Something I've always struggled in being able to clearly differentiate is between the empirical ego and the transcendental ego. As I'm reading the int...
Perhaps I fell into an odd camp, then. Though I learned it more from the Chem side than the physics side, though physics was part of it, so that might...
I never really saw CI as instrumentalist. Though I mostly take it along the lines of Heisenberg and Bohr -- who never saw eye to eye. Heisenberg was s...
You were, however, contending that to do so is to belittle suicide, no? Without some shared agreement on what is useful I don't know if we could actua...
I would say that your wondering how is still not an argument against. There are clearly things we all don't understand -- but that's not a reason to e...
The above is also why I don't think ennui is exactly an appropriate description of the emotion from which the essay is written, either. Camus was a pa...
But where does Camus state that the universe is brutely material in essence and origin? I would say that the context in which the essay is written exp...
I don't see a problem with being hip or in vogue. Even if something is hip or in vogue, that doesn't stop it from being what it is. Lady Gaga is a mus...
Certainly addressing a particular case of suicide requires context, and generalizing to understand the motives for suicide requires one to reference t...
I don't know. I realize that suicide is very serious. But I'd say that it helps to have ways of thinking about serious problems. I mean, what's the wa...
Perhaps he does. But, even so, it's worth noting that he's speaking about Kierkegaard from the perspective of the absurd man. They are legitimate to t...
I'm mostly just focusing in on the text, in this case, rather than cultural affect of Camus' writing. I sometimes wonder about the particular lives he...
This looks to me like you haven't read the essay, or at least missed the part near the beginning where he makes a distinction between people who kill ...
Still pondering the rest, but on your closing -- I agree that there is a cyclical process. But I don't think the solution is to restart the cycle as m...
It could be, sure. But that's why I'm saying that it's just the introduction to the essay. He even remarks that times may change and that his essay ma...
Why? I mean, it's just an introduction to the essay. If you disagree then maybe you can still find insight in the essay, or perhaps you could just put...
I will say -- at parts of the text I feel like, even just to understand the argument, I just need to be more familiar with Husserl than I am. I did my...
So, to the end now -- as always, guess work is involved, and this is provisional. I think I get the gist, though the reasoning of the paragraph on pag...
Taking me to the top of 87, and adding some of my own connections along the way that I'm making -- It seems to me that the argument here is to focus i...
"Why does Husserl refuse to draw these conclusions from the same premises? The motive for full 'presence', the intuitionist imperative and the project...
A slight quibble in the scenario. You start with the person knowing he will be tortured, but then ask why it makes sense for them when they haven't be...
I say "no longer" because it's institutionalized now. While there are those who disagree with an interp, and it's understood that the question of inte...
Finally made the time to watch the video. Also, this floated by me today and it briefly goes over anger in relation to a particular zen buddhist: http...
79-83 makes a nice thought-bridge. So the example of statements about perceptions, it seems to me, is meant to draw out how a statement means somethin...
I tend to think the implications for causality are the most "offensive" aspects of CI -- well, at least they *were*; not any longer. It was that not j...
The problem is more of a question -- while we can predict various phenomena using QM, what do the postulates and predictions of QM indicate about the ...
I don't. Mostly because I don't see what it adds to Copenhagen interpretation, and Copenhagen interpretation is what we focused on several years back ...
Alrighty, I have today off and I'm making a second go at chapter 7. I think I'll go piecemeal as I switch between pages and tasks (laundry, phone call...
Just restricting myself to the characterization of leftism, then: Even metaphorically -- this is what I mean by I think our experiences are just diffe...
I suppose on the points he makes I'd just say that my experience is different with the left. I'd say that Killer Mike is partially correct about lefti...
A brief note to the conversation on race: There's a difference between ethnicity and race. An ethnicity can contain multiple races. And a race can con...
It might be fair to say that Freud is not *as* prominent as he was, though. I didn't live at the time, but given how often he's an underlying current ...
On Chapter 6: Stuff started clicking for me once I just decided to ignore the beginning of the chapter. I don't know what the lead-in about silence is...
Heh. I don't know if I have a question yet, but the difference between, or lack thereof, metaphysics and epistemology is a concern I'm usually pretty ...
I wasn't sure where you were going with it until you used the definition to mark a distinction between metaphysics and ontology. Then its value clicke...
Heh. Honestly this last chapter was hard for me. But I'm still down for pushing on. More often than not I don't absorb everything on a first reading a...
My guess is that we aren't, just to judge from similar conversations. :D I tend to think that we run parallel in some ways but there's a divergence so...
Heh. Rambly on my part. I'm trying to bite off too much. Perhaps a more concise and better expressed version is: the question you ask inherits a lot o...
Cool. Well, I will say that I came to this terminology from Buddhists. Not that I am a Buddhist, but when hearing them speak it just made a lot of sen...
I wouldn't say I believe in innate ideas. Not that the thought hasn't tempted me, but more like it strikes me -- when I try to believe in such things ...
So I'm a bit late on re-reading 5, but I began to see your objection much better @"The Great Whatever" -- and I think I saw the response, too on the H...
I guess I would ask -- what is a pragmatics vs. a supposed idealism? It seems to me that such views are just principled in another way -- not that the...
We can stay focused on anger then. My focusing on goodness and badness is that it seemed to me that anger is (generally) bad, in your characterization...
Some more guess work. My thoughts on that are that is that it's justified only insofar that we "open up" the sign. I get the distinct sense that Derri...
Also, it'd be cool to read Time-Consciousness lectures directly after this. But in some sense, at least at this stage of reading, I'm not quite as inv...
Isn't this actually all granted? It seems to me that these things aren't an issue on their face, but only when you consider the development of the exp...
I think it's often unexamined -- which is to say I share your uncertainty on what's being said in each case. I think, since you mentioned philosophy o...
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