Valentinus

The dialogue Parmenides doesn't exactly address that issue but does have Zeno instructing Socrates that approach through discourse to get closer to th...

I get that. One can hide incidents. I will too. But the effort is visible. The pretense of being free of what your children will suffer is the lie.

This is an interesting question. I need to check if I am taking part in some weird Russian parlor game where I will be humiliated by what I say. Oh, n...

To be precise, it was Judaism Nietzsche singled out as embracing slave morality; Christianity tagged along and turned it into polity. By approaching t...

Under those set of conditions, your question applies to your question along with any others. There is no separate place where humanity is explained ou...

That is good challenge. As a question of what can be asked, can the ideas of every philosopher be explained in terms they did not use? Is there a univ...

Well, both Nietzsche and Wittgenstein asked that their readers undertake some kind of labor to engage with them. I don't understand what either was tr...

One element that stands out vividly after reading across the works of Descartes is the confidence that his Method is more important than any particula...

Finding places of mutual interest does require a shared intellectual capacity to some degree. On the other hand, smart people bore other smart people ...

One example can be found in The Idiot. One could say all the outcomes of Prince Myshkin result from his responses to fear. He is unafraid of many kind...

I disagree from the point of view that original works give an audience to a passion that descriptions of the ideas never will. The net result of some ...

I don't think that the paradoxes of Parmenides was presented to prove that a certain condition existed but to marvel that an essential aspect of our e...

That element is what makes Dostoevsky so fascinating as an observer of feedback loops. We keep writing the narrative of our demise too well.

The first problem with your model is that it it compares the people who won't die with those who will. The dead people are not in a position to protes...

The virus is around and either infects people or not. Smart people try to slow that process down. Why? Because it kills people at an incredible rate. ...

Atmosphere is the shared matter of respiration. Most of what is breathed in comes right back out. There is the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide b...

That makes sense as a range of options one could select from. Pascal and Kierkegaard included that condition of skepticism into their rhetoric. They a...

May you be removed from the pile.

I think Paul would have agreed with that. In describing it as a struggle with others who did not agree with that dynamic, there is a political element...

The reason why you are having trouble locating those arguments is that "nihilism" is not a set of beliefs such as a Methodist might entertain. There a...

There is the matter of Paul being a witness. Whether he can "see" you and be present or not, he can still "hear" of the suffering that comes from stri...

Reading that call to be "physiological" is not presented as something that is given upon desiring it. The instinctual quality he desires is not a simp...

Being witnessed as the one who suffers is the point Paul is making here. The idea that steadfast faith will be recognized by someone (even more import...

I did not mean to impute any purpose or motive be assigned to you for asking the question. I don't understand what love is. I am on board with the dif...

a If it was a matter of something that could be explained like a purpose or a means to something, you wouldn't have to ask about it.

Pick a lane. Is it your issue or one we all have to pay attention to as the result of your results?

Don't withdraw from your enterprise because others say this or that. Keep going.

Pretty big list. The personal would be something you need to go forward, in any capacity.

I recommend looking for what interests you as a problem that concerns you personally. Put some skin in the game. That is what these people you are rea...

Absorb?

The whole thing is pretty darn enormous. For myself, I am not interested in making the different parts I have worked upon for my own purposes be drawn...

The question is too large for me to provide a proportional response so I will just make two observations. In De Anima, Aristotle related being alive t...

There are too many interpolations of statements of supposed facts and explorations of motivations to get started. I could be in Narnia for all I can t...

Religious people invented the Secular. After centuries of war, the idea that we could agree to disagree was developed. It was adopted in a grudging ma...

My responses have not conveyed my intentions very well. Please pardon my penchant for aphoristic observations. I will try a different approach. I am i...

The scene reminds me of passages from Zhuangzi where the experiences of skilled people are compared. But the message is too moralistic for that. Someo...

One is alive in a place where things are happening in real time. The singularity of that event can be modeled in various ways. There is much to be gai...

The 'inner world" is what happens only if we allow it to happen. Unlike operations that happen with other people, our personal experiences have no ave...

The receiver idea is interesting. I don't get how it displaces other ideas. It is not like we are given packages of possible thought. We just try to i...

Traditional Culture also has its cruelty. The fun time can't-we-just-all-get-along-vibe works to keep the peace while excluding others from that benef...

The joy and suffering that comes from the pursuit of achievement is not a zero sum game. It appears as a means to get better. But who is the tutor aft...

One way or the other, we are thinking while talking about this. I am having trouble understanding the exclusion you are proposing. Are you qualifying ...

The interest that prompts one to follow certain lines of thinking is an "ascribing" of a kind. It is not necessarily something adopted as some kind of...

That is a country mile from supporting race as an essential component of collective experience. But there is nothing in the Syndicalist point of view ...

There are Ethiopians who developed a different view but go on, quote something from these fine fellows.

I have read a lot of those text. What are you interested in talking about? It is your dime.

Not using other people as means is easier said than done. As a criterion of decision, one might have to require others to work at something to avoid t...

In the Discourse On Method, the enormity of the enterprise is noted where Descartes explained why he decided to publish many works posthumously: (Sixt...

From that point of view, it is the most unavoidable activity. I am the witness to myself that nobody else is. So, how does that work as a limit to any...

Descartes follows your reasoning up to the point of noticing being-able-to-think is given as evidence rather an explanation of any kind. It is a proof...