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It seems that you have turned away from your question about loss that I responded to. That is not a complaint but an opportunity to ask you how the tw...

That reminds me of my favorite passage in Critique of Practical Reason where Kant distinguishes respect for others from reactions to a person's charac...

The "first" self-love referred to by the Duke is how much we do in the name of helping (or hurting) others that is actually self-serving. The idea of ...

The political advantage of RFK for T is that he pulled in the people who believe those kind of stories. That is it. The group being solicited is deeme...

The search function on the site is pretty darn good at locating where this has been discussed in the past. I will withhold from saying more about it i...

I think experience of loss is needed for situational awareness of what is missing in one's responses. As a lover, a parent, and a worker in an industr...

Yes. That reminds me of La Rochefoucauld saying that education is a second self-love.

I think Kant makes the distinction between objective and subjective problematic. Both the outer and inner intuitions are needed for the "I" to be sure...

Kant challenged Descartes on this matter. The "I" is not accepted as a given existence.

I quoted the Critique of Pure Reason here where the reality of time is discussed. The expression of "inner versus outer objects" is seen strictly as t...

I don't understand how in terms of Kant's language. He made a claim of how little we can know about it since it is how we experience what we do. Perha...

As a constitutional matter, the call for a free press is clear. What complicates the present issue is that the FCC was formed by Congress to restrict ...

So, I should not connect all the things you have said as the continuity of your thought? I suffer from institutional memory.

You are reading off the ledger of the true believers. I don't think they have the last word. The system may be rigged in most ways, but voting is stil...

I recognize that influence. I submit that it is incompatible with the Gerson view of Platonism. You seem to want to have both at the same time.

In Plotinus, the soul animates matter as far as it can. The source is a power that can only go so far because matter is never completely mastered by f...

Voting is good. Supporting institutions as well as we can in relation to our capacities and opportunities is good. One way I look at it is that MAGA h...

One contrast I keep in mind is how deeply structured we are by our ancestors. They made their choices and we make ours. I don't hold that they have a ...

Now we have Vance taking over as the host of the Kirk podcast while ABC is pulling the Kimmel show for saying the killer has MAGA roots. I don't think...

That importance is undeniable. I only suggest that such a factor is connected to other ways of thinking about our experience. It is not the only map.

Well, Aristotle puts a lot of emphasis on the being in front of you is what actually exists. We have different ideas about how that is possible, but t...

We have been down this road before regarding the "intrinsic existence" of matter in Aristotle. His speaking of matter as having "to be of a certain ki...

The mind/matter distinction was the keystone of "Neoplatonism", where matter is only to be seen as the extremity of mind informing what matter could b...

That report points to the problem of expecting a manifesto to explain actions. It also highlights how unconcerned the suspect was about killing someon...

I don't have a ready answer for all of this. But there are some interesting gaps.

John Brown. Malcom X.

We do not know what the killer had in mind. The label "fascist" has been pinned to too many donkeys to form a shared idea. We have had experience of t...

I often wonder how the normalization of violence figures into this sort of messaging. There is a blatant political device in particular instances such...

For the taxonomically minded, similarities suggest identity. I do that all the time. I have a penchant for it. But whenever I dig into different texts...

This is something I was hoping to express in my comment upthread. The thoughts brewing in the young killer in the school shooting scene are not politi...

The Malcolm X speech reminds me of the Introduction to John Keegan's A History of Warfare where Keegan criticizes the Clausewitz idea that war is poli...

What I mean by that is that the properties of space and time that we confer to existing things in an Aristotle or Aquinas set of givens is upset when ...

My interpretive arrangement so far has been to try and make sense of what Kant seems to not explain. When I read certain passages to be restrictions u...

The passage you quote puts it in a nutshell; All instances of "objectivity" are also moments in consciousness. The emphasis upon objectivity that Wayf...

Many of the objections to Kant, as they played out in his lifetime and afterwards, concern his treatment of the "object" as a product of what we do. S...

That point is also made in many other places, including the issue of method put forward in my quote. The topic of "rational psychology" is often broug...

Reflecting upon your responses to that particular text, it prompts me to wonder how Kant's objections to the theories of a "rational psychology" relat...

As in so many matters, the permission granted in those orders is contingent upon whether or not Congress resumes the power granted to it by the Consti...

I want to take a different approach from my previous expression of skepticism regarding measures of personal significance. I like 's weighing the bene...

Georgia is an operating center for many Multinational Corporations. The tariff regime (or the attempt to form one) is a downer for the free trade feve...

I am only suggesting we do that all the time. It is an element of what we do. It is easier to imagine that our species did not exist than imagine what...

I am not saying that. I don't have access to those kinds of facts. The awareness of different outcomes does not let me know what they might be in othe...

It is a dark question in many ways. Our way of memory weaves regret with what if X happened. Nightmares pit fatalism against desire. When you speak of...

Thank you for the clarification. I will take a look at Manifest Reality and see if it pulls me in. I am stingy with my time upon secondary texts and l...

Do you know of a portion of Allais that suggests I have mischaracterized the debate between Allison and Strawson? I have been checking out secondary s...

I looked through what I could find of Henry Allison's writings, and he promotes a view of 'transcendental idealism' over against the view of 'transcen...

Yes, it is a sprawling mess. I view it as one stop shopping. All of his stuff in one location.

I see that Pollock supports my statement that mind-independence is not a critical criterion for objectivity in Kant. Pollock quotes the second edition...

In pointing out that feature, I am admitting a certain portion of interpretation when I emphasize a particular set of sentences above others. So, I am...

Please assemble a collection of citations that support this interpretation.