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Simply? That was simply. Open, say, a book called Totality and Infinity by Emanuel Levinas, and your head will spin. These philosophers are not trying...

Then read Heidegger's Being and Time. Here is an idea: Einstein talks about time, but he doesn't talk about the nature of the perceptual event that is...

So I'm not going to put out there the long version. As succinctly as it can be put: It's is crazy to think what you see before you is what it is with ...

More radical, yes. You likely won't be very pleased. Language is primordial not because it sits in the seat of absolute authority answering questions ...

I think you have put one foot into qualia proper: By mereological construction, you mean nothing but a construction of relations, butthe rub is, how d...

Well, don't get me wrong. We have three cats and they are adorable, and they are endowed with emotional abilities, are sensitive, yearning for affecti...

I don't know what is supposed to be fair. I don't think it enters into it. Dennett had a naive understanding about qualia because there is naivete bui...

I think the basic assumption of your question is that, prior to conceiving of burj in your head, you were already in a system of agreement about words...

Yes, cutting boards with a saw makes the boards on which boards are cut, tools. And infants and animals do have have experiences, but these are not th...

All things within the private mental state are private because we have a term for private mental states, which is 'private mental states'. Language is...

THIS is what you are up against: your thinking makes assumptions about what is not language, IN language. And any way you might have of understanding ...

We can and do talk of the milk here and now in various contexts and metaphorical extensions, and ironically, and on and on; but what happens when the ...

h But consider a way to deal with this that is not so silly. The answer to the question, what is the nature of pain? is answered in language, or there...

But then, what is an indexical that sets it apart from data? Pointing to a thing assumes the thing, and this thing is what, if not a datum? But try to...

Religions fail? Quite the opposite: they have provided solace for people in crisis for millennia. What did you think religion was about, the truth? No...

Please don't be embarrassed. I know you don't like to read things that take inquiry down to the very ground from which they come, and this leaves out ...

I don't see JTB as robust at all. It is simply filled with question begging. P is true? But how does one get to the truth of P being the case without ...

That about Hegel needs to be made clearer. Oh well.

Consider that the the Cartesian method is to discover what cannot be doubted, and this is impossible to "say" that is, put in a proposition, because a...

It is a naive argument. The cartesian method asks, is there anything that one cannot doubt, and this brings inquiry to bear on where doubt cannot go. ...

See above:" ....agony ISN"T interechangeable" it should read.

existential! The good and the bad are indeed metaphysical ideas, but this is because the world is metaphysical; and metaphysics' centuries of imaginat...

OTOH, Heidegger's Being and Time must be read. Just saying. It is frankly profound and opens the door to all later Heidegger, and post Heideggerian/ne...

Pain without a moral claim: change this to pain without a moral dimension or possibility, and now you have a contradiction. Claims can be made or not,...

Odd things you say, I think. Are their facts about logical principles? Is it a fact the sun shines today, when it does? Not having read all said here,...

Religion as such is just the metaphysics of affectivity, value, ethics, aesthetics, the good, the bad. What it is that makes importance important, the...

Ask, what is the Good? Its essence: that without which it would cease being the Good? Without the Good or the Bad, ethics stops being what it is, and ...

A bit much, below. Got carried away. That's the rub, isn't it. Someone like Simon Critchley has read everything and yet talks like a nihilist in leagu...

Restate it more simply? It's not really an argument. It is something that is there, and has always been there, but is ignored. Two questions; no three...

I think treating all people equally is, as you say, only contingently viable, as one can imagine all sorts of ways to make strong cases for not doing ...

Moral principles that are universal?? Universal, meaning inviolable, apodictic as modus ponens. What could you possible have in mind? Remember, langua...

The question here is not about valueS. It is about value as such.

But saying it's prescription and approval still begs the question, meaning it has presuppositional underpinnings, meaning you haven't yet reached the ...

I would say that is good enough. When it comes to the normative "nature" of ethics, where does your thesis take us? You step back from normative entan...

Prioritizing a descriptive linguistic theory OVER prescriptive ones? But I can't imagine anything I said that could be remotely associated with this.

There is a book, The Myth of the Left and the Right, by Hyrum Lewis, that claim those opposing ideologies are really tribal loyalties, and that really...

Not sure what forced linguistic change you have in mind. But it reminds me of Foucault's panopticon: the hope that in inserting a set of values in the...

Answer me this: what is the nature of the "meta" in metaethics?

Err, not helpful.

I don't follow this.

I recall in Madness and Civilization how institutions create a vocabulary of pathology, and thereby create, to an extent, pathology itself; but also, ...

So, the reason I find political categorical rigidity unable to express the fullness of complex ideas is because.....I was neglected as a child?

You're right about the connotative play of that word, but in a political context only. Pull out of this polarized political thinking, and move into, s...

I look at it like this: Binary views of any kind implies a simplicity that ignores complexity. In gender identification, one may experience thw world ...

I like the term, myself. Of course, it sounds like some liberal (like me) trying to bring awkward, non standard phrasing into an established discourse...

Putting conflict aside, and putting aside the binary definitions, narratives: to address good and evil, one has to first look to their essence: what A...

I can only approach understanding this philosophy, never be as solid as you. I am convinced that Henry is close to, well, heh, heh, the one true view.

I found your ideas interesting, loaded with questions. Here: Someone like Rorty would say a discussion like this is just bad metaphysics, and thereby ...

But none of this is by definition. The essence of God is not determined such that definitional proofs can simply be brought forth. What comes to us is...

There is no argument or reasoning in "yep". Sounds like you stand by a naïve interpretation without saying why.