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Very cool. What I had in mind was the crash of a worldview or some self-identification that rips one open so that one has to come up with richer synth...

I think my system could handle it, but what about this nicely organized life? You get a marriage organized, a career on track, and then the two key fe...

I did take it out of context. I'm a little familiar with Eagleton. I don't love Dawkins. It occurs to me that lots of people might use "God" in a 'sof...

I learned a thing or two then that wasn't on any page. I'm guessing you can relate. Yes, young enough to still remember. Life is more refined and pred...

I like that story. If he tells others, they might not exactly disbelieve him (though most would). There's also the problem of not being able to make u...

Freudian typo. In the old days some especially wicked nights were lit by red bulbs.

I got some mileage out of Jung back in the day. His ambivalent criticism of Ulysses definitely gave me the impression that he was of a different time ...

But if that's all "He" is, then where is the personality or value? He looks here like the projection of the PSR (itself perhaps a rule-of-thumb or a p...

I won't say that Plato wasn't on to something. Actually I think philosophy is about ascension into a greater reality, but this is also in Hegel. It's ...

Sure, the correspondence theory falls apart as the air gets thin. But in the ordinary world of ordinary objects, that's how we talk and live. We're on...

It seems that we'd have to be God to understand God. Hence the fascination of the incarnation myth and Feuerbach. Unless we have "direct access" to Go...

I guess I'd try to paraphrase any statement by looking at it in as large a context as is reasonable. I think it's safe to assume that assertions are o...

Yes, meaning holism and a shift toward worldly context. I'm not saying concept clarification is never worthwhile. I like analyzing "explanation," for ...

I think you misunderstand me. Perhaps I didn't provide enough context. The word poet evolved from the word for creator. I was thinking instead of: So ...

There are different uses of "truth." Maybe the unit of meaning is not the sentence or the paragraph but all of human history. Maybe zooming in on indi...

I'd say rather that this is the common sense foundation of the real or objective. In Plato's time, I'm guessing most Athenians took boats, swords, and...

By totality I mean everything, including the discourse about it that we're having right now. This includes the human mind. One could argue that the PS...

Depressive states are perhaps sustained in a mind seduced by such an image. (This is not to say that there is something other than seduction by images...

So what is the cause of the totality? If we can always tell ourselves that we just haven't found a cause yet, then we can avoid a counterexample. The ...

What you say that this is a sort of poetic act? That beings are disclosed by/as new concepts of things-background pairs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_excluded_middle Must the PSR be true or not true? Lots of metaphysical statements can be accused of ambiguity. I ...

Good points. The "I" that pretends to think learned a language as a child bumping into objects. The "i" is passionate, too. There is something profoun...

I challenge the LEM and that challenge has not been addressed. It's no big deal. I'm just saying that I think you need the LEM, and that the LEM is pr...

Felix culpa? Thrownness. It's hard to imagine a better drama. If the protagonist had some tiny guarantee of justice or success, it would be a smaller ...

But that's exactly why many women are ambivalent about the term. They don't want to be confused with man-haters. It's obviously why some men are ambiv...

I was first exposed to this view via Schopenhauer, but I don't think it's an accurate conception of pleasure. True, pleasure includes the cessation of...

All of your post was great. I'll pick out a few favorite lines. I really relate to this, especially the symbol of fire. In T. S. Eliot's poem, "the fi...

Well, I doubt either of us believe in some fixed vision of merit or absence of bias. Legislating against sexism and racism is obviously good. The use ...

Very nice way to put it. Fichte comes to mind. Also Nietzsche's will-to-power could be read as the desire to enlarge of sphere of freedom. I totally a...

Of course, empiricism. We can obtain consensus about this manifest image or LCD of human experience. We can measure the application of knowledge claim...

I love Jung. My pleasure. Kojeve's book on H is nice. Big influence on me. I agree. This is the sort of thing I focus on. I also like the myths/projec...

There's a notion of the real as "that which resists." We can bump into things in the dark. Of course if we never interacted with a thing (it never opp...

Wouldn't this just be the movement of information? Impressive if valid. But reincarnation would just be a metaphorical structuring of a child knowing ...

I like that you went all in. I can respect the style without agreeing.

I agree. Our most general image of nature-life is not the scientific image. That's just a piece of it. All of our talk in the interior is part of our ...

And this self-conscious repugnance looks like an instrument for the attainment of a sense not only of moral worth but of moral superiority. While aspe...

Yeah, Kojeve seems to have been quite the character, but he was one of my first paths into Hegel, nevertheless. I think we agree on our dismissal of s...

I agree that ambiguity isn't generally desirable. But the "language on holiday" metaphor may be apt. There's something priestly, scholastic, unworldly...

I browsed the essay. I find the god-shaped-hole quite manageable. I don't think we can condemn modernity but only the shallow understandings of the me...

Consider this: Yeah, anti-supernatural naturalism has to be embedded in a metaphysics that founds it. A generalized naturalism, for which the supernat...

That's all you've got? I welcome insight via Popper, but this thread is not the exegesis of scripture, is it? All the great dead philosophers are just...

If a certain intense subset of life's pains and fears is the result of simple identifications with the True and the Good, then what I'd expect (from p...

Exactly. Because I think we all assume that everyone else is having the same experience of seeing the woman/painting/paint. I was attracted to pragmat...

You're preaching to the choir, brother. That's why I find this issue fascinating. I think Plank is on the right track. We try to contemplate the total...

No. I believe I stressed that status variation or hierarchy will always be with us. My vision is hardly utopian. To the degree that I take politics se...

"To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead." -- Norman O. Brown.

It can be malign beyond expectation and benevolent beyond expectation, terrible and wonderful. We are in the "hand" of an amoral "God" (reality that e...

You and Apo are both making strong points. Life creates suffering as well as consciousness ("false" or not) of this suffering as useless. And yet inte...

I just bought a old copy of The Writings of Saint Paul. I'm not a believer, but I like the metaphysical Christ as a resonant symbol. The incarnation m...

I like "direct realism" as an opening move in the metaphysical chess game. But doesn't anyone else see (to some degree) that it's largely just a debat...