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Sartre. I don't think he's perfect. I don't always agree with him. But that's part of the fun, sorting the good from the bad, deciding where X "went w...

I largely agree. History is driven by this quest for the beyond. Alienated man pursues his apparently distance essence. The student trusts the guru as...

If one is "possessed" by the spirit of seriousness, then one can find no use for my word-art. That's OK. I love to read philosophy, but I don't usuall...

Maybe you don't get it. That statement itself is exactly the kind of seduction it describes. It is a transpersonal bluff that recognizes itself a such...

Good quote. I don't totally buy the dichotomy between amusement and seriousness. Divine malice. Seriousness of the child at play. As far as gazing on ...

Sure. But to get nit-picky about my language is not necessarily to respond thoughtfully. Obviously you may hate my perspective. I offer it without jus...

I've been down this road before. We exert ourselves in the world through language by seducing otehrs to see the world in our own terms. Our sentences ...

Yes, I am "irrationally" invested in autonomy. It just is sexy. As I said, I think we have notions of the ideal man that we compulsively "incarnate." ...

I'm saying we are irrational wills clashing in the void. Some of us convince ourselves and others that the world is not like this. It is not a void of...

Yes. Some of us pose as if we have an authority to justify this action. Others find reaching for this authority too servile or inauthentic.

No. Not saying that. We will kill and die for our own values. I'm no hippy. My "leap of faith" is organ deep, just as yours is. Equally validity is th...

I think a difference in our attitudes may have something to do with "embracing the killer." The novel Steppenwolf comes to mind. From the wolf's point...

I don't at all understand it as an insult. If that's what personality is, then "accusations" of virtue signaling can only be more virtue signaling. So...

I didn't mean to come off as rude, just to be clear. For me the issue if whether the "infinite" has any content. What I took from Hegel is the vacuity...

IMO, this is quite a stretch of the word "only." But for me this is not really an "objective" matter. We disagree perhaps in the realm of values or fu...

There is IMO something that might be called a leap of faith or rather unfaith in atheism and/or the denial of afterlife. As I've wrote elsewhere, I th...

Isn't the problem with nature rather than civilization? You or I could decide to just be homeless. But we have to feed ourselves, right? Just as we di...

Great post, Sam. I don't know you, but I gather you've had a realization about language (esp. philosophical language) that I've also had. The word "re...

I think there is nothing after death. Also, yes, life is "ultimately" an "empty" dream. "All is vanity" = Everything is empty. But this is only ultima...

I can mostly relate, but I think the gap between us and other animals is extreme. We are like gods trapped in dogs. We've been to the moon, brother. W...

Thanks for sharing. Great story.

Consider this, Wosret. Any "creator of the fucking universe" is for me a mere hypothesis, an image or concept in my mind. I am indeed in a position to...

True, there are some foreclosed issues. But really that's what communities are made of to some degree. We recognize one another as truly human to the ...

Ginsberg was supposedly exhilarated, but he had lived quite a life and was probably ready for a new experience. "A consummation devoutly to be wished....

I hear you. But it's also logically possible that I'm a pink dragon in the midst of a long dream of being human. I don't find the afterlife plausible....

The dying process might be sucky, but I actually think that the nothingness that I expect to result from that process has its charms. Before I experie...

In my mind the issue of qualia is connect to the issue of being or consciousness in general. As far as I can reason, existence as a whole is irreducib...

Thanks for the info. I don't read about this stuff often, but I was under the impression that class-consciousness was stronger once than it is now. I'...

Thanks for a well-written, honest answer. That you make a living offering your analyses is enviable! I continue to indefinitely postpone writing "my b...

Perhaps it's just an exaggeration. Some mothers will take a lot of sh*t before they throw in the towel.

I think it depends on the language game one is playing. In one sense, everything is clearly an expression of self-interest. If I sacrifice for those I...

Allow me to question your question. What would do you if you somehow knew that all things were determined? I don't throw in the presence or absence of...

Good point, this contrast between appeasing and pleasing. Still, one might think that a political party (after a rough start) could actually swell by ...

I take it that you don't fear the heat death. Neither do I. I will be dead long before then. I'm just making a point of the gulf between private and p...

But what triggered or allowed these changes in tax law? I'm not trying to imply that there is a simple answer. I doubt there is.

I complete agree. But "obsession" is slightly pejorative. It's easier to put a coat on than the heat the entire building, especially if we share the b...

I agree. Freedom leads to economic inequality. If we could somehow start everyone with the same property and offer them the same education, tiny diffe...

I think these two ideas are related. Let's put ourselves in the shoes of the individual. Let's say he's educated, thoughtful, but not rich. He has one...

In retrospect, "common sense" was a poor choice of words. If we twist Sellars "scientific image" a little into a "metaphysical" image, then what I had...

In the general context of the thread, here's a different take on being, related in my mind to Wittgenstein and Heidegger. We can define being as the g...

Thanks for the passage. Would you say that this is something like the revenge of common sense and/or emotional intelligence on the artificiality of ep...

Thank you. I truly appreciate that you humored me with the risk of a paraphrase. I actually am familiar with the concept of World through secondary so...

Have you read Zizek? There are also many great videos available. He's a charismatic guy. I'd say he's definitely a "world and humanity" theorist. I ad...

Hi...again. That's my take on intellectual history, too, or what I've read. I've spent more time with Wittgenstein than Heidegger, probably because I ...

I know that wasn't a reply to me, but I really like it. Would you agree that this kind of thinking already exists outside of Heidegger? Even as a teen...

Hi. I'd be curious about how you might unpack that definition of being. What is the gist of Heidegger in your own words? Do you find this gist signifi...