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Again, how are you understanding health and nobility for Nietzsche? It is not about a ‘constant striving’. Who is doing the striving? A self? Doesn’t ...

Again, we need to redefine the way you’re using terms like master and slave, good and bad, higher and lower, improvement and lack of improvement. Slav...

You can only measure dimensions and weight of something which is presumed to remain qualitatively the same over the course of the quantitative measuri...

Deleuze would say you’re succumbing to a common misreading here.

Kant correctly recognized that taking a strictly materialist stance depends on an idealism, since the very notion of a mind-independent object covertl...

Does Tse discuss complex dynamical systems approaches to free will and causation? I’m thinking of Alicia Juarrero’s Dynamics in Action:Intentional Beh...

Your analysis is closer to Nietzsche’s than it is to mine. Nietzsche argued that the Will to knowledge is a derivative of the Will to Power. Knowledge...

Are such properties inherent in objects or are they the products of historically formed ways of organizing our relation to the world? Heidegger has ar...

There is more to it than that for writers like Heidegger and Nietzsche. Nothing isn’t just the empty, generic opposite of a something. When we use the...

Desire is for the sake of that which staves off arbitrariness, chaos and disorganization. Human bodies are organized in similar ways, so in general wh...

Heidegger believed the very way the question is posed forces a certain way of looking for an answer. The question opposes being and nothing, privilegi...

I’m reminded of the role of explanation with respect to the language game. There can be a language which is organized in such a way that an explanatio...

You mean they know not what they do?

Or perhaps you just ignored the part of the quote that denies your claim that postmodernists think there is no such thing as being wrong.

The tendency to cite notorious media or historical figures as examples of evil (the Hitler effect) feeds into the Romantic conception of the autonomou...

This claim can be justified on more than a psychological basis. I would hesitate to call it transcendental in the sense of an idealist ground. Rather,...

You’re ignoring the rich normatively constituted relations that are unified through subjective (noetic) idealizations. The noematic content hides with...

We can explain dogmatic or hostile construing not as the manifestation of arbitrary self-reinforcing drives or passions, but as representing the most ...

I love this :100:

Why does the violent perpetrator need to exert his power? Because he feels powerless. What does ‘power’ mean in this context? Does it mean the ability...

Preference isn’t arbitrary. It is the measure of successful sense-making. All of our construals are interlocked and organized hierarchically with resp...

I have read Deleuze, Foucault, Heidegger and Derrida and don’t find any of them obscure. I find their ideas new and therefore difficult to grasp at fi...

Where does relevance fit in here? Contradictory opposition defines the being of a thing, but never simply in opposition to everything else in the worl...

That’s what everybody tells me

The fact that love and compassion aren’t functions of successful sense-making for these religions, but must be attained by an act of will, demands tha...

The question of how to be compassionate toward others and to be alive to each being's suffering, assumes a need to resist the unjust desire or intenti...

Groups of people form the kinds of social, economic and political structures that they understand. There are only a tiny handful of poststructuralists...

I’m thinking here of Foucault’s historical analysis of scientific epistemes. He grouped the period from around 1400 till today into three epistemes, t...

What do Christian nationalism and Marxism have in common? Both of them are grounded in forms of emancipatory humanism, which means that both posit a p...

No, at some universities, the rhetoric and actions of some students and faculty have become repressive. Can you locate anything intrinsic to postmoder...

Yes, and I would go beyond that and argue that intelligibility is socially constrained. This point is fundamental for any theory of ethics, and for ad...

Of course, the flip side of operating within a language game is that its authoritative rules and pronouncements are at the same time normative and non...

It sounds like you believe that the part of Kant’s ethics that exclude the Christian aspects comprises the core of his ethical thinking. If that’s the...

Realist fear of postmodernism.

Here’s a neat alternative: Just press your hands tightly against your ears and shout repeatedly “I can’t hear you!”.

This does accord with poststructuralist accounts putting difference before identity , and Heidegger’s attempt to think being and nothingness together....

But this having reached bedrock is precisely the way out of despair, or precisely, the way to free ourselves of the meaningless that confusing empiric...

Its a question of immediate vs delayed gratification. Addictions are so hard to overcome because the reward is immediate and the negative consequences...

I dont think so. Pleasure and what you are thinking of in ethical terms as ‘human flourishing’ are not independent entities. And given that all goals ...

Pleasure is not a reflex mechanism, or the release of chemicals. It is an enormously complex phenomenon inseparably linked to overarching goals and in...

Right. As Rouse puts it, scientific accounts of evolution have been treated as though they offered a sovereign grounding for human social and ethical ...

I recommend Joseph Rouse’s work on evolutionary naturalism. He ties together biological and cultural normativity. Here’s a place to start: https://www...

You would think a Heidegger scholar would be able to do better than that. If we stick with the oldy-moldy neo-Darwinism that ignores the side of the e...

Micro norms can be nested within larger norms. We can change our minds about the benefits of a particular treatment without dislodging the superordina...

Is there a way to separate out truth from goodness as fulfillment of normative expectations and purposes? Are such norms to be located inside the orga...

Heidegger was keenly attuned to the historical nature of philosophy, as reflected in his appreciation for etymology, but Wittgenstein tended to write ...

You can? How on earth does that work without presupposing the very thing which makes falsification intelligible?

For these writers, it’s not just “we” who create ontological realities, as human beings or subjects. It is the world itself that continually creates i...

Why dont you build a giant paddock, and collect all the furniture of the universe inside of it. Then you can determine degrees of reality among the ob...