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LND6 was a wild ride. I found myself agreeing with him on Heidegger, and his distinction between two bad poles of philosophy that feed on one another ...

What are the reasons that you find satisfactory, and why? What is it about necessity between events -- ball A causes ball B to move in such and such a...

Suppose the case with a quarter -- why did you see heads this time and not tails? Well, because 50% of the time you will see that and 50% of the time ...

I think insofar that such explanations don't amount to "Just because" then they could still count as good enough for the PSR, but not good enough for ...

Does it pop out of nothing anymore than the belief that A necessitates B pops out of nothing? Is there a cause for the necessary connection between ca...

I imagine that the explanation is unsatisfactory, generally speaking, but we'd reach for it in the event that we have reason to believe such-and-such ...

Isn't "That's a self-caused event" a sufficient explanation for an uncaused event? Or "These events are the stochastic events"?

Wouldn't that just mean that insofar that determinism is true there is a/(some version of the) PSR must be true, namely, the one wherein reasons are c...

Fair. I was very much reacting to the text because I'm used to having to defend Marxism -- and I suspect we just have a slightly different set of expe...

In LND 5 I get the sense that Adorno is missing out on a lot of what makes Marxism so great -- while some of his predictions are false what he offers ...

Hrrmm -- now how to get it to where "if everyone wins then you're the extra-special winner"

Would that the race were so provincial that one could opt out of it -- as it is I'd bet on convincing the guys at the back it'll be easier to just tak...

Finished LND 4 I noticed, thanks to y'alls efforts, how "systemization" isn'tis a contrast-class, but one that isn't as described as "System" in this ...

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You ever read On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns ?

I agree that Kant doesn't consider the example as undermining the CI, or even his favorite maxim, given he's defended the idea you ought tell the trut...

Noice! Suppose Kant's favorite maxim "Do not lie" Would the axe-murderer scenario count as an obscure or trivial situation?

Fair. Since people have exploited others for forever it's not inhuman, but that's inhumane in the sense of humanism or wanting more than this violence...

By naming an inhuman system I certainly don't mean to erase personal responsibility, only de-emphasize it as a cultural norm. Of course we all have to...

Here is where I feel closest to -- I think not only you, but I and @"Martijn" and everyone here lives in an inhuman system. What else to call a societ...

Reminds me of the various obsessions with AI. From a can, or...?

I suppose my thought is that the non-secular isn't so different from the secular here -- the ritual of cleansing, of dealing with our animal side with...

Heh -- I'd say that if you're after the anthropological angle then questions of comparisons between Romans and plumbing are too big picture. And "ablu...

I get the sense that he was tired of having to prove that he had the right tools for this from the first two lectures -- I felt he was expressing exas...

It's good-for maintaining claims on property.

Huh. Well look at that. That's cool. Thanks for sharing!

There's a dude I follow in the social medias who does geographic and political science work on waste-water, and I've seen him express sentiments simil...

Morning thought -- the structure of a symphony may provide a good analogue to the dialectical pattern. I listened to Beethoven's 7th this morning to c...

This quote from LND 3 was exciting to read because it confirmed a lot of what I felt about Hegel: That the dialectic, in a sense, does a violence to t...

Cheers. We have similar views of the world, especially with respect to rejecting competition and achievement as markers of worth.

Sure. Just choose the other determinant, constraint, or consequence. We don't get to create the whole world out of nothing, but we can choose amongst ...

To be honest I think I made a mistake and jumped the gun -- I mixed up those who had already submitted with those who I had heard were going to submit...

We agree on the validity of the argument. To get from an "is" to an "ought", logically, there needs to be some premise which connects the two verbs. T...

Well I appreciate it cuz it's helping me. Much easier to start a new thinker with some easier to digest thoughts than the thinker himself.

Happy May Day, everyone. I think some essays have been removed from my PM -- but at present I have @"Sam26" and @"Bob Ross" 's submissions. I wanted t...

Nothing to add yet, just reporting in to say I'm caught up. Everyone's essays and reflections are helping to read along. EDIT: (not much to say yet ot...

I'm going to remember this as a good example for explaining symmetry.

Glad to see you're able to respond. News of the blackout reached me today and I wondered if it effected you.

Whining rotter, reporting in.

We assigned ourselves a lot, and from someone whose done the same in the past and failed I'm guessing being gentle with ourselves will get us to the e...

I love them! Since this is new material for me I don't feel able to put my thoughts into structures or find relevant resources to bounce off of so it'...

That makes lots of sense to me. It's also something of a hobby-horse of mine. What I would not say is that interesting uses of contradiction, even if ...

eh, I can read German well enough to check for trolling, but I have no faith in myself beyond that. I'd just be guessing based on my understanding of ...

Cool. If not no worries -- I think it's a huge topic that I return to all the time and then get lost in. :D

Heh. If the translation is giving the right meaning I'd quote it as an example of how philosophy is often a work on the self, even when directed to ot...

Yeh, fair enough. Also, more thoughts on the same subject -- I'm wondering to what extent Adorno is distinguishing himself from Hegel and Kant's conce...

Yes. There's only one thing that I can't let go of -- I think that judgments of the form "A is B, A = B" are the identity statements, but I'm not sure...

What I'm latching onto at the moment is the bit where Adorno says he is de-emphasizing the role of synthesis in the dialectical process, and..."one mo...

Caught up to LND Lecture 2. I'm fine with just doing the first 10 then hopping over. The SEP and LND offer some exciting reasons to keep going -- not ...

I've studied Hegel, and I very much doubt that Adorno scholarship is in some way dependent on Hegel scholarship. "Studied" in the way an autodidact st...