Not really. Aristotle had no trouble, Kant had no trouble, Schopenhauer had no trouble, Nietzsche had no trouble, etc. etc.... I think you are misinte...
You appear to be grounding morality in biology. That is all I meant by calling your view biological determinism. You seem to be understanding human na...
Wow that is a very controversial view! Could we call your view biological determinism? It seems to be a naturalism based in our biology or genetics. I...
Fair enough. But Heidegger is explicitly not describing consciousness. Being in the world, for him, is more basic than consciousness or unconsciousnes...
What is the difference between the virtual and the actual other? Lately I've been digging into Heidegger. Heidegger describes how dasein is for the mo...
Interesting response. Yes the phenomenon of the nothing must also have positive aspects. I think genius like Einstein and Nietzsche for example, as we...
The 2nd time you use "physical" above do you mean physical as in "an object of physics" like you do the 1st time you used the word? Because physical c...
I think you're onto something interesting here. It is vacuous in a way. In a way not. I think the apparent circularity is between the empirical scienc...
No way I don't think that. I think you and I agree. All I have been trying to do is to show that the Webster definition is not suggesting this, that r...
I don't. You do because you say race is not related to culture and then you go and use race to describe a kind of culture. The Maori culture is relate...
'Trait' has different meanings. It is a distinguishing characteristic of some kind. A material trait as concerns culture refers to the style of the ma...
Maybe it would be interesting if you gave your view of how we even speak of Maori culture if culture is not related to race? Maori is a race. Putting ...
You have it back to front. The definition is not saying that culture is based on race, only that distinct racial groups have a shared culture. Are you...
I think you need to distinguish between race and genetics Race is social, genetics is science. Moreover, the definition does not mention genetics once...
I still dont know what you mean. By "defined by" i take it that you mean determined by. But the definition doesn't say that race determines culture. Y...
If they did not then we couldn't speak of a Maori culture, or a Samoan culture for example. It would be unintelligible what we mean by these terms if ...
Did you think the definition that you mentioned was saying that race (or genetics as you understand it) somehow determines culture? I think you have s...
if that is how morality is grounded then how is morality not completely accidental and arbitrary? But morality doesn't seem to be completely accidenta...
From Wikipedia: Craig Venter and Francis Collins of the National Institute of Health jointly made the announcement of the mapping of the human genome ...
I agree with that. But given that race is not genetic, but is yet another socially constructed grouping like religion and "other social groupings" it ...
It seems to me that meaning is grounded in our cultural background practices. I walk along the street and I am bombarded with meaning; its ubiquity su...
I think the only way to make guilt clear is to relate it to the care structure which is supposed to be an ontological characterization of how dasein e...
It has been a while since I read Brave New World. Do the test tube humans never get old because they undergo a tranquilised sedated demise as one does...
Hursthouse talks about v-rules. She means that the virtues already contain normative rules within them. E.g. "Do what is honest/charitable; do not do ...
I think that end note is written by Farin, not Heidegger, and so at best, it can only be taken as an interpretation of what Heidegger was trying to ge...
I think that is roughly how it unfolds in B&T Because nobody would understand what the time was otherwise haha. But I think Blattner/Heidegger argue t...
That Blattner article is great! I'm not so sure about this... Heidegger does describe a 'temporality of circumspective concern', which is more closely...
Hey Tom, sorry I haven't had much time to engage in this discussion. But what do you think Heidegger means by pastness in The Concept of Time? By 'the...
How so? Morality is only human. God is dead. Sentience is absolutely irrelevant as far as the grounding of morality is concerned. I think you are also...
Sorry I don't understand, can you please explain more what you meant here? No because the idea of sentience grounding morality can't be taken seriousl...
I agree. It does seem vague. I'm no expert either but I think the reason it looks vague to us is that we perhaps don't have a complete understanding o...
I agree absolutely. I also liked Carman's apt description of biological perishing and biographical demise. I suspect the 'existential wholeness' aspec...
That Carol White forward written by Dreyfus that you linked above is brilliant and extremely comprehensive! I would HIGHLY recommend that everyone who...
1. God. Which god? Jesus? Allah? Shiva? Buddha? Brahma? Ganesha? Mahavira? etc. etc... 2. Well-being. Okay but how would one know what would count as ...
I really liked learning and reading Schopenhauer at Uni. It was so different to everything else that I had encountered at that point. All I was meanin...
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