Astrophel

A reference to deconstruction? The point that they are making is that all singular assertions defer to something else. I call myself accountant, but w...

A non sequitur, Frank. Perhaps you could restate.

A matter of perspective, eh? Then, what is it that is a matter of perspective? Is this raging pain in my kidney a matter of perspective?

Not sure what happiness is, really. The question is, how does such a thing bear up under scrutiny? I can say I am happy, but what is there in the worl...

I've got Lectures on Internal Time Consciousness here. Let me read it and and see what I can say.

Pity.

And right this is. But re. logic: I think of Hume. It is empty, formal. Meaning has no message here. When we say something is rational, we are talking...

If you think of these as bodily functions, you might think like this. But there are many ways to contextualize this. Physics can give, in a limited wa...

It does present the question, what is being? So, when you walk into a room, there is this implicit "sense" of things being there. It is a kind of fami...

The value of a solution begs the question: what good is even a maximal value FOR a solution? Or, what is it about a solution that makes it at all desi...

But I'm not following Husserl regarding qualities as I am talking about them. "Going Cartesian" is simply lifted from the Cartesian Meditations. Refer...

I mean to say, res affectus considered apart from a thing is just as impossible as thinking of it apart from any properties or from rational categorie...

Res affectus: I don't think it's possible to talk about other things like this. The "otherness" of the thing as a thing apart from all the ways I give...

But there is a line that refuses to be drawn, so we are always redrawing it. Look at it at a more local level. I have ethical concerns about lots of p...

I don't think this is true. I am not here defending some set of ideas conceived by continental philosophers. The argument has Dewey and Rorty. There i...

Sure, thinking about acting. But our thinking doesn't arise ex nihilo. If I were born a 19th Zulu warrior, I imagine my moral thinking would be very d...

It's just that "well" and "good" are synonyms. Sorry, I don't mean to "give" it to you. I just write what comes to mind and I thought of Oldenquist. O...

Joshs wrote a paper on this book and I read it and the book. The book quite accessible, the paper difficult. I find cognitive science decidedly not ph...

Absolutely! But what is it one has to think about? This is critical, I mean, philosophy asks, what is this all about, this struggle (this "war" says L...

The continental lens is not the issue. If you make it in issue, then you can tell me what it is. You think it is unimportant that to philosophically u...

I don't know where this comes from, but it was you that said your time was wasted after all that I put out there. I mean, what time did YOU waste? And...

Not to forget Ram Das, Timothy Leary, Carlos Castaneda, Aldous Huxley. Interesting the way the scientific community so casually releases this kind of ...

But then, well-being is no more explanatory than good. Anyway, there is a book you might find interesting by Oldenquist, called "Non suicidal Society"...

I think I agree somewhere in there. Do I think we are "going somewhere" with all this struggling and dealing with a world of glorious beauty and wretc...

Just to pause on this. The structure of affectivity is twofold: A want, desire, appetite, fear, loathing and so on, can be questioned. Why do you want...

I blame myself, Tom Storm. I assumed you at least had a curiosity and a capacity to inquire. The trouble here is that you really don't know anything a...

It wouldn't be in contrast. To make this point, as someone like Herbert Meade does, it would be this exterior event, here, the relationship with other...

But prior to what one does, one has to BE an agency of ethical possibilities. It is not bottomless at all. All one has to do is look to that which mak...

this isn't an answer to a question that asks for the most salient features of something. I'm not asking what we should do or who should be privileged....

Nor am I sure why this is so mysterious. This is a philosophical examination of an ethical case. The knife in the kidney is just an example. Nor is it...

But consider that talking about relationships with others precludes something about agency itself. Agency comes, analytically, before inter-agency. Th...

In the most important way, evolution has NOTHING to do with ethics. For evolution will reduce ethics to what is conducive to reproduction and survival...

Smith? No. I see no fault with moral sentiment, but these are not foundational in their attachment to incidentals (facts). They are, however, as senti...

But this with others, what is it? Saying you have concern for others turns the table to you, because you are an other to others, and the most accessib...

Nothing mystical about a knife in your kidney. That matter is much more basic than you would have it. You, I surmise, would like to treat that knife a...

I am not trying to defend phenomenology, and it I were, I would be in a poor position. That would be an true academic's job. I do defend the phenomeno...

Sounds right to me. But one can ask, why make the world a more creatively anticipatable place? If there is no answer to this, then the mundane objecti...

Framework of intuitions? I don't follow. What is this framework? As to taking this seriously, you wrote: Do you seriously think there is a material ba...

Likely that you have not read Husserl's Ideas I? I remember reading Kant for the first time and I was bewildered. I understood the words and the logic...

Of course, I see this (not, of course, I understand Heidegger so well. This certainly isn't true). But to pre "suppose"-- this goes to comprehension. ...

I think you are right about courage and fortitude and a number of other virtues that describe a "good will". This is an essential point. There are goo...

No, I despise Jordan Peterson. Too smart for a conservative, and that makes conservative views sound better than they are. Moral realism is not about ...

Aesthetics and ethics Wittgenstein puts in the same bin. They are value generated. (Note how modern art aligns with ethical complexities: ANYTHING tha...

I agree. And animals are, in my thinking, ethically included in our concerns about others. I also agree that "all things resting on evolution" is not ...

This is rather to the point. What does one do with a phenomenology of ethics? I opened with the idea of attending to the case itself that stands there...

I've always thought Kant's imperative rested with utility, notwithstanding the "good will". How can I universalize my maxim in any meaningful way unle...

But you make it all so complicated. As for me, I observe the world, not at all like a scientist would. What is there, in the ethical case. There is th...

Just to add, the argument for moral realism I defend is quite involved. This is but an iceberg's tip.

But to see this point, you have ask analytic questions. Sure, a system of laws. Now, why do we have laws? Asking why will eventually lead to foundatio...

Well, you sound you would very much enjoy Emanuel Levinas. It's a tough nut to crack, requires patience if you've not read anything like this. But his...