Moliere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnMLK70XQ34 A good scene for reflecting upon truth and Truth -- the kind of Truth Paul seeks in this scene has nothing...

Ah, fair enough. I suppose part of what I'm trying to do in the above, as well, is not rely upon myself. I'm not trying to argue for my distinction, b...

I grant you the truth over Nietzsche -- or, at least, I'm not using Nietzsche to understand Nietzsche, the man -- I'm using Nietzsche's writings to bu...

My own political commitments and experiences keep me from really feeling offended even by that -- for me, Street's invective was always justified by t...

A good frame -- it's the uncertainty of modern/post-modern that leads me to assert things like "there is no post-modern philosophy". However, that doe...

Eh, honestly, street would express anger I just didn't feel like expressing cuz I've become milder over time. But I generally agree with his comments,...

Thanks for this. It's providing a good frame. Commenting now, though, because I loved this quote: A bit off topic to the thread, but I immediately wen...

I just think mine an honest assessment -- there isn't really much more to how I determine these things. I hardly even think if someone else is sentien...

I'm about half-way through the readings at this point. I only get to this stuff when I have the energy after getting life done, so I move at snails pa...

I think the situation is uncomfortable; that discomfort is worth noting. I don't think, given my general beliefs about the world, I'd experience LaMDA...

I think, given my choice -- which is something I still think needs emphasis -- I'd have to say none. However, if the best we have for determining when...

Something I want to highlight -- deciding on the basis of who we might become includes the other scenario that hasn't been touched on too much. Becaus...

That makes sense to me. Is that a proof?

:D There you got it! Though I'd just commit to the antecedent. And, if we accept this apparent inability to prove such things, then on what basis are ...

I'm going to compile the references so far in the thread. I added quick titles to the quotes that aren't apparent what they are. I think this is a goo...

Solipsism is usually deployed as a reductio of a position. Here that's explicitly how solipsism entered the conversation -- as an accusation of philos...

This, I believe, is what I've been trying to get it -- though I think that the visceral experience of others is such that the language of "certainty" ...

Or, heh "feel good" betrays my own personal ethic as being mostly hedonistic. Nietzsche wouldn't like my attachment to good-feels or stablity or socia...

Maybe, in the sense of your own idea of a master -- that's the case. But my idea of a master may say -- over-familiarity is a virtue. And where you de...

I mean, if we're masters, does it matter what Fred approves of?

I think I'm good with there being a right reading. And I would certainly defer to your reading as a right reading, given our relative familiarity. Or,...

I am wondering if this paper is accessible? As in, can people still interested read the paper? I have an account on there, and it was free for me, but...

Ahhhh.... how I wish. But here I am...

Feel like stating: I am hoping to find some kind of semblance of understanding on postmodernism, with textual references everyone can read on TPF, so ...

Mostly asking because if someone believes that -- then I sort of feel my original comment was correct. But maybe only in reference to people who belie...

Do you think that there is a right way to read Nietzsche?

Back when I read through him I always thought the naturalism was just a foil of some kind -- ala Kant's ethics, but inverted. Rather than having to be...

Okiedokie. I'm fine with letting it go, here.

In the hopes of making my position clear, at least: You could delete LaMDA today, and I wouldn't worry. The object of criticism isn't Google's choice,...

I wouldn't call it that because "conviction" and "certainty" aren't the sorts of words which express the soft-ness of moral relationships. Conviction ...

Yup! That's why I thought he'd be good too -- relative popularity, fits within the category, but also has a wide breadth of interpretations. Plus, giv...

Really? Because I don't think any of us are giving him much credit at all. In fact, what I said was that the facts are irrelevant to moral reasoning. ...

I wouldn't call it an unshakable conviction or a certainty, but rather an encounter in a face-to-face relation. There was no fact to the matter that m...

I'd call it "equivocation" -- because you both mean different things by "selfish"

How else would you draw a line between creatures and machines other than subjectivity? Seems to me that they go hand-in-hand

Feel like lamenting the lack of public access to academic journals. There are variations on the theme here, depending on field/location/etc, but it'd ...

Cool! And kudos to it -- I mean I linked a paper using this interpretation! :D For other reasons too, but I want to keep that interpretation in the co...

Also, I thought he was a good pick, from the broader category of postmodernism, for TPF given that it seems he's widely read around here.

I'd be interested in trying to find something to read against this, in comparison. Because I think that the interpretation offered by this paper is ba...

I'm having a gander at this. I thought maybe, given the breadth of postmodernism so far agreed to, and the other conversation, Nietzsche might be frui...

These two go along nicely together, and also stimulate some of my thinking on underlying issues with respect to the relationship between knowledge and...

Going back to this exchange - I've decided I was wrong at the outset of this thread. Given that this is TPF, I think there's probably enough coherence...

Might be a good place to call it -- seems we're back around to post-modernism, considered generally.

OK, fair. I just glanced over it, and started to wonder. I'll give it a look. My bad.

I mean, I read the Gorgias some time ago, tho re-reading and re-re-reading isn't bad. I feel like your take on Derrida is unfair, so far, though. But ...

I feel you're making assertions I cannot evaluate, because I'm only responding to some of the takes on Derrida that I feel confident enough to refute....

I believe I answered this charge here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/707330

I just mean before Derrida. But then it would seem that Hume wouldn't undermine Derrida, but get along with him? That's why I asked, because I'm not s...

OK -- so are you contesting that Hume basically did it first, more or less?

@"180 Proof" I guess what I really see in Derrida -- my interest in him -- is what I often see in philosophers. There's a unique perspective there tha...