Did you ever look into Karl-Otto Apel ? https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/apel-karl-otto-1922 I firs...
Ok. The focus on the instruments threw me off. There are norms governing the driving of cars on public roads. Is that significantly different ? I like...
Feuerbach, following Hegel, perhaps demystifying Hegel, writes pretty well on this stuff. The main idea, beyond our sharing the same sense organs and ...
I use the word 'entangled.' It looks to me like a Mobius strip. What's weird about my view is its stubborn and intense anthropocentrism. Apparently I ...
I'm not exactly sure what you are asking. I'd just say that rationality is a kind of virtuous responsibleness. It's like paying one's debts, keeping o...
I am comfortable distinguishing between persons and their encompassing world. But it seems that the world is only for or through such persons. We know...
And of course that's precisely what I'm referring to. The issue is perhaps whether one identifies more with the cultural self or its host. To read a g...
The notion of being 'rational' is essentially normative (ethical). One prides oneself on not being credulous, on thinking for one's self. One is asham...
Ah, I see. My take is that subjectivity requires a world that encompasses it to make sense as subjectivity. So I can't make sense of the world as fund...
OK. I take it that you endorse something like an immaterial discursive subject ? Correlated with the body ? Or what ? Speaking more carefully, I'd say...
Have you looked into Husserl's notion of the smeared moment ? Like T. S. Eliot, he thinks about what it means to listen to music. In short, there's no...
I don't resent functionalism as a mapping strategy, but on a more serious ontological level it looks absurd to me. You seem to imply that your words a...
Thanks ! All this entanglement is another way to say holism perhaps. By 'free' do you mean normative reason-giving entities like us ? I'm a fan of Bra...
:up: Also (as I'm sure you know) there's 'masters and possessors of nature' from Descartes. Feuerbach finds it (this basically Luciferian humanism) im...
It's hard to make sense of your talk of all of those useless fictions. Is anything real ? If not, then 'fiction' is meaningless. Are you really (earne...
Just to be clear, I'm not pissing on science. I love science. But I've got some experience with math and physics (went to school for that kind of thin...
:up: Yes, ethically motivated. At the very least, earnest ontology is a will toward truth. I bring no blueprint for the better mousetrap. I like to th...
Sure. I happen to be trained in statistics. But you are arguing the trivial claim that Husserl, for instance, is not understood as a natural scientist...
Phenomenology is obsessively methodical, though. I'm talking about Husserl and early Heidegger. Obsessively methodical. I really don't personally mind...
. We definitely value predictive power, but I'd say that semantic robustness (an intensely developed clarity) is another genuine value that can't be q...
Have you looked into Popper's idea of basic statements ? Inquiry has no choice but to sometimes take some claims for granted. It can always return to ...
Even scientistic secular humanists, a tiny subset of the population, are lit up with the holy fire of the righteous truth, and they count themselves a...
If the point is just that mind is embodied, that the subject needs a world, then I agree. But of course I insist that we live in quality and meaning, ...
Ah but you speak as if we don't all of us already live in such a domain. In our historically late liberal pluralistic societies, we are lost in a maze...
I think we are mostly on the same page. The 'Lifeworld' is a dynamic meaningdripping unity. But it's given through or to distinct personalities in dis...
You tossed a blanket from the bed, You lay upon your back, and waited; You dozed, and watched the night revealing The thousand sordid images Of which ...
I think he 'illegally' takes for granted the commonsense realism that grasps in the usual way the causal relationships between eyes and apples and tro...
:up: This is part of my point in Dramaturgical Ontology. Personality is a very 'high' or complex thing, yet its function is absolutely fundamental. It...
Hence the continuing allure of, for instance, fascism and communism, something bloody and radical, either nostalgic or utopian. The modern liberal sta...
Just to be clear, I don't deny the strangeness of subjectivity. We aren't just meat. The world 'depends' in an elusive way on our subjectivity. At the...
I think Husserl is correct in that we have a sort of categorial intuition. As humans, we live among concepts as much as colors. Certain traditional fo...
:up: The key point is that all entities only make sense in terms of one another, that toothaches and thunderstorms are part of the same semantic 'blan...
:up: I take the honor of subjecting oneself to peer review is not so unlike that of the brave soldier that shows up for battle. We don't like our pet ...
:up: Sure. We are ludic primates, and I love us for it. Schlegel's notion of irony is beautiful. Fits more in my Dramaturgical Ontology thread, but oh...
:up: I can relate. It's like a glitch. I still think that as 'serious' ontologists whose discourse refuses to cut corners for practical or political r...
I prefer to think about the finitude of our knowledge in terms of the 'depth' of the lifeworld. Everything is 'horizonal.' (Horizon, background, the s...
We may differ a bit on this issue. To me the in-itself is something like the 'reflection' of a worldless-subject. It's a limiting concept like the wor...
Just for clarity, I love science and am trying to carefully aim only at scientism. I'd call problematic conceptions of empiricism an aspect of scienti...
:up: Right, and Husserl would include our basic categorial intuition, extending the given beyond mere sensation (or something like that.) As Popper sa...
In my view, the self is primarily and not incidentally flesh. But (to be fair), the timebinding cultural aspect of the self, largely its linguistic as...
Nice. Ever look into Meillassoux ? I disagree with him, but he's fascinating. In this book, Meillassoux argues that post-Kantian philosophy is dominat...
I like to think that the transcendent subject is basically just the human species. No humans means no world in any way that we can talk about without ...
Excellent point. If you look at Popper on basic statements, you'll find people just agreeing to take certain statements as given. The rubber meets the...
:up: FWIW, I defer to current usage, so that my suggestion that Husserl is a scientist is a metaphor. :up: True, but as some kind of quasi-Hegelian di...
I'm not against that word, bu in English it is very close to entity, a dry term. I'd say we already have the word person or humanbeing. My view is ant...
I think Husserl is great, and I'm open to insight from his work on this topic, but what really matters is what's rational and intelligible. To say tha...
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