No, no. You misconstrue the word "to": not born to suffer and die one, say, is born to be a dentist, and therefore strives to be one, is destined to b...
Forget about Abraham, Moses and any other historical accidents you can think of. The OP makes as a principal interest of inquiry just this "public imp...
Just to be clear, you just said that religion is a return to truth away from knowing and thinking. This is qualifiedly right, I think. But it needs a ...
But consider: you don't think there is a basic problem with our existence that stands outside of, and prior to, the language and cultural institutions...
As in not knowing, say, disease to be caused by microbiology. Not so much about causality itself, but of what causes what. On the other hand, the ques...
Well, it was you who brought up "my internal experiences" so I was just moving forward with this. It was the denial of spirit and the acknowledging of...
This is a question about your reference to "spirit". So when you examine your internal experience, what you find is a kind of content that really does...
Errrr, really? My question asked about what could be "behind" those old bible stories so easily dismissed, referring tosomething substantive to religi...
Not that. To talk about such a thing would imply one understands what existence "really is," meaning, you can't go on about how spirit is not the case...
A good strong position. I hold the same view regarding such stories. But isn't there something "behind" the stories that a person cannot wimp out on e...
I will grant that academic philosophy is self serving. I am thinking about what Heidegger said in his Nietzsche III: Unequivocal rejection of all phil...
On the other hand, while one may observe the world IN a particular dialectic setting, one can "face" a world of actualities that transcend this. An ex...
l I understand this, mostly, having just read The Onto-Theological Constitution of Metaphysics and Iain Thompson's essay on this to help me out. But n...
Constraints on reality itself is an interesting thought. I imagine genetic research will one day be able to determine if DNA and its molecular combina...
Never a romantic in, say, the transcendentalist (Emerson, et al) or Wordsworthian (Ode to Intimation of Immortality) way, for these are, in their own ...
Not entirely, no. But I would suggest an apriori argument, and as such has nothing to do with the nuances of evolutionary thinking, in the same way a ...
I do see the sense of this, of course. But my comment brought to light the "qualitative features of our existence": it seems right to say that genotyp...
Rorty, and I don't want to just throw names at you, so I won't, mostly, is postmodern, and this follows the critique of "modern" thinking that says it...
But what is missing from these procedural criteria is the one that does not sit apart from the existential engagement. Kant wrote that judgment that i...
A few things, but starting here: A rationalist position like Habermas' has to discover first the universality of rational judgment, and regarding ethi...
Worse than this. Before one is a deist, one has to affirm that world was made by God at all, then one is stuck with defining terms, terms like 'god' a...
Then I invite you to consider that evolution is in essence entirely "accidental". The randomness of the mutation of genes that bring about an organism...
I think existentialism and phenomenology are terms that overlap. Heidegger didn't like the term, I don't think Sartre objected. But the whole movement...
AS I try to argue, before one can talk about the nature of ethics, one has to first observe actual ethical cases: what makes something ethical at all!...
When you mentioned Levinas and Derrida, my thoughts went to exactly the place where this issue is expressed so well, if mysteriously, as you can expec...
One of the basic tenets of Christianity has always been that the world is essentially evil. Buddhists think like this as well if you accept suffering ...
Rather brilliantly put, Ologist. I, too, love this stuff. It is about our existence, and so all that is affirmed or denied has its validity in the "im...
quote="javi2541997;895669"]despair about life and choosing from it the values and principles by which one will live. I thought about other authors or ...
I think "quasi-ethical" is probably where this lies. But then, if one is "doing it right," where is the standard to determine this? Certainly it is no...
Nice OP. I thought everyone had forgotten about Camus since existentialism is so out of fashion. The fear Husserl had that modernism was leading to a ...
Well if you think I have entirely failed to do so, then I assume you have spoken clearly against this apriori argument of value and ethics stated seve...
Because in order to establish determinacy of the kind you suggest requires there to be an agreement between the circle and the language that is "speak...
Very important to see that these are not MY personal ethical values. Anything I bring up is just to serve as an illustration. True, I have asserted th...
But for the fifth time, survival is question begging. To survive as such has no ethical meaning. One survives FOR or motivated BY, but never in itself...
Not "to structure" in the above; rather "NO structure." No structure, No talking (talking understood as having the logical form familiar language use ...
Yes, but you see, this begs the question: what is this social cohesion all about, essentially? We are a cohesion that has its ethical cement, if you w...
Those are simply examples, the wine and the chairs. This was clear, I thought. The lounge chair, an example of how the term 'survival' is of no help i...
On circularity, consider the way this philosopher addresses the problem of defining what art is: But how are we to be certain that we are indeed basin...
Buthow is what I require is miracles? This is the question. And what about the idea that ethics is analytically bound to value? This was the major the...
I think this is disingenuous. The pain in my sprained ankle IS in the world. Where else? And referring to a miracle, well, this is just strawman argui...
But this is philosophy. If we were talking about reason, we would move past that-which-is-reasoned-about and on to reason as such, or logical form as ...
No one said ethics exists outside of human deliberation. It is a matter of what human deliberation is grounded in. Any ethical rule, law, principle we...
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