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Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty are all similar to the myth of Psyche and Eros (Eros' mother Venus is the wicked queen/evil stepmother/mal...

Normativity has to do with judgment: good and bad (or good and evil.) Convention is just the way things have been and are being done. If you act per c...

I think norms define the game. But do you think math is a game?

The latter.

Why? Are you presently studying English?

The word is used in various ways. If you object to a certain usage, I would advise an attempt at persuasion. Historically, emotional appeals are the m...

That was my thought as well. Thunder.

Teachers are often wrong.

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I agree the convention theory is a tidy package. I don't think it's explaining genuine normativity. It's denying it. Maybe it's in the realm of morali...

I think the advocate of genuine normativity would deny irony. His point is that normative language is ubiquitous.

That's true for stoplights but what about math? Should we agree that 2+2=4 because we're commanded to?

:) One attempt to escape genuine normativity is Quine's approach: what appears to be normative is really just convention-following. The counter argume...

The snake oil salesman is pushing a certain narrative. The Stoic says that snake oil can only succeed in the short term. Nature will eventually wreck ...

A thread on normativity would potentially be pretty interesting. Is it like truth: can't do without it, but can't discover any conceptual scaffolding ...

The Sumerian ruler of the cosmos was Enlil, god of wind and storms. Why is the wind god the supreme deity?

From Amazon's description of that book: " Invoking the biblical motif of Jacob's struggle with the Face of God (Genesis 32), Simon D. Podmore undertak...

I agree he meant that striving doesn't get one there..."power which is impotence" What document is your quote referencing?

Reference?

Uncle Toot Toot.

Anyone who spends much time contemplating union with the divine is a mystic. I'm not sure how anyone could interpret that as anti-mystical. We're some...

Yep. He was a mystic. My goodness... two posts attacking me. :D

Ok

Earworm: Pass the courvoisier

Lol. He was tried for heresy.

He believed that the Christ is a kind of agent. God is the ground of being. He's an example of how a person can be a Christian and also be what in Spi...

I love that movie. I've watched it about a bazillion times.

I wasn't educated by Jesuits, but I read Bernard McGinn's book about Eckhart. Eckhart did not believe that God is a person. But you're right.. sometim...

Did Eckhart believe in a personal god?

The more mystical Christians are, the less they tend to believe in a personal God. I tend to think of mystics of all types as having fundamentally sim...

He rejected the standard dogma about divinity. Do you agree that Kierkegaard leaned toward mysticism? Sorry.. you're right, I should have noted it. My...

I meant atheist in the way Spinoza was an atheist, but yes, he saw the Lutheran Church as dried out and rigid.

I'm like 99% convinced that Nietzsche's fundamental view of reality was very similar to Schopenhauer's. If that's true, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche were...

As the dude says, knowledge of what's true and real is always a product of uncovering, So perhaps it's both.

OK. But I didn't say or mean to suggest anything about mind or matter. I was asking if society is constructed or discovered. I think your position is ...

Interesting point. That is one of Kierkegaard's positions as well.

Not at all. If that was the beginning of a book, I'd be hooked.

I'm not really following you there, dude. Think about the concept of society. Is it a construction or just an abstraction? Something made or something...

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Scientists perform gene mutation to cure disease. What did they do with the fertilized embryos they made? Uh...

Too vague..

Then what norms are we paying attention to here?

So Un says construction is about things that are actively built as opposed to things that just sort of passively appeared due to erosion or continenta...

Then your role would be to simply discern the intention of the speaker. You wouldn't be asking for justification of use. BTW.. you are headed toward p...

Was the OP aiming at conceptual specificity? To just meditate on the meaning of construction? If so, then I agree with you. Common use would close doo...

It's sufficient to answer that with "That's how the word is commonly used." There can't be any argument that people aren't using words correctly. Comm...

Well are you proud of yourself?

seasonal affective disorder?

:) I hope things get better soon...

Yes. Tell me about the relationship between you and your father.