I don't see it necessarily as an aspect of dualism, that was the point I was trying to make. Pre-socrates I think it was mostly a matter of a wider or...
Yes globalisation and offshoring would suggest one has to look at things at a global level, and not at the level of national economies. A lot of the m...
Maybe so, they certainly had a concept of the divine in general, and 'divine knowledge' for instance. But the Gods generally don't seem to have come f...
My perhaps ideosyncratic take is that a misunderstanding, or deformation, of the 'logos' by Plato, later taken over by Christianity, is the origin of ...
I would submit that neither works at this point. Reason was never all that great at the task at hand. And refining wisdom of the past doesn't work any...
Ooh you hear them talking about it, but almost exclusively in disparaging terms. Limits to growth is not to be taken seriously and actively fought aga...
Cyrus the great seems to have been the first in recorded history, maybe/probably it goes back further, as an answer to religious conflict as empires f...
Yes I think I can agree with that. I have come to see it also less in binary terms. And yes we are part of the world, which puts some structural deman...
It was reading some scholarly article this afternoon about Nietzsche and his views on the laws of Manu, and on laws in general, which one could see as...
Aah ok, but then I would just say this isn't about logic. That is, when people say they follow a tradition because that's what they did in the past th...
A logical argument perserves truth from the premisses to the conclusion... but the conclusion is only true if the premisses were true to begin with. A...
Ok that's a more nuanced position already. Let me present you two other possible problems with reason alone re-evaluating traditions. One, people are ...
Can you make the case that an appeal to reason yields better results than an appeal to tradition, not only on an individual level, but also on a socie...
I don't think there's much to say about it, other than stating the obvious that perpetual growth is indeed not possible. The only question then is whe...
Ok start here. Does illegitimacy even have meaning absent any legal order? Isn't legitimacy only a thing if there is already an established (legal) or...
Not theocracy, the Chinese are secular-ish... It's just the idea that those in power can rule, until they have shown to be unworthy of ruling. I'm pro...
The mandate of heaven. There's always going to be people and groups vying for power in some way or another. People in power will determine what the co...
The difference now is that it will be happening on a global scale and in the centre of the 'empire' that conceived of and constituted the global order...
But you do see it now that the system will have to change... the stars are aligned (population decline, climate change, geopolitical shifts etc). Poli...
It's the fertility rates that are dropping, all over the world and consistently over a long period now. Population will still increase for a while, be...
I agree with your conclusion. Landa's interpretation, not only of Nietzsche, but also of its cultural reception and effects, seems forced. If anything...
Do you believe in a kind of perennialism, the idea that a lot of these religions or wisdom traditions point to a similar thing, but just use different...
I can bring some wisdom skepticism to the table, not necessarily about its existence, but about its value. In wisdom traditions wisdom usually involve...
I can give you some of Nietzsches thoughts on it, he doesn't think there is simple or direct causal link from one conscious thought to another, but th...
Yes just blaming it all on reason is maybe a bit vague and not all that helpfull... I'll try to clarify what I meant. If I understand Nietzsche correc...
There's a lot I want to reply to in your post there, I'll see if I can tie it all together somewhat. The insanity or madness Nietzsche is often talkin...
You're not mistaken that he very much means what he says. With Spinoza Nietzsche considers this a physiological and psychological truth. Denying it le...
China doesn't hesitate to put oligarchs in jail, there the political still seems to control economic interests. Not sure what that means, but one coul...
The thing that is different now is the mobility of capital. Companies or not beholden anymore to some place or community, but can shop all over the wo...
It wasn't weird at the time, Christianity took from common tropes. Maybe it is now and that's part of the reason it doesn't work as well. I don't thin...
The Christian myth wasn't that different from other mystery cults and resurrections stories of that time. Resurrection was a common trope going around...
Your first reference at the end is a link to the stanford article about meta-ethical constructivism, but you don't actually talk about it in the essay...
Maybe Art, like so many things, is just a word only unified in naming and concept, but covering many diverging different things. Edit: Why would it be...
It does seem to have a lot of similarities with the ideal of wisdom put forward in the east, but also with for instance Heraclitus. What I think they ...
I guess it's about the basic assumptions a philosopher makes and the way they use langauge because of those assumptions. Certain ideas and ways of thi...
Yes I think as a atheïst I'm looking for a sort of non-religious theodicee, like the first philosophers, that is an 'arche' or way to envision the wor...
Maybe the sage doesn't consciously know why he acts. There are many things we 'know', but can't really explain why we act in a certain way, like say r...
Augustine views seems close to Peirces theory on semiotics. I could get on board with that I think. They are related to the world, but in an abstracte...
Wel words do usually signify something in the world, though not allways. Those words are abstractions from the world, and it's to some extend arbitrar...
Christian theology is a bit of a blind spot for me unfortunately, so I'm not sure I have something sensible to say about it. Zosima, and Alyosha, whic...
I'm guessing he means that one needs something to believe in, some passion for some end or another, to have people commit attrocities they normally wo...
Yes, they had a very similar diagnosis of society, i.e. that it was build on religious foundations, and that it would fall apart if you take that away...
Yeah, people seem confused about language and the process of abstraction. Knowledge is only possible through abstraction. That is trying to go beyond ...
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