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Anabasis of Alexander the Great by Arrian. Arrian's style of critical admiration with concise recounting of events is awesome.

But that ignores your life. Whatever is keeping you alive does not care a whit about your logic.

I would be interested in the drones being captured by helicopters and studied afterwards.

I do not read the Republic to say that the equation of Thrasymachus did not exist. The work does not solve the problem but shows how it is surrounded ...

I don't understand this view of compulsion. Whatever this life thing is, it has its own life. I have survived a number of crises because something too...

The central problem is the ever-increasing degree of income disparity between those at the top and everyone else. Moving from the visions of free trad...

I hear the rehashing part. I do it too. Demarking a clear line of what is or not a history of philosophy is a problem in deciding what is talked about...

When I read through many of those threads, it strikes me that interest in the primary texts is rarely what gets discussed. Edit to add: But I see you ...

Hah, no treble. Love the animal print dresses. Don't tell anybody.

I will look for more songs in the box.

Virtue is beautiful. Despair is not a good look.

I do think that is so. His refusal to live there is the thing.

Your suggestion is interesting to me. I figure a policy about secondary sources would have to be established for such a thing to work. The usual pract...

At the very least, since Sam can do that song, it would be embarrassing for me to despair.

The following from the Tractatus still seems to apply in the Blue Book: The matter of what is right and wrong is not a single problem. Socrates and Wi...

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While I recognize that W is taking a stance against the singularity of Plato's use of essence, he is oddly just like Socrates in accepting he has to l...

I, too, worry about 'sycophant loyalists'. The point I was making about the supporting staff is that there is a paradoxical blowback from hiring profo...

Patel won't be able to do jack shit by himself. He needs a cadre of Federal employees willing to do his bidding, particularly if investigations are in...

My challenge is simple. I will not withdraw it. But I will leave the discussion, upon your request. Fare forward, as Eliot said.

Then cite some passages from those who use it without relation to the isolation of the individual.

You are applying a definition not shared by the common sense of the word as the isolation of the individual from the world beyond their senses and rep...

You are proposing various possible conditions for our experience. Solipsism imagines there is no way to verify other beings because they have to be pr...

I find the general category of "idealism vs. realism" unhelpful when reading ancient texts. It retrojects later interpretations on to authors that had...

I agree. I read the book as confirming your statement when W says: I think of that as asking why we are so good at doing it. The different models we c...

Your link raises some interesting questions and historical comparisons. There is still a lot of work to be done understanding what Aristotle was inten...

I only mentioned the last move before his death. The SEP article I linked to may have the circumstances right or wrong. I was not proposing all of his...

He did express pleasure in seeing new places. But the question of feeling compelled to move is the question raised above regarding opinions unpopular ...

Okay. Sallis requires careful reading of Timaeus to be of any value. I suggest starting there. Before addressing your description of place, I think we...

Well, Descartes did die working for a Protestant queen of Sweden who converted to Catholicism of a Jesuit variety and then got in trouble opposing the...

That is how some have interpreted the 'nesting' quality of Aristotle's description of 'places within places.' That interpretation, however, runs afoul...

You stand outside the problems of solipsism when you compare them to other conditions.

Since the topic of Aristotle has come up, I will quote selectively from a post of mine in another thread. First, there is the passage from Timaeus tha...

Where, in that description, is an activity outside of psychology? Wittgenstein was the one who insisted upon an activity beyond that.

A helpful starting point is how Plotinus talked about memory. Free version.

Zippers are for friends.

Cool until you get into deeper water.

Saying all generalizations are wrong would be another generalization. I don't read that as what is going on. But I understand why that is a question t...

Plotinus spoke of having the experience of being present to the source from which our souls descended. The move is accompanied by a cosmogony where th...

I think the appeal to the Augustinian exploration of self was done as a safe place as leverage against the Scholastic schools who dominated the discus...

I guess that the "craving for generality" is a condition that we cannot escape. That is a psychological observation along with whatever it is that Wit...

I don't get the sense that the condition is explained away. The "illusion of language" seems like a complete explanation in a work that questions "gen...

Till next time.

:up: The effortless grace of it is scary.

I agree that our access to facts is limited. I don't think "tree" applies in this case because "time" is being compared to other ideas with no body: I...

The song has the tension of a nostalgia for a place that does not exist, at least yet. "Blossom fails to bloom." There is a sense of shame in the nega...

Berkeley's version of solipsism is precisely what is discussed in the latter portion of the Blue Book. Wittgenstein's effort differs from Kant who wor...

Sha La La La La: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsMUxdZGgWI

It is important to consider and give a response. I need to take some time to make it more than an emotional reaction. I am presently fixing a hole whe...

I hear you, friend of mine.