What if that theory appreciates, as Antony appears to, that ‘rationality’ can’t be separated from what’s being dichotomously treated as merely “feelin...
We always have criteria for the best way to affirm life, but those criteria come from within the contingently produced perspectives we create. Within ...
Just to clarify, for Nietzsche suffering is necessary because life is eternal , creative becoming, and suffering is that phase of becoming in which so...
Then you’ll need to inform Bishop Barron of your tricks, because apparently he hasn’t gotten the memo. It’s clear from the video that he believes Crit...
I’m watching the Bishop Barron video. The first factual error I noticed is that he claims Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault belong to the Frankfurt ...
And I think the superficial characterizations of the grounding presuppositions of wokeness i’m seeing in this thread are also wanting to throw out the...
Have you read John Protevi’s work on political affect? Protevi, J.: and Christian Helge Peters. (2017). Affective Ideology and Trump's Popularity. htt...
You’ll never get anywhere in understanding the origin or purpose of these beliefs by dismissing them as personality defects (status-seeking on the par...
You mentioned Ray Brassier as one interpreter you read Deleuze through. His treatment of Deleuze has been described as realist, rationalist, and defla...
Certainly Marxism and post-colonialism were elements of 60’s activism, but It tends to be the psycho-social aspects of wokism that some surviving part...
It really didn’t seem to last very long. There was a backlash, university administrators took control and protected free speech, due process became a ...
About 10 years ago the U.S. news media was filled with stories about how the me-too movement ruined the careers of celebrities like Senator Al Franken...
Well, ssu pointed out that wokism tends to be used by those hostile to practices they associate it with, so right from the start the term defines beha...
What do you suppose elevates the role of feeling to the status of sovereign arbiter of justice for wokists? Is the affect doing all this ethical work ...
I had edited the post you responded but apparently too later for you to see it. Here’s the edited post: The analyses of Focault and Deleuze are not cr...
I think I’m understanding a bit better the points you’re making about the discursive structures within which affect is captured in wokist thought, but...
To effectively critique wokism you have to understand its philosophical underpinnings. As someone drawing from Freud, Lacan, Hegel and Marx, Zizek is ...
Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley appear in the video. They are completely genuine in expressing not just their concerns about fascism, but also about ...
It is essential to separate questionable political applications of ‘wokeness’ by individuals and groups who call themselves woke from the mix of under...
Are you placing ‘factual accuracy’ on one side of a divide and ‘emotional expression’ on the other side in order to deconstruct and overturn this meta...
Yes, he has made his way through some Marxist and Frankfurt school texts. If his critique were based on a perspective inside of the relevant philosoph...
There is nothing amoral about the classical economic notion of selfishness, which is why al Gharbi’s thesis is so compatible with it, and in fact depe...
We can and we can’t rely on the discursive continuity of a normative community. For Deleuze we must rely on such stability for a time. We spend most i...
Patently untrue? Let’s put it to the test, shall we? My thesis is it’s a collosal waste of time to critique wokeness on the basis of specific practice...
Al-Gharbi has a thing about selfishness. Since he is really an old fashioned moralist at heart, he sees everything in that light. Nice touch there, re...
I dont think we can distinguish between them. We don’t need to ‘reflect on’ or theoretically articulate our philosophical commitments in order to enac...
What’s the difference between saying ‘occasionally I have a strange impulse’ and ‘I have an impulse to perform an immoral act’? The difference is that...
I would put it this way. Wokism is a loose constellation of political positions drawing from a range of philosophical worldviews heavily indebted to H...
Exactly. Daniel Smith contrasts the hierarchical relation between rational will and passion that Timothy seems to be describing with Nietzsche’s subor...
The ranking of drives would be individualistic, and based on to what extent they enhance life and further creativity and self-overcoming vs encourage ...
That used to define the majority of democrats in big cities as well as in the South. The civil rights movement stripped away the dixie-crats from the ...
It seems to be a description without an origin. Do you mean to say that whenever any of us encounter a conflict of appetites, weakness of will arises ...
I understand the concept of ignorance and unintelligibility in the context of knowledge. Such limitations occur in spite of the strongest will to know...
In a letter in Trends in Cognitive Science (LLMs don't know anything: reply to Yildirim and Paul), Mariel K. Goddu, Alva Noë and Evan Thompson claim t...
A ‘physical state’ is a certain kind of language game. An intentional state arises within another game. Each offers their own kind of meaning. Davidso...
If we’re trying to capture the meaning of a statement and the meaning is encoded in intentional terms, how does switching over to an account in terms ...
The answer is that Chat GPT uses parallel processing A.I. chips but its logic is linear, digital ( binary) and deterministic. In about 10 years we may...
I would think it important to add to this ‘for any observer participating in the particular community of scientists who share a domain of study.’ Many...
Williams’ approach evinces a lingering attachment to the platonism inherent in the distinction between the real world and the apparent world. I am rem...
What I meant was that for the philosophers I mentioned, the act of philosophical self-reflection is not an inner process of solipsistic self-confirmat...
This is not at all true of the whole lineage of philosophy arising from Nietzsche’s work (Heidegger, Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida). The self-reflexivity...
Heidegger’s concept of finitude isn’t simply a reference to the chronological fact that we dont live forever. It is more centrally about the moment to...
What do you think about, and why? Do you think about things because they are relevant and meaningful to you, in relation to your goals and purposes? I...
Why are these the only two options? Why couldn't I teach someone a different way of looking at world, the way which grounds my own arguments and facts...
One dictionary definition of ‘refute’ is: to prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove. If you accept this definition as consistent...
If another group’s norms and beliefs don’t ground our system of validation, then we can’t refute those norms and beliefs because we won’t be able to u...
Williams’s position is fallibilist. He rejects the view from nowhere. There may be an absolute reality but we don’t have to claim that our philosophic...
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