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You rang?
February 15, 2023 at 08:33
Before I answer, I guess I’m getting confused are you debating my interpretation or Schopenhauer himself?
February 12, 2023 at 13:11
I think my earlier post you were replying to it is best seen in conjunction with the last post. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/7802...
February 12, 2023 at 12:52
It’s a tangled knot for sure. Will is the animal desiring objects which are simply representational versions of Will trying to obtain goals that it ca...
February 12, 2023 at 06:19
Certainly, god has no place in Schops metaphysics. Will is blind striving. But is it? Let me examine… Schop posits Forms as immediate objects of the w...
February 10, 2023 at 16:04
It was basically introspection writ large.
February 10, 2023 at 04:47
Not sure why Schopenhauer would be considered off here for positing the subject-object. The object is intrinsically tied to a subject. The object qua ...
February 10, 2023 at 04:22
Depends what that really means. Does self-interest have to incorporate simply monetary gain? Keeping one's dignity can be in one's self-interest, perh...
February 08, 2023 at 22:01
It isn't defined because it is gotten at indirect means. He can only gather that it strives, and thus there needs to be a playground for striving to t...
February 07, 2023 at 05:41
The main question that is hard to answer with Schopenhauer, is how it is that there are objects when there is only Will. What is objectification of Wi...
February 07, 2023 at 05:21
This is obfuscating what's going on. The language is public, but the experience is private. If you are making some argument that subjectivity is only ...
February 07, 2023 at 04:00
Not sure what to think of Marxism, because it relies so heavily on the utopian dream being automated so we can pursue more meaningful things. But that...
February 06, 2023 at 16:21
It's the structure that makes us cattle. But it's a double-bind, as the structure creates the goods and services you so love (like electricity, plasti...
February 06, 2023 at 16:09
To expand on this, I think it's more definitive death blow was the growing Analytic Philosophy of Frege, Russell, and positivists. Throughly atomizing...
February 06, 2023 at 15:28
Will give longer response, but I like to think of Schop as a sort of Kantian Neo-Platonist. Will is the Unified One, but somehow it immediately has an...
February 06, 2023 at 14:30
:up: Agree with analysis. See my utopian workplace itinerary post above in response to BC.
February 06, 2023 at 14:08
https://youtu.be/I1e4qhHOIQA
February 06, 2023 at 01:58
:100: :fire:
February 06, 2023 at 01:57
Yes good analysis.
February 05, 2023 at 21:06
So I reframed the OP a bit further down not as a "today vs. yesterday". That's not really what I was getting at. Rather:
February 05, 2023 at 20:29
:wink:
February 05, 2023 at 19:56
Agreed. Not just ethics, but whole swaths of how we see value in things, life, and each other.
February 05, 2023 at 19:55
:vomit: Check please!
February 05, 2023 at 19:53
:100: :up: I think it's even more radical than that that has to happen. You are an old socialist, so maybe this might appeal to your sense of what cou...
February 05, 2023 at 19:49
To be fair, in many places, no education is taking place. But fair enough- in upper-middle class areas, this may be true enough about emphasis on tech...
February 05, 2023 at 17:46
About as inspiring as a manager giving an ice cream social. If the PWE was the start, no wonder we didn't get much better! Management takes the role o...
February 05, 2023 at 17:15
@"BC" @"Wayfarer" @"unenlightened" @"Agent Smith" @"L'éléphant" Let me reframe this. I really mean to get at, that in our daily lives, there seems to ...
February 05, 2023 at 15:25
:up:
February 05, 2023 at 15:17
Clearly, that was my interpretation, but I am kind of sympathetic to Schopenhauer's take which is that religion is simply a vessel for deeper truths. ...
February 05, 2023 at 04:29
:up:
February 05, 2023 at 04:21
Does practical = better? The way you phrase "fun way" "lazy", and "appalling track record".. Let me give you a scenario.. What if everyday everybody d...
February 05, 2023 at 03:40
Not how I'm defining it no. Early Modern, sure in certain contexts that phrase would be appropriate. I'll say, after the advent of the "second" indust...
February 05, 2023 at 03:36
Indeed he did. I'm not claiming that these are mutually exclusive, nor that a niche group of people think of speculative things. Nor is Spinoza modern...
February 04, 2023 at 21:10
I changed the OP. I think you're right and I don't want that to be the focus (then and now). Rather, simply that we focus on the minutia-mongering mor...
February 04, 2023 at 21:09
Thank you :pray:
February 03, 2023 at 11:24
Well, I’m not referring to determinism. I’m referring to literally how our scoop-economic cultural system is setup and how it is near impossible to wo...
January 26, 2023 at 17:29
I actually agree here about objectivity to an extent. I understand the mindset of self-help is to look within for coping better with the external rest...
January 26, 2023 at 16:10
@"Baden" The problem too is you probably had something specific happen and rightly, you don’t go into detail, thus any advice is also going to be larg...
January 26, 2023 at 15:57
Luckily my loaded question has no efficacy as to affecting someone’s life as compared to the reality of our social existence, oui?
January 26, 2023 at 15:46
What would be the ideal society and situation for you? Can you redefine the prison or do you just accept the conditions as it is what it is?
January 26, 2023 at 15:07
It’s not just consumer society, but any consumption of advanced technology and workers working for owners/boards with high powered tech and science, i...
January 26, 2023 at 13:50
The minute you are summoned by the people with power and money, that fantasy goes away. Agency is had by those that have the knowledge and power is ha...
January 26, 2023 at 13:40
Actually, it's more a simple solution and elegant. Don't create the burdens to overcome in the first place. Keep it simple. But I was discussing earli...
January 18, 2023 at 22:20
Oui monsieur.
January 18, 2023 at 20:06
Sort of, if you want to think of it that way.. I think our language in "consequential" versus "deontological" can be a bit tricky.. Clearly, "not lyin...
January 18, 2023 at 18:29
The deontological RULE is to not cause unnecessary suffering onto others.
January 18, 2023 at 18:00
It is a violation to cause unnecessary suffering onto someone. It would be using them, even for good intentions. Prior to birth, one can prevent unnec...
January 18, 2023 at 17:59
Yes, I've made the case.. See backlog of hundreds of posts relating to not forcing unnecessary suffering absolutely (as is the case prior to someone's...
January 18, 2023 at 17:56
Fine by me as my argument has been deontological for a long time.
January 18, 2023 at 17:56