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Yes, this is where Sam26 can choose to collapse Wittgenstein’s project into a meta-rational ‘space of reasons’ framework like that offered by John Mcd...

Yes, what is structurally necessary can only be revealed though acts, because this ground is itself the temporality of action. It is what returns to i...

The specter of platonism isn’t vanquished simply by denying number the status of object. The question is whether mathematical truths are true independ...

I don’t know if you saw my edit. I wrote: Can you see why Hart rejects naturalism? Kantians and post-Kantians look at the idea of a clockwork universe...

I found more on this. The middle ages offers plenty of examples of a pre-Marxist socialism. Benedictine, Cistercian, and later mendicant monasteries p...

Thanks for pointing that out. It’s fascinating how Hart’s and Milbank’s metaphysics are so close, yet Milbank is sympathetic to economic and social co...

Did you have Schelling in mind here, or is there another group of philosophers you can point us to who expound this post-critical position? If Schelli...

The post-liberal politics of Victor Orban, J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio draw from the classical metaphysical thinking of John Millbank and David Bentley...

Hart is a metaphysical realist of a classical persuasion. That means that he thinks reality is objectively real, intrinsically intelligible, value-lad...

One can be ‘very different’ in a number of respects. One can be so by arising independently of Western trajectories of thought, such that Westerners m...

I am confident Buddhism is exactly what it takes itself to be, a way to end suffering. The issue for me is what framework of understanding it uses to ...

Not only that, it would eliminate pleasure itself.

I’ve always thought that modern Western readers supplement ancient Eastern wisdom with ideas that are strictly modern, and in so doing are taking what...

Post-Sellarsianism is defined by where one locates normativity, which seems to be the same site you situate it, in public justificatory standing gover...

In looking at the snippets of the paper you have been slowly unleashing, I’ve been trying to place its core method and approach with respect to the ph...

If there are convergences, they are not over Levin’s platonism. Deacon is doing almost the opposite. He is trying to show how what looks Platonic; mat...

That’s right. Killing isnt bad in itself, murder is. The sentence ‘murder is wrong’ is a truism, since the word already means ‘wrongful killing’. The ...

Atheism is a spectrum of philosophical perspectives with a historical lineage in the modern West going back at least 400 years. These perspectives hav...

In writers like Ken Wilber transpersonal psychology has specific connotations pointing to mystical experiences and expanded consciousness. Do you subs...

I because an atheist because post-theistic philosophical and psychological models appeared to me to offer more powerful insights into how to understan...

You think altruism is a brain mechanism? You dont feel that it is in your best ‘selfish’ interest to help people you care about and need in your life?...

It would be a shame to waste a good sin.

This reminds me of the kind of angry manifesto someone writes before they burn down an abortion clinic.

For Heidegger, it’s not just invalidation which comes from the world, it’s also the perspective being invalidated.

You can thank the U.S. for coming up with the idea of that arrangement. After World War II, the United States did not reluctantly assume responsibilit...

Kant argued that the transcendental conditions for the possibility of the intelligiblity of time, space and empirical causality are not contingent but...

I looked at the gemini link, copied the discussion to Chatgpt, and asked it to critique the discussion from the vantage of the later Wittgenstein. It ...

Thank god we have proofs to tell us what our language means. On the other hand, the OP puzzle could be an example of what Wittgenstein called a confus...

It is Kant’s conditions of possibility that run the risk of looking like ‘causeless eternal Platonic objects”, but not empirical Nature. The forms of ...

From a Kantian perspective, this rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of what Kant means by arising from the cognitive faculties of the subject. It...

This is a good example of the metaphysics of presence, where awareness is treated as our discovery of what was already there. A flashlight model assum...

Thanks. Just wanted to add this from conservative Peter Wehner, who Ben calls ‘despicable’:

You’re right. Thus far, we have been successful in keeping them out of Chicago.

Tbh, I’ve been almost completely ignoring the political news the past 6 months to preserve my sanity. My guess, though, is that the separation between...

It’s the autocrat’s direction. Everything points back to the king. Total one-man control of power.

Careful what you wish for. Be thankful we have a federalist system with many local checks and balances. Without those deep constraints, the direction ...

Yes, Frankfurt school Critical Theory has been trickling down from academia over the past few decades to shape the political views of politicians on t...

I wouldnt say that for Husserl the objectivating constituting acts of intentionality amount to a realism about empirical objects. Rather, when Husserl...

Who is a good exemplar of non-libertarianism on the right? Do Trump’s tariffs count?

They’re despicable to you not because they aren’t taking an honest, principled stance but because they aren’t as conservative as you are. It shows how...

I gave you a chance to get beyond the ‘you guys vs us guys’ rhetoric when I gave you a long list of the kind of people you said in your OP that you en...

I was taking liberties in referring to a world apart from consciousness. One finds this in Deleuze and Foucault, not in Husserl. They want to deconstr...

I have no problem in accepting that a broad swath of the American public always harbored autocratic instincts, but that until the past 50 years this s...

As has been pointed out, Buckley himself was not exactly an enthusiastic supporter of the Civil Rights movement when it counted. According to Wiki: Bu...

If our customary starting point for grounding reality is objects-in-themselves, self-identical substances which exist first before they interact, then...

It may be a different situation with Husserl than Edith Stein or Max Scheler. For him a beyond of experience is not impossible but meaningless. There ...

Interesting. Here is where phenomenology (and hermeneutics, enactivism, poststructuralism and the later Wittgenstein) differs. The claim there is no s...

In Kantian Idealism, subjectivity is treated as a kind of substance or object with faculties, just as you described it. When we start with objects a c...

What I mean by rational is that when we recognize a series of lines and curves as a duck, each line and curve has a particular role that it plays in f...

It gets a bit tricky to sort out where anti-vacc-ers and other rejecters of scientific consensus are coming from. Much of the rejection of covid recom...