Well, with Eckhart, one has to be very careful with context. I mean, what he says belongs to a discussion, and shouldn't be isolated from this for its...
The question then is, when it is affirmed that God is something beyond our capacity, from whence comes the ground for this claim? Language opens exper...
But this sense of "beyond" is speculative, and while I have no doubt that the more one moves into this strange terrain, the more is disclosed, it is n...
But to see such a bridge, one has to step into it. Metaphysics is reborn in thinkers like Jean Luc Marion. Alas, getting TO him, one has to go through...
Straight to a radical realization of the self. Nothing that has ever been observed is done so independently of the act of observing, i.e., the percept...
Already have an understanding of what things? Again, if it is a matter of meditation classes, serious ones, insisting on freedom from the dynamics of ...
The distinction between one God and another can be a trivial distinction, but as to truth, one does want to be deceived, deluded, wrong minded about w...
If you like. But what is this "science of orientation"? The moment you start explaining this, you begin a kind of intellectualizing, for things have t...
As I see it, you lean either in or out. If you are in, then philosophy really has no place, save the entertainment value of marginal thinking, and you...
One could argue: posture, practice, direction, communion are all questions: what posture, practice, etc., should be done, accepted, believed? This giv...
The point here is that noumena is not merely an empty concept. Kant was wrong. The next stop is Kierkegaard, Hegel, Heidegger's What Is Metaphysics? T...
You might want to read the Transcendental Deduction in the Critique of Pure Reason for a close look at the way Kant thinks. It has to be understood th...
Well, this is exactly how to go, asking just that question. The hard part is to affirm the very difficult, yet inexorable, premise that the latter, th...
The more sophisticated accounts of theism ask questions that have nothing to do with theism. Here is a question I think is foundational for religion: ...
Depends on what you mean by 'present'. As a meaningful concept, it is only an pragmatic modality, meaning when we think of the essence of the present,...
No. And yes. What do you mean by anxiety? See, this is where things go stupidly fuzzy. And if one is dead set on not reading anything written in Germa...
Well said. And yes, very intriguing. The question is, does this make any difference in one's (genitive) "objective" time? That is, Husserl's reduction...
Let's leave God out of it. It can be such a distraction and the same issues that turn up here also turn up there, trying to explain God and, what, div...
Meister Eckhart prayed to God to be rid of God. Looking at several of the posts here, I see little evidence of being rid of God. Even Nietzsche was fu...
But most of what is thought about God is a lot of medieval drivel, so that much can be dismissed summarily. The question really is about, after the re...
Rather, your now always already IS the past and future. The past, of course, is not a place or something that can be visited awaiting recollection tha...
Yes, but when you speak of 'now' you are simply localizing subjective time, and the concept remains abstract. Analysis shows that what we call 'now' i...
The objective present you speak of is complicated, not simple. What this is, is hard to say because language itself it performed in sequential thinkin...
Thanks! It was very good, putting aside the covid I had for a week. I don't think when I die I would like to cough myself to death, as so many of thos...
Well, that is a big issue. I hold that the world is most emphatically inherently moral. Where Kant argued from the world to pure reason's transcendent...
But one has to step back from it all. There is no concept that is not representational, and thus, all talk about what is non representational is alway...
Perhaps enlightenment is brought to this considering that when certainty is upon one, in some experience or other, it is not the logicality that is in...
Right. That is what it amounts to. Kant knew full well that there are no categories. They're noumenal. Of course it is. What is the stone? It IS sensa...
Yes he did. This is an issue. If I think, then the thought has content. It is never stand alone thinking, and if one is thinking about some object---a...
To me, phenomenology inevitably becomes a mysticism. I mean you end up with a transcendental mystery about your own existence, others, too, but indire...
I think this is right. The "myself" as a transcendental Unity of Apperception is entirely "absent". What Henry IS going to say is that Kant's is a tho...
But you move too quickly. Not the external world, but externality itself is a dimension of perceptual event and the perceptual event is a dimension of...
Wittgenstein would say yes, at least in the Tractatus (which he says, paradoxically, is nonsense!). I "see" logic in judgments like, It won't rain unl...
You can say this, that when you are not thinking of a pot and you see and know what it is you are not actualizing the empirical concept 'pot' but igno...
It depends on how you are thinking about what "the world" is. If you are referring to the naturalist view science takes, then I would disagree, for sc...
When you say calling something good is clearly subjective, this needs a bit of analysis. If by good one refers to a context of good qualities and bad ...
Talk and think here are the same, as are hand signals, telepathy, facial expressions, brailing, etc., as long as these carry meanings that are structu...
These beg the basic question: what is the aesthetic experience "as such"? The Greek sense has no bearing here; and to refer to "taste" simply shows ho...
Kant's does talk about pure reason, and it does make sense to do so, I claim. But then, as Wittgenstein said later, it really is nonsense as well, bec...
I wrote some things below, but my final comment seems the best, so I brought it up to the beginning. One of my favorite questions: One last thought: D...
What is the case is the synthetic apriority in language relations with the world. Clearly the move from this is not going to be something determinate,...
Quite a thing to say, and I wonder if Nietzsche would agree, being so close to his Birth of Tragedy. But keep in mind that science has no interest in ...
You had written: So that which is not understood never appears? Guy’s walking down the street, hears a loud bang from around the corner. An appearance...
I said Dennett really DOES understand the world. I meant to say, that he does NOT. That this is what happens when all eyes are on how well one constru...
NO. Ontology and epistemology are two sides to the same existence. Causality, e.g., IS IN the existence of this desk in the logic of sensory intuition...
Well, you sound like someone who just might do the work required to understand these people. So often the initial interest is killed by the alien natu...
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