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Do you mean dictatorships usually mean harm?

This is another introduction to Negative Dialectics by Susan Buck-Morss.

Mine was 2.2, liberal airhead. :up:

Since base-football, which makes use of the footbat, is a vast untapped opportunity for merchandise sales stretching out to the horizon, I think you'r...

I'll ask him if he thinks his devotion to Trump is coming from a desire to be dominated by him in bed. That's a great idea.

My theory is that Americans are by nature kind of sheep-like. At a football game we all coalesce into a patriotic mass as the national anthem is playe...

My head is a snow globe I shake it when people ask me questions I put a beanie on it.

This is a blurb from the Adorno entry in the SEP. "In contrast to the “scientific dualism” of word and thing, formal logic and inference, Adorno calls...

Even British empiricists? How?

An example of someone who does this is Schopenhauer. After observing that subject and object are two poles of one concept (along with cause and effect...

Maybe the angel goes around accidentally c-stomping demon babies while trying to adjust her sandal.

I remember that night. It was fucked up.

Did you show that the theory of forms is incoherent? I missed that.

I think the contradiction he's talking about is that we treat something like the Absolute as a substantial thing (substantial in the Aristotelian sens...

True. It's a matter of taste, though.

It's both. The math class is the realm of true triangles. The real world works by a margin of error. This is pretty much what Plato said.

The truest triangle is the form. Real triangles always fail to match the concept due to bumpity parts that have to be overlooked.

I thought maybe you could read the lecture in German and talk about the translation. I would suspect the translation before deciding that Adorno didn'...

Ok. I think later in Negative Dialectics he tries to work through examples. Maybe that will clarify it for me. Do you speak German?

I wonder if it's because synthesis seems to offer a final answer: as if we've arrived at the Real out of the darkness of shifting meaning. But even th...

I don't think "contradiction" is a good word for it. It's an inextricably bound opposition. It's the yin-yang symbol. Right . It's not a contradiction...

I agree. The path that led me to that feeling of being in a world of ideas would have eventually shown me that I don't have it all figured out (as Heg...

Yes. But when Adorno talks about materiality, he's talking about the unintelligible or the unidentified. He's not talking about rocks.

@"Joshs" can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think by concept, we mean an overarching category. So we have the idea expressed by the word up. But this ...

I also turned to the SEP after a while. It looks like he's going to take a deep dive into German Idealism.

In the opening lines of the prologue, we're told that we've inherited a tradition that says dialectics leads to something positive. An example would b...

:up: It would fit with Aristotle's finitism.

If you think of actuality as the infinite's Other, then it's an outpouring down into actuality, and then a return journey to the infinite.

That doesn't mean it's not real. It's just not physical. Likewise energy is real, even though it's a construct.

I doubt it.

That's a complicated issue. In a way he was. He was saying, "I see a way out of this." He never made it out himself though. What would be an example o...

He's expressing Schopenhauer's pessimism. He's saying consciousness itself is dependent on dissatisfaction. The only place where wholeness and perfect...

What is a metaphysical ought?

I think Hegel believed there was something sleeping in humanity. Something that would eventually awaken and become conscious of itself. Hegel thought ...

You must have stretchy pants.

I think it was natural selection. Aristocracy got old and worn out. And poor.

Do you make it or buy it?

I did not know that. Why would it bankrupt somebody?

Until she's charged nobody cares.

I'm guessing they make exceptions for people who can't do digital. You could probably just call them and tell them. I think they'll be ok. Probably ju...

That pretty much does happen.

But they haven't said anything about requiring co-payment from patients. That's a good thing.

I think the Romans left conquered cultures intact. People wanted to be Roman citizens, and that had a Romanizing effect. The same was true of Islam. O...

:grin:

Plus the British financed their industrial revolution by their involvement in the Atlantic Slave Trade. They were the second biggest participant behin...

The preferred method of Americans was to loan money to a country, wait until they were about to default, and then reorganize their economy so as to cr...

.. Oh. Sorry, I misunderstood.

You appear to be saying the state needs to provide virtue training. I was once in a Kiwanis club meeting and this woman came to get the community's su...

:meh: So the belief is that God is a psychopath. I'm supposed to protect my neighbors by forcing them to also believe God is criminally insane. A libe...

By definition, unemployment is high during stagflation. It's very rare. As I'm sure you read, it baffled economists when it happened in the 1970s. The...