I suggest reading enough Plotinus to see his objections to Aristotle. Gerson does not simply take those remarks as the only way to read Aristotle. But...
Yours is a fair challenge. I will try to gather a proper response as I can. In the meantime, I can ask about something in your statement: Aristotle pu...
What is the difference between "conclusions are generally based on presuppositions" and the attempt to establish first principles in the fashion of Ar...
I understand that first principles cannot be proven since they are accepted or rejected upon a basis of priority where one can go no further back from...
I am not of one mind regarding religious expression. I have lost more than one interlocutor while lingering in the hall without a good answer. The asc...
I think that is what Plato was trying to get beyond with the acceptance of dialectic as a necessity of combined ignorance. That spirit of dialectic ca...
The motif of comparing rest with motion, reminds me of Psalm 1: These ambulatory options amongst the world of humans are compared to a tree: Martin Bu...
There are narratives that tell us how much better we were in some distant past. There are others that tell of a movement away from the shadows of our ...
The significance of the theological was to differentiate between the cogito as a given rather than an outcome of a natural process. I was wondering ho...
The "standpoint of idealized rational subjectivity", as described by Descartes, comes into being out of nothing. In the Meditations, he argues that th...
I have read that essay several times. It is not an argument built upon assertions but a 'by means of negation': My problems with his argument have not...
Gerson is a devoted student of Plotinus. Plotinus had his own view of the limits of Aristotle in relation to what he thought Plato was saying. To some...
If I am correct, then Gerson has misunderstood Aristotle. I recognize that you want to use Gerson to leverage an argument against reduction in the con...
That convict element seems very important to the mix to me. I think of those videos where Progozhin is shown telling them (more or less): "Make no mis...
The arguments in Aristotle do not follow this line of reasoning. The "identity" with the object is not a simple correspondence of "forms". Aristotle g...
That aspect makes me wonder if Prigozhin had been communicating with parts of Putin's regime and other oligarchs who may have extended tentative suppo...
One element I found interesting in PDK back when I first read him as a teenager up to now as a pretty senior person is the theme of how one distinguis...
I am not (only) appalled by Wallace's ranking of different societies. Darwin did not fill in the cultural development dimension that Wallace does. May...
My family did not impose such a polarizing set of options of what makes a "real man" as yours did but the society around us was dominated by that etho...
The response by Surovikin makes sense as a way to cut out support from Wagner troops. I wonder how the heavy recruitment from prisons will play into t...
Plato addressed this problem from two directions. The need for dialectic as demonstrated in the middle books of The Republic shows that it is the inco...
Taking such a broad view that would encompass ancient, medieval, and modern points of view is a project beyond the scope of my tiny mind and would cal...
I mean to say that Descartes would largely agree. The greater degrees of freedom come from knowing more and resisting acting stupidly as a consequence...
That either/or always happens in the context of intellect: For Descartes, 'modes of thought' include all the processes we experience from sensation, t...
Maybe it would help if you gave a definition of the will as expressed by a philosophy that rings true for you. The concept has been approached many di...
Descartes is saying he is not in a position to compare "wills" of beings as a capacity in the way differences in knowledge and ability can be. As a fr...
I don't think Descartes is saying the will can be mastered. The reason he cannot experience the difference between his will and that of God's is becau...
There has been, is presently underway, and will be in the future, many ways to explore the experiences of infants through different models of childhoo...
In regard to our freedom to move forward that you show pervading many sides of Descartes' work, I have been thinking a lot about the historical moveme...
When a contingent believes that all of the evidence has been fabricated or planted, then the trial is only theater for them. No risk of suffering cogn...
Well, I think Dewey is acknowledging the discontinuity of the 'narrator' as you describe it but sees the activity to be grounded in a process where we...
That is how they roll. And they made the Ukrainian recapture of that ground very expensive. If they had advanced with solid logistical support instead...
If it was a feint, it was definitely planned. The same is true if it was not. I don't see the logic of If Russia had started moving towards Kiev in th...
That, after all, worked to some degree in the original taking of Crimea and the 'independent' Republics. Things would have been very different if the ...
Alain de Botton's remark reminds me of Thorstein Veblen's theory of Conspicuous Consumption. This speaks to: The entanglement of the personal within '...
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