It is true that conspiracy theories are the sardines and hard tack of campaigns hell bent upon winning an "idea" vote for permission to do things. But...
Yes, what "paying attention" actually amounts to is the interesting thing. The modelling element either reveals something kept from view or it does no...
I see how Duns Scotus established a ground for those changes. The claim that a "natural knowledge" of God was not possible also framed the personal in...
Many experiences are repeated through habits. But they are not exact repetitions. The influence memories have is not independent from an idea about th...
What I most like about Lacan is that he is only interested in people who are interested in their condition. Like it was something that paying attentio...
My previous remark avoided your question. I think the quickest way to get up to speed is read all of Augustine and read Duns Scotus soon afterwards. A...
You might be interested in Plotinus. He developed a "Neo Platonist" system that is demonstrated in the Enneads. He was around late enough in the Roman...
I was thinking more along the lines of the separation of this world or ??? ?????? from the kingdom of heaven as depicted by St. Paul, or the differenc...
Well, I did not mean to present the idea of gifts as a product of "classes" getting their way. There are clearly people who are more organized than ot...
In one sense, finding out what is the truth is to pass and see what happens or not. However, if the truth is supposed to relate to our responses while...
Whatever experience one might one want to have there is this other thing.It does not care about you as a project of nurture. So, how does one frame th...
I don't see the matter as a difference between mind and body. The brain is a meat machine that is clearly involved with "generating" consciousness. Th...
This end is a personal condition. Something that will happen no matter what tricky moves I might make. So, on one level, it is odd to make it about th...
I think Maslow captured some of the spirit to make ourselves better. The Gay Science part of the story is important. When confronted with so many dour...
Competition happens within certain constraints. It is either a part of some plan that is made or not. Your model suggests it changes as a function of ...
Our gifts are closely connected to our deficits. That is reason enough to be skeptical of our understanding of what other people are going through. Wh...
Each of us is sharply delineated by what we struggled to get past. So, it is a real skill and nothing to look down upon. But there is no need to mytho...
Your question has many angles of view. Nietzsche introduced many ideas of process that are not necessarily dependent upon any system of the world he a...
If this moral imperative is accepted as necessary, there can only be two groups. One calls for the suicide of the species while the other does not. Th...
Agreement to a code can be forced or not. I understand that your argument is an appeal to voluntary acceptance of a condition or truth about a conditi...
What are morals and ethics outside of the circumstances you object to? My responses may be circular in the way you describe. But you are calling for t...
I understand your position to be that our form of life as humans should come to an end because it involves bringing suffering to sequential generation...
Is the choice necessarily a presumption? Much generation happens without a lot of consideration. Some happens with care and the responsibility to do w...
From one point of the view, the syllogism is not confirming an identity. The thinker is the one who thinks. Without that, you would not care if you ex...
My life has been good and bad. I am keenly aware that my child's existence is surrounded by all kinds of peril. I approached the choice with strong fe...
Well, the procreated tend to support their appearance upon the scene.I appreciate that I have had a shot at the deal. My child is a man now. I don't k...
Philosophy is as also about what is known well, maybe too well. Familiarity breeds contempt. We are easily bored. The individual points of view requir...
Nietzsche had a lot of chips on his shoulders. Jung did not draw the boundaries around himself the same way. They both saw themselves as bridges but a...
I haven't read your thread yet on Jung's shadow. I will check it out. In my remarks, I was considering your question: "is the idea of human nature sti...
One element in Jung's writings that I haven't seen observed enough is the primacy of personal experience. To hear an agent, you must give them agency....
We either have a good idea about what is going on or not. It is just like a novel that includes you but compares your point of view with a baseline of...
After being exposed to various ideas, some children start comparing them and asking questions themselves. Any curriculum developed by whoever is going...
I am not sure how the agency of a Creator relates to the list of what is permitted. Since you are asking similar questions, maybe you are not sure eit...
Saying: "you didn't have a chance" is interesting. Are all rules wrong or only some of them? It seems a simple enough question until one gets mixed up...
This suggests that Nietzsche was advocating for nihilism. Much of his work ventures to describe why it is happening rather than promote a proposition ...
So many of the people around me make decisions upon bases that presume a lot of things that are either wildly incorrect or is just annoyingly imprecis...
The words used in the question are interesting. The "it" is a worthless pronoun, aiming at something off the stage. The "is" suggests that what can be...
I am disturbed by my impending demise too. I agree we have some degrees of freedom to live with it or not. In saying we cannot comfort ourselves, I di...
Fear comes with the equipment. You are alive because of all the ways fear stopped you from from doing life ending stuff. Your ancestors honed this pac...
Maybe we are not in a good position to connect our experience of what is caused with the pursuit of a better life. Spinoza is posing some of the quest...
At the bottom of all this, there is the question of a shared reality. Most discussions of this kind are poleaxed on whether we only "share" what is so...
The notion that some agent is wrestling with you as you think is interesting and difficult to reflect upon. Socrates' saying "maybe I have gotten this...
Please cite where you read this in Plotinus. The Enneads refer to all kinds of arguments, much like Aquinas did in his writing. I am not sure which ar...
The fortunes of the empire that ruled Europe came to an end and was replaced by a succession of other systems. That the new emerging states or princip...
One way to look at it is that Death is the language of privilege through nobility and honor. The code of Bushido combines the acceptance of death with...
But we were talking about what you said first. You were wondering about how the language about race became a thing. Do you renounce that part or want ...
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