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Am I alone?

August 14, 2018 at 09:03 71 comments Philosophy of Mind

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There is no USA. This is the default firmware of imbeciles.
October 27, 2018 at 17:45
Hannah Arendt spoke about 'God is Dead.' She did not propose it...
October 23, 2018 at 21:59
There is absolutely no real and eternal identity of ourselves. If so, what on earth is it? Consequently, because there would be no content of such a t...
October 23, 2018 at 21:57
"The death of philosophy" was also spoken about by Hannah Arendt in her book called Thinking. "And something is true of the end of philosophy and meta...
October 22, 2018 at 15:58
If we were to admit that the self, one's identity, personality, etc., were not dependent on the existential determinants of the world then we would re...
October 22, 2018 at 15:47
This is semantic.
October 14, 2018 at 22:26
it involves the statement as far as the statement is intentionalized. The statement is subsidiary to the meaning of the statement, which has little to...
October 14, 2018 at 22:17
if I look into another's eyes and understand that they exist, does this require language?
October 14, 2018 at 22:15
What, I think, means does not involve MERELY the statement itself, as if it has some sort of objectified meaning. It has meaning when it is read, when...
October 14, 2018 at 22:08
There are shortcomings in every philosophy, including utilitarianism. People prefer pleasure to pain. People prefer happiness than pleasure. I guess w...
October 14, 2018 at 21:12
An illusion of a unicorn can only exist if it did actually exist? What is an illusion? Illusion involves the will to there being something
October 13, 2018 at 21:54
Understanding is not found within the bracket of language. What a statement means involves not the statement but the sensations that are the metabolit...
October 13, 2018 at 21:24
In the case of rule utilitarianism, there is a fundamental calculus involved, even if the calculus does not necessarily exist to do what we wish it co...
October 13, 2018 at 21:03
the question of why pleasure or pain is good or bad is irrelevant. People prefer pleasure to pain. Pleasure is, in a sense, the escape from pain, the ...
October 13, 2018 at 20:49
John Mill has arguments against this, namely that the pleasure of mozart is a higher pleasure for someone who can appreciate music thoroughly than for...
October 13, 2018 at 20:36
the question seems to need clarification. Is this an act-utilitarian calculus, or a rule-utilitarian calculus?
October 13, 2018 at 20:27
Pain and pleasure cannot be quantified accurately.
October 13, 2018 at 20:26
There is no end all morality. Constantly it is a game of ethics to contain what could be accepted as morality. There will always be the inability of e...
October 13, 2018 at 20:24
thats an Oscar Wilde quote
October 12, 2018 at 22:32
but what we are is neither what we we think we are nor what anyone thinks we are.
October 12, 2018 at 04:46
Because I am what I am not, and am not what I am. I do not know myself but I know Others, which are Other because of their radical alterity of being, ...
October 12, 2018 at 04:45
I suppose I agree with everything you have said except The problem I have with this is the idea that the existence of anything , abstract or not, the ...
October 12, 2018 at 04:38
Why am I me? Because nobody else is.
October 11, 2018 at 11:06
How is the hallucination something nonexistent, especially when 'its' noema is existent? An eidetic reduction in place to determine the whether or not...
October 11, 2018 at 10:48
This reminds me of some things said by Freud in Totem and Taboo. He spoke of the taboo of the dead in this book. There are lots of taboos about the de...
October 11, 2018 at 08:06
I don't know if there is such a fine distinction as such. A hallucination, which is by no means limited to being visual or auditory, can be very meani...
October 11, 2018 at 07:23
Husserl would disagree with you. The intentional content of a hallucination or dream is absolutely indistinguishable in its being from the intentional...
October 10, 2018 at 09:43
It is a priori because, regardless of if the interpretation of the particular neurosis is determined by experience, the actual judgment of an existing...
October 10, 2018 at 09:33
Put honestly, I feel insulted.
October 10, 2018 at 09:22
I could use any example of a psychological trait.
October 09, 2018 at 09:51
Which is precisely the problem Nietzsche spoke about. The judgments psychology makes determines the individual and precedes all experience. How could ...
October 09, 2018 at 09:48
symptom + symptom = neurosis Symptom (divorced from its personal character) Neurosis (objective , impersonal representation) The individual is labeled...
October 09, 2018 at 09:42
how do you distinguish the being of numbers and napolean as nonexistent from the being of existing beings? What makes a being exist? There are types o...
October 09, 2018 at 09:26
Kierkegaard just felt utterly religious when I read one of his books. I havent gone deep into Kierkegaard. Can you explain Kierkegaard's conception of...
October 08, 2018 at 00:00
it seems to me that scientific knowledge is based on certain postulates and premises of which are supposed to be capable of giving one insight into th...
October 07, 2018 at 23:59
The narcissist is who assumes himself too much significance.
October 07, 2018 at 23:53
I thought a psychological knowledge would be the sort of knowledge of 'we free spirits.'
October 07, 2018 at 23:51
This quote is from ? "The return of the last man." Nietzsche, in terms of psychology, wanted its contents to be revolutionary, against the common, cen...
October 07, 2018 at 23:47
You avoided the question...
October 07, 2018 at 23:39
so thus you are arbitrarily speaking about nothing with any meaning, because you refuse to answer the question about the purpose of life, which is ess...
October 07, 2018 at 08:35
Chaos is precisely the mode of instability. Stasis moved to instability causing a reaction for that stability, albeit dealing with new factors. The in...
October 06, 2018 at 21:40
I have a ring of the ouroboros. Wonderful alchemical asset.
October 06, 2018 at 09:39
Powerful and important... This smartphone I am typing on? What will this mean in the end for me? What will this phone and these words and all of this ...
October 06, 2018 at 09:33
I don't think there is any over arching point of logic. I can only suppose that something about humans or human unconscious mechanisms can implant cer...
October 06, 2018 at 09:24
I have recently been led to conclude that knowledge will never be found but created. Objectivity is, too, not to be found, and too it is to be created...
October 06, 2018 at 09:19
Yes, the quote from William Blake is extraordinary, and also was the title of a well-known book...
October 06, 2018 at 09:14
So what is your belief about the purpose of existence?
October 06, 2018 at 09:14
Chaos was introduced causing it to seek equilibrium. But chaos was not yet to be.
October 06, 2018 at 09:09
No matter how hard one tries, human existence will never be forced to be logical.
October 06, 2018 at 06:02
Tell me something powerful and important logic has given humanity.
October 06, 2018 at 05:56