Cool thread, un. Just some initial thoughts here: Anger, I think, is not the easier case. Jealousy, as a source of evil at least, would make more sens...
One sentence I want to highlight that I read and re-read and for the life of me find difficult to understand what it is saying -- I don't know if I'm ...
There's some guess-work in this rendition so by all means please bring in your own thoughts on this chapter. This is just a first stab. I found it har...
There's definitely a reversal at work in VP -- but I don't think the claim is that Husserl intended this reversal. Chapter 1 makes this pretty clear -...
I think that Signature, Event, Context might be of some use here. He's engaging with Austin and the concept of communication there, but he also lays o...
That has basically been the argument of both campaigns. "Look at the other candidate! You don't want them. Vote for me!" People said the same thing of...
I think that hits the nail on the head. It's more akin to "the Enlightenment" than, say, "Transcendental Idealism" -- the former being a historical pe...
I may be mistaken in this, so correct me if I'm wrong -- but isn't phenomenology supposed to side step metaphysics by focusing in on lived experience?...
I think something to keep in mind is that this is par for the course for Derrida's writing -- he will often place chapters in a non-linear fashion, as...
There's a difference between an argument and a citation. What's the argument? I mean, heck. I can shoot a search on google to find something that vagu...
Emulate? I certainly question that assertion. Leaders have followers. But what is following? Well, there is no following in the abstract -- one has to...
Can you demonstrate that? I mean, suppose it were not well known. I obviously don't know it, because I don't believe it. How do you determine who coun...
Though I agree that "who cares?", I don't think that the offense of DT was extra-marital sexuality, but his flouting sexual assault just because he ha...
I think "affect" is a wider term than "encourage" -- I don't think that just because someone in power does something that "the masses" will then be mo...
That's true. I remember back in 1998 when I was a wee one sanctimoniously holding to the rod of righteous monogamy after marriage, but when Clinton sh...
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Can-Transcendence-Be-Taught-/237994 Cool article about the importance of existential questions in philosophy, and an ...
I just want to focus in on this bit of reasoning, because it seems to me that a good deal of your pondering comes about from this simple argument. Why...
On the latter point -- that's how I feel. I tend to think that this line of thinking is more a cultural product than anything. On the former -- yup. I...
I'm not sure what you're saying with this. My closest guess is that you're saying that you can only argue about altruism from a subjective viewpoint, ...
I think this is a fallacious form of reasoning. I say that it's fallacious because when you perform the same sort of argument, but for opposing conclu...
I tend to think along with Levinas, in this respect. While the problem of other minds wasn't his focus, if you accept that philosophy begins with the ...
It's an understandable sentiment, and no you're not bringing me down. I do that to myself enough already :P :D. I still wouldn't defend utopianism mys...
I think you overstate your own knowledge of human motivation, here. Financial incentivization is very effective at motivating people, I won't deny. Bu...
I don't see innovation as a feature of capitalism. People innovate regardless of the private ownership over the workplace. You have an odd habit of te...
Whoops! missed that. haha. Perhaps so. I still use it, though, because I don't have any other words to describe the social relationship which results ...
Heh. I am discontent with it, but I still spend more time on the limb. I agree with you that the particular outline doesn't address environmental issu...
The derail is fine :). But. . . I mean, I just don't agree I guess. Socialism is an economic system where workplaces are publicly owned rather than pr...
This is why it seems to me that you are just being dismissive -- didn't I just agree with you that robots cannot entirely replace work? Yet, though la...
The desire to be free isn't a teenage utopia. Labor isn't something to enshrine from now to forevermore. I rather doubt that robots can entirely repla...
A thought I've been favoring of late is that philosophy is the attempt to lessen human stupidity in all its forms. Since human stupidity is pervasive ...
I've oscillated on that question a lot. There's a relationship of some kind, because whatever we call mind influences the body and whatever we call th...
That would depend on who you ask and what you want, no? I don't think there would be some kind of measure -- I'd say that we argue over what the measu...
A boring answer, but my thought is that Kant pretty much wrote the book on that particular distinction -- "Thoughts without intuitions are empty, intu...
One point from the video that I thought was good to make was that automation is not inevitable -- as we see now, there is extreme exploitation by use ...
But what if there are problems and people do not see those problems? I believe this is why he begins -- because people don't see it as a problem, so t...
I don't think Apple, Google, McDonalds, and Uber have our best interests in mind, or that automation is a panacea. Nor do the authors. I'm not sure ho...
That's actually addressed too, in the section aptly titled "The Misery of Not Being Exploited" It would definitely take a political project to make au...
I liked it because I've sort of felt in a rut in my political thinking, and both their critiques of some popular beliefs (which they term "folk politi...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/arts/edward-albee-playwright-of-a-desperate-generation-dies-at-88.html Edward Albee -- most well known for the play ...
I am inclined to say there are different sorts of truth, but only because the expression "sorts of truth" makes sense. People say the phrase and I und...
Representative democarcy is nothing but theatre ;). But I don't know where you derive your certainty from either. The last election I was active in th...
You're really that certain? I don't think the presidency is a done deal either way. I'd say President Clinton has odds slightly in her favor, but Pres...
I don't know what fine art does for me. I only know that I'm drawn to it. Art is something of a basic category. It need not do anything for me to be p...
Another meaning of the question is to ask after the necessary and sufficient conditions which an entity possesses. So we might reflect that a bird can...
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