"Other animal species cannot reflect and evaluate whether they like or dislike their current emotional state and then, have to justify continuing doin...
"I know it is the en vogue thing now to downplay any human differences, but I think it is providing a blindspot to some true differences that a lingui...
Values are not something we 'take on' as a purely free choice, and are inseparable from understanding. Value comes from evaluation which implies inter...
"Just because they have some "self-reflective' capacities, doesn't mean that they can have "ennui" about their situation, or understand that they are ...
"Although there are some parallels, I think you are overselling it. Humans have the capacity for a full-fledged language system. This allows for all s...
"We are the only species that contends with this and the reason is our very own self-aware nature." Sartre believed we are self-aware. Freud didnt, an...
The answer to your question 'how do we keep doing distasteful tasks' is presupposed in the question. We keep doing distasteful task because they arent...
When we abandon the idea of thinking of the goodness or badness of a task as a thing, a concept hermetically sealed unto itself, then we can also aban...
i don't buy the notion that reflection is a separate process from doing. To reflect on something is itself a kind of further doing, a continued modifi...
First, a couple of questions. Who are the primary references for the vocabulary you are using here? Deleuze-Guartari? Does ‘mimetic emulation’ come fr...
I love "Dialectic of Enlightenment". "I would prefer to come back to your model of counscessness, and during this discussion I would lay out my unders...
"Do you think that when Nietzsche literally went mad he became the overman? Could one who is literally chaos and confusion create works of philosophy?...
" Self-overcoming is universal and applies to all living things. Both value and nihilism are universal and apply to all men, not just Western man or t...
You're going to quote Adorno against Heidegger? Oh dear. I'm afraid we'll have to take a few steps back from Heidegger then. I don't think we're quite...
"In my opinion if we are to understand a philosopher we must do so first and foremost in his own terms and not those of Heidegger or anyone else. It i...
"If you mean that nihilism is not the absence of value then I do not agree." Nihilism would have to do with loss or destruction of value, meaning , tr...
If we were to think the movement from one paradigm or valuative system to the next as a kind of Kuhnian non-linear development, that would keep our th...
Nihilism for Nietzsche isn't simply the absence of values, it's the concept of valuation itself understood through the metaphysical tradition of the W...
There are many who would argue that Sartre, Kierkegaard and Gadamer said similar things. Is Heidegger more radical than these writers, and if so, how?...
No commotion, I'm just bored. Its a cold, grey late February here in Chicago, and parsing barely penetrable passages from Heidegger seemed like a usef...
As I read it, the problem is the traditional western philosophical thinking about grounds and ends which argues that truth must originate in something...
Where does choice, preference come from? Do we choose to choose? Do we choose what we desire? Or does desire choose for us before we consciously choos...
i want to go back to the core of your argument. Let's start with your definition of empathy. You said 'we are biologically hardwired for empathy, it c...
This is a philosophy forum, and you're spouting philosophy in order to argue against the use of overarching generalities and categories and worldview ...
Feeling is thinking itself. To avoid feeling is to avoid meaning. all experieinces are affective comportments toward the world. To understand anything...
z' I think worldviews are products of the real differences which are biological and interpretative and these manifest themselves differently in differ...
There are those who may talk about scientific understanding of the world as as progressing ,and also technology as progressing,. but when it comes to ...
"How could one present “present”? When we write or say something about our current present, we must think of the time of the occurrence of our sentenc...
I notice that when you talk about the contribution of biology to gendered behavior you emphasize drives and impulses. What kinds of drives and impulse...
If empathy simply means the desire or attempt to see the world from the other person's perspective, the obviously the desire in and of itself doesnt g...
Just keep in mind that your understanding of intentionality as information-based, while adequate for the purposes of artificial intelligence, doesn't ...
"Das Man is 'there' as the horizon for both our involvement comportments with equipment and our solicitous encounters with the Others." It may be 'the...
Many reasons. To start with, they miss Nietzssche's critique of the will as wanting what it wants, as grasping, as present-to itself. Swecond, they do...
"The perception of gender is the social construct." Perception of gender in terms of how we move our bodies, how we process perceptual information, ho...
Yes, indeed, but have you heard of the interpretration of fact and value? Goes something like this: "To be objective, one would have to have some set ...
"Das Man is that in terms of which the ready-to-hand and present-at-hand, as encountered, are. So Das Man is not encountered at all, it is the constit...
Rationality means nothing outside of a system of valuation. So 'ought' orients and organizes the meaning of any system of facts by requiring facts to ...
Rationality is a kind of obedience also. Scientific rationality has more in common than one might think to obedience to religious authority. To be rat...
The biological component of gender produces not only differences on body shape, physiology and genitalia dictated by chromosomes, but also differences...
You wrote: "Das Man pertains to all of Dasein's encounters and situations" . It pertains in the sense that it belongs to a mode that is equiprimordial...
I'm thinking Das man pertains directly to being-with -others and not also to the being-at-hand or present-at-handness of things, even if those things ...
By impersonal expressive agency I meant a meaning that could assimilated as more or less the same by multiple participants in a social enterprise. Gal...
You could turn the question around and ask, why does it come up that we determine someone's standards with respect to an interest of theirs to be an o...
I can't help you here. I haven t read McDowell in 10 years. I'm more of a Rorty guy as far as the analytic post-analytic side of things is concerned. ...
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