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Read now. So intuitively I was reaching for something like your first link which explicitly uses "impairments" to mean the bodily reality while "disab...
December 04, 2025 at 18:28
One way to differentiate between the medical and the social is to first set out what the medical model entails. Roughly speaking: the medical model en...
December 04, 2025 at 12:44
In making the distinction between disability and impairment I'm putting the social construct on the side of disability, and the body/mind on the side ...
December 04, 2025 at 12:34
I do. Part of the reason I love Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus is because I've found it soothing to read when I'm at my darkest. It's not so much the arg...
December 04, 2025 at 00:20
Yes.
December 04, 2025 at 00:11
Though then I think against that thought, as I do -- there is also the case of a person would rather not be such-and-such, in which case impairment mi...
December 04, 2025 at 00:04
I haven't read the links yet, but to answer: I was thinking of your example of the warriors who were treated the same while being impaired and attempt...
December 04, 2025 at 00:04
Perhaps you cannot -- but I'm thinking here of synesthesia. I can't taste colors, but some people can. Might it not be the case, along with "timbre/to...
December 03, 2025 at 23:53
I'm wondering if a distinction between impairments/disability might help here? A person who needs a wheelchair cannot dance like a person who does not...
December 03, 2025 at 23:27
Well, it's not my belief but rather me interpreting others' stances and trying to put them into words. (I'd rather say -- from each according to their...
December 03, 2025 at 20:26
So going along with this question -- I'm suggesting that "disability" is largely a social construct based around socially enforced expectations of wha...
December 03, 2025 at 19:27
Yeah, that's what I meant. EDIT: Yes to your question. I meant "downswing" -- I was thinking of the metaphor that depression comes in waves, so "dive"...
December 03, 2025 at 18:40
I'm sorry to hear. I often wonder if I could go through another deep dive these days since it's been so long. I'm not sure where to go from there -- t...
December 03, 2025 at 18:29
Thanks :). Alas, the OP's author has left us...
December 03, 2025 at 18:28
No. Though we can still have a norm that functions socially like this. Nor mind, for that matter, which I'd include with "the body" in terms of the me...
December 03, 2025 at 12:54
It was Mary Midgley, and here's @"Banno"'s thread on it: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/11175/philosophical-plumbing-mary-midgley/p1 I take...
December 02, 2025 at 18:23
I think the world, in general, is pretty bad overall. I'm not so sure about "worse" as much as I've become more knowledgeable about how the world work...
December 01, 2025 at 19:15
Though at the end of the day, yes, there are good guys and bad guys and the good guys always win the hitting contest.
November 29, 2025 at 05:19
Close. There is always the tragic backstory which justifies the hitting :D And the tale of overcoming something or other depending on the hero. . . Th...
November 29, 2025 at 05:11
Heh, I like it. There's multiple ways I could interpret "froth" but every way I tried to I thought "Yeah, I like it" :D
November 29, 2025 at 02:18
Nice. I've ordered Turkish coffee before and thought it amazing (also had some Vietnamese coffee that was similar). I like the press a lot tho. For wh...
November 29, 2025 at 02:15
French press over drip, or... ?
November 29, 2025 at 02:10
Thanks for the suggestion -- never thought about adding the mayo upon serving, but that sounds like a good general slaw practice now...
November 28, 2025 at 09:46
Yeh, it wouldn't. Cream doesn't last long -- either because it's rancid or because it's eaten.
November 28, 2025 at 09:23
Coleslaw?
November 28, 2025 at 09:20
Heh. Noted if I'm ever in the area.
November 28, 2025 at 05:20
What would you get?
November 28, 2025 at 05:18
It's a heavy watch, but I remained engaged the entire length of the film. Great acting and writing. There's a scene where they watch actual footage of...
November 27, 2025 at 16:37
I just came back from viewing Nuremberg, and thought it was phenomenal.
November 27, 2025 at 05:38
How do we achieve or pursue metaphysical clarity?
November 23, 2025 at 18:15
Yup. That much is good to note, I think, because it shows how Aristotle isn't the arbiter of metaphysics, but rather the term was developed over time ...
November 22, 2025 at 17:23
In the name of simplicity: I agree with you! Now what?
November 22, 2025 at 17:15
So @"Wayfarer" is not committing the genetic fallacy by referencing Aristotle. I understand that instinct, but to reject Aristotle on the subject whil...
November 22, 2025 at 17:05
It's simple until it is not simple :D I think it's not so easy to define, but I agree with your assertion that metaphysics is about the nature of real...
November 22, 2025 at 17:04
He is engaging and really funny, though I have to note that his history is almost more of a joke book than a proper history of philosophy. It says tru...
November 22, 2025 at 16:44
That Aristotle's work so named is concerned with similar enough things that starting with Aristotle isn't bad.
November 22, 2025 at 14:07
It's a serious question. What is the way to understand what 'metaphysics' means?
November 21, 2025 at 21:17
What is the way to understand what 'metaphysics' means? Listen to @"Clarendon" says on it?
November 21, 2025 at 19:26
Oh yes much more can be said on each of the sections. I sort of jumped ahead because the text started to flow, but in that way where I'm just seeing o...
November 11, 2025 at 15:29
Well, not today at least. There are times... I'm interested in that too. And in helping people to understand the philosophy generally. I had mistaken ...
November 10, 2025 at 23:13
Whether the rendition is correct: I know more needs to be said, which is why I began with the tripartite theory of desire, but the down-and-dirty vers...
November 10, 2025 at 22:41
Sure, makes sense. Though I'd put it that this was the man speaking more than the philosophy -- yes, Epicurus the man cautioned against it. But the Ep...
November 10, 2025 at 22:39
Is the part that made me think so, along with the other two examples you meant to counter @"180 Proof"'s summary with. It occurs to me that we may jus...
November 10, 2025 at 22:26
I do not think that scholarly reference is erroneous. That's why I said: Yes, there's a kind of love Epicurus cautions against. No, that does not mean...
November 10, 2025 at 22:13
Not really -- I'm giving an exposition of what I think a reasonable Epicurean response to your example. As in Epicurus wouldn't say "Do not marry", bu...
November 10, 2025 at 21:27
I'm willing to play the apologist in order to increase understanding. Sure. The outline of desire to which @"180 Proof" wrote needs further specificat...
November 10, 2025 at 20:19
I want to mark a distinction here: @"180 Proof"'s description of the good/bad pleasures is accurate to Epicureanism is what I mean -- as in, descripti...
November 10, 2025 at 19:43
I thought his summation good enough, basically -- in a rough and dirty way, sure that's what the bad pleasures are, and the good pleasure is ataraxia ...
November 10, 2025 at 19:22
That's not quite right. Something that's difficult to understand with ancient ethics is we have a tendency to want to classify an act as good or bad, ...
November 10, 2025 at 19:00
Nice exposition of Heidegger's relevance to this text. And making sense of why Adorno is tying the question to the answer: i.e. one could assert that ...
November 10, 2025 at 16:19