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I read and responded. Proof.

Where does Aristotle say this? Aristotle defines matter as just the physical stuff.

Yes.

Not how I understand it. Virtue ethics is just a list of virtues, good ways to act.

Agree fully.

I must be missing the point.

Exactly. Why most gun debates are superfluous.

Goodbye.

silly

What makes it postmodernist?

Then reason depends on the imagination. Something which Plato spends his entire career denying.

I do not see the difference.

Plato was a sceptic. The forms are totalities which cannot be conceived. But Plato invented the concept, which is based in skepticism. An aporia is be...

Better things to do.

Why?

Never heard of it before you.

Nature is not dead.

Wiki Tiki Toki.

go read wiki

The Philosophy of Right is amazingly current. I was surprised how relevant it was to contemporary politics.

Hegel is rather straight forward in texts like Philosophy of History, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Right, Lectures on the Philosophy of Art. B...

No. Not that there is one way, but any reading must be justified with reasons.

I never read Hegel that way. And I never understood what denial of metaphysics meant. Hegel never argues that there are metaphysical objects.

Because?

No. The state is just people and customs.

That teacher is correct.

Heidegger had some good ideas, to be sure. But he was mystical about the meaning of being because he was asking a theological question in secular form...

I don't know if it is love, but Hegel does seem to praise Napolean. But it is because of his idea of a World Historical Figure that moves history. Heg...

Good explanation.

Wittgenstein talks about nonsense. But I think that means incoherence.

Every sentence has a sense.

"I drew a round square." I can understand what the person is saying. But the concept of a round square is incoherent because by definition a square ca...

Years ago I talked to a priest about a religious issue. His only response was that my problem was being Protestant. I had to be Catholic. Helped me de...

What makes him a conservative?

Yes. "God told me to tell you...."

Yes. Probably why there are so many comic book superhero movies.

Ectoplasm. Now there's an insult!

Hegel's Philosophy of Art gives a good description of what he means by dialectic. He defines tragedy as the conflict of two goods. Christian moralists...

No.

Yes.

uh huh

Never said I did not understand the phrase. I said it is incoherent and nearly meaningless.

I have sensations, yes.

I do not know what it is like to be me. I am not sure that is a meaningful concept.

What makes it objective?

I was referring to Hegel in the Phenomenology.

What I said, yes.

Goodnight.

Back at you. Not engaging with personal attacks.

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