For the same reason we like thrill rides and horror movies, so we can learn how to cope better with the demons and threats that we already know are ou...
It’s possible that it seems to you that a vacuous ‘addiction to conflict’ motivated the arguments precisely because you were not invested in the topic...
Ok, here’s my take: We’re not addicted to conflict, we’re addicted to sense-making, and it drives us crazy when someone spouts off with an opinion tha...
I agree the topic was a prop, but not because it was hiding ‘conflict addiction’( why do non-political topics on this site normally not generate the s...
If those involved in the discussion considered it meaningless they would not have reacted so strongly to each other. If we believe the person we are e...
The difference between the middle east discussion and a general philosophical thread is that the former thread applied philosophical and political the...
It sounds to me like qualia is serving a function for the idealist much like materialism is for the empiricist. In both cases we have the claim for an...
So your facts are real and QAnon’a facts are fake? You might be surprised to discover what a vast web of interpretive plumbing your ‘facts’ sit on top...
An eliminativist , like Dennett for instance , is also relying on a form of idealism. From Rorty: “ Dennett wants to say that it is as silly to ask wh...
The important consequences of Idealism and materialism is that they express two poles of the same binary. Both are inadequate ways of explaining the r...
But there are powerful , often subversive ideas embedded in a piece of music or a work of literature , and the particular bits of technique and style ...
I became disillusioned by novels at a relatively early age.I found myself noticing that the author was applying an implicit psychological understandin...
It sounds like you think some of them are his fans independently of his work. Are you a fan of Woody Allen’s early work? Is it a comfort to you to dra...
I think this is true. I find Husserl helpful here. He said that a so-called real spatial object is a continually changing flowing series of adumbrated...
It only can be seen as a problem when one has already made an incipient , perhaps only vaguely articulated step beyond the borders of the old conceptu...
Don’t mind Ciceronianus. He’s just bummed that he doesn’t understand Heidegger’s philosophy. Turning him into a cartoon villain gives him an excuse no...
To Heidegger the present at hand object is assumed by empirical science to be self-identical. It persists as itself. Only in this way can it have dura...
Does that mean for Heidegger the world is more than material, that it is at least material? Is a material thing something that has a countable duratio...
I agree with Xtrix. Heidegger’s account is an explicit critique of materiality and objective causality on which science is based, including Relativity...
Yes, but how has Heidegger radicalized the concept of time so that it can be understood as heedful circumspective relevance? Why can’t we help caring ...
You’re absolutely correct. Heidegger does not view Dasein from the vantage of a subject-object binary. If one instead speaks of self and world, then D...
They are useful in articulating the situation in terms of ‘smell and fetid pooling’ , but that language isn’t the only form of conceptualization that ...
Most Conservatives in the U.S. wouldn’t know what on earth you are taking about. They would claim that there is absolutely nothing wrong with social c...
The role of philosophy is creative , as is the role of all other cultural modalities. I don’t disagree with Misgley’s claims concerning philosophy , b...
Before one can love or hate anything, or have any particular affective response to the world, one must be affected by the world. If you want to think ...
The critics are system builders themselves, although not builders of traditional metaphysical systems in the case of writers like Nietzsche, Wittgenst...
This part of the OP reminds me of politically conservative arguments about the connection between self-help culture and the decay of the values of soc...
I like your summary of Being and Time but I have a quibble about the importance of Care. I agree that it is misinterpreted as being about emotionality...
Heidegger isn’t talking g about love or any other particular sentiment but of the pre-condition for any sentiment , or experience, whatsoever. Care is...
If thats the case how so we hear a piece of music as a unity? We would only know each present note but not the previous flow of notes that creates the...
You don’t need most of your brain to be conscious either. But I don’t think your argument has to do with how much of our body is necessary for conscio...
You may be missing the point. It’s not a question of what’s necessary for the very existence of consciousness, but of how feedback from nerves in the ...
What is the anatomy of a sensation, a perception, a memory, an affect? What are the anatomical boundaries of the body? Does the body end with the skin...
And underlying ‘sensory innervation’ is what sort of set of pre-suppositions? That the brain constructs representations out of raw sense data that com...
There are limits to the computer metaphor for modeling brain processes. It sounds like you’re summarizing the representational computational view of b...
But if one’s system of explanation functions as a unity, like a scientific paradigm , then it wouldn’t be a question of seeing certain truths and then...
It’s an interesting issue. Negative emotions like fear, threat and anger mark our response to events that we are not able to comfortably assimilate in...
Are you saying there is an alternative to this ‘bias’? If sense-making is a bias , what is the alternative to sense-making? I thought that every compr...
You’re missing the very essence of understanding. You’re mistaking the pre-condition for comprehending anything with some sort of flaw, which is the p...
I’m not talking about a declining economy. I’m talking g about the paradoxical , contentious proposition of an increasingly roboticized and thriving e...
Not decline, intellectual stagnation. No one is moving on from Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger or Derrida . Instead, the leading edge of philosophic...
Its reality does not match its appearance because its reality IS its appearance, and the hallucination here is the belief that there is a reality sepa...
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