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It may be worthwhile to look at the Strauss objection to Nietzsche claiming that "historicism" cancelled the specifically "human" as a measure of thin...
May 18, 2020 at 00:19
The love part suggests a way to live as a lover. When you love someone, you make them stronger. You build them up. That is why all the Greek tradition...
May 16, 2020 at 01:52
I don't know about that book. I will check it out. I am rereading Ethics presently. I am influenced by the various interpretations I have read. They h...
May 15, 2020 at 22:49
reply="Statilius;412814"] Yes. But the examination of emotions and their relation to personal effectiveness needs to be included if one is to cite "in...
May 14, 2020 at 23:29
This would be a good point to jump in with your chapter and verse.
May 14, 2020 at 23:20
I am confused. You want to talk about stuff and also control the discussion by assuming stuff that people still argue about is what you say it is. I h...
May 14, 2020 at 22:54
Your response underlines how difficult it is to see the world through Spinoza's eyes. The notion that we have just two tools when the world is made up...
May 14, 2020 at 22:24
The soul refers to an agency of choices but also to what makes it possible to make them. The arguments about free will versus determinism are interest...
May 13, 2020 at 23:22
Yes. A set of conditions that makes ones life possible but are not "your" conditions if you accept the premises of the explanation. One has to give up...
May 13, 2020 at 22:52
That is a really interesting observation. The association of militias to an idea of being in a a location gets mixed up with misunderstandings of powe...
May 13, 2020 at 21:18
The whole shooting other people idea has not actually been a part of a set of rights as much as it has been a license to kill certain people. If I am ...
May 12, 2020 at 23:48
It is interesting how the results of the "enlightenment" are claimed by one school of thought or another. Perhaps you could start by saying what you t...
May 10, 2020 at 23:14
I am not following your logic. If everything that exists is the substance of God, the modes are not a subset of something existing under a different s...
May 10, 2020 at 01:55
Your questions go in many directions. I am just another fool on the internet. One way to think about it is how difficult it is to connect our experien...
May 09, 2020 at 21:41
reply="Shawn;411160"] You presented the idea that punishment is an elective on some level. It could be not selected. All the serious attempts to advan...
May 09, 2020 at 21:17
Is there a better gathering of people who feel like they do have a choice?
May 09, 2020 at 21:06
Is that theater completely separated from the options people have in dire circumstances?
May 09, 2020 at 21:04
If you wake up and cannot feed your family, that is life.
May 09, 2020 at 21:01
Who is this we? And what is wrong? And this desire to punish, is that the only reason it happens? Life punishes us. The choices we make come back to u...
May 09, 2020 at 20:59
Yes, other people. But who are these other people? It is fun to be on the winning team and imagine all the crappy stuff that happens to others. What d...
May 09, 2020 at 01:24
That is pretty much the song I sing to rise up each day. But all these other factors crop up. I do see the effective result of accepting the world upo...
May 09, 2020 at 01:05
We should not take our new experiences for granted. Nobody gave them to us. That is what many old farts were trying to say.
May 08, 2020 at 23:06
I am not sure what this brings to the party but if someone has an experience that does not fit into available narratives, then the discomfiture become...
May 08, 2020 at 22:27
Your question about happiness is interesting. I read Spinoza as speaking as a happy person. He certainly resisted the dour premises of many of his con...
May 07, 2020 at 20:20
The distance between the Tractatus and the Investigations is worth noting. Who else has gone so far from one point of view to another? And if the poin...
May 07, 2020 at 00:40
One element that is mentioned in most "mystical" narratives is that you are alone while learning the ropes. Or you are alone afterwards. Anyway, a lot...
May 05, 2020 at 22:13
I don't think the anticipation is bad. But, as you say, it is wrapped up in how we understand ourselves as humans. For myself, the matter of what is p...
May 04, 2020 at 22:18
My friend was saying that the: "fear comes from the fact, that I won't ever experience anything after I die" is an anticipation of the future. We anti...
May 04, 2020 at 22:01
I am also afraid. I have lost a number of dear friends in the last few years and it is weird how they still live inside me. Years ago, one of those fr...
May 04, 2020 at 20:56
This is not true. Most of the plays deal with guilt. Plato's Republic chooses culpability over freedom from it. You really have no idea what you are t...
May 03, 2020 at 01:42
That is intriguing. It makes me think of her description of the Boers starting to resemble their enemies after fighting for a while (in the Origins of...
May 02, 2020 at 21:03
Aristotle presented the process as a mirror of a kind. Whatever worked to allow you to perceive the world must be connected somehow to how those thing...
May 02, 2020 at 01:23
I have read a lot of Gnostic texts, including the Gospel of Thomas. I have a different view of it than yours. I am not sure how to go there from your ...
May 01, 2020 at 18:54
The toxic element I was referring to was the description of your experience when you said: "Many Christians have not only expressed hate for what I am...
May 01, 2020 at 17:13
I wasn't saying that you were subscribing to any intention. The point I wish to make, without regard to what I may think is/was the case, is that mixi...
May 01, 2020 at 00:41
Toxic is well represented by the long tradition of destroying communities because they did not belong to a larger one. So, all the terrible moves to r...
May 01, 2020 at 00:24
There is something toxic in what you observe. But it ultimately is not about what happens to you or me because we say stuff. The only thing is what is...
May 01, 2020 at 00:21
I am not sure history is something that can be discussed as a fact like what you and I are able to claim happened to us. I recommend not looking at it...
May 01, 2020 at 00:08
You are using various accounts of what happened against various accounts you question. Fine. But what will separate your preferred narrative from what...
April 30, 2020 at 23:57
I have read it. I have read a lot of the text you are referring to. So, whatever.
April 30, 2020 at 23:53
Before you get to something like considering whether something happened or not, there is all this work relating to accounts of what happened or not to...
April 30, 2020 at 23:47
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It seems you want to stand on both sides of a divide. Say that science is not something or another but also use its language to lodge your complaint a...
April 27, 2020 at 00:36
You have presented the question as a phenomenon (or phenomena, if you will) The burden is upon you to argue what such a result would entail.
April 26, 2020 at 23:43
One kind of disagreement is whether "Debate about the conclusion is then parlayed into debate about a premise or an inferential step." is bug or a fea...
April 21, 2020 at 19:38
The way time is treated in Kant is something a person is experiencing in the context of being a person experiencing things. Einstein is claiming that ...
April 20, 2020 at 22:36
One thing to wonder about is how much "freedom" is happening before the alarm clangs and we are all called to carry buckets of water. Most of us don't...
April 18, 2020 at 02:12
Evil can be defined or not by various means and for different purposes. Different ways to approach it as an experience are inextricably joined with wh...
April 15, 2020 at 22:29
Care to support that statement? It does not make sense of what I have read.
April 10, 2020 at 20:05
Ortega y Gasset took a dim view of Descartes and the German Ideology thing. I don't have the books with me any more (they were not returned after loan...
April 09, 2020 at 23:51
The civilian control of the DoD is exerted through the Secretary of the Defense along with the coordinating influence of the NSA.
April 09, 2020 at 17:21