You are asking a question that is taken up as a major theme in Heidegger. What the nature of questioning? But also, your thoughts on the exclusivity o...
The point is more simple. We know how this goes. It's just that when one pulls back and realizes where Kant's ontology takes one, it is realized that ...
How about liberating inquiry from a lot of bad thinking that manufactures problems? Phenomenology is not subjective; it is talked about like that beca...
Sorry to be a noodge, but not subjective. Continental philosophy doesn't really take up issues in terms of subjective vs objective (though these terms...
It means that when one asks basic questions about the world, one cannot escape the delimitations of representation. All the understanding can ever aff...
I am going to dismiss these. Not that they are not meaningful, but the approach that informs my thinking has no place for them (though after said appr...
Well, that is a loaded statement, you know. There is so much philosophy in this, one barely knows where to begin. Kant wasn't wrong (though the Critiq...
But pure apriori cognition is only conceived in thought. This is the point. The prison. There is no representation long before the exercise of the und...
Keep in mind that when you speak of a brain, it too is "immaterial which emerged from the brain." Weird as this sounds, this is what your thinking her...
But this is a physicalist's view of things, yes? This kind of thinking is what makes the issue an issue, for it localizes the one, sensations, in an o...
I'm rather talking about the synthetic nature of a thought, what brings particulars under a heading just to think AT ALL. I say, That is a fence post!...
No, the meaning here is that Kant is talking about a specific critique, not some matter or other that is merely incidental. Incidental things are brac...
People have non contradictory judgments all the time in "their understanding," no? After all, understanding like this does not play out universally, a...
I mean, think about it: what is scienctific knowledge and how does it present to me the moon as it is? One has to look not at the quantification, for ...
not quite. It holds that what is out there IS the perceptual reality of God's perceiving. You know, God is in the quad, as it goes. Not to say this is...
But then, what contributions does "the mind" make to "the moon" being the moon when it encounters that out there we call the moon? Clearly the moon is...
Doubt is something that comes into play in a setting where things that are not doubted have some reasonable status. Kant is not talking about doubting...
I guess by Kant's dogmatism you refer to the transcendental dialectic, which Michel Henry (who is my current interest) refers to as "the lost desert o...
But Mww, I thought you were a Kantian (I recall from some time ago). He would never allow that kind of thing. Objects of perception are not to be deni...
Of course, if you ask Derrida, this conformity is an impossible problematic. Grasping things not reducible to language is the "other" side where under...
But can an animal see a tree as animals see trees prior to some measure of history in which trees have been encountered. A bit like asking what an inf...
This totality is the totality of one's own past. Look around a classroom, e.g. and note how everything makes sense, the chalk/markers, desks, chairs, ...
One finds what is there that is not among the many, not "a" being. This being as such. Difficult to confront. It does take some of what you could call...
I am reminded of Heidegger's time, which to me is a very strong case for "magic". Perhaps you know it. First, an ontology, like everything, is going t...
Interesting take on this is Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety. He is without mercy on Luthor, Catholic dogma, and others as they proceed fail to explai...
The real problem with this lies with the need to disambiguate contingent good and bad from absolute good and bad. Yes, there is such a thing as the la...
Well, the latter comes first, no? It is presupposed by the former, and therefore philosophically important and the latter is just physics. Objective t...
If it is just a description of what was said and by whom , I suppose Russell can't do much harm. Informative, like an encyclopedia. But if he laces it...
But this connectivity is just the problem. Put it like this: If you were to ask a geologist about some sedimentary rock, and were given a story about ...
Yes, and you do well note the "different sense, here. First, just to remind: Verbaeke seems to be suggesting that this otherness is derivative of prop...
For me, it is the simplicity of philosophical issues that are striking. I put the question above: ever hear of a physicist studying, Jupiter's moon's ...
Yeah, I find myself leaning toward this thinking because I, too, like, Henry, am a radical phenomenologist. The phenomenology of absolute self-affecti...
I read, and so do you, only different books. On religion, frankly, it would take a certain agreement on your part with what Michel Henry, my current m...
As I see your position, after reading your thoughts here and there, you are indeed an open door, but a door in a closed room. How does one open a room...
I don't approve of the term 'idealist' to explain a description of the world that understands that the perceptual act that receives "the world" must b...
Speaking of strawperson arguments: The conditioned here IS NOT arbitrary. Nothing says it has to be this way, it just IS that way. This is entirely in...
If there are these micro deviations from moment to moment, and I think this right, then why does this indeterminacy not topple the very notion of obje...
I think my position here deserves to be cornered. The whole matter requires a sea change, if you will, in philosophical perspective, and a post is suc...
But my thoughts run like this: There is in this sprained ankle attending thought, and this may be equiprimordial with the pain, but to conceive of the...
I say a full bodied language "attends" enlightenment, allows the event to take place against what is not enlightenment, referring to everything one kn...
But in the same way the thrill of a roller coaster ride is non discursive. See, I just think talk "beyond the conceptual" says too much. Nothing is be...
Let's call those promises part of the culture of religion. And sure, I know what people believe. But this is philosophically uninteresting. Such thing...
They say in Tibet there is a dialog among masters of concepts those on the outside cannot even imagine. Ineffability is meaningful only relative to ef...
Best to think analytically: when one observes the world, what does one find at the level of basic questions? As I move into this difficult area, I red...
Consider that the religious perspective raises this entire dimension of our existence, this affectivity, the vulnerability, the overwhelmingness of su...
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