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'Every wind in the river sure makes its own way down to the sea.'

I think when he says "contents" he's talking about real events that stand as examples of concepts. Like with music, the score is the concept (or form)...

The nature of the complaint is also ambiguous. :grimace:

Not personal. Medical personnel need to know what your sex was at birth. That's not ambiguous, unless it is.

I think we're fond of doing that with individuality, noting in various ways how the very idea of an individual arises against the backdrop of society....

Dialectics seems to leave everything in a shadowy state. Every property seems to contain it's opposite. We could interpret Hegel as suggesting that we...

The average object is a reification isn't it?

The resolution of conflict. It's not a static thing.

No. We'd have to start by explaining what's meant by negation of the negation. It's Hegel.

Adorno knew the guy who invented the term reification. The negation of the negation is a reification. Remembering that is what negative dialectics is ...

More AI art. https://youtu.be/7Rv20wKGg8k?si=x4ovT1naNp7hqYcs

:grin:

I guess the point was that there are rare cases where biological sex is ambiguous. The vast majority of the time, it isn't.

Right.

There actually is a band called Volucrine. They're from Finland

Pretty much

They don't sound alike

I don't there are exceptions to that. XY.

For most people it's straightforward. If someone has XY chromosomes, there's a long list of predictions we can make about their biology. In the other ...

I don't understand why you're asking that. You really don't understand what it means to be born male?

It means the person was born male. For a doctor, there are a lot of implications, which is why a patient's biological sex is listed at the top of a pa...

It's easy enough to pin it down.

It's amazing. I'm thinking everybody there was on LSD. Explosion, explosion, explosion

As long as you act out of love, it's ok.

It's just that there isn't much power in your should because you can change it anytime you want. There's no should. It's just you doing whatever you d...

I listened to Jimi Hendrix playing the star spangled banner with explosions at Woodstock and now I can't get it out of my head. I'm going around hummi...

They inform your actions? What does that mean?

Do you experience morality that way? Can you change your morality notions on a whim?

There is though. It could be that aliens are beaming the moral thoughts into your head. "People influence each other" is just a stab at satisfying a p...

You shouldn't have to do that if morals are a choice. Morals seem to come from outside, that was my point.

But guilt hurts, right? It can really hurt. Up to a point you can chose whether you're going to face it or not, but you can't make the guilt go away b...

Well said.

I think this is a typical reaction by those averse to dropping ontology. It seems to leave one floating on air?

:up: As for what Adorno made of it, I'm still trying to formulate that. He spent a lot of time sunk deep in the quasi-mystical. He tried to learn Hebr...

I guess we could first look at what Hegel meant by it. I agree with this guy:

Cool. How do you think Adorno understood Hegel's use of the term "absolute spirit" in this quote?

No.

You drew attention to the fact that self awareness is dependent on being in a social arena. I don't think you mentioned the part about how freedom req...

Just to add: for Hegel, the experience of freedom can only happen in a social situation. We give one another freedom: That article also notes that the...

It's the end of the world. Is it still here? I thought it was already gone. I love the word lunch It smells of sandwiches and stars on the walls. It's...

True. The idealism that bugged him is the alienation of the subject to the object. That shows up in two places: in Kant (as the thing-in-itself proble...

The human race

I went back looking for where I may have been mistaken. Ontological anti-realism is skepticism about ontology. One formulation would be to say we just...

Right. Adorno had never believed we can use philosophy to predict historical events, so the only part of Marxism that interested him was the part that...

No. The moral issue I'm talking about has little to do with you in particular.

Buck-Morss says that was the same opposition he'd always had. The Frankfurt group began to doubt Marx regarding the power of the proletariat to transf...

This little quote clears a couple of things up for me. It explains why Adorno backed away from supporting any sort of political activism. It affirms t...

Living things are architects: sometimes profoundly altering the earth to meet their needs. This has been going practically since life first appeared. ...

Maybe it's this; We know our concepts are limited because the world surprises us, disappoints us, goes all to hell in ways that our theories didn't pr...

Maybe background would be a better word then. One of Adorno's preoccupations was with the difference between the concept of the thing and an example o...