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Myths are an essential element of Jung's concept. Thinking about them near Kant reminds me of how staunchly Kant opposed superstition.(exept, of cours...

Your point is well taken. I do think it is fair to say that Aristotle has no patience for the 'likely stories' and the devices of myth and poetry empl...

That is an interesting idea. I feel it is incumbent upon you to compare them side by side. Otherwise, my response would be a rebuttal in search of a t...

Yes, Kant and Schopenhauer presented an underlying scaffold that undergirds conscious experience. On the other hand, they would have shot beer through...

It confuses me at any rate. If a map is being made, it should help navigate the territory. And that is what Aristotle was demanding in his challenge t...

I meant to say he is departing from the domain of rationalist explanation but not negating them. He rejects Nietzsche's rejection of 'laws of nature',...

Okay, Carl, now tell us how you really feel. The separation Jung is making here is surely worthy of being challenged. I brought it up to note that he ...

I think Aristotle is framing eternity as a limit that we cannot approach without seeing our condition as unable to think about it past a certain point...

That leads me to think that my instincts were correct, and that the notion of origin is based upon a convention of the lexicon rather than a thesis re...

I am glad that Pantagruel brought this up because it has been bugging me for decades. One response I have gotten when I complained about academic publ...

I understood the quoted passage to be saying that the Latin word existere was too much like gignesthai (coming to be) for it to express the sharp cont...

That is certainly one possible explanation.

I am torn in this regard. People work and they should get paid. There are particular points of entry that get charged a certain amount. I have not see...

If you have not had this experience through doing meditation, what does it being reported by another person require from you?

This distinction between potential and actual should be considered through Spinoza's actual statements:

I looked for support for your idea in the paper and did not find it. Perhaps you could point to what appealed to you. The essay is interesting and I w...

I don't agree with the way you characterize the differences between agencies in Aristotle. We argued about this extensively last year after you posted...

Leaving aside your detractors in the past, I have trouble matching your distinction between ontology and epistemology with Aristotelian and Platonic t...

Are you guys referring to a specific OP?

In my reading of Spinoza, I was continually struck by how it opposed the views of Anselm. Thinking of God is not something you could not conceive of w...

It does lend support for that claim. It is interesting to me that the language in De Anima is more directed to recognizing different kinds of agency t...

I feel your pain. Oftentimes I have stood on the wrong side of the glass watching academics cavort freely with what I cannot afford.

It is a problem for science even if one does not aim to reduce consciousness into an epiphenomenon. It seems to me that the looking at all reduction a...

In addition to discussing where the activity emerges from, the agent intellect is presented as a limit to what can be called a 'personal capacity': Th...

After setting my previously expressed peevishness aside, I became curious about your thinking in terms of periods of time. Why is it an example of the...

Are you likening that to Russia hankering for Kiev without consulting them?

If your Chez is actually attacked, and you choose to fight the attackers, that could reasonably be called self-defense. As a concept, that is not co-e...

This embrace sounds like an obsession to harm oneself, using one kind of pain to distract from another. It appears to be an inversion of the Bushido a...

You have mapped the problem to your satisfaction.

I see/hear your challenge to the thesis of the OP. I agree with an element of it but also am trying to challenge your statements. Are we, perhaps, tal...

A "cause", is by your definition, outside of any stakeholders in how claims of right happen. That puts the Magna Carta and the American Civil Rights o...

There are many ways to hurt oneself and the compulsion to do so can take on a life of its own. But I don't want to compare your shadow with a darker o...

I am disappointed by this remark. It is one thing to challenge a point of view and another to ask for shared judgement in your register.

Isaac has repeatedly argued that Ukrainians are not enough of a self-identified group to say they are making a decision to act in self-defense togethe...

I wanted to point out that Bateson's statement goes beyond your observation regarding us being social animals. If the image of a Cartesian self is a m...

In regards to the boundaries of 'self', it is interesting to consider Bateson's view on the 'unit of evolutionary' change: While this is not the same ...

Isn't this 'actively cultivating suffering' a fetish indistinguishable from other possible fascinations?

Because it is more fun.

Agreed. I read De Anima as a continuation of that thought. Our life is this life too.

This provides nothing to the discussion. Only contempt. I bet you are capable of more than that.

I figure what Sachs is asking is whether you can have your cake and eat it too in the matter of life "being wholes" or the result of a fundamental pro...

One of the topics constantly haggled over in the Groundhog Day cycle of arguments that has been this OP for a year concerns the credibility of evidenc...

I realize it was a joke. I cannot expiate the sins of Americans, but the makers of Bennie Hill have their own cross to bear. I theorize that the laugh...

What about the Brits and their laugh tracks? Watch Keeping Up Appearances for instance.

Skinner did not deny it existed, he said it did not cause change. I only brought it up because you mentioned it. The theory is as dumb as a bag of roc...

I was thinking about that while reading the essay offered upthread by Fooloso4: The Battle of the Gods and the Giants by Joe Sachs. Nietzsche's object...

Sounds pretty certain. Is very contemptuous.

It can be taken away from you at a moment's notice. Preparation for death makes sense if you believe what you do now will change a future outcome. But...

To accept it will happen is to stop being preoccupied with it. The clock is ticking. This is the part of the show where you are alive. Don't waste it ...

The issue is 99.9% obvious and certain for you. Any disagreement could only be ventured upon by complete morons. It is rare to see a point of view so ...