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Well, yes. But there's a personality type that tries to ingest everything essential and worthwhile about all other types. Hegel is famously associated...

I agree that knowledge is collective. An 'existentialist' tries to articulate the way the world exists through or for individual personalities who hav...

:up: I see this and completely agree, but what I'm getting at is instead the necessary tradeoff involved in having any finite personality. Lossy compr...

I take flesh in even a metaphysical sense. The body (of the one who sees and speaks, for that one ) is not just one object among others. It is the sun...

Now I'm surprised you would say so, because I'm basically coming from a Heideggarian place in my criticism of a Cartesian foundation. I love Husserl a...

:up: I'm 100% down with that (or can find one interpretation of it that I like). I call it Ye Olde Lifeworld. The scientific image is just a piece of ...

But where and when is this observer ? Kant is justly famous, but this is one of his clunkers. It just doesn't make sense. I've looked into Hoffman. He...

We do look pretty screwed. If you force me to play the optimist, a big breakthrough in fusion might help. If the price of energy was cut in half, what...

Cool mention. I'm about as minimalist as my wife will let me be. The nice thing about pluralistic societies is that you can -- to some degree, this ai...

Right. And there's seemingly also a competition of cultures (memetic evolution.) Any tribe that isn't good at breeding and fighting loses resources th...

If we filtered out all of that pain and humiliation, I'd wager that many would still feel from death. But yeah the association of death is aging and a...

I just always thought it was a cool nickname. He liked to walk up mountains and talk philosophy with friends. I always thought that sounded like my ki...

I agree with you in the abstract, but in practice there is just too much detail for the finite individual to master. The world has too much richness, ...

The more I think about it, the weirder and less plausible it seems. Nevertheless, he offers enough to great fragments to deserve his status. I like to...

I appreciate the detailed response about Husserl, but the larger issue is whether the intersubjective life world is an constitutive accomplishment of ...

:up: I think we know the real answer. Ordinary life gives us competing human beings, but one can learn to see through the 'illusion' of personality, w...

Not to be contrary, but I think a more typical interpretation is like this: Hence, the title of Schopenhauer’s major work, The World as Will and Repre...

I'd personally describe my preferred version of direct realism in terms of the grasp of a lifeworld that cannot be broken into subject and object exce...

The idea that the brain imposes the forms of time and space is absurd, for the brain is understood in terms of time and space from the beginning. It d...

I like to put this in terms of people trying to take the scientific image as somehow behind lifeworld in which it exists as a mere part. An electron o...

Ah that must have been tough. An act of love indeed. I'm still with mine, though the first decade was one long Bukowski novel. We were too young reall...

I suspect it's because (for many) physics is still the prototype of the concept (in Lakoff's sense of something like a central semi-conscious associat...

Let me come at it another way. In our differentiated society, we expect people to develop in all sorts of ways. I'd say that our society is so complex...

I think so. 'Analogy is the core of cognition.' If one thinks of poetry as a mere literary genre, then I probably agree with you. But if it's the basi...

:up: I relate to all of this. The metaphor is something like (creative) expansion, exploration, invention. It reminds me of Rorty, who'd call it philo...

. This is at the very center indeed, and it's strangely somewhat ineffable. Feeling is first but it slips through conceptual nets. So one doesn't judg...

Pretty funny stuff: a mixture of sense and nonsense, like a terminator trying to pass as a fellow nerd until its target arrives.

We are like burning bags of water that use bones like internal stilts to get around to plop more wood (food) on ourselves. We make new little bags of ...

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The it's all in our heads idea has always been doomed, it seems to me. It's with our nervous systems, yes, but these nervous systems are themselves en...

FWIW, I agree that it's not rational or righteous. There's some brutal game theory involve, probably some thermodynamics. To oversimplify, whatever fo...

I think Schopenhauer is an unstable fusion. I never could take his metaphysics as a whole seriously. Also I'm refreshing my memory as I read, so I may...

I'm reading the Wallace bio. I think Schopenhauer recognizes two imperishables -- the demonic Will and something like Platonic forms. A strange fusion...

The other issue is whether philosophy is understood in terms of a quasi-scientific serious-objective metaphysics or as something like a self-critical ...

I think poetry (understood as metaphor, analogy) still organizes the use of numbers and logic. We could also include drama and epic inasmuch as the hi...

I like the sound of those scrolls. An entire culture sharing an epic like that is nice. They had a language of references in common. That's maybe beco...

I like this approach. The anti-Hegel movement can be read as an expression of egoism (an atomistic ideology of traditional liberalism) against the awa...

:up: Yes, helplessly affected. That's the meaning I tend. Ovemastered, washed away, swept up, drugged. Young love is like that, or it was for me. When...

I can relate to what you say. Nobby Brown compared lifedeath with undeath or immortality. The immortal is neither alive nor dead. It's frozen. While l...

:up: I agree, though maybe poetry already 'secretly' rules philosophy from the center. Forums like this suggest to me that there's a variety of fundam...

:up: I agree, but I think it's a soft, flexible dualism. Following Ryle maybe, I think the problem only begins when a flexible inner/outer distinction...

Pop culture is IMO way too visceral-mythic for any 'serious' intellectualizing. They don't care about Bertrand Russel's 'famous' beef with Hegel, neve...

. I think we both already touched on the main reason why. Even though I think philosophy is science in some high grand sense, it can't be denied that ...

I'm tempted to say yes, thinking of early AP, but there are people like Sellars and Brandom and Braver, to name just a few. Indeed. I've tended to fav...

Might add that it's hard if not impossible to think of the emergence of space and time, as if we were outside of space or before time. Someone can com...

:up: I'd say that philosophers want the truth about truth. But in that pursuit they have to question constantly whether they do or even can know what ...

:up: We aren't outside of it, and it isn't in us. Co-given, entangled.

Yes, only sometimes. But often!

Well said. I should probably clarify. When I talk about philosophy, I'm thinking of 'Shakespeare' -- something that ruthlessly transcends but also inc...

Some more Husserl from the lifeworld link: In whatever way we may be conscious of the world as universal horizon, as coherent universe of existing obj...