ProtagoranSocratist

Well done, you know how to compliment your moderator friend, but are surprisingly sensitive when someone criticizes one of your posts...even once. Thi...

Pinker would utterly disagree with OP, since OP says that language is the vehicle for thought. Overall, I'm more on the side of Pinker with the lingui...

This is part of the reason why this is such a contentious issue. I personally have no issues respecting transgendered people, or simply accepting thei...

There seems to be, at least in english speaking countries, a big rift between the formal "proper" english and the various dialects. I personally would...

you're reading too far into both my comments: doesn't it seem rather self-evident that we are dealing with a broad term that will not be easily define...

No it was addressed towards everyone. I think it would be better, if one of you were to conclude that i'm beyond "getting it", to either leave or try ...

so in your way of thinking about it, i already answered your question. I must admit you do live up to your preference for the strong stuff.

I see that you do have your high ideas, and i don't wish to change them, but do you have a better alternative to explaining the bizarre death sentence...

This is an understandable criticism, yet i personally think a clear explanation of what metaphysics is not is needed in order to put the matter to res...

i never said there was anything wrong with it...

Because it's a philosophy term that does not refer to concrete objects.

because so far, nobody has been able to give a clear and distinct definition to the term: it still has multiple meanings, and overlap between the defi...

It's my opinion that the term "metaphysical" has to relate to what he was getting at in his book though...but that's just me, it will be interesting t...

it's true that Kant never had any interest in speaking against the underpinnings of ascetic reasoning like Nierzsche did, but the main takeaway i'm ge...

So far, i've seen all these definitions by Kant which do not have clear at all definitions: -noumena -the transcendental object -the thing in itself I...

Do you have any idea what "noumena" is? I've been reading this Kant quotes in my thread, and I'm having issues making sense of them...

Not really, it's more spiritual and ephemeral than that. Plato revised his government ideas in "Laws". The biggest issue with the ideas for government...

Yes it's a pretty interesting book overall, even if taken at face value is probably false.

To me, "spirituality" can be defined in a couple of different ways: more literally, it has to do with spirits, like the gods, the plant/animal spirits...

I think overall that the purpose of philosophy is entirely a matter of perspective and has multiple purposes. To me, they are both correct: if it wasn...

i thought i might bring this one back from the dead: earlier, while reading Dawn, Nietzsche said the purpose of philosophy was entertainment. In The R...

to be totally honest, a lot of Kant's terminology just seems like unintelligible jibberish to me since having read more of it in the discussion, but t...

No, The Republic is a lot more than that...it does have to do with the prevailing notions of justice from the time period, which Plato rejects as mob ...

The exchange with him is cut short kinda like that, and Socrates keeps talking with Glaucon about "justice", and at the end of that first or second bo...

not really a decision, just enjoyment of philosophy as a process overtime.

I agree mostly with your post, and the school logic really is like that, and false for many of the reasons you stated. These kinds of realizations are...

i get what you are saying, but to me "unintelligible object" is really quite an intriguing concept. Overall, I'm a very skeptical person that still ha...

But how much better can you really do than "superficial"? There's depths to a surface, and surface to a depth. I don't really know what to say about y...

that's not how it plays out in the united states, in the united states, most of the crimes are committed by people who already live here. However, it'...

this is something i actually think about a lot, and i haven't come to any absolute conclusions: i think borders, national identity, race, and gender a...

alright, put that way, i think i can explain what i mean: the immigration policies by Obama and Biden are also xenophobic, but the official campaign r...

yes, someone on the internet recommended Heidegger to me a while ago for ontology reflections with "Being and Time". I purchased it over 5 years ago a...

Okay so i see it's because you agree with his immigration policies, so i'll just leave it at that as i don't think we'll get anywhere if i try to argu...

i think you and Leon are missing the point, i was just demonstrating that Metaphysics influenced taxonomy without asking anyone to read the book, i ho...

actually, based on my research this isn't accurate. Earlier, i only said that aristotle presented an earlier version of classification for the natural...

are you making a primitivist argument, where historical development unlocked our capability for evil?

Human behavior is shaped by situations: for example, there are people who derive pleasure from killing, and kill for no other purpose than the pleasur...

Because philosophy primarily speaks of things in generalities as well, but ignore that comment, i was just thinking aloud Yep, that's aristotle's book...

it's like how in chemistry, the elements are the raw substances, that can't be broken down into anything else.

Nobody was really doing that though, they were just pointing out that his writing is where the term originated... I watched the entire hour and 14 min...

...it would seem you're right if very vague things can't really exist (which is usually how i navigate information in general), but what I've gotten s...

I've been reading "The Republic" over the past couple of weeks, and i don't regret it, because it's pretty rediculous. First of all, they talk about a...

I've scratched my head over this one a bit... So do you mean that Donald Trump is just saying/doing that anti-immigrant stuff to placate voters and gr...

that is excellent, i appreciate your help (i guess i should have tried to find older threads of a similar type before posting this, I suppose, even th...

they all matter though...even though cartoons today are now more than likely computer generated, it's still basically the same thing as the series of ...

So then how is this not a metaphysical discussion on metaphysics? I only asked because trying to remember the definition kept alluding me, but a full ...

So metaphysics is about investigating the properties of something?

So this discussion is a metaphysical discussion?

like i was saying about Descarte's dream theory in a different discussion, you can "know" that the world is not just a product of your imagination thr...

I was just trying to interject some harmless fun into the conversation.