Yes. So the something is slippery. We might talk of a vast blanket of interdependent concepts and practices. It seems to me that we largely 'are' this...
Yes, that sounds right. I don't want to pick on Kant too much, because for his time he was a great genius. According to Popper and others, Newton was ...
So far, it looks to me like both biological evolution (slow) and relatively deliberate moral/conceptual evolution (fast). But technological evolution ...
What you are perhaps ignoring here is that the putting of a perspective into question already assumes a situation that one can be more or less right a...
Roughly, I think the continental philosophers are brilliant but sometimes indulge themselves and go too far in their language. Perhaps the essence of ...
Great question. I suspect (as weird as it sounds) that Kant was saying that Newtonian physics is built in to the automatic human interpretation of oth...
I take this synthetic apriori as the generation of hypotheses from experience. But I'd say such knowledge is fallible. We may act on it without checki...
I understand why one would say this, but I'd counter that impressions and sounds and so on only make sense within a tacitly accepted framework on an a...
The world (for us) is experienced through or with or by the human body. This body is of course encompassed by the world it knows. The lifeworld is the...
I'm not sure we do have the power. A minority may have a certain self-image and the motivation to abstain, but I don't believe in free will. What's po...
To me the trickiest part is the evaluation of life. Life is good or life is bad -- this is like music. I like the idea of a gentle and effective suici...
I once thought of a sci-fi plot where the heroes set out to eliminate all sentience as an act of mercy, their assumption being that awareness was esse...
I agree with you. I mean that from a 'greedy' personal perspective it may be good to experience parenthood. Especially these days, with our technology...
Even here it's something that one argues for. One takes the arguing self and its voice as given and only then reasons, from that foundation, to a shar...
I tend to agree with Josh in spirit, but on this issue he may not give the world enough attention. We experience the red flower differently (in a seri...
The positive motive is something like : ...the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life... The nurturing instinct can be inc...
Just for context, I don't count myself as an antinatalist. I'm also not a pro-natalist. I'm nothin' -- I'm a stone-hearted analyst in this context, fa...
I was just trying to speak from within the indirect realist perspective. So none of this will be new to you. It'll just be us finding words in common....
Yes, I know the PLA and find it convincing, etc. Also, I lean toward direct realism. The private object is just the object of representationalism. May...
:up: I agree, though a few do have the obsessive disposition for inquiries into foundations. So there's a trickle of what I'd call genuine science tha...
There is just the ordinary worldly vase, at least at first, for then one can contemplate the vase-for-Alice as a private-internal object. Our public l...
Many parents just did/do what everyone does. This does contribute to the sense of what everybody does, but the explicit breeding ideology is more on t...
Yes. Socrate's being forced to drink the hemlock is not (only) something that happened but something that's happening and will continue to happen. But...
Right. He's a bit of an old school moralist on this issue. Personal responsibility ! A streak of the GOP in this famous lefty (which probably helps ma...
One of my concerns in this context is Moloch (game theoretical). It's the prisoner's dilemma, the tragedy of the commons, that sort of thing. Concrete...
To me this is almost stolen from Schopenhauer's discussion of the futility of suicide. My death doesn't change much, because I have seen through the i...
I think we are indeed the existential animal. I find us more determined than free. We 'know' this in our data analysis while at the same time holding ...
I can't speak for @"180 Proof", but perhaps you are overlooking a different perspective : The moral issue is secondary to the practical issue. We are ...
Thanks! Excellent. As you probably remember, I think antinatalism is fascinating. To me 'antithetical' philosophy is counterculture. Antinatalism is a...
Here's my attempt to simplify and clarify the anti-natalist argument. P1 : Human experience is bad, negative, undesirable. P2 : We should act to reduc...
To me it seems that philosophy is science is a high but not unpopular sense. Its loss of status seems to be an effect of our worship of technology. Mo...
Perhaps I can find middle ground between you and @"Joshs" --- though I do embrace the notion of the vase, worldly and social and objective. To me lang...
:up: I got Truth and Method on the way too. A bouquet of Gadamer quotes, before I vanish for awhile to get some work done in the real world. We cannot...
Thanks! Very helpful. Only the word 'consistency' hints at inferential linkage, but I'm guessing that part of the larger picture not focused on in thi...
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/ Grammar is hence situated within the regular activity with which language-games are interwoven: “… th...
To me it's looking like a key point is that we can refer to any kind of crazy entity (pink squares in the pineal gland, private pains), but concepts d...
I've only studied Spinoza a little (Durant's Story, Nadler's book), but I wonder if he also linked everything inferentially ? Did he not have a powerf...
These days, I say we put them in the world. Just as we use entities like good intentions and bad moods in the reasons we offer for our doings, so can ...
:up: The scientism bit is relevant though. I don't follow Kastrup in general, but he nails the eagerness to put the scientific image in the place of t...
Witt might also have meant that what we tend to think is hidden is really right there in our sayings and doings -- if we'll just try to see around all...
In other words, philosophy rationally tries to figure out wtf rationality actually is. We have a 'preontological' understanding. We never start nowher...
There's plenty to be discovered about our world, and inferential norms are themselves endless subject to revision. The center of 'my' rationalism is a...
I'll try to explain what caused the misunderstanding. If it helps, my OP is fairly 'dry' in spiritual terms. It's extremely open. It's not a sermon. I...
I'll try for you and anyone else to find other words. They key thing is that we are reasonable-inferential-discursive beings in a world together, the ...
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