As I've argued, I don't find the idea of an answer in general plausible. If there is something because of X, then X itself is either the brute fact or...
Hegel has a reputation of being unreadable, but he could give quite a speech. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/1818/inaugural.ht...
Been awhile, but yeah. I liked some of it, but never real fell in love with guy. I have a vague sense that he was a bit righteous and effete for my ta...
Even if Hegel exaggerated (or doesn't satisfy us today), his idea that the plurality of apparently opposed philosophies constituted one living, evolvi...
Right. I more or less read the authentic mode as the phenomenological mode. It's one of the slippier themes in Heidegger (to me), but he does speak in...
Right. Life is bigger than language. It's even bigger than all of those languages you mention. The way the body moves through the world comes to mind....
Beautiful. Exactly. Pure math is also a good example. No one has to know what is being talked about --not as long as the standards of what constitutes...
To me he's just a vivid personality. At his best, he's great (for my purposes). At his worst, I can't say. Because I stop reading when I'm bored. We c...
I find the critics of the Cartesian approach pretty convincing. I'd like to know what you'd make of Heidegger's The Concept of Time. It's a short, ear...
Sure. It's my favorite theme lately. Given your post above, none of this will probably sound new to you. I'm largely inspired by Heidegger, though I l...
Perhaps you'll agree that his theism (or my rough portrait of an interpretation of it) is far from non-theoretical theism. For many, he might as well ...
This is a good issue. For the most part we are immersed in life. We don't have time for wonder. We desire or fear certain situations and work to attai...
Can we make the way a word functions in the world totally explicit? I don't think so. At best you can sharpen the meaning as much as possible for a pa...
But that's more or less what I meant. The 'how' or the method or the approach is what we take for granted. As I read him, Hegel is criticizing a certa...
What I have in mind as an unacknowledged-by-some foundation is the know-how of everyday life. We understand an ordinary language (a meta-language for ...
Right. I think that's where certain authors are right about 'existential' time. It is directed and finite. Gold won't buy it back. And even the usual ...
Yeah. I think OLP and pragmatism exploded the 'ism' approach to philosophy for me. I see that there's an -ism on the end of pragma- there, but I read ...
Great sketch. All those thinkers are great, and those are strong paraphrases. You left off Heidegger, I note. For me the 'first wrong move' is 'wrong'...
Fallibilism? You're touching on a great issue here. Probably some could say the same of idealism. But if the realist and idealist live the same kind o...
As far as I know, no one hammered this idea home like Hegel. I'd be glad to be corrected. The path to truth is the truth itself. But the path (thinker...
Oh yes. I've read his bio. Even in my first philosophy book (Durant's Story) I think this was mentioned. I find it hard to choose. They both pay atten...
I know. It was a rhetorical question. The point is that scientism (as distinct from science) ignores all of this. It's all 'really' quarks, etc. This ...
That was an ugly, seemingly covetous moment for Schopenhauer. If memory serves, Schopenhauer more or less ignored the historical. From his 'mystic'-bi...
Right. The theoretical picture of nature reminds me of a grid that's loosely projected on an everyday experience of just being in the world with furni...
For what it's worth, I like this theism. I find it honest to speak of impressions and feelings. I also like the humility about the difficulty of expre...
This doesn't make sense to me, or not if facts are made of language. God is love. Is that a proposition? Is a metaphor a proposition? How is such a st...
You guys make me want to reread Brothers. I have a better memory of The Possessed and Crime and Punishment. Suffice it to say that Dostoevsky is a mas...
Yes, in that order. If I give scientism hell, it's only because I think people in fact experience one another in a non-theoretical sense that transcen...
In my experience, the young are more terrified of death. As we age, we start to understand its attractions. We go from terror to mixed feelings. I did...
I agree. My understanding of it includes getting behind all of this encrusted theoretical language. To the things (factic life, existence, being there...
When it comes to what we care about, no. In my opinion. It may be an exaggeration to get the point across. Accusations of anthropomorphism don't ring ...
I like Feyerabend. It's been awhile, but his Conquest of Abundance is pretty great. I hope I remember the title correctly. But I could also drag in Wh...
Consider the title of the book. No doubt Heidegger was more radically phenomenological. And lots of Hegel is still too metaphysical for my taste. But ...
That's a pretty good description. But we might also speak of attaining a kind of emotional equilibrium, of making peace with death or 'evil,' etc. Of ...
As I read it, he's talking about a certain kind of philosopher taking classic metaphysical terms for granted --as if they had fixed meanings that were...
Good point. It may be that a certain discourse functions well because it ignores its own foundations. What we might call scientism is something like a...
To be fair, some of Hegel's prose annoys the crap out of me. But he was sometimes quite clear and even eloquent, at least in translation. I find it ha...
Ah yes, and others. I like the idea of actually 'looking' at this flow every once in awhile to see if I'm not floating away on a pile of seductive abs...
That's pretty silly. Hegel is often as clear as Russell. And Russell could be a real dufus at times. Repeating negative gossip is lazy, man. Not that ...
On what merit? That they get things done? I agree. But that's a pragmatic foundation, a vague foundation, an 'irrational' or inexplicit foundation. I ...
I like this. I've been trying to say something similar from a phenomenological angle. Experience isn't so neatly conceptual and machine-like. 'Between...
I think we basically agree here. I might phrase 'productive agreement' as a the friendly disagreement that wants to get something done together. But e...
Who said it's about answering questions? Again, this assumes that philosophy is a kind of science. We can also think of philosophy as a questioning th...
I hear you. But do you yourself consider the first-person experience of heartbreak to be physical in the same way that an electron is physical? For me...
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