pre-ontological. I think this might help our discussion. I'll try to research what exactly he means by this today.

no not at all. I just feel that the word has strong religious connotations.

Is wisdom a religious concept? I know Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics discussed the difference between practical wisdom and theoretical wisdom; we...

I've been enjoying this discussion. But I'm quite confused by what you mean by "always already implicitly inherent in pre-reflective experience"? What...

I guess it depends on what we mean by 'derivative'. If derivative merely means implicit then subject/object might be argued to be fundamental like you...

Marx's dialectics according to David Harvey: 'One of the most important things to glean from a careful study of Volume I is how Marx's method works. I...

Firstly, how is conscience not a social construct? Humans are basically sheep, and we like the comfort of conformity (conscience). secondly, I agree s...

Hi there. It seems that what you're getting at with the alienation you describe is covered by Marx's concept of commodity fetishism. He wrote a famous...

But what makes the micro and macro actualizable goals within one's life possible as such? It seems to me like the numerous actualizable goals we have ...

If a social construct can reasonably be considered to be "objective" then morality is "objective". Morality has the same objective status that languag...

Why internal vs external? Don't you think that, for the most part, this way of describing our every day experience misleading. For example, when every...

I think agree with this! You are talking about being. It seems you're not denying the universe's independent metaphysical "existence" only it's being....

I would have to agree. I still maintain that our shared understanding of gender changes with our shared understanding of being however.

Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: "I am looking for God...

Sorry I don't really understand this. By being do you mean gender?

Gender roles aren't disregarded, gender roles change as society changes and our shared understanding of being changes. An interesting Marxist take on ...

perhaps the difference between sex and gender is the same as the difference between ethnicity and race? In any case, it seems to me obvious that gende...

So you don't think sex and gender are synonymous? Is gender is a social construct?

emotions are necessary but not sufficient for morality just like rationality is necessary but not sufficient for morality. Read Aristotle.

I think feeling is essential to morality. Surely this is what keeps morality from devolving into a blind conformity, no? I would say your aliens are c...

The ideal government would be one freely chosen by its people through open and non-coercive means (e.g. rational discussion/debate).

Are you distinguishing between a desire for non existence (or a desire for some kind of existence) and a disclosure of the Buddhist truth that you don...

What value is Epistemology in a post-Cartesian world?

Maybe I'm reading too much into what you said about "independent", excuse me if I am... I don't see how systems like mathematics and logic are either ...

Nevertheless, you haven't shown that logic and mathematics are ultimately not derived from us and our shared understanding of being. All you have show...

Here is what Kant said, that existence is not a real predicate or property of a concept. Which is to say that existence is not analytically contained ...

I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and...

Interesting... On the whole possibility/impossibility idea Heidegger has a lot to say. However, he is talking about ontological rather than derivative...

But how can it be more "natural" for us when we are not, or are no longer? I mean, death is when we cease being the distinct entities that we are. We ...

I'm not blaming anything on anything. I'm just interested in the juxtaposition of being and nothing. I haven't thought it through properly but being (...

What kind of definite uncontroversial things can be said?

All I was arguing was that the hammer's being as equipment (which is how we primarily encounter it rather than as an object) is dependent on us and a ...

Rich you are a madman!

I don't pretend I don't have a mind at all. All I'm saying is that the football game is primarily a shared, engaged and circumspective activity, not m...

Perhaps it's difficult because the mind directly observing itself didn't create any of the examples you offered? What does a football game have to do ...

Now would be a good time to give some examples to articulate your direct observation of the mind directly observing the mind. In your view is only obs...

So the mind creates the new patterns that it directly observes? Is the mind directly observing the mind?

Are 'direct observation' and the 'mind' distinct in your view? Does one come before the other or are they essentially the same?

How is it possible to observe patterns in nature without some kind of tool that ontologically discloses the patterns as patterns? It is not direct obs...

What about the experience of loss, lack, dread, angst? Perhaps these experiences point to a primordial preconceptual phenomenal aquantiance with nothi...

Perhaps your problem is precisely that you are thinking of yourself (or identity itself) as a thing or a collection of things. In Heidegger's jargon, ...

That doesn't make any sense in multiple ways. Over and out