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The analogical irony embodied in the conflictual relation of individual vs society is more complex. Using the example of socrates feigning ignorance h...
November 29, 2022 at 13:59
I dont know if Platonic forms are anything, but my understanding of forms is that if something embodies it such as a comic character or Socrates the f...
November 29, 2022 at 06:44
Free speech has never guaranteed what you write will be published. You always could publish whatever you like yourself, but pamphleteering on the stre...
November 28, 2022 at 23:01
In the discursive way I think about irony my thoughts meander in various directions. One dimension is how there are the original examples of irony: th...
November 28, 2022 at 20:01
Maybe. Care to elaborate?
November 28, 2022 at 17:22
The late Bruno Latour's Actor Network Theory supposedly originated from analysis of the "hotel room key". The key has a cumbersome object attached and...
November 28, 2022 at 13:57
Is this allusion to predestination? Weber argued predestination was lost in the process of rationalization, however I think irony and determinism are ...
November 27, 2022 at 22:27
Reason is not ironic, but to identify irony takes reason. However, there is a paradox: to reason something is ironic then proceed to do it, is irratio...
November 27, 2022 at 22:01
I just wanted to elaborate a little bit on this point. I use this as a simple to understand example of my perception of irony in action, which can be ...
November 27, 2022 at 19:22
Sounds like Deleuze, concepts are undefined, they do not exist in isolation and have to be understood contextually. I dont fully understand the depth ...
November 26, 2022 at 20:28
Yes, spiritual/ metaphysical but in reference to modern objects. So Deleuze, for example will take the modern object of schizophrenia and boil down it...
November 26, 2022 at 15:35
No idea, but is often a signal word for something ironic I have found. Maybe that is, but it is past my bedtime.
November 26, 2022 at 03:04
Irony is the opposition in Platonic duality: essence opposed to object, idea from reality, person from society, cause from effect, etc. The dictionary...
November 25, 2022 at 23:57
because women say they are harassed? It's not whether the control has worked. It's about how freedom is turned into something where control can be app...
November 24, 2022 at 01:59
Pretty sure societies of control are mostly Western ones so far.
November 21, 2022 at 23:05
Anarchy/ism doesn't represent an ideal imo, but a negation of an ideal. It is to individualism as absurdity is to nihilism. Anarchy from my perspectiv...
November 18, 2022 at 17:16
Yes, that happens people are suppressed, and others who are agreed with are amplified. I am more concerned with more subtle elements of control in soc...
November 17, 2022 at 00:09
Thinking in approximations, if Capitalism is analogous to schizophrenia, and postmodernism is analogous to schizophrenia, then the alt-right is an org...
November 16, 2022 at 23:23
I'm not sure postmodern metaphysics has any transformative power. Postmodernism is metaphysical compared to material science which dominates perceptio...
November 16, 2022 at 17:29
Is not failing to move beyond a modernist understanding of postmodernism in education an assimilation?
November 15, 2022 at 22:01
Negative freedoms are 'freedom from' and positive freedoms are 'freedom to'. The out of control desire to be free to do anything and being allowed to ...
November 15, 2022 at 17:31
The tragedy of postmodernism is that it is far from being a point of departure from modernity, but has become a fascination, and has been assimilated ...
November 14, 2022 at 23:10
I end that paragraph in this foreboding way, because I see the practice of psychiatry/ psychology as an extension of rationalization, and thus part of...
November 14, 2022 at 22:40
If there was a point when pastoralism became farming, it was when Weber was commenting Calvinism gave birth to Capitalism. When urbanization and indus...
November 14, 2022 at 11:24
No, it is a philosophical exercise, perhaps one that, alas, I am not doing too well. In the Matrix, Neo wakes up to find he is being farmed which is r...
November 12, 2022 at 22:51
The issue is not so much what is illusion and what is truth, it just seems that the conditions of the cave are a reification like the shell of rationa...
November 12, 2022 at 17:15
The truth is that the world provides for living creatures, not an artificial political-economic system.
November 12, 2022 at 11:26
anarchistic only in relation to a kind of social order. There is likely a state of affairs where postmodernism would be at complete peace. That's not ...
November 10, 2022 at 17:11
Fight fascism. Transcend the futurist utopia. Act ironically to the code (mostly discursive). Have fluid identities. Be conscious of what you are coop...
November 10, 2022 at 13:58
Rationality and irrationality are not mutually exclusive, they can exist at the same place and at the same time. Someone can be rational to an irratio...
November 06, 2022 at 01:22
My concern is not to reform psychiatry. I see this as purely a philosophical exercise. Psychiatry is like capitalism, by association yes, but also jus...
November 04, 2022 at 16:13
I agree on both points re Michael and copper
November 04, 2022 at 02:04
Oppressed and not knowing why: C Wright Mills wrote of men feeling trapped in their lives. I do feel this way, maybe it has something to do with deleu...
November 04, 2022 at 01:36
Well, there is probably a few ways of looking at it, but I like using the ironical lens. Looking at irrationality this way, you see a contradictory du...
November 03, 2022 at 23:14
My concern is not to revolutionize psychiatry, therefore I do not intend to create new ways of understanding the etiology of disorder. My concern is t...
November 03, 2022 at 13:21
I appreciate your effort to transcend conventional understanding, but my position is to focus on the analogy between detachment of reality in psychosi...
November 02, 2022 at 13:04
I'm not certain defining any object of human inquiry is about 'everything' or is saying nothing about it. Cells were not objects of human inquiry befo...
November 01, 2022 at 02:08
To me anything real is something that is not simulated. That definition extends to real leather to the real world. The way I see it the world we exper...
November 01, 2022 at 01:41
The essence of irony is not linguistic. There is a common denominator across all irony categories (literary, socratic, cosmic, situational, dramatic, ...
October 31, 2022 at 16:16
Well,yes, I was just musing about how things could be not as they seem. That kind of comment goes over better in a group of stoners on weed than in a ...
October 30, 2022 at 22:34
I'll have to do a little more work on this issue before I say too much more about it, but I see the Gettier problem as simply that JTB cannot be used ...
October 30, 2022 at 22:20
A google search for "displestitude" reveals your usage as the only combination of those letters to exist on the internet.
October 30, 2022 at 18:23
It frustrates me that Gettier problems have the fundamental characteristics of irony, but irony is only mentioned once in the wikipedia article in a s...
October 30, 2022 at 12:49
The bigger issue that looms on James' mind is not what's for dinner, but are they going to make babies after? Few people will let the problems of the ...
October 30, 2022 at 00:35
If direct realism were true then objectivity would simply be a matter of narrating our very experiences. However the indirect nature of our perception...
October 26, 2022 at 23:51
Ideas represent objects. An idea doesn't exist, it refers to something that exists. If nothing existed no idea could exist. The mindscape is the world...
October 26, 2022 at 21:53
re: mental content: Yes,that is a specific area of mystery. There are several general areas including workings of the brain, the experience of the sub...
October 25, 2022 at 23:03
In my view the philosophical consideration of disordered perception on the subject's end and institutionally affirmed perception on the psychiatrist o...
October 24, 2022 at 16:19
That's not the point I'm making. I'm not saying they should be encouraged to have the belief or that they absolutely shouldn't be treated with medicat...
October 23, 2022 at 22:48
The person is powerful and knowledgeable enough to introduce a robust form of life such as tardigrades with big brains that are invulnerable to the en...
October 23, 2022 at 20:15