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I do find beauty to be an end in itself, perhaps by definition. But why shouldn't there be ideologues of Truth? Scientism is like that, privileging th...

If by "void" you mean our impending utter annihilation, then I think we can indeed reason much of the sting out of death, but only at the cost of modi...

I guess that depends on what one means by "real." Is the real equated here with the scientific image (Sellars) ? For me that image is only a fraction ...

You sound very Nietzschean to me even as you try to contrast your views with his. I understand the death of God to be the death of belief in God. Of c...

Is this really so clear? We can think of Q as a subset of R, but R is itself is usually constructed from Q and some quantifiers, and finally from the ...

I'll grant that. I obsess over "philosophy of life" mostly. I get my dose of objective science from mathematics (my career path).

I can see what is good in your suggestion, but I think at assumes an epistemology of pure reason. "Let the ideas fight it out fair and square. Remove ...

In Kojeve's vision of Hegel, the philosopher is in a state of deprivation and therefore keeps changing or falling forward into his un-thought compleme...

Perhaps the craving for "meaning" is just the desire to be told what to do in so convincing a way that the burden of deciding what to do and who to be...

Oh, well I agree that there is no final resting place. I like the metaphor of just learning to fall off of the horse less often. The "horse" is a gene...

If I can jump in, I agree with this purpose. I share these values. But I view it as a chosen purpose. We can identity with this notion of virtue, havi...

I don't think our views are that far apart. I'm just arguing that induction is psychologically rather than logically grounded. It's mostly just a "gee...

I agree that nature has been reliably uniform and that a lawless nature would be unintelligible. But it does make sense to speak of a violation of exp...

I wouldn't say that we have no rational warrant but only no deductive warrant. Because we can't live without induction, it's counterproductive to deny...

I don't know. Thinking that the point is to be happy doesn't mean expecting or demanding to always be happy. It's just the attitude that suffering is ...

I do like this theme.( I enjoyed Steiner's Heidegger.) Being is the "light" that discloses beings. And Being-as-concept is itself disclose by...Being-...

That's how I understand as well. (Of course the issue of what he "really" meant seems secondary to the exciting and independent theme of thought-idols...

Can we add desire and fear to the mix, too? A thinking being with fears and desires to drive his thinking. I think everyone is a at least a part-time ...

I remember not too many months ago, I went through a sort of anxiety/depression at the face of death. I would think about how there is really nothing ...

I think you nailed. It's a "simple" idea, but so much falls out from this simple commitment. I say "commitment" because some find their happiness in t...

I wouldn't go that far. It's just that criminality is always with us as a species, so we take it seriously and minimize our risk. It does suck that we...

Students might not be saints, but they show up and study for tests.

I see what you mean, but don't you find it hard to think both of beginning-less time and also the beginning of time? So that would at least damage thi...

Please, be poetic all you like. Half the fun here is in the writing of an especially self-aware "poetry." I have a great friendship with a guy who jus...

Thanks for the great response, John. I generally agree. Some of most powerful myths seem turned "inward" toward the emotional aspect of reality. On th...

I relate to everything you've said, even about sets. I've been doing math all day, actually. And it's sets, functions, and logic. I don't intuitively ...

Perhaps I abuse the word "myth" and use it eccentrically. One of Popper's essays described science as a second order tradition on the first order trad...

Oh, I'd guess you're right about Deleuze. And I like patient conceptual analyses (I'm beginning an independent study in axiomatic set theory just toda...

Thanks for the comment. I've never studied him closely. I've picked up various books, browsed, and never really been stirred. I'd bet you're right abo...

Perhaps this is relevant: Or one could also say that "good thought" is a mode we can afford to slip into when our desperate but creative or myth-makin...

"He who despises himself nevertheless respects himself as one who despises." -- Nietzsche

I just found this last night. Great, living poetry. It's called "Die." (Beanie Sigel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aarg7gVC0TU

It has the same tone, but it's deeper. It includes that old but beautiful thought that we are the way that the universe looks at itself, its eyes and ...

That's an awesome line. Just sayin'

I guess the question is whether we want more than solid pragmatic knowledge and, if so, why? I have some notion of why (as a math guy), but perhaps th...

I like the pragmatic vision of inquiry. When the machine jams, we tinker around with it until it starts humming again. Pain (among other things) spurs...

I like the "engineer" metaphor. It's one of my favorites. The "generalized engineer" seems to capture my current "summary" of the human mind. We solve...

Just to be clear, I'm think more of this kind of instrumentalism: "a pragmatic philosophical approach that regards an activity (such as science, law, ...

I don't know if I'd call us "finite reasoners" exactly (think philosophy of math), but I feel like you are roughly agreeing with me as if you were dis...

Nice!

How would you further unpack "induction"? Noticing a pattern in experience seems creative to me, even if it's spontaneously given in simple cases. I t...

I don't think you see my point at all, judging by your response. Hell, Weinberg seems to get it. He's just more interested in the explanations, while ...

Thanks for responding. I agree with all that you said (and I like the way you put it.) I'd just add that I really enjoy the contingency of all things ...

I agree. That's why I stressed the creative postulation of necessity. I like Nicholas Rescher's idea of this: "I recall well how the key ideas of my i...

Thanks very much, andrewk. I'm glad you're here.

I don't think it's ignorant at all, especially if one means philosophy at its best. I think Blake was right when he called true religion the cultivati...

I feel you. It is terrifying indeed to accept one's annihilation. I also agree that this is nevertheless the path to authenticity and depth. One reaso...

I think you nailed it right here: "Without the proper intelligence, love doesn't exist and I'm not talking about IQ or intelligence for getting good g...

There is something beautiful in Sartre. I love the idea of the self or consciousness as a hole in being. I'd call it an abstract myth that allows us t...

I've read some of a couple of their intellectuals, Nick Land and Mencius Moldbug (you can google their key works). I suppose the high-brow aspect has ...