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Angelo Cannata

['Member']Joined: March 13, 2022 at 19:29Last active: February 17, 2026 at 10:218 discussions375 comments
Location: Cambridge UK

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It doesn’t seem like a very strong philosophical argument.
February 14, 2026 at 19:47
I didn’t say that you ignore that we are subjects, nor that you ignore the existence of our subjectivity. I said that what your wrote ignores our invo...
February 14, 2026 at 14:36
Your answer confirms my latest conclusion All that you wrote ignores our involvement in our subjectivity.
February 14, 2026 at 09:30
Yes, I read your words and I was wondering: why are they irrelevant? The reason you gave doesn?t explain why I should trust your idea of reality. It l...
February 11, 2026 at 10:20
I don't think it is humanly possible to say something like this. In order to say anything we need to use our brain. It wouldn't have been possible to ...
February 10, 2026 at 08:25
I agree. The problem, in my opinion, is that the shared and the non shared part do not just coexist, but they conflict, clash, question each other all...
February 07, 2026 at 12:06
Yes, definitely. I wouldn’t say that objectivity is a contradiction inside subjectivity, because subjectivity has not contradictions, not because it i...
February 07, 2026 at 01:45
I’m going to try it, although this very attempt is like a bizarre contradiction against what I have wrote in this thread. However, I will try all the ...
February 07, 2026 at 00:01
My intention was to explain that we become objects not only as objects of understanding, but also as enquirers, questioners. When I make a question, a...
December 29, 2025 at 07:08
I agree. I think that objectivity is unavoidable and necessary. For that reason I think that the ideal is not trying to be as subjective as possible, ...
December 23, 2025 at 05:41
I agree. In this context I think that what I have said is consistent, because I have not said "there is a contradiction and there is not a contradicti...
December 08, 2025 at 12:14
You are right, but I think that philosophy can deal with topics beyond the limits of logic. For example, are suffering, injustice just logical things?...
December 08, 2025 at 03:50
I agree, but this would reduce the topic just into a sociological frame. I (like to) think that what I am talking about has a wider and a more radical...
December 07, 2025 at 20:26
I think it is good to clarify that the main perspective of what I wanted to express, since I opened this thread, is a subejctive one. This means that,...
December 07, 2025 at 18:20
I think that contradiction exists from the point of view of subjectivity, which in my case is my personal point of view. Objectivity eliminates every ...
December 07, 2025 at 09:56
I agree, but I think this happens because the moment we discuss subjectivity, since we automatically put it into words, into the frame of language, th...
December 07, 2025 at 04:02
I am aware that all I have said comes from inside my subjectivity. I have shared my thoughts not as truth, but as a perspective.
December 06, 2025 at 22:24
I am aware that there are so many topics involved in the discussion I have opened. I am going to better explain my personal idea about the reason why ...
December 06, 2025 at 22:02
In my opinion the concept of “understanding” is not a good friend of subjectivity and spirituality, because it is based on analysis. I think that spir...
November 28, 2025 at 21:16
I think that such a discussion is at high risk of betraying its topic since the very beginning, the same way it is betrayed in most discussions and ev...
November 28, 2025 at 20:16
Perhaps it’s good to consider that, for example, what I am writing now, while writing this post, is just the “outcome”, “what comes out”, “the externa...
September 09, 2025 at 21:42
Of course they do, but isn’t this concern already just another way of deflecting towards this so strongly need of understanding and building strong an...
September 08, 2025 at 22:07
Perhaps this point that you have expressed is not so neutral, so innocent, so positive. I have perceived several times, in philosophical discussions h...
September 08, 2025 at 19:59
:grin: That's really a nice one!
September 04, 2025 at 04:47
The opposite aspect could be worth positive consideration: fortunately wrong reading is unavoidable, so that life and creativity is possible. I am awa...
September 03, 2025 at 22:42
I think that the origin of the problem is not the contradictions, but the concept of ethics. The world, existence, everything is contradictory. We try...
September 03, 2025 at 21:23
I think that this discussion swings continuously between a human, experiential perspective on silence, and another perspective that tries to be as obj...
January 26, 2025 at 03:49
This sounds to me like deconstruction. Deconstruction is a good thing, but it seems to me that it leaves us without any positive suggestions. It decon...
October 10, 2024 at 07:20
I think that a reason cannot be found and we even shouldn't look for it. Since this topic is all about the purest roots of subjectivity, it would be l...
October 06, 2024 at 21:49
I think you are in the perfect context by connecting what I said with Kierkegaard and Nagel. Thank you for these references. But it seems to me that b...
October 06, 2024 at 09:16
Can you please explain better how "both consider uniqueness as possibly irremediably subjective"? it souds very close to my idea, but at the same time...
October 01, 2024 at 09:18
I think that mysticism in inherently radical because I conceive mysticism as a spiritual experience that connects with its content with an intimacy, d...
July 03, 2024 at 18:07
That’s why I said that mysticism today is difficult, but not impossible. I agree with you, but I think that what you said represents some kind of theo...
July 03, 2024 at 17:58
I think that today genuine mysticism is more difficult than in the past, because it cannot escape the challenges coming from radical criticism about o...
July 03, 2024 at 07:18
I think that there is a risk in every attempt to describe the self: turning the description into a rule. This creates the premises for racism, violenc...
June 26, 2024 at 18:10
I think that, by referring to usefulness and interest, you have touched an important point. I think that an essential reason why philosophy today is i...
June 26, 2024 at 07:21
I think that my perception of the situation of consciousness can be compared to a house inhabited by ghosts. Science can see the house and it says “He...
June 24, 2024 at 14:20
I think that oranges are different from consciousness, with reference to this discussion. I think that oranges are not very subjective. That's why sci...
June 23, 2024 at 22:02
I didn't mean that real things are different from the study of them. Of course everyone knows that studying an orange is not an orange. What I meant i...
June 23, 2024 at 21:29
Essentially I agree: I think that it impossible to get rid completely of objectivism, both in our language and in our ideas. But this doesn't mean to ...
June 23, 2024 at 20:59
Emily Dickinson is provocative, critical, rebellious, of course, and I appreciate this. I agree that the very act of doing philosophical research abou...
June 23, 2024 at 14:44
From a humorous point of view, I find this topic very similar to this one, that is about knowledge rather than language. In both cases, a thought come...
May 06, 2024 at 09:14
Epistemology includes criticism about the limits of our scientific knowledge and it warns us against the idea that we can get ultimately objective kno...
May 04, 2024 at 05:46
Actually, from what I said, we can deduce that nothing can be expressed by language. When I say "your subjectivity", I guess and hope that you will be...
May 03, 2024 at 22:45
I think that the idea that, by definition, you cannot express by language, is your subjectivity. When we express things by language, we objectify them...
May 03, 2024 at 22:26
The example of Daniel Dennett shows that we don't need to be believers to be human. It's the same debate when atheists show that they are able to have...
April 21, 2024 at 10:19
Thank you very much for this information. I think that the attempt of these scientists is remarkable, especially because they compromise their serious...
April 20, 2024 at 19:27
This is like the joke of those who lost their keys in a dark place, but decided to look for them in another place, because in the other place the was ...
April 17, 2024 at 16:11
You have already mentioned what we can never find out: what is the physical universe? Whatever you answer will just move the question to the concepts ...
April 17, 2024 at 07:46
Metaphysics in philosophy is not when you refer to some other world; you can be fully metaphysical even without any reference to any other world. Ther...
February 02, 2024 at 12:13