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I'll just quote something that Meillassoux says about Deleuze in After Finitude, which might be of some relevance to the OP:

That's fair. I think that the most interesting part about Deleuze is what his ontology has to say about inorganic objects such as stones. But, then ag...

That's fair. I just wouldn't lump him in with materialists, and I say that as a materialist as well as fan of Harman's work.

Are those authors arguing that Object Oriented Philosophy is materialist? That would be a convoluted thing to argue, I suppose. Harman is explicit abo...

Perhaps. Could you elaborate further on this point? True. I'll look for one later today, and if I can't find any, I'll just make one up for the sake o...

Hi @"ToothyMaw", thank you very much for your contributions to this Thread, they are much appreciated. Perhaps, though I'm not sure if I would phrase ...

Not quite. Meillassoux explicitly says in After Finitude that Deleuze is neither a weak correlationist nor a strong correlationist, his philosophy is ...

Yes, he does, because a rigorous, technical author such Kant, who likes to coin specific philosophical terms, or otherwise re-conceptualize technical ...

But that source doesn't mention the categorical imperative even once.

For people that still don't know what the fuck we're even talking about in this Thread, here's an explanatory video of what Earth Crisis means (well, ...

I'll take his word over yours. "Chaotic ugliness" sounds like a fascinating concept.

There is not a single mention of the categorical imperative in Kant's On a Supposed Right to Tell Lies from Benevolent Motives. Don't take my word for...

Pfff. I bet none of you saw the movie Outback Vampires. And you have the nerve to call yourselves Australians.

Oh man, this Thread got really grim all of the sudden. It started out as talk about energy policy. But yeah, I obviously see your point, @"Tom Storm" ...

Yeah, that's not gonna happen. Everything has limits, including my appreciation for Australia's gifts to the world. John Farnham's music is not one of...

In that case, the best that I can recommend in Arendt's book, Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Because Eichmann himself tried ...

Careful, mate. You don't know what you're asking when you ask that sort of question. Remember, we have Eucalyptus here, but no Australian fauna, and n...

Well, since it's expertise that you want, I teach Kant's epistemology and ethics to my students at the Uni, though we never have enough time to go ove...

I am settled in my chair. I will not approach the floor any further. Why are you angry at me?

Nah. I disagree. As a non-Australian, I believe that Australians should continue to exploit themselves in cinema, if only to fulfill my questionable t...

I see.

I think that Crocodile Dundee created the stereotype, the one we're jokingly talking about, at least. Or at the very least, it reinforced it. I prefer...

I offered a good counter-argument to that critique. Why should you fallaciously appeal to the authority of a Kant expert in order to bypass or overrul...

Not quite. That's not exactly what the categorical imperative says that you have to do in that specific case. It's an easy mistake to make, though. Pr...

They co-authored a book together, called The Rise of Realism. It's a dialogue on several different topics. Perhaps you're already familiar with it. If...

Should they? The usual philosophical retort here is that we're running into Hume's is-ought problem. Here is where critics of veganism say that there ...

Manuel DeLanda has the best "post-Deleuzian" assembly theory, IMHO. He takes a few elements from Mario Bunge (specifically, his concept of causality)....

Thanks, @"ToothyMaw"! Here are my answers to the quiz: 1) No, people are under no Ethical obligation to convert to veganism. Why not? Because veganism...

This is a Thread about Australian politics, I don't think that anyone minds if someone sound like an alcoholic. (Hey, Craig Jones gets away with jokes...

The other option is to accept Pansychism. The general idea would be that everything has a mind. There are many different kinds of panpsychism (for exa...

So, inductive reasoning (if I understood you correctly) might be a case-by-case thing. Perhaps in the case of the Sun rising the next day we do indeed...

Technically they're mollusks, not fish, but it's an understandable mistake. People call them "shellfish" (literally meaning "fish with a shell"), but ...

Thanks for all of your help, Bob. See you around!

@"javi2541997" Let's conquer Australia and let's decide their politics for them. We'll play AC/DC so that they don't resist our conquest of their coun...

The way I read the categorical imperative (and I might be wrong here) is that it basically boils down to two common sense things: 1) Don't harm others...

But I have unjustified beliefs, about very ordinary things, and I'd argue that everyone does. For example, the classical problem of induction, that Hu...

Perhaps. @"Bob Ross" I've updated the OP (and the title of this Thread). You are welcomed to keep pondering these issues, just try to leave a bit your...

Right, what you're talking about there is something similar to identity politics, but that's not what I was talking about. What I was referring to is ...

Well, sometimes it should be a conversation terminator, I suppose. If you've already solved the problem of the OP, what more is there to talk about, i...

Ok. Lets converse then. I believe that you have offered a good solution to the question of the Platonistic (sic) existence of infinitesimals.

Because I said "sweet chicken" at the end? Who says that seriously? Then why are you hassling me, matey-mate?

It was a joke. You know that, right? Have you solved the problem of the OP? If yes, cool. If not, what are we arguing about, you and me? Clue me in, a...

Sounds like the classic "city vs country" type of thing. So Australia is a continent? I think the continent is Oceania, and Australia is one more coun...

Dude, if you're training with top-tier athletes like Jones and Reusing, you'll be a black belt before I get my purple belt. I'm seriously jealous :sad...

You're rolling with some of the best athletes in the world. And I'm just a blue belt :sad:

No way. Seriously? Jokes aside for a moment, I envy you now.

Wait, are you saying that not everyone in Australia is like Crocodile Dundee? I don't believe you. It's clear that you're lying to me. I'll raise a mi...

Sure. Some philosophers embrace irrationality. Kierkegaard, for example. He didn't claim to have rational knowledge of God. He seemed to have an irrat...

They need to read more Bush Poet stuff, like Banjo Paterson.

I'm just asking how you propose to solve the problem of multiple answers to the OP, that's all. Don't jump to conclusions or assume things about me, s...