This was the exchange: Leontiskos: Someone who desires art will hold that what is more artistic is better than what is less artistic. Hypericin: A cri...
No worries, although I have lost the thread a little bit. You've switched from a comparison to an absolute. What I said did not imply that an artist m...
Right, and it also corresponds to 's essay about the way that modern technologies promote and exacerbate this tendency. I agree. Good, and we could ag...
Or when we're tired. :lol: Yes. I think the objection from @"Antony Nickles" is somewhat related to ad hoc reasoning. A critique or even assessment of...
Right, and I was thinking more in terms of breaking off a tangent from an existing thread, but it could also be used to survey interest in an altogeth...
Fair enough. :up: No worries. I actually thought you were trying to be polite. I suppose my point is that one can critique someone's judgment or even ...
I think this could be helpful. I would actually follow Aquinas to a conclusion slightly different from Arendt's. For Aquinas the evil of error is prim...
I would say woke has to do with systemic discrimination or systemic inequality, as seen in things like DEI. The woke person thinks there are societal ...
@"Antony Nickles" You want to take a step back to a meta-level, such as <Nathan Jacobs> describes. The problem is that I disagree with the step back y...
Okay, so it looks like you are doing something like this: 1. In the case of wokeness we are uncertain of how to proceed 2. In the case of the board hi...
@"Antony Nickles" It is incredibly common on TPF for people to give "random" scenarios such as the board, which then turn out to involve petitio princ...
So are you saying that you don't really know of a place where you provide reasons for why we ought to take a step back? Again, I don't know what your ...
I don't disagree that the conflict is bound up with that polarity. Let's revisit what you said here: So in Barron's "vertical structure" where justice...
The problem I see with those who promote cryptocurrencies is that they don't appreciate the subtlety of the issue. Their argument is usually grounded ...
By "singular way" I only meant that although art is an end in itself, nevertheless knowing this does not enable us to distinguish art from other thing...
I think AmadeusD is right. A board hires someone who will best contribute to their goals. The rest of your post is based on assumptions about the diff...
Maybe I just missed it. Can you point me to the post where you provide reasons for why we ought to take a step back? Yes, and this is largely why the ...
I will write the first post. This is meant to be an example for the Staging Area, but maybe we actually do want a new thread. Maybe we don't. Step 1. ...
Here are a bunch of related quotes that I want to gather together for this post: - Even before reading these posts I was tempted to make a new thread ...
If there is no gainsaying the Bishop on that point, then you are already committed to the same sort of hierarchy he is. My point is that the idea that...
I agree with (2), but I am not asking you what the best choice is. I am asking what you would do, and the implication is that you must be able to prov...
To say that something is heretical is to say that it is a kind of warping of a religious form, and that the warping has become internal to the religio...
Okay. :up: Well, I don't understand why you would find it necessary to discuss philosophical assumptions that lead us to form premature judgments if y...
Right. A zygote is a good example. Its development will literally generate (more) parts which contribute to the pre-existing whole. What occurs is dev...
I'm familiar enough with Adorno to know that he leans towards realism. But you've merely found an exception that proves the rule. And Barron does not ...
Petitio principii. Petitio principii. A single word can describe two unidentical things. For example, "apple" can describe the fruit I bought last wee...
Okay good, but perhaps I should clarify that by "principle" I do not merely mean a mental construct. For example, the law of the conservation of energ...
So you said: "Retribution" has to do with repayment or recompense, and in its original sense the repayment could be positive or negative. If positive,...
I don't think there is any thinking nearly as black and white as wokism. That's the lion's share of the problem with wokism. This is why there is so m...
An interesting observation. :up: These are astute observations. They remind me of "The meaning crisis" of Vervaeke and others. All of this makes good ...
- I am going to need to come back to this post of yours, but let me say just a few clarificatory points: I don't think anyone judges something without...
I just gave you a whole post arguing otherwise, and in response you've merely begged the question. Do you have any arguments for your position, or jus...
I think your basic position is, "You must understand the woke before you judge them." I would point out that understanding precedes judgment, and ther...
Isn't it the central question, even in your own posts? Look at what you said in this same post: To say that someone is skipping something is to imply ...
- - It seems that a fundamental disagreement here is over the question of whether humans are capable of bad ideas. The woke, as well as @"Antony Nickl...
Right. :up: The most acute woke vs. anti-woke discussion I have witnessed was the dialogue between Sam Harris and Ezra Klein mentioned <here>. Now the...
Continuing the point of my assessment of the sleeping metaphor, isn't it simply an equivocation to say that ignoring X and being asleep to X are the s...
Why do you say such things? Do you have an argument? Or rather, the reason 99.9% of people believe that there is mental causation is because there is ...
I don't really understand what you are asking. I'd say both are obviously true, and that 99.9% of all people accept both. To give two examples, the fi...
I think that's basically right. My point is not that Hume is correct in dismissing causality, but the Humean-like arguments apparently do suffice to s...
Sure, but do you generally repudiate people who are sleeping or who are unaware? Negligence and sleep can go together, but they generally do not. So i...
I finally got around to reading this. It was well-written and I enjoyed it. might like it insofar as it sheds light on the bottom-up nature of his "mo...
But why do you think that a relation between physical things is physical? Why do you think the speed of water molecules is a physical thing? Again, do...
@"NOS4A2" said that activism is not conversation. I think that's basically correct. Activism is focused on an outcome: Generally activism is not an at...
A more clumsy way to address this issue is to think about a cause in terms of a consequence relation. So in response to a question about the cause of ...
Thanks, this is very helpful. :up: I agree with your essay in large part. With that said, I think it is very natural for Christianity to navigate the ...
Cf: From the moment I heard about "woke" I thought about the way that Buddhists use the same metaphor of awakening. Yet with time the gulf between a B...
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