I think I see what this aims at, basically at something nondual like pure being. But I see no reason to call it solitude, for that metaphor depends on...
For me it's hard to imagine intelligent life that hasn't imposed order on its perceptions. Life itself seems to be a kind of order that exploits its e...
FWIW, I think a similar projection is involved in the personal hero myth or the archetype of The Cause. In this case, sorting projection from actual h...
Reminds me of 'Love is a rose but you better not pluck it, it only grows when it's on the vine.' Deep idea there. I think it'd be very difficult to be...
I relate, but I also like to see this heroic identification with science from the outside, as part of the performance of that heroic role. Is it a for...
I think we agree that there are limits to mere thought. I'm trying to sketch what I see as what many spiritual life strategies have in common as 'caus...
To me the true position of the final Husserl is indeed of interest, but it is neither easily determined nor (most importantly) authoritative. I'm tryi...
It seems to me that the world is declared empty not because the world lacks things that are good but exactly because those good things are so fragile ...
:up: Excellent points. The meaning of 'there is' is elusive indeed. Maybe akin to 'why is there a here ?'. Almost lyrical. The God issue is a great on...
The bold part is where we agree. But some thinkers try to talk about a reality behind the lifeworld, as if our eyes and ears and concepts are in the w...
This reminds me of a couple of points that may be relevant. How could language mirror reality, at least if it's understood as words ? Words are a tiny...
Toying around with it is the transcendence of gallowshumor. That detachment from the mortal self is the 'demonic' Will glorying in its indestructibili...
Yes. Part of the humor and yet truth of it is Freud's avoidance of you-go-girl cheerleading. The goal is hilariously realistic. :up: I'd add though th...
:up: I love that quote. It makes sense to me right away. I've been studying Finnegans Wake, which tries to catch the ambiguous blurrygoround of lifeme...
I still like Schop, but I can't unsee the performative contradiction. I'm guessing part of him knew well enough that he was a fame-thirsty poet lookin...
To make this more concrete and personal, just think of a person trying to analyze their own motives. For instance, you might ask what role antinatalis...
I can totally relate to your 'layer' approach. I'm trained in math, and group theory (for instance) completely ignores everything about a group but it...
I completely agree. My pet generalization is the triangle inequality. One person claims authority over another in terms of being closer to a sacred ob...
To me it seems you are living with a cartoonish reduction of Nietzsche. No offense intended. I grant that Nietzsche contains that cartoon among so muc...
. :up: There's also the issue of metaphor itself. What exactly is a metaphor ? If human cognition is fundamentally metaphorical, it's an important que...
That sounds right. I think another way to say this is: substance and subject are hopelessly entangled. Institution, historical semantic sediment. The ...
:up: That's related to what I try to gesture at with 'lifeworld.' The 'given' is our everyday cultureworld. Philosophers pretend they can peel back th...
Rand strikes me as someone humorlessly identified with her persona. Her work is not going to teach the reader to see through her pose. Nietzsche, on t...
I thought Nietzsche was correct to see himself as descended from the ascetics that he criticized. His criticism is itself more of the same sublimated ...
Interesting that Marx liked to think of the communist utopia in terms of everyone being both a workman and an intellectual. Fish in the afternoon, lit...
:up: Another beautiful aphorism ! I take from Hegel the idea of philosophy as a graveleaping Conversation that accumulates the treasure of experience....
Good points and themes ! My own take on this, which I got from others, is that humans tend to find (or rather lose?) their identity in the group. If I...
I've also put on the goggles of seeing language as a complex system of grunts and squeaks and barks. I found it illuminating. I think you are right to...
Perhaps we should think of a big wet continuous blanket of interdependent concepts. Or we can think of the concept system as a restless goo. Popper fo...
Just for clarity, the number three was accidental. Jesus and Socrates are Jerusalem and Athens (two deep sources of our current culture.) Shakespeare ...
FWIW, I connect this to Sartre's Being and Nothingness. We are nothingness trying to find a name for itself that will finally stick. To name truth or ...
:up: Truth, reality, God's will... Would you agree that the politics involved includes the interpersonal ? Not just forums like this, but friendships,...
Perhaps the answer to this question doesn't exist already, as if waiting for us to find it. I'm tempted to speak of a frontier calling for creativity....
I don't think we need such a theory to accept those claims. If we had such a theory, I could then raise the issue of meaning. Must we have a final and...
I like that. I associate that insight with Hegel too, who seemed to think of the entire concept system as an organism. Vico too. Are you a fan of etym...
So as a general strategy for assimilation ? Ice-9, something that inspires a particular crystallization. That sounds good. I'd throw in a strong dose ...
:up: It's beautiful, really. We can't help trying to find what philosophy is, because it's like finding our truest human nature or something. But fort...
What I didn't get into was the necessary construction of the self from pieces of other selves. A person who reads philosophy (and literature) (and wat...
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