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If what you say is simple as that, then the best defense would be to argue that in a court of law.

It is interesting that Lauro, (Trump's lawyer), calls for televised court sessions along with many on the other side of the aisle. I am surprised that...

My Kingdom, for a horse. Or is it the other way around?

Let that freak flag fly!

I was observing that you were intentionally using criteria that cannot be used. Doing so is an evasion of the matter of what can be proved (or not).

A dynamic in Hegel that helps confound the matter further is how the development of the individual is a matter of the concrete in distinction to a mer...

None of your allegations are going to be applicable in court. There are only the unsupported claims, lies, and interference with official operations o...

Hegel was an "idealist." He was a devoted Lutheran who saw the truth of religion as integral to the truth of philosophy. But he also said philosophy h...

Should I conclude from these remarks, that the development of universals, that took up so much of Hegel's efforts, was merely a footnote against the t...

I think we are all peculiarly situated to have problems. And the tools we have to deal with them are also odd. So, I tend to be amazed we can function...

I am not irritated. I was considering my own personal reasons. I will keep my wondering to myself, as requested.

You presented the matter as varying levels of concern. The differences others dwell upon are not your problem. That leads me to wonder what is your pr...

There is a tension between Fate and Freedom in all of philosophy. I am asking how that plays out particularly in Hegel's writings.

Do you think of that as some kind of exemption others do not?

What I don't see in your descriptions is the long centuries of suffering required to approach the universal as something we could talk about. That is ...

I would consider putting Foucault upon your list because of his writings, Concern of the Self, emphasizing the notion of health as requiring a persona...

You will have to cite where you get this interpretation from for me to follow along. I am not sure we are reading the same texts.

In the passage quoted, Hegel questions outlining conditions in which the 'understanding' may or may not be able to function. To that degree, he is cha...

Russell's opinion misses a quality of Berkeley when Berkeley says nobody can actually question the phenomenal. Object permanence happens. God, in this...

From what I understood of him, there was no way to tell. He was arguing against those who said they had a point of leverage to move the activity one w...

I am pretty sure that Hegel was not on board with that "postulation" as a description of what he was trying to do. Consider one of his objections to K...

That prompts me to think that both Fukuyama and Huntington are not dependable prognosticators on the basis of their theses but perhaps Fukuyama has an...

I guess one of the problems with the Huntington view is that once one has agreed to a certain means of exchange, then one has joined that world purpor...

Good. there is something out there, trying to get in.

The distinction you make between persons and the situations they find themselves in is interesting. What I would approach as degrees of freedom are im...

Are you using a rubric where all are the same? I agree as a matter of identity but situations in the world are very different. You have not expressed ...

Race thinking. So, what is that? An acknowledgement of a sequence of events or something else?

I get the impression you do not live in one of those places shaped by racial differences.

I recognize the distinction between inner and outer reality that you have drawn out. It seems to me that if one has a practice that keeps one alive an...

As a matter of theological theses, the distinction between esoteric and exoteric are not easily separated. While the Valentinus group shared a room wi...

One of the elements I find interesting when comparing Veblen with Marx is how the 'predatory' quality gets associated with a desire to dominate in con...

Someone figures out how to build something that would change the market for those capable of investing in that particular possibility. The investors a...

The question of how values were maintained and developed was a focus of Hegel and his critics afterwards. But it is often overlooked how Hegel focused...

In regard to the desire for recognition, there are many ways to compare the 'freedom' of some people in communities with the levelling that comes abou...

Much to consider in your comments. I will try to get up to speed.

My pleasure. Is there a philosopher (or more than one) from the Orthodox side you see as a counterpoint to the western Scholastics? Perhaps another wa...

The special page exists, but nothing else does.

The point I wish to make is that the tension between the natural order and the truth of religion that occupied the Scholastic philosophers did not exi...

Yes, and Augustine said Plotinus was a better Platonist than Plato was in the City of God. But that sense of what is a natural good was still separate...

But Plotinus is not introducing a personal God to witness the activities. We get with the program because we understand our situation, or we do not.

I meant my remark about properties to apply specifically to Plotinus assigning a different role to 'matter', as potential, from what Aristotle did. Fo...

I appreciate your efforts to compare the texts. I think Sui Han's points are Important and will look into his writings. In the portion I quoted, Ploti...

There are many different interpretations. As one who has gotten dusty from the tomes, I am not sure how to read you balancing your interest in the wor...

The dialogue did not gloss over the central role of power. Whether the City is healthy or not as an individual soul is the ratio the gang of the power...

Agreeing or disagreeing with interpretations aside, are you saying that pursuing authorial intent in the writings is a foolish enterprise because supp...

Okay, I will give it a try. The problem with Gerson is that he does not distinguish between the different roles Matter (? ???) plays amongst the 'Ur-P...

The Republic begins with Thrasymachus saying that justice is merely the order of those who presently have power. There is a lot of evidence to support...

I am not sure either. Both Plato and Aristotle argued against the 'relativity' of Protagoras. From that point of view, the matter is something that ne...

Dryden used couplets. Jack and Jill preferred buckets. How should these be filled? The form dances with nature. Uncertain of the future.

Lexicon made through Mutual exclusion, Looks for other words. Ginko leaves mat the wet ground. Woodpeckers interrupt thought.