Again, what does ‘fueled’ mean here? Certainly you don’t mean that all one needs is a feeling of resentment in order to churn out a world-changing new...
Your notion of philosophy is out of date by at least 100 years. So is your notion of empiricism. Philosophy has spent most of the latter half of the 2...
What do you mean by ‘fueled’? As in ‘Einstein’s craving for fame fueled his discovery of relativity’? Or as in ‘I find many of Nietzsche’s ideas to be...
Modernist versions of constructivism believe that there is a real world that we only have indirect access to via our constructions of it. Postmodern c...
Maybe you should investigate the ideas of some of these writers, artists and psychologists. Let’s start with Keiji Nishitani, a Japanese philosopher w...
When our desire is for the ideal , even when we set aside aside the thing-in-itself we are still presupposing it. It is our belief in the ideal that k...
Are you talking about perfection as the thing in itself , as an asymptotic ideal? The thing about notions of progress and approximation toward a telos...
I certainly agree with this , but I think Nietzsche went where Wittgenstein was unable to go. Witt remainded a deeply moralistic person his whole life...
This sounds consistent with the moral perspectives of Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein and Levinas (and Caputo, Critchley and Sheehan) , because it still mak...
MLK’s political movement was based on enlightenment individualistic liberalism, which assumed that one must appeal to the reason of each individual, r...
Here’s my take. There are two routes to follow in countering this ‘incivility as radicalism’ thinking. The first is to reject it and simply stick with...
Where do you think blame and moralism fit into this act of ‘outrage’ against ‘ injustice’? Specifically , do you think it is what Ken Gergen is critiq...
Pop music may be different from classical in that pop trends change rapidly with the social zeitgeist. It seems a large percentage of pop artists lose...
As I suggested earlier in this thread, I suspect that it may not be possible to locate the way in which incivility is being intended in the op unless ...
The way I read the op, the incivility that is in contention is a product of the discourse being advocated , which takes subjectivity to be a product o...
I would like to point to two types of ‘radicalized’ or collectivized thinking. The first hews closer to Marx than to Foucault and even maintains remna...
I highly recommend this recent book by Thompson. In it he shows the relevance of phenomenology for the understanding of organismic functioning as well...
What they are arguing is that empirical nature is based on mathematicized objectivity, a concoction of Descartes and Galileo that amounts to a restric...
I gave it to the kid at the 7-11 by mistake instead of my debit card. He asked me why I was giving him Nietzsche’s brain. I apologized profusely. Fort...
“I think they should be confused”. A bit of poetic license here. I was trying to ward off attempts to distinguish between the two ( or between philoso...
“Husserl showed that in order to reach the transcendental or foundational level, one must not rely on any of the areas of being or experience that one...
The new thinking is that he had a slow growing brain tumor. “ A study of medical records has found that, far from suffering a sexually transmitted dis...
Freud was and still is an important figure within continental philosophy. You’ll find mention of Freud or Freudian concepts built into the theoretical...
I think they should be confused, since there is so much overlap between them. Nietzsche called himself a psychologist , Husserl showed the close relat...
He wasn’t critical of all philosophy. Ernest Jones, a close friend and dedicated follower of Freud, recalls that Freud told him in conversation about ...
I do my best. All ‘truths’ are mere appearances which emerge out of value systems. I agree that within a particular value system , there are normative...
He certainly was laughing at something. “It is no more than a moral prejudice that the truth is worth more than appearance; in fact, it is the world's...
That’s good enough for me, too, but this thread isnt talking about us, it’s talking about the large number of people who are doubtful it’s as big or i...
My point is that there will never be precise agreement , nor does there need to be, on what exactly the ‘particular problem’ is. There is already wide...
One could make the same argument about World war 1, World war 2 and the Cold war. People make accommodations to alien cultures ( peace treaties) and a...
The dream of a global awakening is an age-old wish. But I think it’s wrong-headed , and comparable to wishing that all species of animals were to awak...
Let me connect these thoughts with our previous conversation in which I associated the self-identity of a form with Cartesian substance as res extenti...
The idea that dosing world leaders with lsd would lead to peace was popular within the counterculture and one that lTimothy Leary fervently believed i...
For Heidegger, that which ‘appears’ is not an outside which shows itself to a self, an inside. In the first place , Heidegger does not view Dasein fro...
This is indeed a different understanding of whole, part and their relation in comparison with Husserl’s phenomenological approach. Your method, which ...
Note: I wrote this before seeing Xtrix’s comment. It sounds like we’re on the same page. In this quote, Heidegger is distinguishing between the tradit...
Husserl from Philosophy of Arithmetic: “Already Kant used the word "synthesis" (combination) in a double sense: first, in the sense of the unity of th...
The seemingly mathematically exact regularity would make way form a more complex pattern, What’s most valuable in the relation between the apple and g...
It’s not that the sciences are wrong, it’s that they operate with blinders on. So rather than just defining what is in front of me as this object movi...
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