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Now Kant is pretty clearly using our ordinary experience of sense organs and presumably contemplating the way some kind of 'raw' experience of Reality...

I'm not averse to discussing some of the complexities of sensation, but your denial that eyes are objects in the world is indulgent -- contrary to ord...

Yeah, he gets too far out for me also at times. But I really valued his concept of the shadow. Probably the best idea I got from him was : Whatever is...

Eyes, olfactory bulbs, the machinery of the ear -- in situ ( 'in the original position') are not objects of the world ? I don't have to be an optometr...

If you like Jung already, you'll probably enjoy it. His ambivalence is fascinating. Mercy of a Rude Stream also gives an outside perspective on how sh...

My retort to them would be: please explain what illusion can even mean without a person in a world they can be wrong about.

:up: You ever looked into Finnegans Wake ? It's a wild wheel that's built on archetypes. It's as if Joyce had studied so many plots that they all bled...

We are forced to wake from the mud, but life is to some degree a choice. I've known suicides and half-suicides (junkies who overdosed.) I don't judge ...

Yes, Taoism also uses the metaphor of the sweet old grandmother. So one glides through life with a tenderness for others. I work around women who clea...

To finally reply to this (though I think you and I have already come to agreement on it) : My approach can't talk the madman out of his madness. What ...

Yeah, Nietzsche's golden passages are transcendent and joyous and sweetly wicked.

In a similar way, I think there's a worthy insight wrapped up in Stirner's work. From Brandom I get the idea that the autonomy project is at the very ...

Yes indeed! I remember having complicated feelings as I realized that economically I was and am primarily a teacher of low-level math to students who ...

FWIW, I think you are right to consider natural constraints on morality. It'd be weird to have large language-ready brains and not ethical systems cen...

. As others have maybe said in their own way perhaps, this can be framed without the language of emotion in terms of genes being filtered out if they ...

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I should add for completeness that one could very much focus on an explicitly suicidal sage. We could create one as a character in a cosmic novel. His...

I don't mean anything fancy by spatial reasoning. I mean the most barbarically obvious common sense of brains being inside skulls, connected to the sp...

Excellent example. To me it seems that socialization is the supreme 'art.' The conceptual aspect of philosophical conversation would be only a tiny as...

Judging by What The Buddha Taught (Rahula),his life became about helping people free themselves from the greed and confusion that tends to capture hum...

I pretty much agree with this, but Shakespeare is celebrated largely because of his insight into human nature. Being (some would claim) always exist f...

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:up: I think we agree on fallibilism. Just to be clear, I didn't expect you to read all of that thread. I think many philosophers have tried to establ...

Would you say though that this is very different than what Shakespeare was doing ? Of course Shakespeare is just an example. Pick your favorite 20 nov...

Just to be clear, I am not emphasizing the Romantic image of the genius. I don't think you are quite seeing where I'm coming from. I've been trying to...

It occurs to me that any such sketch is aimed at describing the world. Your words are understood to be relevant to me. Communication that intends trut...

I remember various appreciators of Kant stressing his realization of how actively the mind projects hypotheses. Isn't the updated version basically th...

I think you nailed it. I project what I learn from the past into the future. So I know (or think I know) some things about events that haven't happene...

I'm open to the possibility of an intricate tale that absorbs this piece of Kant and saves it from immediate self-cancellation. But this is an extreme...

Excellent quote. It touches on a related issue. I looked into all is vanity recently, and 'vanity' is a translation of the word 'hevel.' This word, wh...

I'm not sure the highest levels of personality (of symbolic life) can be adequately captured from the outside. What we are doing now is something like...

I'd say that sleep (including the sleep of death ) is fine, but this serene detachment is also a worthy goal. In my view, it's preferable to sleep/dea...

Funny you posted that right as I was responding. I was claimed by the real world all day.

Schopenhauer mentions how certain painters capture the expression of dispassionate knowledge. I've seen that in paintings and have always responded to...

Right, but I think of neuroscience as (roughly) software running on human hardware. Timebinding symbolic technique depends still on mortal brains, for...

It's a bit like conspiracy theory. One seems to performs a daring skepticism but that skepticism is directed selectively indeed. At the base is a 'pos...

Is human philosophy 'constrained' to serve the particular groups of humans who cocreate it on some group level or some genetic level ? Is there a nece...

That'd be something like the Shakespearian approach to the question. I'd be articulating my models of two different personalities. For Shakespeare, th...

Kant was a genius, but his thinking shared in a serious problem common to the tradition of 'methodological solipsism' (Robert C. Solomon's term). By c...

If we are just rudely blurting out opinions, then I think you aren't very good at distinguishing flowery rhetoric and a host of noobdazzling fallacies...

I also thought it was pretty good. I especially liked the performance of Rufus Sewell.

Just to be clear, I don't mind sweeping. Is Shakespeare a better philosopher than Peirce ? Why or why not ? Different forms of sweepingness. I like gr...

I'm willing to consider that me doing philosophy is like my cat grooming herself or sharpening her claws on this cardboard triangle we bought her.

Interesting to hear because it's been so different for me, though as I got older I realized it didn't really matter. Very true. But when I was in a ba...

Very cool to hear about this. This kind of knowledge seems to play a huge role in life and maybe doesn't get celebrated enough by bookish types. I'm g...

I think the first captures an aspiration to (for instance) draw a perfect circle without a compass. But I very much agree when it comes to fitting fun...

You definitely address the issue in general. But I have trouble (might be my problem) making sense of the subject or place of enunciation. Presumably ...

Well, yes, else observer metaphor is being stretched here into mystified meaninglessness. It sounds to me like Berkeley now, a theism merely asserted....

Thanks ! I love preaching the word of Zod (who is great fun in Superman 2).

It's hard for me to believe in a free lunch. As Kojeve or someone noted, if we were immortal we could eventually get around to everything. But mortals...