Valentinus

A little peyote goes a long way....

I believe the discussion of time you are referring to in The Concept of Anxiety begins in the third chapter (section IV 355). It begins with: The rema...

Different philosophies have different psychologies. And vice-versa. Maybe the question won't sort out what you want it to.

I read this differently than you and Possibility. The need to exclaim virtues is neither an effort to replace the natural with conventional virtues no...

Sure, you have made yourself clear. That is why you have drawn the interest you have. Not too many people are calling out for a careful reading of Spi...

Take your time. I don't take your conclusions as the last word on what might happen if challenged.

Hmmn. T Clark opened this up with a specific alignment to being on board with scientific models as part of the good thing. If you got something to say...

Your reply missed an important observation by Willow of Darkness: "Whether it is caused by a conscious entity or a non-conscious entity, qualia is exp...

Good idea. I will try to respond to your observation. On the other hand, you don't seem interested in the "mystic versus science point of view that I ...

I am not interested in generating definitions for the "supernatural" If that is what the "religious" means for you, then my challenge to compare the s...

By talking so much about models, I wanted to propose that reference to the "mystical" is always connected to a view of what it is not. That "ordinary"...

I don't think there is a simple way to separate the philosophical from the religious when dealing with texts that would venture to address reality as ...

I like W.S. Merwin for this: The Hosts You asked what were the names of those two old people who lived under the big tree and gods in disguise visited...

It is a wooden toad. When one draws the rod seen on the left along the spiky spine, it makes a sound much like some toads do.

I understand the distinction you are drawing between magic and "real" mysticism. But the criteria is not as straightforward as the thought of separati...

I figure communicating with the dead should count as a mystical process. There are shamanistic practices from many different traditions that involve b...

I forgot to include the perennial use of Ad hominems.

Well the consistency does require a relationship to scientific peer review. I didn't mean to say that any given law had a direct relationship to a soc...

He is working a plurimum interrogationum while riding the merry-go-round of a circulus in probando. He may not be a bot but he is hermetically sealed.

One element that has not been mentioned as yet in this discussion of The Concept of Anxiety is how the "single individual" is the one who has to face ...

What about something like environmental law? It is always a reflection of an "assumed standard" or set of models that gets hashed out by scientific pe...

I have been thinking about your comment since you made it and wanted to give a better response than I did before. The way that Taoism became a religio...

Nadler's essay is interesting. I think he is on to something by realizing Spinoza is looking further than the propositions that deal specifically with...

In so far as Verse 17 concerns what a society does, it seems like it has to assume that different people have different roles. The farmer farms, the t...

That observation is an interesting dynamic involved with what might have changed a "working" arrangement to a less functional one. On the other hand, ...

Yes. I thought I already had done a lot of work but you, 108, and Willow of Darkness keep reminding me of aspects I had not considered. I keep having ...

You are the one who put actually reading Spinoza outside of your possible ranges of experience.

Is that a response to my response?

If that is the case, why involve Spinoza at all? You have built a room that you have said you can never enter. What relevance can anything that happen...

Nietzsche didn't oppose the ascetic ideal itself but said it is not sufficient for our life. Nor is it the only source of meaning. In the Genealogy of...

None of those translations say what you said:

I am looking at the text in Greek at the cited passage. It says nothing like what you quoted.

What text are you quoting from? Your translation does not correspond to any that I am familiar with.

Being merely a creature, I am not sure how to view these options you ascribe to "God." I don't understand how "total worthlessness" relates to the ide...

Yes. Otherwise the conversation is impossible. Someone has read the works is talking to someone who has not. It is like an amputated arm reaching out ...

It seems to me that Nietzsche did an excellent job of making fun of other people's attempts at revolutions of thought but applied none of that wisdom ...

It is unfair of me to say he attempted to explain everything. On the other hand, he certainly did try to explain a vast number of things. It is very i...

What is your native language?

If the interpretation I put forward earlier is correct, the "human mind" is the result of a condition that predates the appearance of humans. The evol...

Well, I am sure Constance is wondering about the Kraken released by the Original Post. It is difficult to frame matters as one sees them.

I don't understand how the "status" you report relates to comprehending what was proposed by Jung. You have dismissed him as a kook and are asking som...

I think you are right that he limits his perspective to a psychological level. Establishing what that boundary entails involves considering that Jung ...

The why is what I meant when I said: What Jung is rejecting is the function of a Credo where one says something like: "I believe God exists." The prob...

In the passages I was referring to, I read him to be saying that the ambiguity encountered is not a disavowal of instinct in relation to the interacti...

I think this may be looking at it through the wrong end of the telescope. What Jung is rejecting is the function of a Credo where one says something l...

Ortega y Gasset has a great rebuke which goes along the lines of "what it explains, you already knew, what it leaves out, is kept that way." I would l...

Have you read any history books or biographies that detail what he did and when he did it?

I am not disputing any claims about his condition. I am disputing the distance you place between him and the crimes he committed as reported in multip...

I was only asking where you got the information that Hitler was outside of the Holocaust or was simply the tool of others. The passage I quoted earlie...

So, your testimony is a first hand account?