"Or maybe its that the space of wonder is guarded by artillery, so i want to get there but can't without going through a seemingly endless prepatory r...
I don't know, I don't think it has a "clear understanding" in any sense, not just of the view towards an "end-product". One speaks as much of "epistem...
Which is to state nothing but rhetorical static. Of course, I grant, e.g., Marcuse is worthy of study. Since he had some education worthy of the name....
"Can we overcome the pretense to only satisfy psychological needs and wants?" It's not patently cogent to say that sex is not psychological, if that's...
What assumption? I asked: "Why is the world totality not an "artificial role playing game"?" I asked: "What can artificial mean here, bad?" I asked: "...
Why is the world totality not an "artificial role playing game"? What can artificial mean here, bad? Something one doesn't or ought not like? Or, does...
Someone who is unable to see that taking away one set of myths, and setting up another is not a "resolving of hierarchies" is an idiot, not a genius. ...
OED gives: "A Traveller is not to imagine pleasure his object." 1665 It's a confused meaning, in connection to this subject matter, since what it says...
"But most humans are not philosophers, they resist it. That is why I asked why you see it s a duty for people to be philosophers." I'm with Socrates s...
"obsessive neurosis" What does this mean? That philosophizing is an aberration? Like pedophilia for the moderns, or the anti-communist hysteria of the...
" But why do you think of it as a duty?" It seems to follow as corollary of philosophy's status as the highest activity vouchsafed to human beings. Th...
For a reason quite alien to us. Because before the French Revolution except by small groups of "Free Thinkers" the notion of mocking the ruled was tho...
The word objective is ambiguous. It can mean "bright line rules", things most people in a given society understand such as speed limits, it can also m...
I believe this roughly corresponds to the current notion of natural Right, i.e., what is held essential by the current population. With the difficulty...
"a consensus" It's not wholly clear what consensus means. One speaks of "the tyranny of the majority" at some point. One must correspondingly consider...
However far you go, to be sure, some human would affirm it as good by the standard of their own certainty based on their psychology. One would be comp...
"Really. Who likes to be in constant pain? Tell me." Penitents, stylites, various yogies, peculiar people, Martin Luther who said: leiden leiden croix...
"It's true there is not a uniform agreement. At the same time however, there do seem some things which can be agreed upon, for instance being in const...
"I don't think anyone fails to pursue happiness or health" Yes, so far as we stick to the dictionary that is true, but when we ask what people mean by...
"good mental health then, even if he's otherwise healthy" That's good, if I may presume to congratulate you. It seems one can say Health is ambiguous,...
"How should I engage those? I don't get what you were expecting here." For instance, by asking, does it make sense that moral naturalism is rooted in ...
Boring. You simply evade an investigation by naming vacuous generalizations. It doesn't do us a protozoa of good to know someone is the support of thi...
I don't understand why "prosaic" means "poetry"? Your lack of acumen in language comprehension surprises me. It is, at least clear: the Anglo-Saxon to...
Well, health is the most common thing pointed to, as a thing good by nature. For instance, de facto (which is to say, though they are too thoughtless ...
“Only in respect of those aspects of reality which are amenable to quantitative measurement;” That's simply not the scientific conception of reality. ...
No. It's more simple. Math is not for the senses strictly speaking. I'm saying just as when I count one, two, three, cups in the cabinet, I don't do m...
“ But then modern science brackets out the subject and claims, therefore, to arrive at a 'view from nowhere', the universe 'as it really is' were nobo...
“Not so. We can talk about the unit triangle just like the unit one. The most individuated possible things are precisely those that are the most symme...
"But that is the mistake that leads to strong Platonism. So it would be the other deplorable fault that pervades this forum. " Sure, but for readers o...
“Afrikan Spir” It’s the Laws of Thought/”logic” in Aristotle's Metaphysics. Law of identity. Human reality as speach, i.e., the human essence. Because...
Certainly, congratulations, but I think it is, also, more perfectly general, almost a universal disease. I am prolix, due to some clarity, ergo, I try...
"The most coherent proponent of the view in the OP is Feyerabend, in whom I am well-pleased." Feyerabend is a terrible uneducated epigone. And not to ...
" But I do agree in the main with his analysis of the sort of intellectual wank that pretends values are relative." Is the pro-life vs. pro-choice an ...
Dear person who forgets that Mies van der Rohe’s design of Alois Riehl’s house in Neubabelsberg was simple, though, rather charming. Quite unlike your...
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