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Chris Degnen

['Member']Joined: October 28, 2023 at 11:54Last active: January 20, 2025 at 12:01None discussions8 comments

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Actually nothing can be said of being, so that's fine isn't it? Nevertheless something gives rise to thought, and since it is prior it is without telo...
November 01, 2023 at 12:33
I think it has utility as an aspiration, as in calling thought into action when required and resting it when not required; calming the chattering monk...
November 01, 2023 at 11:29
I am sure that is not what I am driving at. I am distinguishing that telos pertains to rationalisation and consciousness, but one's being, or (unconsc...
October 31, 2023 at 15:48
I mistakenly foreshortened the quote; the subsequent paragraph hits it: ". . . If I were to think and will, this perception of mine would cease, and a...
October 31, 2023 at 14:41
I think it can be more direct than passive volition, e.g. Potthapada Sutta "with the complete transcending of the dimension of the infinitude of consc...
October 31, 2023 at 13:21
In Dennis Schulting's Kant, Non-Conceptual Content, p. 85, he write about Kant's gedankenlose Anschauung: intuition without thought: "From the immedia...
October 31, 2023 at 13:01
I'm seeing telos as instrumental purposeness and teleology as the examination of purposes and reasons. That is fine in a world of thought and things, ...
October 31, 2023 at 12:23
Re: "Thomas Nagel has some really good descriptions of the ways in which reality seems to have fundamentally teleological aspects. For me, this hinges...
October 31, 2023 at 11:18