Yes. It is bound to be what we receive, all right. It is nothing to do with choice. But we can nevertheless choose to receive - or not - certain facts...
The connection is the verification of certain rules which must apply or not apply. If this verification were merely private, it would be empty. Rule m...
No we must all indeed follow the money ... but I need to think before responding further - certain issues are above my pay grade and your earlier ques...
One of my favorite authors is Philip K Dick. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the author introduces the idea of the "empathy box". The protagon...
The title of the thread is intended to be a humorous illustration of what the thread is about - trolling. In providing a title that turns out to have ...
I'm going to have to think about how to respond well to all of those questions but for now: The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social ...
I'm not sure I know yet what a "meaning crisis" is, but it seems to resonate with my weariness with post-Enlightenment culture, yes. It seems to me th...
Maybe it is like a feedback loop, to use a favorite concept from cognitive science. I.e. the environment shapes the behavior, the subsequent behavior ...
Yes, in recognizing that all speech is strategic, self-interested, and contextual, the bullshitter or troll unmasks the illusion that language could e...
It may be that we cannot finally determine the motivation for a speech act without the aid of psychology. For all we know Trump's X tweet may be a cry...
:up: For example, MacIntyre's critique of Enlightenment reason is quite different it seems (and he has a different solution), but it is nevertheless s...
I was happy to read your quote from Horkheimer because it turns out I find that I can actually understand it. :snicker: I have tried to read Adorno be...
Then allow me to short circuit that discussion - if everyone prefers, the portion of "Genesis" in my little initial dialog can be substituted as follo...
"Presume the consequence" - you mean, reach a result? Is that verboten? Or must all fusions be endless? An endless, amorphous openness with no determi...
You have made a bald assertion perhaps you are the one who should provide some evidence. Particularly in light of the fact that my OP was explicitly a...
Your positions are simply incorrect in the light of the history of hermeneutics after Truth and Method. A quick Google search reveals that several aut...
There has always been a tension between philosophy and Christianity: "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem"?, etc. For Aquinas, philosophy was the han...
More significantly, however, I think he would say that the "subjective-objective" distinction itself is a Cartesian model which has now run its course...
I think Gadamer would say: it's turtles (interpretations) all the way down. The question becomes then how does Gadamer preserve some objectivity? Some...
I am allergic to proselytism (I didn't much appreciate it when it was attempted upon me) but I will try to briefly respond in this way: Either the guy...
Well I don't want to proselytize but the classical way of answering that is that I did not choose that particular story, the story chose me. And as fa...
Hi Tom. I've just started reading this guy Caputo he has written a lot and I think I am going to love him. As far as I can tell so far his is definite...
By a happy coincidence I am currently reading In Search of Radical Theology: Expositions, Explorations, Exhortations by John D. Caputo. It is a re-tel...
Well thank you for throwing me such a nice bone from such a high table. I'm not sure reaching an "accommodation" is the point. After all, if both of u...
You speak as though understanding were an act of choice, but every understanding arises from your own historical horizon. You do not “choose” beliefs ...
Yes, I could. But if I did it would not be because of some isolated “choices,” but in terms of understanding, tradition, and belonging. We always begi...
"Ought" appears nowhere whatsoever in the list. Point it out. The list simply describes the way things are, not the way things "ought" to be. All huma...
We cannot decide between any traditions, we remain situated within our own. Diplomacy is always preferred at first, but if we are attacked first, then...
Well that's the first time I've encountered someone presenting a book including "spiritual" exercises in order to become more liberal. Anyway I'd poin...
Why do we have to choose just one? The idea of a state (at least an imperial one) is that it can contain and include many nations thriving within it. ...
Hey, I'll take the Vedas and Upanishads any day, for sure. I used to be quite a serious student of a Swami in the line of Sri Swami Dayananda Saraswat...
Your own, of course. By which I mean the one shaped by you, your family, your community, and your nation. Or, if you prefer, we could discuss the pros...
Re: naturalistic fallacy: The historical existence of a practice is evidence of its utility, not the source of a moral obligation in itself. Given hum...
Yes, in modern liberalism, the end is freedom itself, conceived negatively (freedom from constraint), not positively (freedom for the good). Without a...
Anyway If grounded in consent, deliberation, and procedural protections (as Rawls tries to do), universal moral principles are not authoritarian in pr...
I’d argue that consistency is not merely a matter of reason; it carries a moral weight. Without consistency, principles like fairness or justice becom...
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