Maybe it is about having an encyclopedia or not, crystallizing works to make them comparable to each other. Like a butterfly collection but with thoug...
Good and Evil is a tough topic. I look at it more from the point of view of education. I started off very clueless and then all these events and peopl...
You have that quite wrong. If one is to accept the idea of instincts, it means there are these structures of behavior or possibilities of behavior tha...
Well said. Maybe this would be a good point to bring up how Marx saw society as structured by means of production and exchanges of value. Marx views t...
Are you suggesting an alternative arrangement? Would not any sort of change require political power? I don't understand the distinction you are making...
No, I did not assign a cause. All the thinkers who want to ascribe a special quality to "women" don't show much interest beyond their view of being ma...
The extreme polarization comes from not sharing a common source of information about what is happening. It is difficult to discuss causes when such la...
What is described to be "psychological" is always anchored by a philosophical and/or religious ground. For example, what it means in William James is ...
Work takes place in a place. Becoming inured to the conditions of that place is a test of whether one can operate in those conditions. Accepting those...
Damn little. The primary objective at the time seems to have been for the purpose of getting recognition as a player in "international security" and a...
In regards to the sunk cost, the purpose for the expense was to establish a political culture in the face of another that opposed that development. Af...
Having observed my wife give birth several decades ago sort of killed my toxic masculinity. We both have demanding jobs. Neither of us speaks for the ...
Science is not a report. It is a method for understanding the causes of what happens. The method does require being able to repeat experiments and rec...
The universe is pretty good at remembering where it was with everything when I stop paying attention for whatever reason. The car is parked where I la...
The "abandon language" option is not on the menu because of all the language invested in talking about the quality that is difficult to describe. The ...
To be precise, I argued that you had insulated yourself from new information, not that you were robotically incapable of doing so. I looked into Roman...
There is a quality Socrates exemplified while he bobbed and weaved with those who assigned malign motives to his process. He never answered in kind. T...
It can be successful toward gaining approval of others who view an argument negatively but can never establish the ground for an alternative view. I s...
The passage I quoted asserts the equivalence without qualification. If that was not his intention, he didn't make it clear in that place. Maybe this d...
Yes, the emptiness in this verse is tied to how it appears in the other verses. I hear what Possibility is saying about potential in contrast to what ...
You have fairly represented what Strauss is discussing in the passage. I question that "power" as conceived by Nietzsche is the equivalent of politica...
Those essays sound interesting. I will check them out. In his book, Natural Right and History, Strauss does a poor job of reading between the lines of...
I should make clear that I don't agree with him. But he is the one who said that bothering to oppose a point of view is a recognition of it. Maybe eve...
Strauss locates the "discovery of nature" as an accomplishment of Aristotle and the like. The issue of the "subject" is whether human nature exists or...
Maybe the charge is fair. But in what court of consideration will the matter be judged? Being accused of being both an historicist and a determinist a...
I have read the whole thread up to this point. One element that hasn't been pointed out yet is that Nietzsche does have a method for locating causes a...
Isn't the use of "true" here presuming what you ask to find? If knowledge is validated by something other than belief, how could it be the "objectific...
I believe you are referring to verse 5. I read the passage to say that the bellows are not exhausted in the way speech can be by continuing without en...
You brought up the idea that some of this activity of thinking was not important to being an active and effective agent in the life we are alive in. I...
The "philosophizing" is not something that has a result or value by itself. For my part, I am not sure at any point whether a particular expression of...
Good post. Seeking to be the one who acts is also keeping an eye out for who is doing that amongst the people you live amongst. Being visible expands ...
I do not dismiss the notion that Kierkegaard's experience provides a background for better understanding of what he writes about but it doesn't explai...
I think it is a misunderstanding of Kierkegaard's intention to read being 'present but not present' before a child's inward reserve to mean the same t...
I think there is a similarity but hallucinogenics are a kind of visa rather than a citizenship in one's existence. My encounter with them was long ago...
The need to call out and name virtues is related to wanting to continue receiving the benefit of what had been nurtured previously without need of nam...
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