It's complicated. In short, religion is reducible to the indeterminacy of our ethics and aesthetics. Note how Wittgenstein put these on his list of un...
Just to repeat what I just said, it looks like you are looking for religion in all the wrong places. You must begin and end with the world. The troubl...
I've read through much of this thread, and it occurs to me that you are putting terms into play that are through and through ambiguous at best, and cr...
Not the same, but not separable. either, for thought is inherently aesthetic. What we call aesthetic is what is abstracted from the original experienc...
Consider: Wittgenstein was wrong about the limitations of language (in the Tractatus), for there really is no limit to what language, as structured me...
Of course, I take a stronger view: it is not that language has its place in ontology, but that the two are analytically inseparable. You cannot speak ...
Ah, you mean as in Kierkegaard's Repetition, as opposed to the "recollection". But in the liberated "moment," we are still bound to that which is ther...
We are essentially "not yet" even in the grasp of a memory, the memory as grasped is a "not yet". Our existence is "fundamentally futural." But in "th...
Well, you know this is the way it leans among those I pay attention to. Camus no doubt word this differently. And Heidegger doesn't talk like this. He...
Just looking over what I wrote to make sure my failure to proofread didn't cause a calamity and found this: "Well, if this is meant to be a summery, t...
Brilliant! But has there not been anything vouchsafed for the fly, that is, embedded IN the delimited world of fly existence. Not the sky that summons...
Let him tell you: my courage is still not the courage of faith and is not something to be compared with it. I cannot make the movement of faith, I can...
He stepped beyond the very line he drew explaining the way out. Russell called him a mystic. Wittgenstein then walked away, for he knew they, the posi...
By traditional philosophy you mean what is called continental philosophy. I think neither Hegel nor Heidegger fits into Kierkegaard's thinking, but ye...
In plain language, the absurd is the experience one has when realizing that whatever stands before one in the world that might be defining as to their...
In Fear and Trembling, this is how Johannes de Silentio describes the knight of faith: With the freedom from care of a reckless good-for-nothing, he l...
"Yes, in one sense most Buddhists don't meditate, but in a more universal sense all people, of whatever faith, are as close to meditation as the neare...
Yes. These phenomenologists are descriptive, and because we make choices, and "things" don't, freedom is the ontological description of a being who ma...
There is a lot in this. Husserl is a little dated and the excruciating detail that you posted is an example of why. Here is what remains that interest...
But that rewords it in a way I can't agree with. All there is for us to witness is our existence and other things that appear in our existence. What i...
Sartre was a phenomenologist, and he followed it the tradition of both following Kant and rejecting Kant. Kant was the one who said all we can ever kn...
It would be more, shuddup and attend! How does one attend? This takes thoughtful insight, not just shutting up, the thoughtful insight that is implici...
Stunning, really. This from the unapologetic Nazi (that Robert Solomon and others say he was. I've read some of the "black notebooks" and they are pre...
As you can see, I am no expert. But I do read and think like you, just different books and essays. Consider that non dualism only makes sense when pla...
Thrownness is the source of freedom. Look at it like this: Freedom is what is provided as possibilities for choice. One, by being-with others (mitda-s...
Heidegger's Being and Time is by far more important. Sartre is derivative. Not that I didn't find him helpful. I like the way he brought for the "unca...
Unmitigated relativism: There was a time when I would agree with you. Now I am convinced that the lines drawn between the world we are IN and what is ...
Just to say, when you read this in the Lecture on Ethics (online and free) you will not find exactly my interpretation. You read it an make up your on...
I think Buddhists, Hindus (not everyday Hindus praying to Ganesh) are the most advanced people in the world. The serious ones, dedicated to overcoming...
No, no. Pseudo sciences are what they are because there is no repeatable results, the essence of the scientific method. And the scientific method cert...
Freedom, not free will. Sartre was not an anti-determinist. Freedom is not a concept, but a structure of consciousness. Phenomenologists are descripti...
Think of it like this: there you stand on the precipice of an unmade future, and this is an abiding condition, that is, there is no way out of this fo...
Consider that the moment it is spoken, it is bad metaphysics. This is the point. Of course, this is a philosophy forum and one does have to speak. But...
What happens when you "see" something? Why are you not shocked? Because memory informs the occasion, making it familiar. So what is familiarity? Repet...
Derrida and his criticism of Heidegger is the "final" critique, isn't it. After deconstruction one can either follow Husserl's reduction to it grand f...
As I see it, yes. And when one turns attention to this or that cat issue, this, too , refers us to anticipated possibilities. Even if God were to come...
Depends on what you mean by a sentence. And re. "formal system of obeying usual laws," the same. I call sentences pragmatic constructions that are dem...
Just responding to your preemptive, "You are jumping from topic to topic chaotically. First, JTB, then intentionality, now solipsism. This is my closi...
Knowledge is a strange bird. Does mouse know cheese? Or the excitement in seeing it? Or its own reproductive urges (putting it nicely)? Yes and no. Ye...
No, this is not the claim. The claim is that if something is a belief, it is a proposition. This may not hold for the pigeons outside my window, but t...
Perhaps you would find agreement with what I said to Count Timothy von Icarus. I would add to that, this: It is not that thee is no world to "know." B...
It is not as if it's all language. Rather, it is all interpretation. The many impositions that intrude into my world are value intrusions, meaning I c...
Just to add, I am reminded of Foucault in an introductory book. Molloy is dying: Foucault associates himself with the modernist voice of Beckett’s Mol...
But then, all you can say that can provide a possible alternative construal of what the world is, is done in language. Meaning is constructed "out of"...
You have to put your thinking cap on, Lionino. Note first that the OP says epistemology and ontology are the same or mutually entailed. To say "it is ...
No, no. And Kant has little to do with it. Call it common sense: You learned a language long ago. What was that? The infant mind faces models of inter...
Just to note, Banno, that Lionino did a hit a run, that is, made a disparaging comment, then announced he didn't want to discuss it any more. Like tak...
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