Valentinus

Whose report are you basing the idea that Hitler was not directly involved in the genocide from its inception to its execution? It contradicts everyth...

I mainly wanted to bring up the practice to emphasize how the arguments regarding scholarship complicate the direct reading of the text.

I will try to give an answer that connects with our discussion after some time. It a practice of meditation where the homework is difficult. I can't s...

Your description is a viable way to understand it. I certainly don't mean to say we could be an open book to ourselves such that we could start carvin...

I would like to add to my remarks above that the development of medical arts such as acupuncture from the same tradition involved empirical analysis t...

The Xiudao you have linked to is an excellent review of Daoist practices and how they developed. At the very least, it shows how extensively they have...

As a matter of philosophy, the text appeared amongst other views regarding "naming" and language. Contrasts between Mohist and Confucius are commonly ...

Taoist meditation is a method of "quieting the mind." I practice a form of it called Shen Gong. But it is difficult to trace the origins of its princi...

Does the following count as such a passage?:

Well, some people are not focused upon the cult that perpetrated the crime but the crime itself.

I am not sure how to place this observation along side of your comments saying response to the genocide of WW2 is too wrapped up in assigning blame.

What is the area of taboo? Characterizing people through stereotypes?

Then what is it then? It is supposed to be something independent from other categories but nobody seems able to say what they are.

I dunno. It seems, in part, to involve the Nietzschean idea of where the "Christian" form of ressentiment enters the conversation. That point of view ...

I disagree. The desire to understand it as an event is healthy and is much different than framing the matter as an outburst of inchoate rage. You want...

Except all the people who carried out the program. Who were those people? Why were there so many of them?

I see that connection as a kind of standing wave where it is difficult to make out if the observation is a limit to be observed as something applied t...

I have always thought that Billiards at Half Past Nine by Heinrich Böll is an important kind of witness of this. Eating from the host. Don't receive e...

I am not sure what not being satisfied with these conditions imply. When I can change my conditions for the better under these conditions, I try to do...

I am not sure if the references to different realms are being presented as conflicting reports of phenomena. It is acknowledged at the beginning that ...

Maybe he did not believe it. However that may be, he wasn't suggesting a pair of ruby slippers were a viable means of transportation.

What I tried to say is that we will never experience the Tao that created heaven and earth. Lao Tzu claims that whatever that might be is the same Tao...

The Golden Age seems to be a reference in all the classical literature. There also seems to be striking differences of opinion about how to go about m...

This element is what attracts me to Spinoza. Instead of introducing "God" as something that hurts our brains to even bring up, it is the first thing y...

I think there is something worthy in framing the "solution" as a history of relation to the Tao, even if people disagree about what relationships are ...

I think your map differs from Lao Tzu's in that you are locating the "ineffable" as an ingredient in the experience of living amongst the ten thousand...

I don't share your confidence in finding a unifying viewpoint amongst these different thinkers regarding the experience of consciousness. For what it'...

What I found most interesting in The Transcendence of the Ego by Sartre is the argument that Kant meant the "ego" could be assigned to any action at a...

This verse is a watershed of different views. Are the things being named as awkwardly related to each other as the problem of talking about them? Or i...

For myself, it is the problem of Jude the Obscure. Too well read to be accepted by my fellow workers; Under qualified to be taken seriously by academi...

Your are correct that those analyses do involve the power of social institutions. I brought them up more in the interest of introducing personal devel...

I don't know how to see the matter through the text as it been given but favor and disgrace are existential.

I don't have a view that solves differences. But the difference between Lacan and Foucault strikes me as a sharp disagreement about what is happening....

Many of the thinkers you have been referring to have presented themselves as resisting an error of one kind or another. Along with the version that is...

So, something you claimed earlier as a point of common knowledge is supposed to be a point of reference to a body of work you have no familiarity with...

What text are you referring to in both cases?

"Kierk" went to Berlin specifically to read Hegel along with other people. The notes to Kierkegaard's books include detailed references to his objecti...

I don't get how you could assert such a claim with only having a passing familiarity with what Kierkegaard actually said.

It sounds like you are mainly interested in finding echoes of what you already have concluded.

I understand how the language is an "artifice" But judging the merits of what is said through it is paradoxical itself. It is not like we have another...

What have you read of Kierkegaard?

What the "ego" may seen to be in these different psychologies that you refer to is not self explanatory from my point of view. Noting the limits in ea...

All creation stories seem to involve recognition of the "boundary" between the "named and unnamed." How they serve as a mirror can be very different. ...

Thanks for linking to that memorial. The man certainly crossed many rivers. Interesting web site, too. I will check it out.

The repeated acts of giving birth and the new being "returning to assist" is like knitting or weaving a fabric that permits the multiplicity of the my...

I had a similar set of experiences where I found out i was good at some things without it seeming to have any relation to what i had experienced befor...

One of the qualities Kierkegaard exhibited in The Concept of Anxiety is that the "self" who loves or not is always represented as a result of a proces...

I am always up for a good koan. The map and the territory are always difficult to line up. All these different interpretations of the verse suggests t...

I feel the same. The ball gets more slippery the more I handle it. However one frames the fear, it seems like the verse goes from not being overwhelme...

I agree. You can't complain about the rent. You move in and learn how to do some things for yourself.