"Why should the Mona Lisa still be considered something important in our history, when learning about the now(Current times) is possibly more fruitful...
"Being highlighted here is the mistake of philosophers who can't separate fact from interpretation." No, Nietzsche is arguing that all fact IS interpr...
Rather than starting with a presumed definition of 'art' and then pontificating about its current status in comparison with previous eras, its useful ...
"Things interact, and have properties related to those interactions. That doesn't sound like something new." It doesn't sound like something new if yo...
Maybe a better word than absurd would be arbitrary. Your model of human motivation, relying on adaptive mechanisms underlying social intentions, presu...
"Like all animals, you're a biologically-originated purposefully-responsive device. ...a purposefully-responsive device like a Roomba, a refrigerator ...
Nietzschean Will to Power and Heideggerian Being are two ways of thinking about a primordial movement of thought and intention underlying materiel dis...
The goal of life and human being is becoming. The notion of survival is borrowed from 19th century physics. It implies a static equilibrium as the end...
"I thought most utilitarian ethical formulas were consequential not primarily intent-driven?" What would be the meaning of exhorting people to place t...
The problem I have with utilitarian ethical formulas is that it assumes human conflict and violence is a function of having the wrong intent. I beleiv...
It may not even be cynical to point to the absurdity of some contemporary philosophy, especially since its being absurd doesn't mean that it's not tru...
"But then it wouldn't surprise me, in a sense, because there is nothing so absurd that some philosopher hasn't said it." Maybe absurd, or maybe crucia...
" If only we could figure out exactly what it's supposed to have to do with that stuff." I'm happy to give my take on it, but don't know if I'm up for...
"Ethics and maths are two fundamentally different things." I assume it wouldnt surprise you if I suggested that for a number of contemporary approache...
Evil is a dangerous thing, in that those who believe in the concept use it a weapon to unknowingly avoid figuring out why someone's else's perspective...
The notion of evil is a useful one for philosophies that assume the so-called perpetrator assesses the meaning of a situation for which they are blame...
Evil is only knowingly doing harm if the presumption is that the harm isn't justified. But the most important point is that evil is not a real attribu...
"Nature becomes a curmudgeonly gainsayer who can refuse to yield to any determination of theory or sensibility; it will shout "NO!" whenever it bloody...
I'm wanting to add an intermediate between your strong and weak examples. It seems that thinkers following Hegel, such as Quine, Putnam and Kuhn, argu...
There are many forms of Cartesian dualism still in effect today. For instance, the mind-body problem, otherwise known as the 'hard problem' presuppose...
The association between boredom and unpleasant feeling is so strong for most that it might be a good idea to make its absence from your account front ...
"Don't put our understanding in the way of our understanding. Questioning and inquiry are themselves ways to relate to nature." Maybe that's because q...
Either that , or you're able to avoid feeling bored in situations where others become bored. Heidegger talks about profound boredom as a necessary pre...
You describe your personal experiences of a quiet low-stimulus atmosphere in which "things are going on well" as "blissful apatheia", "life going smoo...
"This ties back into my demand for you to describe what necessary role humans play in the formation of the ionic bond in sodium chloride - the only ri...
We would kill each other like sharks if thats the best we could do in terms of our coping in our world. If the idea of killing each other like sharks ...
Maybe you could spell it out. What if we take a time machine to a hypthesized time when everyone thinks like Nietzsche. Then no one would make use of ...
Proof that intentionally boiling babies is morally wrong: 1. Boiling babies causes them pain. 2. Pain is bad. 3. Therefore the effect of boiling babie...
"My issue is if you chose as best you can to place yourself close to subjective end, you are forgoing the right to evaluate the moral judgment of othe...
"The greater experimentation and deviation of the 1960s doesn't make the 1950s a period of conformity. Maybe it was just a period of "normality"." I w...
"Tell me any meaningful difference between what you propose as subjective, and those beliefs are to a high degree objectively immoral. Just some coinc...
“Generational speach is not strictly 'generational', at least not just biopolitical. It refers also (and mostly) to the material conditions that came ...
"You cant have your relative moral view, without allowing all the possible relative moral views of others and still be a moral relativist." I want to ...
Every notable philosopher, whether relatlvist , realist or platonist, has a position that they believe is original in some way, and in some sense supe...
"What I think about everything else is entirely irrelevant in the context of this discussion. This discussion is about morality, and regarding that, I...
Sounds like you're a Heideggerian. The radicality of Heidegger shows itself in his understanding of mood as inseparable from the f self-transformative...
What do Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary, Jerry Garcia, the Beatles, Robert Crumb, Jane and Peter Fonda, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, James Brown , Muhammad Al...
We could turn the tables on the argument. Instead of arguing that animals as well as humans are self- conscious, we could take the post-modern turn an...
You have to be careful in how you're undertanding a concept like 'reason'. Traditionally, it tends to be equated with objectivity and logic, and that'...
Isn't CBT based on the idea that our cognitive appraisals trigger particular affects? The differnce as I see between CBT and writers like Gendlin, Kel...
Heidegger, Eugene Gendlin and George Kelly are among the philosophers and psychologists who have abandoned the attempt to separate feeling-affect-emot...
Are you afraid of that stress, think it shoudnt be there , surprised or disappointed by it? Piaget would argue that the stress diminishes in proportio...
keep in mind also that sources of stress are very often not simply an individual's opposition to group norms but an individual's opposition to their o...
"can be quite stressful, harmful, and negative in general, whether it is good for the system as a whole or not" The system I had in mind was one's own...
"program used by the species to make sure survival takes place" What I like about enactivist approaches to human cognition is their tying together sur...
" I don't believe that animals even know they like or dislike something over and on top of the primary emotion they feel." Neither do humans. Its not ...
Your notion of a difference in kind between human and animal cognition seems to rest on your understanding of linguistic conceptual complexity not jus...
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