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Guilt doesn't require a holding on to vestigial religious categories. There will be guilt as long as there is a desire to care about the welfare of ot...

Forgiveness is an interesting concept. It's used in a variety of circumstances in relation to others and ourselves. Most commonly, we forgive others w...

Maybe they're asking "what"

Not just Hegel , of course, but the movement of Evolutionist German Romantic idealism of which he was a part. The advent of the social sciences in the...

"I find this line of questioning a bit puzzling, given the thread subject." The thread subject concerned whether guilt was justified. You said guilt w...

Do you feel anger at other people? Do you not make the same mistakes that other people make? Why would you feel anger at other people and not at yours...

Obviously Hegel is regarded by you as a mystic. He is regarded by most of today's edifice of social science as the ground from which sprang naturalist...

", I really don't think these things have anything to do with sexual orientation. Some straight men are very feminine, some gay men are very masculine...

Never mind settling the debate. What I want to know from you is whether you can conceive of there being a kind of brain structuring that produces what...

let me try and disentangle some of this. To begin with, it sounds like you're saying that , apart from the issue of a transgender claim of being a mal...

Is she pregnant or not? What test was used? What was its accuracy? Will she carry to term? What was the purpose of the question about pregnancy and wh...

yes, the very fact that the questions he poses aren't aware of the context In which they are generated, and more importantly, that he may not see the ...

I thought Kant'a categories were refuted a long time ago? Hegel anybody?

There is no such thing as any entirely novel kind of knowledge. It is impossible to apprehend a meaning of any kind if there is no way to assimilate i...

what about all the research showing that men's brains are wired differently than women's brains, that men process Visio-spatial information differentl...

What makes you think that we don't always already form new questions just by experiencing moment to moment? Do you think the concepts that any individ...

language that posits irreducible distinctions ( man vs woman, etc) is a kind of violent language. To verbalize, and believe in, sharp distinctions is ...

I'll ask you the same question I asked Bitter Crank. Can one distinguish between bodily gender(genitalia, facial hair, bone structure, etc) and psycho...

You haven't addressed the issue of whether one can distinguish between bodily gender(genitalia, facial hair, bone structure, etc) and psychological ge...

that's a nice metaphor, but psychologists and philosophers of mind are moving of on from the metaphor of mind as cpu to one of mind as embodied self-o...

if you don't feel guilt, do you also not feel anger or righteous indignation? Becauae guilt is a form of anger at onself.

We could draw up a sketch of the way that guilt might be articulated across a range of discourses: we could link it to such ideas as culpability and b...

you don't have to think of a thought as a thing. The phenomeologists don't think of it this way. And I don't either. A thought is a change. There are ...

the feelings. Intuitions and tastes of non-linguistic animals are symbolizations and therefore are pre-linguistic concepts. Infants also use symboliza...

I meant constrain in a relative way. The idea of social constraint is pretty vague. In a country or city there are myriad social groups with their own...

"The art of cognition is learning how much difference you can afford to ignore. That way, only the significant differences reach your attention." I do...

" The presumptions that are made that underpin metaphysical systems and that both form part of what needs to be accounted for and also the grounds of ...

I'm not sure what a 'thing' is, apart from its specific relation to and use by a person encountering it, and thus interpreting its sense. Looks like I...

not the forces around you, the history of the way you construe the world is what constrains your present options. In this discussion with me the cross...

There is a certain inertia to changing one's mind. There would have to be , because the world would be meaningless to us without some predicable or an...

I like psychologist George Kelly's notion of construct, which he defines as a way in which two things are alike and differ from a third. It's a notion...

It's been said that science describes, whereas philosophy explains. Steven Weinberg wrote a piece attacking this view, as well as the this quote from ...

This is a cut-and-paste, but it's far from random. It states a radical view from the 1880's on the entanglement of empiricism and values which still h...

Here's Nietzsche on free will and determinism. "The causa sui is the best self-contradiction that has ever been conceived, a type of logical rape and ...

Interesting. You may enjoy reading this piece from Eugene Gendlin, who defends Wittgenstein against the possible objections of postmodernists against ...

yes. The concept of person is an overdetermined abstraction. I can invent a new word for you. Or at least invent a new sense of a word. Just look at t...

'Showing begins as saying?' No, the scene of showing is more intimate than Wittgenstein imagines. We assume otherness intervenes at a site we determin...

I'm using talking about as a metaphor for thinking about. Thinking can be linguistic or non-linguistic. Wittgenstein was brilliant in teaching that di...

What we talk about constrains what we talk about, because prior context delimits the scope and ways of proceeding into fresh context. How does adding ...

Art begins as language because all perceptual experience is by necessity organized via grammar, due to the structural constraints imposed on experienc...

: "To the degree that human languages mostly share the same 'core' set of grammatical categorisations (with a few significant variations here and ther...

"I don't like it because it's abstract nonsense that misses literally everything interesting about language." Hear, Hear to that!

"Language a the least contains identifiable negation and conjunction, nouns and predicates." Does this mean musical, visual and movement arts are not ...

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously".presents us with a sentence with a semantically meaningful subject(ideas) and a meaningful grammar only in the...

: "The point of grammar is that it acts as a constraint on linguistic kinds: certain kinds of words must, of necessity, follow certain kinds of other ...

You're right, science is not a specific belief system, it's many belief systems. That is to say, it is an evolving historical tradition which has seen...

Transcendent truth would seem to be a wonderful thing. We think what we want is the solidity of a truth that won't turn out to be illusion. But is it ...

Let's say that I look at a painting. My eyes take me sequentially through regions of the scene as I perceive changes in color, shape and form. Even if...

if perception is mediated, then doesn't it involve its own sort of grammar, in the Wittgensteinian sense?

I dont see any philosophical system as divorced from the rest of culture. In fact, I don't view any cultural product of any era, be it science, religi...