I think there could be a case that they are all related through the idea of "care". Agape is caring about humanity or the divine. Philia is caring abo...
Yes, it is very much hearkening back to that. Here is the gist of it... It is placed in the camp of "Speculative Realism" which according to Wiki is: ...
Well you did catch on to my point, yes. It is the Schopenhauer schema. That is the human being has no choice but the suffering of their wants and desi...
Indeed, but my point was that we should not conflate eros with any one part of those 4 parts, otherwise it isn't love. Sexual adventure is just that, ...
I kind of like the idea of a 18th century Hume being more (the age of Enlightenment) cynical than the 20th century Ayer in regards to human "reason". ...
I agree on Kubrick. Would like to have seen that. Schopenhauer famously disliked and repudiated Hegel wherever he could. Here, there is a substantive ...
Indeed, and isn't that the debate you are having here in multiple thread?.. To what extent is one justified for military action. How many casualties a...
No I agree with you. That doesn't negate that it causes suffering nonetheless. I never said "thus we don't need eros". Rather, it is part of being ali...
:lol: Looking back, no you sufficiently addressed it. But I was trying to pry it from your going back to friendships and the like, which I thought mig...
No not at al. Not how I was breaking it down. Let me quote for you my theory of eros: And here: So with all that being said, eros implies that those 4...
Indeed, this is actually why I see Paul as a kind of "Gnostic-lite". If suffering begins at birth, and prior to birth control, sex led often times to ...
Quite true, theorizing is no way to love. However, I think it becomes more a self-fulfilling prophecy than anything really prohibitive. It is the roma...
Right, this would be the wishy-washy (from accusers I mean) "indirect realism". He mine well be a Kantian! Might be the (exaggerated) pearl clutching ...
Well, I think this is where we must parse distinctions- Storge is love of kin more-or-less: parent/child, pet/pet-owner, etc. Sometimes a "relationshi...
It's interesting because being a self-reflective, recursively thinking being, these feelings are much more amplified in humans than it seems any other...
Good stuff there, but I think something you may not have picked up was how 1-4 in my initial post laid out love. The way you are telling it, is indeed...
No no. Earlier I stated the difference between Schopenhauer's idea of compassion and romantic love, and what that means: So I was not just leaving it ...
I would propose this idea is even more acute in more established academic sciences (unlike "astrology"). For example, I would think human language sho...
@"Count Timothy von Icarus", no response? I thought this was a fun one :D. My main idea is that "love" (similar to Schopenhauer's view) is just anothe...
Well, I don't necessarily believe that, but I am just positing a hypothetical view for why this whole debate might be important in the debates surroun...
So from here sense-data are the immediate "impressions" upon the senses. I actually don't see how that's much different than Hume's "impressions" as t...
Cool. What do you mean by "translation" here? The spectrometer is spitting out data that signifies levels of known compounds. It would be trivially tr...
Does the project of "logical positivism" or "empiricism" in general rest solely on Ayer's idea of sense data? Can you explain why Ayer insists that se...
Indeed, it is the will-to-life perpetuating itself. That is romantic love at least. Perhaps something like agape is more akin to his idea of "compassi...
Yeah this didn't explain much as to how it "conflicts" with your limited experiences. But to that extent, even most reform Jews see Judaism as an ethn...
Yes, this is the theory I am (more-or-less) supporting, but not because it sounds good (which it does sound very reasonable), but because it has been ...
So I have two points. 1) The content of Tomasello's point which might inform Wang's approach (perhaps?) 2) A critique of the a priori Quine approach i...
Yeah, perhaps if General MacArthur got his way... Yes, for sure it's almost impossible to see where counterfactuals would have led with the web of cau...
Indeed. Bob Dylan and the Beatles are good places to start as to the shift in culture. Certainly, Dylan was already writing more sophisticated songs a...
"all 'Oliver Stone'" :lol: I think of the downfall of Douglas MacArthur in Korea here :grimace:. But yes, 50s seemed to be quiet coups and Mutually As...
Kuhn's theory about paradigm shifts and incommensurability is a meta theory about scientific revolutions. It is philosophy of science in that sense th...
Interesting yeah, this seems even more deterministic actually because there are enough background sameness to basically steer the trajectory a general...
Perhaps incommensurability :D. I'm writing on Davidson's theory on language, not on his theory about Kuhn, so I guess I meant to refer to that, or tho...
Could you elaborate a bit on that on what that means conceptually? Are we just talking the inability to unify GR math and QM math? Indeed, this seems ...
All of this is grounded in nada unless empirical when discussing real human language. If humans are animals, which I believe they are, then it should ...
:lol: It's funny cause with Trump, he brazenly says what he's going to do, does it, then knows that the ambiguities of the system will allow him to ge...
It was actually just that November 22nd was the anniversary of Kennedy's assassination and thought it was apropos. Always interested in history and it...
I do love me some Gore Vidal. A great writer. And yes, he may have been right. Indeed, I think there is something to the idea that it is hard to see t...
Yes, not everything can be so reducible. Yeah, probably giving Kennedy too much credit here, but his few years in office were supposed to be looked at...
He has an ingenious way of looking at things and focuses on the big picture of philosophy whilst touching on most of the other aspects and how it fits...
As you rightly should. Can you define searing here? Like having a searing critique? I’m not sure that’s a worldview, that’s the problem. Rather, it’s ...
Hey troll, read my whole post, and you'll see the irony of your trolling. (Hint: read the part about Epicurus in the post above the one you quoted). I...
None of this matters unless there is an empirical element. Studying child development, neurology, physiology, cognitive psychology, evolution, genetic...
By the way, you may get something from this here: And being a huge fan of Schopenhauer's estimation of things, regarding his metaphysics, I would say ...
That’s why I advocate not starting life. But also Schopenhauer, the great pessimist. What you speak of is the hedonic treadmill that the ascetic refra...
Indeed. Funny how the CIA keeps popping up. Not to stoke any conspiracies.. But this one is just pure cause and effect. Soon after its invention by sc...
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