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Some, such as Nietzsche, argue that the formative forces of art and the formative forces of philosophy are the same.

Your OP is entitled the "Nature of Art." It would be a mistake to presume only artists have meaningful things to say about the "Nature of Art."

Then you are correct, we have little to talk about.

I agree. Not all with an "artistic sensibility" are artists. And Nietzsche goes so far as to suggest that the primary formative forces that frame the ...

Your OP is entitled "The Nature of Art." Philosophy historically is very much concerned with the "nature of being." Reason alone suggests that the nat...

The lack of a "unified meaning" to fundamental terms over hundreds (thousands?) of years suggests that the terms may be beyond the ability of language...

and in the world of philosophy, putting it in jeopardy would likely cause a revival. The Kierkegaardians would be coming out of the woodwork.

philosophers would be the last group of people to ever agree to a unified language. So what would be the point of needing what you cannot have?

I am not certain I agree with that. The law and morality are not the same and whether "evil" is outlawed by the former does not sever it from the latt...

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This is well said. And to some degree, the same can be said when we begin talking about the X community or the Y community as if they shared the same ...

Well said.

I agree that Sartre was not an "anti-determinist" but he was also not a "determinist". And that can be seen with my comments considered as a whole. I ...

Great question. Existence is a "mode" of being (other modes of being are "present to hand" and/or "ready to hand."). And existence is the mode of bein...

Absolutely.

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What is this about? What is it that you mean by biological "determinism?" Certainly Sartre accepts that freedom as he conceives of it is circumscribed...

I would be surprised if Sartre would take a stand on the issue. His aim is to describe existence as it is rather than how it may be that it is as it i...

Resentment and Ressentiment are not the same. For Nietzsche, ressentiment is a reactionary generating of new values and a normative re-evaluating of e...

you are putting the cart before the horse. The greatest change in the history of the universe is the Big Bang. There would be no space/time without th...

yes I did.

Thank you. I already know that. And nothing I said is inconsistent with it.

Logic does have its limits. And sometimes those limits are determined by the way in which we choose to assemble the language. For example, one could j...

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I wish you nothing but the best.

I wish you nothing but the best.

But it does reveal the truth of you. I wish you nothing but the best.

No. I will not shut up. I wish you nothing but the best.

Agreed.

And consistent with his notions of technology as the cat that has been let out of the bag or the genie that has been let out of the bottle. Control is...

Philosophy strikes me as "fools gold" for both the theist and the atheist. And Heidegger's philosophy is no exception.

Fascinating. Faith in entities you know to be fallible and faith in entities you believe to be infallible. If these are different varieties of faith, ...

We have similar experiences. As a good non-atheist, I have had to deal with a range of apologists and many times had to run through the various well-w...

Interesting. Sometimes I think it is "fashionable" to diss on Dreyfus. When it came to American Heidegger scholars, there was a time when he was essen...

Philosophically, Heidegger had little to say regarding God or theism. He was born a Catholic and much of his higher education was financed by the Cath...

Thanks for the recommendation on Nietzsche. Though Heidegger is the philosopher I tend to read most, you may rest assured I have read far more Nietzsc...

Impressive: bullying, demeaning, and spewing ad hominem all in a single sentence. Again, this is the Philosophy Forum. Instead of providing a dictiona...

You are using your bullying, demeaning, and spewing of ad hominem in place of an argument in support of your claim that "semantics here does not matte...

You are nothing if not consistent (bullying, demeaning, spewing ad hominem). It is bad faith to an absurd degree to declare my point to be anything ot...

This is a philosophical forum. This matter began when I had the temerity to challenge your claim that "semantics here does not matter." How dare I! Bu...

As if Heidegger would know. :-)

Interesting. And the complexity of Heidegger's terminology notwithstanding, I agree. However and on some level, being ontologically distinct by actual...

Great stuff. I do not disagree with it. But we often do the opposite by fostering the innocents mistaken belief (and perhaps our own) that we know the...

I agree. Though I suspect "confidence" and "faith" are related, I would not consider them synonyms. Generally, one's confidence is more easily eroded ...

I would agree that "we" don't have a drive for wisdom. Or if we do, it is not equal in all people. Perhaps some are more naturally disposed toward wis...

Great post. If wisdom is something we desire, then do all desire it equally? Or maybe it is something only certain people desire. And when we say thin...

That is an interesting notion. Yet if we think about the way people use the words, I would expect someone's confidence to be more easily eroded than t...

Instead of proving the above by example, you could actually discuss the philosophical issues presented. Either way, your dictionary definition, your a...

I remind you that what you choose to hear as "blah, blah, blah" is my response to your criticisms that I had not done my "due diligence" and that perh...

it is an excellent quote and it took me a while to track it down. But it was worth it. I rely heavily upon Kauffman for my understanding of Nietzsche ...