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I'm open to the limitation of any form/content framing, but I think you are pushing it too far. Unless all you are saying is that every move in the ga...

One example of this is the critique of the privileging of phonetic script as ethnocentric, maybe a bit racist. The white man is closer to the breath o...

I agree. But it's 'tautologically' rational to fear a descent into irrationality. Of course Peterson, for instance, becomes the thing he fears. It's a...

But who would ever dream there was ? Anymore than they'd dream a river was the same water every morning ? As soon as human norms are seen to govern (a...

It's not that, though I can see why you'd suspect such a thing. My real concern is simply avoiding the stereotypical vices and absurdities of that dem...

I'm sympathetic to those points, and I'm not even terribly attached to indirect realism. But I don't currently see how the vague notion of a substrate...

And from some of the more questionable passages in Herr Nietzsche (who is great nevertheless overall.)

My pleasure. Kind of nice to approach things sometimes through their demonizers.

https://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/mkv2ch04.html Hard not to see democracy itself demonized as a wicked piece of Jewish/Marxist insanity. Only...

It's hard to see a way around the priority of conceptual normativity. Any "new theoretical and empirical resources" will have to be justified in terms...

:up: Yeah, perhaps a dead end. A glorious disaster. He could have done something less obscure. A sequel to Ulysses. But at least it had him laughing i...

I agree, but I see that as a quasi-Kantian point. And Braver's book on antirealism, which I mentioned above, basically moves from Kant toward that vie...

In terms of content (as opposed to tone), I'd lump Nietzsche, Derrida, and Foucault together as the same kind of thinker. Lee Braver does this in A Th...

I find this quite plausible. Good example. It's a bit insane that instead of guarding gold or cash against De Niro's crew in Heat that we have to thin...

Joyce was huge, so I mostly agree. But Nietzsche has golden moments that make him as big as anybody.

I'm obsessed with all of them, veering especially between philosophy and prose. Not long ago I read Joyce's bio, studied Ulysses, and continued pluggi...

Good points on Nietzsche. Presumably many others had similar political thoughts, fantasies of the macho heroic Fight Club good ol' days. If Nietzsche ...

Ah but that's what a biblethumper would say about Darwin or Hume. (I'm not accusing you of that, let me be clear, but riffing on your phrase.) The iss...

Maybe just imagine philosophers as protagonists in Greek tragedies, desperate to fend off the gods with the final hieroglyphic.

Well put. Perhaps we never just 'are,' because 'we' are ethical entities ('fictions') with serious work to do. To be an 'I' is to be responsible for a...

Well put. Reminds me a bit of Hobbes. The worst thing that can happen is a breakdown of trust that makes all labor unsafe. Why sow what I may not reap...

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:up: Misled by metaphor!

The 'phonocentrism' in the philosophical privileging of phonetic over idiographic scripts (as in Hegel) might be explained in terms of hiding from the...

This is a good point, but it seems compatible with indirect realism. We understand that a blind man lacks an aspect of reality of the non-blind. We ca...

Agreed. And I love Voltaire. But there's always the danger of deceiving ourselves with a little cartoon gang of bad guys. Tucker Carlson probably give...

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Indeed. It's almost tautological, as if god is the guy in the ad we're trying to be.

Yes indeed! Good advice. I've only ever got good at things I liked doing. Yes, it required practice, but I only practiced enough because it was fun. S...

That sounds right to me. The self is a virtual or conventional or ethical entity.

Thanks for the welcome and the inspiring posts. You pick a nice variety of themes and authors.

OK, but I thought the gods just rode down on the machines, to save the day and help the author with a jammed up plot.

Exactly. I was about 18 when Freud and other writers put the final nail in my sense of the otherworldly. I embraced the myth/theory of the world as an...

Or a God who experiences everything brought to him by magic, as he desires, not realizing his body is hard at work making everything happen.

Well noted and well expressed. To become a rational secular blah blah blah is like emerging from a long process of the training of the unconscious, un...

:up: It's maybe the primary art form or the mother of art. It's not necessary lying. Virtue is also involved (I may 'put on' the appropriate solemnity...

The relationship seems complicated. How is it that adults don't pee the bed (very often anyway, or unless they're trying to) ? How does the sleeper 'k...

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Well put ! I was reading Brandom on Kant and something 'obvious' moved to the foreground for me. The metaphysical status of the self is secondary. We ...

My response is...of course it is. But those discursive practices are equally their own product, as are the sense organs their own product, as Nietzsch...

A quibble, but one can believe that there is some kind of 'the way things are outside us' without believing that science ever portrays it correctly or...

I agree with this. Both points are valid.

Call it the human mind and make it a demiurge, and I think I agree. There was stuff here before us from which we emerged, but the world as we know it ...

Now that I can relate to. It's those pesky implicit assumptions that wreak the most havoc. We can't criticize what we don't yet recognize as optional.

To be fair, I'll grant that one can sort of escape metaphysics by carefully avoiding any talk that involves norms. One can suggest that we try somethi...

I find it hard to believe that naive realism exists very much among adults. A few philosophers pretend to be, but I think they are playing with words ...

In my view, objectivity is just a synonym of rationality, and 'complete' objectivity sounds like perfect science, or just the goal of (rational) inqui...

I may agree that one cannot extract or capture the sense or meaning of the world apart from that human meaning making. If meaning, as some theorists h...

I appreciate your taking the time to provide the links. It seems we both agree that 'the modern' is already self-critical. I go on from this idea to i...

The poor, ugly person might be perfectly able to acknowledge both of these apparently unfortunate attributes, happily even, if their self-esteem is fo...