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I very much appreciate your response. Have you ever looked into Harold Bloom's anxiety of influence ? For Bloom, the strong poet (the one that forces ...

Like I said, semantic problem. You can check out my 'the being of meaning' thread for more, if you are curious. I can talk the usual sloppy talk in or...

We say it does because it matters that our babies get milk and are kept warm. We also love puppies and squirrels.

Let me reiterate. DIRECT REALISM I see the apple and not an image of the apple. Now we can get clever and think about what this 'I' is supposed to be ...

It still very much is. Feelings / motives play a central role within the manifest image. Because he was enraged, he through the coffee pot into the wa...

No, I don't accept that. For me subjects are normative and discursive entities. They aren't in the brain waiting for sense-data. The subject is someth...

I don't think we know this, but most of us feel/think it in some sense. We nurture our young. Our doings are deeper than our rationalizations.

Interesting question. I'm not a physicist, but I think it'd be about drawing a thermodynamic boundary. So it's hard to call the universe an organism, ...

Even here we are mostly on the same page. The hard problem is interesting, but I think there's a semantic problem which gets taken for granted : peopl...

I get what you are trying to say and mostly agree. It's because we give a fuck that we have problems. Things tend to fall apart, but here we are, stra...

This autonomous self is the essence of the humanism and enlightenment. The self is identical, singular, possesses a voice unified by consistency norms...

We can also contemplate how conspicuous deviation offers a high potential payoff, balancing the risk. We can consider both the advantage for genes and...

:up: I think (?) this is deeply Hegelian. Time 'is' this endless emergence of new norms through which old norms are evaluated, challenged, and modifie...

:up: The self only is to the degree that it opposes the Anyone. Some member of the chorus has to step forward and become the doomed hero.

I like events eventing. It's like the world worlding. What you are saying is almost tautological, which doesn't mean it's not worth saying. We could a...

We can take an external view and look at patterns that stubbornly resist being erased. The pattern doesn't 'want' to die. It'll sacrifice instantiatio...

As I see it, there is a body which is trained into being something like a subject. The world is 'there' for this creature. That's how we tend to under...

It's just hard to speak for plants. From the outside we can think of their code trying to replicate, colliding with obstacles (rival plants, not enoug...

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:up: This is why these days I put writing at the center of education. Articulation is like bending steel. People tend to think they know from merely r...

Nice background. Thanks.

:up: Yes, a key chapter ! I happened to have just reread in the last week.

Sounds like Brandom talking about Hegel. So it's back to those pesky Germans.

I would say they are special section of the thought police, perhaps internal affairs.

Thanks for the kind words ! I picked up (probably from Kaufman's translation of the famous Hegel preface) that use/meaning shifts within the dialectic...

I continue to advertise the wonders of my normative crowbar. Try on the goggles of an abnormally normative approach. The philosopher need only ask : w...

Ah, so I got caught up on a tangent. Sorry 'bout that !

ways not works Why must it be a deflection ? If he said 'Being is God,' he'd just further confuse people who are already confused and eager to project...

Pretty sure it's this. If God is just the most glorious thing, the cause and the ground of all other things even, it or he is still not nearly as rad ...

My reaction is that poets and artists maybe pull the strings in the long run. Even anemic abstract ideologies are still just magical enough to motivat...

Sorry, I must be misunderstanding you. I'll try to retrace and see where I went wrong.

Here are some relevant strands from Dilthey das Man is presented as 'objective spirit.'] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dilthey/ The Kantian I-thi...

A little more: Yorck's primary category of historical life does not only challenge transcendental philosophy as too-narrow a foothold for philosophy. ...

Here's some info on Count Yorck which could be helpful. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/yorck/ Together with Dilthey, Yorck was the first philosoph...

The Concept of Time (tr. Ingo Farin) was written as something like commentary on the recently published (back then) Dilthey / Count York letters. Quot...

Perhaps the dead are still raised, but it's only 'internally' ? Metaphorically.

As if casting a spell will actually raise the dead ? Or make it rain ?

:up: It's cast forward into the future as result, organizing what logically precedes but chronologically follows it. I think we can look to how bots l...

:up: I must invoke Bordieu and maybe Berger though. Identity metaphors. Subtle sigils. Didactic art, concretely instilling the latest virtue. 'True' c...

:up: Sure. So now we bring in Hegel and talk about an unstable system of semantic norms (bag of memes) that always tumbles forward and yet upward as i...

The world, through us, comes to make its own nature or character more and more explicit. It comes to know itself. We are god's spies, god's eyes, god'...

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That's just not true. If you mean philosophy isn't theology, I'd say just go for it. As I see it, what I consider mischaracterizing philosophy weakens...

Here's some hopefully helpful Hegel: *** The proposition that the finite is ideal constitutes idealism. The idealism of philosophy consists in nothing...

:up: Yes ! These are enacted semantic norms, patterns in our doings (marking and barking and parking) --patterns that bots can 'internalize' (encode a...

:up: Yes, of course. I'm a bit of a rationalist myself in Brandom's updated sense. I claim that we are deeply and fundamentally normative and discursi...

Yes. I focus on this issue, this apparently addictive prejudice that isolated subjectivity makes sense. Hegel => Feuerbach => Heidegger / Wittgenstein

After all, the mathematical relations we apprehend in the physical world are neither forces nor physical things; they are purely conceptual. What is f...

Perhaps we agree here : I don't think we can 'really' peel apart us from not-us. This is (I think) Hegelian idealism. This is idealism as holism, a de...

OK. Well I'm not so averse to that. Our lifeworld is conceptually articulated. We and our semantic and perceptive norms are 'one' with it. We see the ...