Paine

I think the work of Jacob Gorender: Colonial Slavery, does an excellent job of challenging Hegel's view while recognizing the importance of it. It is ...

Yes, I recognize my statement is provocative. On the other hand, have you read the text? It is very short.

We know the Paul message because that is what became the church. The focus upon the end of days was paramount. You were either in the salvation life r...

I do think the message is about the "the inverse of the popular belief that being wise leads to financial wealth and the idea that those who are rich ...

I get that. A big part of the success of the Republican Party has been getting people out to vote no matter what is on the ballot. I don't know how th...

So, this 'true gnostic', are you one of that kind?

What?

What is the formula? How is that not a vote for fascism?

Lame response.

I don't know what I am reacting to. You cloak yourself in mystery.

Your hand sweeps broadly against your perceived opponents. You seem to claim a gnosis of your own against all others.

The US does not have a 'none of the above' option in their slates. Some states are trying forms of ranked voting to alter how run-off elections work.

How it is done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuCpTi0EtbU

In the Gospel of Thomas, self-knowledge is related to poverty and wealth. Whether you follow a denomination or not, this idea is a powerful player in ...

And now this private decision is being given public notice. That is a political message.

Then how do you see the withdrawal from the legal right to vote as making change more possible?

If the decision is not connected to a means of change, is not the refusal an acceptance of the service you find so revolting?

If that is what is said, it is a very private statement. Other men will gladly accept your silence as submission. If everybody withdraws from the sele...

I started with a number of religious influences but understood them mostly in terms of psychology. That is to say, it was a desire to understand my ex...

The emphasis that agency is not given is what I understood by the separation. As a theory of language, do we learn it as starting with units or are th...

I am not sure how to distinguish between willful ending of life from choosing to not defend life. I have one old friend who fought to the last and ano...

Thomas is an odd factor. To some degree, he is anti-federalist about many of these issues. He wants a constitutional restriction upon what can be gran...

Yes, sending the matter to the states permits different laws in different places. But the legality of laws is a big part of what the Supreme Court has...

What does destroying a bad principle look like? I understand skepticism. I get the idea that we live in our time of ideas. But what does destroying a ...

As I understand it, the exclusion of other views of the divine characterizes the Pauline version of Christianity. So, the question of what might be se...

I rewatched Ivan the Terrible recently. The language is closer to Putin's than even Stalin's. With Eisenstein, of course, it is all mixed up with each...

I think restraint is a part of it. One has so many more options if one can slow down the reactions. A lot of inventing is about giving oneself more ti...

I wonder if the matter of history was the bone of contention in the idea of 'structure.' For instance, one could be skeptical of the progressions Hege...

What Chalmer is trying to do as a scientist does not dissolve the use of the "I." Isn't the immediacy of experience a given quality in the discussion?...

So, you have never betrayed a friend, kissed the ass of a boss, represented your failures in the best possible light, or deferred blame to another as ...

Are you not presented with moral dilemmas beyond trying to be polite?

How does that relate to the norms you referred to?

Does that mean you don't fiercely hold what you consider to be correct in your encounters?

I think Foucault's Care of Self works are an important advance toward seeing how the matter of personal well-being played an important part in differe...

The Bush neocons broke the application of international law and the usefulness of the U.N. The hubris expressed was that it was only the fist that kep...

tartarscore - the period between dental cleanings.

That well describes my experience as a parent. A sharp reduction of arrogance. There is still something to keep between generations.

Perhaps you could expand upon that since you put so much emphasis on subjectivity being a 'Christian' thing.

What about my suggestion that thinkers have been struggling with 'consciousness' well before the Middle Ages?

The first thing it suggests to me is that the investigation of what consciousness is did not start with a 'Christian' idea of the subject. Plato talks...

What to make of the 'know thyself' impetus in Plato? Our existence as evidence of some kind.

Do you not have the experience of being stuck with yourself? Your life and your death are yours alone, no matter who grieves or not after your end. Th...

I agree that making a neat distinction is impossible. The question I hear Chalmers asking is how does one practice science in this environment. The us...

The phenomena must be measurable, and events must be repeated to check models for viability. That such phenomena yield results of this kind is no prom...

Chalmer's work does not insist upon figuring out the limit of the physical but is interested in building models where consciousness is the function of...

A good performance of War Requiem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=625WOYzdvFw

I have listened to the 10.000 days album several times now. The way bass and percussion move and change together permits the other effects. The drummi...

That is one tight band. I did not know of it.

There is the question of how having consciousness is an advantage but being able to say how it happens as a process we can recognize through scientifi...

I read the problem Chalmers presents as a problem of building models. Can there be a completely 'objective' model that explains the experience of cons...