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You are arrogant. That is a self-evident fact. I will not hinder your progress with any other observations.

But the expression "F=MA" did not magically appear to you as self-evident fact. It came from years of people asking why things happen the way they did...

Citation, please. That is not how the word is used. Your definition sounds more like a premise to a model, not something found to be true by one means...

That is an interesting bifurcation of experience. When shown how to complete the square in algebra, I can learn a set of rules that will work each tim...

I was trying to make heads or tails out of the Monadology when I lost focus after seeing the other kids outside the window, throwing knives they had j...

It seems to me that one of the points made in the Bushido culture is that accepting death is not just a matter of being willing to check out if events...

Wittgenstein said as much. A factor of what? People more or less agreeing that some things happen but others don't? Common sense versus some other kin...

I don't understand what you are saying here. Perhaps you can bring in more of Wittgenstein's language that you object to for the purposes of clarifica...

On Certainty is not saying that. The article you linked to does not seem to understand that Wittgenstein is questioning the extent of Moore's use of s...

Dreams where that happens always seems to trigger a sequence that forces me to wake up, grateful to be back.

Well, Kant did say this: In due course, Kant lays out his 'determination' and says: "Accordingly, we shall here be concerned with experience only and ...

I am unsure how the element of 'truth value' fits into this work. I have no idea what an "antirealist" reading of Wittgenstein might look like. But th...

I am confused here. I thought some of what Wittgenstein was resisting was the utility Moore put in placing some propositions outside of what could be ...

One big difference between the gospel of Thomas and the other versions is that in Thomas, the kingdom of heaven is said to have come into existence an...

Especially when you have to ship device overseas for repairs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6NqscIsidQ

I am curious how Barth figures into your argument. He argued for a Pauline vision of the struggle between the spirit and the flesh that put the idea o...

Sometimes people change their names. Sometimes to avoid prosecution. Maybe debts, Maybe boredom. Or perhaps they were hounded by demons who only knew ...

My wife would kill me if I got an android spouse. She would merely turn me out on to the street if I committed adultery.

In the first section of the Leviathan, Hobbes delivers a hearty rant against Greek philosophers and all who followed in their footsteps. The short ver...

I see that. I also see how wrestling with Socrates makes Thrasymachus a better sophist. Opposing people may empower them. But what is the alternative?...

As a blueprint of an ideal city, it has some odd features. The problem of inheritance, as the cause of bad outcomes, is not made less sharp by how dif...

Your dissatisfaction with these chaps may or may not match up with that expressed by Arendt. She finds Paine to be insufficient while Rousseau is dism...

Hobbes would say that your first option is not a society but a war. The agreement to not have a war is to accept a binding force. The argument of Thom...

The two-hundred-word count sort of let me pull a fast one. A four-hundred- word count would have a lot of explaining to do.

Travel between the exits of L.A. is surreal. The vista from the freeway makes each place prettier than any visit of locality will provide. I have to w...

Well, the FBI spent considerable resources infiltrating/parsing MLK Jr's world. The intentions for doing that is clearer to me than a CIA agent pullin...

I count Nussbaum's capability approach as one of the efforts toward a 'guaranteed public realm"

Got it. You cannot recall any specific instances in the text that supports your claim of Plato's intention. Seeing as how my challenge is pointless, I...

What Augustine is referring to is not the 'private good' as expressed by Aristotle. Augustine is separating the 'what is good for oneself' as oneself ...

I am not sure how this observation fits in to the project of understanding Kant, but Berkeley can be read as the ultimate empiricist rather than as an...

One could take the same sequence to say that the result thrust 'Christianity' into incoherence. Pascal spoke of it as scandal to reason. The early Chu...

Why do you speak of a 'passage presented by me' rather than address it as what St. Augustine says? To my knowledge, it is representative of what he sa...

Yes. Thanks for the introduction.

All points well taken. Regarding the Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt looked deeply at how both torturer and the tortured became products of the des...

Strictly speaking, Arendt is giving a genealogy of the way political ideas about freedom became equated with free will. It is the equation she is mili...

The quote I gave earlier does employ the language you object to: Your inclination to not have the same faculty at odds with itself certainly echoes a ...

Arendt is saying that if the principle of individual sovereignty was sufficient for the life of freedom, it would not lead to the absurdities noted in...

That comment evades the problem of the sufficiency of declaring individual freedom that I referred to. That topic is integral to Arend's argument:

How does that observation relate to the matter of insufficiency that was the central point of my comment?

In that sense, she is not opposing the idea of isolated individuals over against an idea of society or community but saying that the former is not suf...

The opposition to the Manichean view was to establish the culpability of the individual for evil in the world: The idea of self-control as not being r...

That points to the need for a 'guaranteed public domain' for all experiences of freedom, both public and private that requires more than legal rights ...

I don't have a dog in any of those fights. But I can call out what is claimed to be allegorical or not, within a certain body of text, without claimin...

Which was, among other objectives, the point of Arendt's essay.

Depends upon what conditions they are exposed to. And they are not all one species.

Doesn't look good on the resume. Having a green one might. Along with the part where you prove that you don't just twiddle your thumbs...

Augustine also justified the eternal suffering of those who gave up on their second chance of redemption. He was not speaking allegorically. Paul was ...

I suppose having a green thumb from the experience is unlikely in either event.

The passage addresses freedom of the individual, as it has been expressed by Epictetus, for example, as an experience that is possible despite whateve...

On that point, Arendt agrees with you -Hannah Arendt Arendt describes that quality this way while discussing ancient polities: And so, Mr. Travers, th...