It is open to read in my post (e.g. "Granted that some.. portrayals are unfair or misleading...") that here I'm not primarily concerned with the right...
That's Kant's distinction between appearance and thing, a thing without apperances. Only mystics or those in favour of the two-worlds-interpretation o...
Sure, what one thinks of exists beyond the thought, what one experiences exists beyond the experience; anything one points at exists beyond the finger...
I don't deny the validity of your conclusion, but it ain't sound. It is selective and misleading, because my statement, which is selectively used in y...
What quandry? Kant's thing in itself is not a real thing but a definition of a limit for possible knowledge: i.e. a thing stripped of every property, ...
Some responsibilities come with formal agreements, such as contracts of employment or marriage. Others arise from informal agreements, often for pract...
Porn is public, more now than ever before. Previous attempts to limit its presence are motivated by sex being considered taboo, not primarily by how w...
The seditious rhetoric published by some feminists or gender theorists seems based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of description or p...
A guaranteed income sufficient for shelter, food, and basic health care would be great. A modern civilized society should be able to afford it, like i...
I think you should question the insulted, not the ascetic. The ascetic has typically made a deliberate choice to live an ascetic life, and people live...
Like many other properties beauty is identified and re-identified in many different places. It has no location like an object, nor does it exist in th...
That's not certainty. That's a single-minded assertion no matter what. In other words, you don't care about whether God exists or not, for if you did,...
To discuss its possibility under the assumption that it would be impossible is circular nonsense. Moreover, utopia is a place, not a state of mind. Th...
Only under the false assumption that it would be impossible to find or construct a highly desirable place. I think utopia is both possible, and purpos...
In a secular society more people get to use their own will to power, which, I suppose, could make the secular society less stable as there might be mo...
Anagrammatic, or simply a mistake because the two words look alike :) I was also thinking about another word, 'sanctuary': it's longer than 'sacred' o...
Someone who views inequality as wrong might understand why it matters to him when too much inequality makes a society more violent and insecure compar...
It seems that there are at least two different senses in which the word 'scared' is used, and that there are at least two different answers to the que...
You can assign life any ""meaning"", but its true meanings are found, typically by living it. We assign words to the meanings we find, such as 'satisf...
That's a great movie. I suppose one could relate it to a contemporary situation in which soliders are immersed in hacking, living in more or less seal...
Some of those writers have arguably fueled a kind of anti-intellectualism in the humanities, where the study of canons or the truths of reasoned argum...
It ain't that simple, your report of pain is not the pain. And although pain is sufficient for awareness of pain, awareness of pain is not necessarily...
Sure, in some sense the pain is the object of its awareness. But the word 'awareness' is ambiguous here, for, as I tried to explain, there are two dif...
I don't think one's awareness could appear as an object in any experience. Being aware of having pain is not identical to having pain although in both...
Dualism? Putnam's argument for semantic externalism has little to do with dualism. Its conclusion is that the meanings of words (or thoughts) are caus...
What constitutes the response if not the internal condition? Perhaps I misunderstand, but I'd say anger is the internal condition expressed. It can be...
We can know this, for example, by investigating what's wrong with the question. Objective and subjective are categories used for how knowledge is acqu...
But the question was not whether being social has become too important but whether social acceptance has. There is environmental pressure on individua...
Unlike the world thoughts have the disjoint syntax of our language, they are easily detachable, and dependent on a network of things to think about et...
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