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Let's take this interpretation you got here. Fine by me, I'm not here to argue interpretation of Aristotle as much as make a contrast case between wha...

It's an interpretation, not a quote -- it makes sense of his politics, which he bases on human capacities which are biological. He was the great categ...

See. That's spooky. :D

I was thinking about Deconstruction recently, given the other thread; specifically, I was thinking of our Voice and Phenomenon reading group from a mi...

The way in which I include Kant with the post-moderns is that he believes there's something sacred which knowledge will destroy. But, simultaneously, ...

"Post-" as in after invention, not after death.

More thoughts, in the vein of simply asserting a post-modern philosophy... Regardless of what we might call these periods later, I'd say that fascism ...

That being said, I think we could forgo the usual suspects, too -- and merely assert what we think a post-modern philosophy is. And then that'd be som...

Though I will say, from my own perspective, I rather liked the old addage that "everything is text" -- for myself, it opens the door to philosophy tha...

Back from work now, but getting hung up on the idea that Benjamin was an influence more than a named suspect so far... So I'm afraid I keep coming bac...

I agree. In this case, I'd say the community is TPF -- so not specialized, by necessity, but open to those so specialized and -- at least as far as I'...

Cool. Now, I think, I'm ready to introduce Benjamin, with the understanding of how broadly we're construing post-modernism... will get to it tonight.

Relativism, as I understand the term, is a boogeyman of either a cultural or philosophical variety. Almost anything counts as relativism, broadly cons...

OK, this is cool, actually. I thought there needed to be at least a *little* more conceptual work done, and if we include Nietzsche, then in the broad...

Hah! Thank you for asking this. I tracked it down, and found out that I thought this because I mixed him up with Guattari, and Guattari's family life ...

I agree! I think one of the things that drives me bananas is just how Derrida honestly reads like he's not just ethical, but rather it's one of his ma...

What? I mean, that's the one I'm thinking of. And if you've read it then those aren't pre-conceptions. Those are full on thoughts about a book! And th...

"General consensus"? In philosophy? C'mon... I think there are histories of philosophy which employ "modernism", and try to make a mark between it and...

I'd say that the reason it reads religiously is that it reminds me of the God of the philosophers -- so he may think he was an atheist, but in the ess...

I think, maybe, people mistake description for prescription -- postmodernism is a condition, not a philosophy. Most literally it is after modernism, a...

Hrrmm... well, one thing, I don't think it's necessarily the job of philosophers to address particular concerns. So if one philosopher wishes to think...

Derrida is the man, as you've already picked up on, for this question. However, the reason for this is that "postmodern" is either a historical or a c...

First time reading the essay, myself. A handful of quotes from it: The language he uses is deeply religious throughout. These were moments where I tho...

I think I want a simpler example, and I believe I'm tracking now. The classic argument -- All men are mortal Socrates is a man Therefore, Socrates is ...

I'm not sure what you mean by "...do not have knowledge of the structure of"

Yeaaahh... I'll admit my interest in the thread was mostly Marx. I'll keep The Philosophy of Right in mind if I feel the wild urge to give Hegel a cha...

M'kay, let's work with those terms then. I'm not finicky when it comes to terms. Wage-laborers are proletarians, and proletarians are wage-laborers. T...

Sure, I agree with that.

Isn't it the nature of Hegel that it can be read whichever way? I've read liberals, fascists and anti-colonial communists claim him in various capacit...

I like the problems that it solves -- giving a straightforward reason for why it is one can know things about the world but not necessarily some kind ...

Fair enough. I haven't read The Philosophy of Right, only the phenomenology and the first third of the logic. The logic was too abstruse for me to mak...

His love of Napoleon Bonaparte :D IDK, just a vibe really. He's a wiggly dude to interpret. It's only my love of Marx that has carried me through his ...

:) You got it! I agree that this is a striking difference! In Marx work is central -- our species-being is almost defined by work, in my understanding...

No worries. At the bottom of people's posts near where the timestamp is you just hover your mouse pointer to the right of the timestamp. A little arro...

Oh, fair. I certainly don't mean to present myself as an expert I should say too -- and I'm sure you're being too modest :D -- you did reference the s...

The way I've characterized the proletariat is the way they're characterized in capital -- the genesis of value is labor-power, labor-power is commodif...

With respect to understanding Marx, I don't think anyone is far off. It's important to understand Marx's relationship to Hegel, and it's important to ...

OK, a stronger statement: I agree with what I said and with what everyone else said to me.

Personally, I don't see anything said here as in conflict with what I said.

I don't think those are distinct one from another. I just cite it because it's a demonstration of dialectical materialism: the dialectic is between th...

Cool. Do you see how chapter 1 is basically a demonstration of dialectical materialism, or naw?

I think I pretty much agree with @"Street", so I'm just chiming in to chime in. I would say the class relation is the defining feature of capitalism, ...

If you are interested in that topic then a good place to begin would be a historiography textbook which would explain one way of taking his works as a...

I do not.

I am of the opinion that untreated leukemia in children, as an example, leading to excruciatingly painful deaths for what are clearly innocent people ...

That is the very thing I am disagreeing with. The idea of an infinite reward after death simply does not make up for living a life of absurd and cruel...

I'd much rather not classify it as analytic, I have to agree. I'm trying to look at it in a fairly plain way, at first -- I have lotsa sympathy with t...

This doesn't address the evils that are not caused by man that are simply cruel suffering with no benefit. We don't have to delve into the pit of nast...

I'd say that good and evil do not work like there -- you do not have 5 units of good or 3 units of bad. Suffering remains as suffering even if we find...

Nothing exists.... I have to admit that I have a hard time understanding what it might mean for nothing to exist. So in that way it's unintelligible. ...