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So I'm not really convinced of this ironism. Don't get me wrong, I like irony in its employ to an end- the rationalization if you will, but trying to ...

Of course the parent is going to sentimentalize it. But that is one perspective. Where is the other? For example, this is just one reason, and it's no...

Yes, I think it was Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics that I was drawing from more-or-less. I may have specifically looked at this: http://janslaby....

Yeah, I'd have to read more into that. I definitely linked his broken tool concept with my own philosophy- it was not necessarily his spin on it. It w...

Yeah, I've read some of his ideas on this and wrote about it in the past. I've linked the concept of broken tool with boredom. When we are at the surf...

Right- Nietzsche, got it and I don't buy it. Life is not necessarily a sharp pain, but a grinding one, the structural kind. Sometimes it is punctuated...

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.” ? Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born But perhaps N...

More than one lifetime- one of many lives seems pretty horrifying. Maybe good timing for Halloween?

Nothing wrong with describing an interesting picture. It also had a reference to another thread I wrote: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/180...

Death. Non-existence. A coping mechanism is a way that humans deal with negative emotions, negative experiences, negative situations. How does one tur...

Yep seems to be along the same lines as I was saying. Perhaps self-denial means you can still walk the Earth telling others. However, in my personal o...

One way to solve this is that he somehow thinks that true compassion/empathy has an element of self-denial to it, to the point where one is actually n...

Well, I was not trying to question why activity is more important than studying books or vice versa. My point was why does activity matter in the firs...

Okay, I guess make exalted. Fill in word for making something more important than it should be.

Why do you reify the execution of any activity? This seems arbitrary.

Good point.

Are there any known philosophies that DO think that biological constituents must be in the picture along with the process and its organization (i.e. c...

I can agree with this assessment.

What I mean to say is that the accidents of nature are not determined by pre-determined Ideas that are substantiated in nature. If all is contingent, ...

Good point Michael Ossipoff!

I just think this is tenuous. There are thousands of small genetic changes that happen in evolutionary changes- is the essence of genetic or phenotypi...

I think this is a bit unfair being that you indeed seemed to be talking about life based on your last paragraph there, but if your topic is different ...

I don't think so, do other systems reproduce, metabolize, using the same unique set of tools (biological molecular parts)? Do other systems evolve in ...

I don't think so because you are forgetting the part about biological constituents with the unique evolutionary ways that the organism uses to solve p...

Again though, biological systems are a series of networks that are hierarchical. They are relational, and if some important components of the "nodes" ...

I think perhaps this is a mountain out of a molehill. While there are some processes that are abiotic mixed in with the biotic (like the networks with...

Either way, even if I'm willing to concede that it is based on a Kantian prior stage, it doesn't change my criticism of it. In fact, he might as well ...

Structural and contingent suffering are two reasons.

Well, I think there is an inherent contradiction in the ascetic where can somehow achieve Enlightenment (or perhaps die of suicide due to complete sta...

I have rarely seen much of this. A lot of relationships that look like that are how the person aligns with one's own well-being, projects, feelings. T...

This rings true. There are several things I can add as examples: 1) Does anyone ever truly "get" anyone or do we tolerate their presence with jovial l...

@"Agustino" I think you especially would get a lot out of Whitehead. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/ http://www.iep.utm.edu/whitehed/ ht...

It is a manifestation of willing in the subject/object relationship.. one step down from Will, that mysterious force in-itself.

Man, you would debate a wall if it got in your way. Can you ever incorporate the other's ideas rather than pure me vs. you dialectic? Doesn't this way...

If that's the case, skip Leibniz and go right to Whitehead's process philosophy.

I was responding to what you said earlier here: So I thought you were saying that we cannot know Will in-itself which I was trying to refute. Now, yes...

I didn't hear much or anything about will in there, but I can have another listen. Indeed, the world for us could be equated with what he said about d...

Good topic. I watched the video and liked it. Not that this was necessarily what he was getting at, but certainly if the we claimed that the truth of ...

There is a definite dichotomy here. It usually falls somewhere like this: Instrumentality vs. Net Positive Experiences or Subjective/objective Goods I...

This sounds kind of like something you went through and are projecting it here. But, even if that is not the case, my answer is that instrumentality a...

But then it is over and time moves forward. What is at the end of this? What brings you to this forum? Shouldn't you be blissed out on the highest hig...

Well put (Y) . Instrumentality is the always restless need for something that is not in the present.

Agreed. Hope is the motivator behind the goal. Sure, there are some tedious goals that probably have minimal hope involved. Perhaps we can zone out al...

I presume the only hope you condone is one with a capital "H", right? In other words, the hope of salvation, or the hope of following the Good as it r...

Perhaps, but those aren't the ones that motivate.

Nice little story. I guess he was truly the only person who lacked hope :-} and was an enlightened being that had no need for such humanly things !

I think we are saying the same thing. Hope becomes the idea that activities will dull the pessimistic aesthetic image to a narrow focus. You bring up ...

Do you hope to do that? :P

I sympathize with his idea that we must turn away from our own will and diminish its hold. However, I have always maintained skepticism of its possibi...

Reifying achievement through hard work. Just another example of yet another goal to hope for.