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Dylan: "and like a fool, I mixed them."

I accept that trying to understand persons as objects is difficult and integral to our experience over time but balk at the idea that such a developme...

Your depiction of Actual and Potential reverses their roles given in Aristotle's writing: The key thing here is that matter is not an utter lack of ac...

Best of the season for you and the dear other.

Yes, there has been a sharp falling off of attempts to defend his behavior as a political device.

Kant made an effort to address this in the Paralogisms in the Critique of Pure Reason. Perhaps you could set your thesis against that since his view i...

I am reluctant to directly compare this to Descartes as he published in such a constrained environment. I am also reluctant to make my quoted passage ...

The rest of that sentence is important: "the form of a body which has life potentially. The next statement touches on the sense you are referring to: ...

By this formulation, you reserve a separate "place" for "forms" that Aristotle resisted. In either yours or 's account, the meaning of the words "matt...

Trump's reaction to Reiner's death reflects a life inside a recently shaken snow globe.

Are you speaking strictly for yourself or intending to represent what Kant meant by these terms?

I do not have your confidence regarding historical necessity. For that reason, I don't want to suggest I am arguing against your thesis.

I take your point about originality. I am not an apologist, in the many ways that may be understood. Kierkegaard makes an interesting attempt at looki...

I think that expresses an aspect of it. But perceiving what comes from actions is another thing. Conflicts of motivation.

Hmmmn, any redemptive features after that list of bad things...? Does that call for a justification to match a condemnation? There is an abundance of ...

I have read and heard of deontology as the contrary to consequentialism. In those terms, I suppose Kant is more of the former than the latter. He defi...

For Kant, the matter is not a derivation from Christian values but a focus on the concerns of the individual reflecting upon their condition as indivi...

I am glad to see your rethink because I think it is important to not turn all of this into one goo.

In terms of the next generation, it is a large difference between encouraging a revolt versus some kind of accommodation. That involves the different ...

Orban hyperventilates. Maybe the band can get back together.

One aspect about the difference between Hobbes and Rousseau is how their language appears in different political messaging. There is a "this arbitrary...

And there is the problem of the rear wheels falling off after any significant acceleration.

I see that you have posted your thread and will follow with interest. In the context of political divisions brought up in this thread, the lack of mor...

Verveake has come up a lot in discussions here. I suggest searching the site regarding Plotinus to get a sense of the disputes underway and what diffe...

I am not working that hard so will only hope you get what you are striving toward.

Before the idea came into collision with modern philosophy, there is the view of Plotinus who presented 'matter' as a field penetrated by form but nev...

Okay, I will give it a go. From my experience, the views of 'moral realism' you brought up do not reflect how education works in families and institut...

Seeing the aggregating function of the algorithm in action, it prompts me to wonder on the life expectancy of the inside joke or "esoteric" reference ...

Are you asking me to explain what I said without reference to what I just said? If the context I put forward is not germane to the discussion, it is d...

Will ponder. I do not have a snappy response.

I figure education is captured by an ongoing cultural war. From that point of view, any program put forward is not only a policy proposal but an attem...

I figure we were on the same page about that for some time regardless of whatever else we disagreed upon.

My comment was not to challenge your argument but to put it into the context of many others.

I was not claiming Kant as my north star, only pointing to a breaking point in a reference to him.

Well, Kant was pretty confident he was up to speed about the correct rules. I can take your point without agreeing there is no tension here.

As a matter of philosophical tradition, the problem of comparing the subjective to the objective is not being able to stand outside the circumstances ...

I have had a different experience. My family fought on both sides of our Civil War in the U.S. The choices between what is acceptable or not is worked...

I am willing to address that but how does that relate to your view of the presence of

I take your point about Kant putting forth a vision of universal humanism but that also came with a view of the law that was in conformity with author...

I agree. Crisp is pointing to a process of accommodation where the source of annoyance for whoever tends to recede into the background of other annoyi...

Pardon me if my last response was rude. Rather than proclaim what is happening in my country, I will put forward a question. What Crisp is saying does...

It is judgmental. A society accepts slavery and then stops doing that. That is a different cultural war from curtailing expressions of personal identi...

Tolerance is a term used in many different contexts ranging from what is permitted in intimate situations to legislation that has the power to limit o...

I second your motion.

I am familiar with that adversarial model.

Interesting response. Do you regret your participation in any way?

Are you a citizen of the U.S.?

I know you are joking and are reflecting upon years of participation. I have had different times when I broke off from the discussion for different re...

I am willing to see what happens on your ranch before trying it out on my cows.

I don't suppose I could argue otherwise without using that model. Maybe you could try your idea within an OP as an experimental clinic. I am having di...