Valentinus

One could approach the question from a negative side. The different ways to understand truth as hidden collide with each other. Put this way, our igno...

Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar Various bits by Judith Shklar, particularly the Liberalism of Fear. Works of Love, Soren Kierkegaard. I didn'...

Nietzsche did not identify the role of the state as you have. Duty to a system of order is separated from individual conscience. The psychology of the...

I am not sure about what you are pointing to in regards to the politics of the reader. The observation I made does draw from other Marx writings than ...

In Marx's Critique of Hegel's Dialectic and General Philosophy (1844), the matter of being alienated by the objective world is examined side by side w...

When reading the passages of Marx where he is describing a good life for a person, it reminds me a lot of what getting to have a bourgeoisie lifestyle...

The emphasis upon what happens to an individual soul became equivalent to the idea of property as used in various forms of common law and various theo...

The remarks the Professor makes regarding discipline and order of training in Epictetus are well done. I wonder how he looks at Marcus Aurelius citing...

One thing to note about universals expressed within the Plato writings; There are many different views about what participating in the expression of a...

I recognize that you are working toward some idea of creativity that provides things and services people want because people understand they are good ...

You had said that the fetish element was a result of commodities being assigned an exchange value or a price. I don't understand how to see that remar...

I accept that others may read those texts differently, and that perhaps I am missing something essential, but I see the existence of grief, anger, and...

Grief is a feeling and an act. I don't look at the teaching as a betrayal of my feeling. But I understand how it can be taken that way. These are deep...

But I was challenging your use of a future tense of this "species". How would one separate the criticism he has for species and "types" of all kinds f...

Perhaps you could provide an example of what you militate against. A lot of bad things happen to most people, including their impending demise. For my...

I agree that the use of universals in the mode of seeing creation as "intelligible" existences having relationships with each other is far enough away...

Where, in Nietzsche, do you read that going "beyond Man" is the creation of a new species? He speaks of new philosophers. He expresses contempt for hu...

The fetish is not the result of a monetary value being attached to material resources. Perhaps it is time in this discussion to refer directly to what...

That is a good question. My impression is that Plato was not invested in giving a clear answer. All the different discussions of perception and what d...

I disagree with the critique because it simply misrepresents what those philosophers said. So, in that regard, it has little merit. As a starting poin...

Well, your original OP challenged the reader with the idea that "Greek" thinkers (many of whom disagreed with each other strongly) did not understand ...

What is a body?

When you get to Aristotle's On the Soul, you will note that each kind of sensation that leads to perception is related to a particular exchange. Touch...

This is not correct. Read Plato's Parmenides and then read Aristotle's On the Soul. The recognition that different parts were listening to their own d...

This is a good question. It does, however, get entangled with the general conditions that Marx saw the formation of individual aesthetics. The problem...

Yes, it is seems absurd to argue that my existence is separated from whatever situation that my parents underwent to "have" me. But that is how it fee...

One way to look at the subject is to consider the difficulties of being a civic servant within any of environments proposed. What a job to have.

Fair enough. One way to put it is how Hegel tried to frame how "people" were caught up in some kind of design regarding roles in a process. The proble...

My philosophy is only a set of concerns I am pretty sure I should be having. There is an arbitrary quality to philosophical problems. If a person does...

If the reason to remove the topic is because not enough people can form a consensus as to what it is, doesn't that same limit restrict the formulation...

I am heartened to see the third one mentioned, the Critique of Judgement brought into view. The matter of what is peculiarly "continental" seems deepl...

I take your point regarding what is being argued versus my reaction to it. I don't own my progeny. My parents tried to make me be a certain way but I ...

You may have it precisely wrong. The decisions both of those traditions (which are not each "one" set of traditions in either case) put so much emphas...

I will start by admitting I have trouble perceiving the "anti-natalism" argument as a thing. I understand zero population growth strategies as a means...

I suggested starting with a particular book in light of the OP reaction to reading another. I am not suggesting that random selection of order is wort...

I get the Kantian point of view of seeing the world as a construction of some agency. The difference of perspective you advocate for is not just about...

Exclusivity is a lot to ask for. Zhuangzi talked about different ways to refer to nothing. The distinctions made there are not arguments for what is o...

I don't mean to disparage any of his works. Suggesting one order of reading over another won't matter after you have read them all.

I would suggest not looking at whatever happened for you or not in the education world as a measure of your situation. That is not to say it does not ...

Well said.

One way to think about it is to compare Marx with Veblen. Veblen emphasized how people bought stuff to fit in with the winning crowd. That is not a ha...

I recommend starting with The Genealogy of Morals. The book is contiguous with all his other works but gives the reader a chance to see the argument a...

In regards to the discussion of the fetishism of commodities, it seems pretty clear from Marx that he was chastising identification of personal fulfil...

If one is going to have a solipsism, it only seems right that only one person exist at the end of the process. A category or principle or idea of the ...

Theologically speaking, the role of the creator as being imminent or transcendent has been mostly dealt with as differences of opinion to how closely ...

The narrative setting up the crappy things that happen to Job is not a theology so much as an exploration of how persons are tested by situations that...

I am keenly interested in the psychological register, both in the ways it fits in with some philosophical points of view while being rejected altogeth...

Good observations regarding the points of view separating Freud and Jung. Perhaps it would not be remiss to note that what they agreed upon is how "un...

It is confusing to set that comment against another one you made: "But is all such belief pathological? Is some - any - of it a good or in the service...

Perhaps you could aim your criticism to a specific claim or set of claims. In the Protestant traditions, for example, this issue has come up many time...