Let me get this straight. You don’t want to single the jews out as the only recipients of discrimination. But you do want to single the jews out in th...
I think Nietzsche’s highly complex formulation of ressentiment, and its relation to historic judaism, is likely to be misconstrued on this forum as si...
I love how the the authors locate the ‘true’ meaning of human cultural products like art and literature in evolutionary adaptivity, a purpose only ind...
I guess it depends in how you define complexity. For instance, how should we weigh decreasing bio-diversity against increases in human cultural and te...
Europeans brought their prejudices with them when they emigrated to America. Not just anti-semitism ( there were many prominent anti-semites, such as ...
Enactivists like Evan Thompson abandon functionalism in favor of an integrated approach that also does away with qualia, input-output directionality, ...
Would you agree that the varieties of contemporary anti-semitism expressed by the likes of Henry Ford, Heidegger, Hamas, Charles Lindburgh, Kanye West...
Do you know anything about the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist denominations of Judaism? Within these theologies, there are no revealed tru...
I can’t speak to what the average jew in the biblical or medieval period said about gentiles, but I can speak from my own experience growing up in a C...
Who said I found it insulting? This is what concerns me: From Wikipedia: 1)aThe belief that Judaism is a racist religion which teaches its adherents t...
Up until the mid 20th century, Jews in the U.S. refused to integrate into social institutions such as country clubs, summer camps and Ivy league schoo...
How quaint. I had never heard this before either, and certainly not from jews. So I googled it and what I learned is that it is a long-standing prejud...
Like the belief that jews “refuse to integrate into the society they live in, they set themselves apart.” Many of the jews of Germany in the 1930’s co...
I notice that only one form of humility was mentioned here, concerned with the epistemological issue of getting the facts right or wrong. But the noti...
Do we ever actually think entities like cognitive scripts as neutral meanings abstracted away from affective valence and contextual significance? Or d...
Heidegger wrote that we always bring a pre-understanding to our engagement with the world. This allows things to show up for us within a certain inter...
There can also be a kind of solipsism, or rather, essentialism, built into assumptions about how a community embeds individuals. That’s why I asked ab...
Society is an abstraction, an average derived from individual perspectives. It is true that each perspectival view is shaped and reshaped by its parti...
What are the minimum requirements for finding our way about? What if I imagine myself as having memory, which includes my history as a body growing up...
Where did the concept of ‘universe’ come from?What is the history of its etymology? When was the word first used and in what context? In what ways did...
This is a psychotherapeutic question. It’s like the difference between progressive desensitization to overcome a phobia vs exposing yourself to the fr...
Sure, deepen and widen your perspective on the issues that are liable to trigger such emotions. In particular, immerse yourself in the perspectives of...
I would never weigh in on the content of empirical assertions by physicists and characterize my opinions as philosophical. I can only claim a philosop...
Like a lot of approaches to affect, emotion and mood, this definition doesn’t get beyond circularity. Terror and horror are related responses to a fri...
We don’t choose a whole life or even a portion of it. What we choose is a scheme of understanding that we place over events in order to try and make s...
I am linking norm-based goals, purposes and motives with anticipatory sense-making, and the latter with pleasure and happiness. Happiness is just anot...
I thought that’s what I had done by arguing that if the knowledge the book imparted to you proved its value through your successful anticipation of ma...
Our social environment certainly provides opportunities we can draw upon, as well as constraints limiting what we can make of our world, but I think m...
Will it satisfactorily answer questions like: ‘Is there a god? What is the meaning of life? How do I achieve happiness in life?’ If so, then it isn’t ...
What’s important to point out here is the distinction between determining that one’s previous belief is not true, and happening upon a new value syste...
This is not Nietzsche’s position, though. Scientific inquiry involves the establishment of a discursively normative value system, a regional ontology,...
I think the key term here is ‘measurable’. Specifiability, verifiability and repeatability are not exclusive to science, but the requirement that the ...
Maybe I’ve been enclosed in my particular philosophical bubble for too long, but when I see a fundamental inquiry into the nature of things begin from...
Shaun Gallagher, in his latest book Action and Interaction, has a chapter on justice which incorporates ideas from Hegel, Frankfurt and Honneth, while...
No, he uses words like collectivity, collection, mass, population, multiplicity, a band, a peopling, a group. I’m aware that the plane of immanence is...
Deleuze’s Nietzschean-inspired model posits assemblages of desiring elements which produce what he calls a plane of consistency. This plane creates re...
Is this control over desire or just being at the mercy of one desire over another? Since you mentioned Nietzsche, I thought I’d quote him on the issue...
I highly recommend The Dawn of Everything by anthropologist David Graeber and archeologist David Wingrow. Their exhaustive look at the anthropological...
But this thinking all rests on the supposition of a purely ‘neutral’ attention that can be separated off from any intentional objects being attended t...
I think feeling is central to many of the modernizations of meditative practice. Non-judgemental , non-intending bare awareness of being is supposed t...
Heidegger analyzes how Nietzsche’s Eternal return makes use of this notion of Being as constant presence to turn it against itself via time as a conti...
I’m aware that the classical understanding of the ultimately real is the eternally unchanging. My argument is that the idea of seeing beyond time to s...
Most of our living is social, and our cultural environment is reciprocally interpretive. In the agential realism of Karen Barad and Joseph Rouse the n...
Is such a sitting yogi having an experience of anything while they claim to not experience the passing of time? There is a tendency to confuse the con...
The enactivists look at subject-object, organism-environment this way: The organism interprets its world, but not by representing it, not by attemptin...
Enactivists disagree with Chalmers belief that we dont have a way to explain the unification of consciousness or subjective experience empirically. Fo...
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