Valentinus

Before anyone would have to make a judgment or decision about some one else's condition, there would have to be some period of time where they are per...

Thank you for the clarification. The aporia is what I was focused upon. I will need to mull over the role or momentum of institutions as an agent oppo...

You present an either/or I never thought of. When putting the matter as broadly as I did, I figured the observation was not evidence for any state of ...

Well, you have put your finger on the odd quality of Marx insisting that that all processes of the human enterprise are bound up with the material whi...

I see merit in all the perspectives offered in this thread. I don't know if it helps to make this observation but it is interesting to me how trying t...

It is interesting to compare the role of a human designer to something like a creator of all that we know as our universe. We are in an awkward positi...

You are right, of course, as the matter is expressed in the vernacular of "existentialists" who speak of matters that way. In addition, Kierkegaard wa...

The quote is not a metaphysical claim regarding essence. If you can't see how it challenges the premise of your OP, then I have gone as I can and will...

You mean like this: "

That is very close to St Anselm's expression of God being "greater than can be conceived." Interesting in the present context of what constitutes evid...

That is not a bad encyclopedic description as such paraphrasing goes but it is only concerned in placing SK on a map in relationship to other writers ...

Who are you quoting? As to agreeing to something, the only thing I have stated in this thread is that you are not saying anything remotely "Kierkegaar...

Are you suggesting that if SK lived in our time, he would have framed the limits of psychology differently than was done in The Concept of Anxiety? Yo...

The leap of faith, as presented by Kierkegaard, is not about confirming a proposition or reciting the Credo. It concerns taking one's existence as an ...

A word from the actual SK:

The Kierkegaard challenge is not about what can be said to exist or not. Whatever you are into, please associate it with somebody else.

How would having a proof help you or me? I am pretty sure of the proof claiming the diagonal of a rectangle is a certain value. I use it all the time ...

Your response is helpful to me. I don't mean to say that being virtuous means seeking out circumstances that will assuredly kill a person, especially ...

If you are not interested in dichotomy, why pull the beard of your imagined opponents? I like me some William James. One his virtues is that he tried ...

So, the matter of whether God exists or not is central to your focus. Whether what you put forward is a proof or not does not address the intent to di...

You scoffed at the sad state of atheists guttering in their confusion.

The use of Soren Kierkegaard as your avatar is, in a number of ways, at odds with the argument you give regarding the necessary existence of God. In h...

Sartre tied the vision of individual development to other dynamics than whatever leads to an individual. He also wanted to put a person in their time,...

As someone trying to navigate these problems in real time, the question is perfectly absurd. The different systems set up to help in this regard are n...

All these references to philosophers aside, the way I look at it is that the good person walks a tightrope. The need to vouchsafe personal (including ...

I am not sure "being a good man" is the intention of those who require that we be virtuous. Put another way, virtue hurts the person who would attempt...

Yours is an interesting approach. Aphorism is not like argument in that the expression of something problematic is not an argument for it. Kafka's Ref...

At a number of points of his enterprise, Wittgenstein made clear that his work did not get past ethics or reach it, if that is the better description....

This question confuses me from the point of view of having to choose from the limited menu offered. Creatures are not in a great place to start interr...

It occurs to me that my observations made above may not be read as an attempt to address the OP regarding the ideas of a self going through changes an...

The thing has an option for reversing colors. I found it by accident.

I just use the Windows "Magnifier" that came with the PC unit. It is not perfect but does okay for me. I haven't tried the others I see being marketed...

There are apps for that.

I think there is value in Vygotsky's approach to schizophrenia. He helped form many ways of thinking of the use of concepts as the "internalization" o...

This website has a large collection of Adler. He was also an important developer of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The man was a scholar worthy of much ...

I am not interested in "manners". I am not interested in following people, whatever that may mean. You have a particular animus in regards to Krishnam...

I am open to the idea of challenging the statement. But your reading of it is incredibly puerile. It is so far from the intent of the expression that ...

You have satisfied yourself. But none of your descriptions illuminate the matters under discussion. You refer to a set of presumably obvious factors t...

If it turns out that you have not captured the essence of what you have so much contempt for, what does the effort amount to? You have given yourself ...

Okay. But it will take me a bit of mulling. I only do quickly what requires no time.

There are a lot of expressions of the distance between a purported creator and resulting product that are presented as what we are living through. Mak...

Then claim something for yourself. Otherwise it is all about what others fail to do.

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I take your request to help connect elements seriously but I am concerned that it may not be helpful. We talked about this stuff many moons ago. I don...

Follow?

Yes, I see that.

Shouldn't you wait to uncork that particular vintage for someone who is actively promoting Krishnamurti's point of view rather than wasting it on some...

You equate the limits of self awareness with whether you are all that you perceive? That's nuts.

It seems you can catch glimpses of yourself being yourself. The confidence that those are your fingers and not someone else's. You use the language of...

You just made an observation about your activity as an observer.