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But truthfulness is a virtue and a virtue is a character trait. Character traits are contingent on habituation. How can an essence be acquired through...

It's very interesting I will try reading him sometime. Thanks. Yes exactly. How else could they be grounded? Moreover, my current view is that our bei...

I take that back. The thing-in-itself is a brilliant concept that is fundamentally anti-metaphysical.

I think the thing-in-itself belongs to a specific historical context involving specific ontological presuppositions. The concept has no place in a pos...

How is the will just not subjectivity?

Two sides of the same coin like subject and object? Will as subject and representations as object. I'm not sure if Heidegger ever critiques Schopenhau...

Interesting... What does Levinas mean by ethics? I looked up his entry on Stanford encyclopedia which begins: "Levinas's philosophy has been called et...

I think You are both on to something. T Clark, I don't think you expressed your idea clearly enough when you said "I would add that it should be hardw...

What would be an example of what you're getting at?

Really? How do you interpret "we are adapted by nature to receive them "?

This sounds A LOT like Aristotle in Book 2 of the Nicomachean Ethics: "Virtue, then, being of two kinds, intellectual and moral, intellectual virtue i...

Sorry but I have to disagree. Historically, there have been different and conflicting ways that we have understood our own humanity. That our cultural...

I think for something to count as human nature it has to be something innate while simultaneously pointing to or articulating what is fundamentally di...

I am torn. If what counts as a moral action is an action that comes from virtue for example, which is my view, then fantasy immediately seems irreleva...

They surely have a different idea but what is relevant is that they have the wrong idea.

Are there different Nothings? Different ways in which Nothing is understood? Perhaps there is a primordial Nothing on the one hand and a not so primor...

Interesting questions... I think he does think morality is what we would call objective. The nazis used rational means, sure, but having rationality d...

I didn't realise there were two. It turns out I have the other one which is a thin book also. It was originally intended as an article written in 1924...

Oh nice! That's awesome that you're reading B&T!! I actually got The Concept of Time out of the library the other day. I am about to begin reading it ...

Or, in other words, (wo)man is hermeneutical.

I think the concept of hermeneutics fits nicely with this idea: We each have our own meaningful self interpretations while partaking in a common "esse...

This is exactly what I'm doing, phenomenology. When I gave the melody example I was using it as a phenomenological example to show the importance of a...

meditation is not how we experience the world. Meditation is how we experience a deworlded world. I mean there is no experience of a world in meditati...

That strangers from different cultures might anticipate differently is completely irrelevant. The point is that anticipation, or being temporally ahea...

I mean within the context of the melody...

How important is the anticipation? Or the awaiting of futural notes expectantly? To me it seems crucial to the experience.

Can you please illustrate this?

would the example of a musical melody suffice as an example? The present note is framed in terms of the retention of prior notes and also the anticipa...

While you were writing the above response, and you were pressing your fingers against each of the keys on the keyboard, did you experience I understan...

One does not place oneself in the future, one is the future existingly. It is only through being somewhat determined by the past and by projecting int...

Well that is not what I experience. I am oriented towards the future not the present. What I am doing presently only makes sense because I am primordi...

Excuse me ladies and gentlemen, may I ask what you mean when you say that something like time or the present exists and the past and future does not? ...

Sorry I'm confused, why do we need presentism to ground ethical claims? If presentism were true there could be no justice. It is new to me, but to me ...

I really like what you're getting at. But could we take it even a step further and say that the past only exists in the future? It is true we are an a...

Sorry if I offended you. I have never had to consider myself a secularist. Probably because I was brought up in a godless world (New Zealand)... My fa...

But by whose standards is this wrong? By your contemporary culture's generic norms? Are you xenaphobic?

If morality determined cultural norms like you say, and given that cultural norms change, does this entail that morality changes? Also would it entail...

but not good by what standards?

Okay if you say so, fair point. You obviously know quite a bit about ancient philosophy. Can you please point me in the right direction? If I wanted t...

Are there any strong arguments against cultural relativism? There are some virtues that appear in all cultures however this doesn't disprove the idea ...

I think I've become cultural relativist.

I think there is too. However I'm having a real hard time seeing how this inside something is separate from, or different to, cultural norms...

That is a good answer. I understand what conscience is. Nevertheless I suspect that babies are not born with a conscience, and that it is something th...

you say duty drives the ethical. What drives the duty?

Hmm, I don't think 'nature' would be the right word to use. I'm not opposing reason and nature. What I'm opposing reason to is that before we stop to ...

I totally agree. I think Truth, however we define it, is integral to our being. I think there are always background meaningful self interpretations go...

I think the idea behind Aletheia is that in unconcealing or disclosing being, you are simultaneously concealing or covering up being. An example might...

1. No. 2. See 1 above. 3. It seems that you're really asking a question about human nature here. Perhaps truth is human nature? But what does truth ev...

What is Truth? Whoops I was on a different page... way behind... ha

Maybe we should agree to disagree. To modify your quote above, I would summarize my position as: 1. The being of the object-Thing as an occurrent phys...