At seminaries, Kierkegaard is only grudgingly taught. Thinking about religion both delivers one from the yoke of dogma, and puts the "reality" of reli...
The meticulous mind is very useful, but becomes fascinated by the turning of its own wheels. Thinking becomes inherently entertaining. But on the othe...
Right. And it never was the prerogative of language to BE what language talked about. The trap is hermeneutical: Can language ever talk about somethin...
Like all words, it requires context to understood, and then the values kick in. This is why functional concepts like 'material substance" are so vacuo...
A couple of things. One is, energy is not another word for affect. In fact, I don't know what energy is, and neither do physicists beyond something bl...
Metaphysical Elements of Ethics is a good one. Thanks! I had to read around a bit to make sure I gave Kant his due. Duty rises from the absence of sen...
If that deity is simply a metaphysical embodiment of reason (??) then I suppose we would have to do what "it" said, I mean, this would be an analytic ...
I don't mean it this way. I mean, reason as such has no value, just like musical score without the performance. So there you are, studying pure mathem...
Look at his ethics. The good will, duty, the categorical imperative, no, Kant is a rationalist for a good reason: he doesn't understand the value foun...
Yes, but what is the difference in the unity? The only way to discover this is by observation and description. One has to step into Husserl's epoche. ...
What do you do with that chasm that manifestly separates me from this coffee cup? Cup there, me here. But then we have to deal with the entanglement o...
I really don't think like this at all. If I were to say what it is I disagree about it, it would get rather involved. I read philosophers like Husserl...
Metaphysics of justice? I don't know what this is about. Kant doesn't go in this direction at all. He is not a metaphysician. Your quote refers to the...
Well, this is all academic. This synthesis of concepts and intuitions is basic to the Critique. Read the Dialectic and you find the speaks the same la...
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. That is a quote. This is really the basis of the transcendental dialectic. ...
But it is an argument with details. Do you think religion is reducible to a metaethical issue? You have to follow the reasoning. This is a beginning. ...
thank you for that. But I do not hold orthodox views. See, if you have a mind to, the way this is handled in my discussion with Agent Smith. Comment a...
Okay, but this is a process, not banter.. And it gets a little involved. It begins with the concept 'god'. I should add, obviously. The trouble with m...
The question then is only this: Can you in a sustained dialog argue this position? Keep in mind that none of the above takes the matter to its core ph...
You should look at that again. I mean, take a methodical approach to this. You find that most arguments against the existence of God are made of straw...
Reason is empty. Necessary for dividing the world up into things and their properties, but without intuitions, empty, as Kant said. Add sensory intuit...
It's a lovely rationalization, common amount those who don't know how to respond to an idea they never thought of. What better way to deflect than hea...
That is the essence of it. Thought is presupposed in everything "natural". This plays out extensively in phenomenology. But the real issue with this i...
I don't see the talk about unsublimated early childhood fairytales having anything to do with a philosophical analysis of religion and God. There may ...
But this is all just psychoanalytic that doesn't even qualify as philosophy. Fails to look at what underlies all of this. Prior to being a fantasy of ...
The rub in this lies in philosophy's need to, possess the world, so to speak. The essence of apophatic thinking lies here: "God" (if we have to think ...
Yes, there is disagreement. I am no pro, but I have read these and I will say this: Husserl can be very detailed, but also very direct. But when he is...
An addendum: There is today a strain of philosophy that think's Husserl opened up an extraordinary kind of thinking that is not simply theoretical, bu...
That would be mysticism, no? Meister Eckhart wrote, help me God to be rid of God. Something in the former obstructed by the latter. What would that be...
Impressive. An honest answer. At any rate, if some time in the future you want to look analytically at nihilism, check out Wittgenstein's Lecture on E...
But this is putting it all in a dismissive narrative about how all is lost and it is just up to us, and so forth. \ The matter gets interesting only w...
Massively, and I suspect willfully, misses the point. You have to think better about this: explain how it is that your material reduction of a person ...
Yes, and this is why there are so many of those ancient narratives: fear and hope. But take any narrative at all and you find it follows the rules of ...
Keep in mind that it is a brain that manufactures this idea. When I look around the world and I see brains and nervous systems, these are massive clus...
I think you take over thinking to a new level. I can give you a dozen more explanatory contexts to fit Jesus into. No, a hundred more. It is easy to d...
The reason why Kant fails to understand noumena is because he is bound to the rigidity of categorical thinking. He is quite "manichean" on this: the w...
Because most of them are of them are undereducated and watch too many movies that valorize violence. Ever talk to these people? Well don't! No analyti...
Thanks for that! I have it here. I don't know what this is about. I have always thought it was hermeneutics that sealed the fate of adventuring "beyon...
Husserl: "the intuition of the past itself....is an originary consciousness" (Section 12) Time therefore does not exist at all, it would seem to follo...
two things: it is "worse" than I have let on. Once we allow affect and intuited value or phenomenologically pure "data" pf pain, pleasure and the rest...
Well, you were responding to my "can go on forever in a childish game of what and why" which was a reference to the way deconstructionists sometimes p...
Still reading Husserl's Internal time consciousness. Trying to construct a response. As to Henry above, it doesn't touch on the original phenomenologi...
we are in a limited way, in agreement. What is left after the historical notions of grounding ethics in some kind of logocentric idea are pushed aside...
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