Valentinus

On the contrary, your take of how German text sounds to a German reader is very helpful. It is the sort of information that is typically added in foot...

I agree that Parmenides, the Dialogue, is important to this discussion of what is an "absolute" and what not so absolute elements might have to do wit...

The book, beyond the Preface, builds on how other people take things away from us when they appear before us. The new thing being proposed is to live ...

Well, if you created humans and were not sure what would happen, then the purported Creator is in a spot of bother. Letting things happen without cont...

Another element in rejecting Romanticism is that one of the main goals of the book is to show how individual experience is interwoven with development...

The fragments can only be more interesting than a single plane of reflection if the pattern reflects something that happened to it. A structure of dec...

It may be helpful to consider the Lutheran tradition where the democracy of conscience is opposed by "explanations" to contain it. Hegel and Kierkegaa...

Your way of framing the question is interesting. If Wittgenstein is right that a certain use of language is misleading, how did that start? It is a ve...

Thanks. I have the printed Miller version and if I quote from it, I will type it in as such. This reading project is interesting.

Where do we get this criteria of what is "reasonable to say"? How is that approach better than others? I presume you will need to refer to this "other...

The way I read Wittgenstein is that both "solipsism" and "realism" are not about the world but both are evasions of the tortuous life of saying what t...

Is that remark purely about the link? Or do you object to using Miller's translation?

I take your point regarding distinctions made then and now. In the context of the Platonic discussion of how beings "participate" in the forms, Aristo...

That does make sense. I will have to mull upon it.

That works for me. But i have to confess that I never got the solipsism thing. In any of its iterations. I am probably the wrong person to ask. I simp...

I did not read that text that way. The "deceiver" does not cause the doubt but takes advantage of it. Doubt is the natural element of Reason. The idea...

In the matter of Aristotle saying " Actual knowledge is identical with its object" (431a1), the "potential" knowing is the absence of the object until...

De Anima, 431b20

What you said.

This reminds me of De Anima where Aristotle says: "In a way, the soul is all things."

The social contract forbidding one to act alone in retribution for grievous harm has always been the most difficult thing to accept. It is not a "mode...

Maybe I am a bad example. I do several kinds of work in the same time period. I have to manage stuff while also making things. That is very different ...

Drudgery is often in the eye of the beholder. As a tradesman, I have put up my share of drywall. I hate putting up drywall. But I have worked alongsid...

In reference to Kafka, I don't get how that is post modern. Or even "modern" as the expression goes. Sorry. Carry on.

I am not trying to pick a fight. The Finley view is interesting and I will try to check it out. My comments were not an argument against them but tryi...

Well, there is that part of Plato's Parmenides where the question was asked if "participation" of a particular being in a form was more like being cov...

I am not sure how to respond to the absence of individuality idea. It doesn't square with the depiction of all these different agendas of both mortals...

If the influence is not "just poetic", then the poetry is not just internal. Maybe one cannot truly mark where the "external" begins. So, in the matte...

I don't read the story as saying Athene is the source of the lust. Earlier in the tale, she gets Achilles to chill out. She is a manipulator who uses ...

He spoke, nor did the lord of men Agamemnon neglect him, but straightway commanded the clear-voiced heralds to summon by proclamation to battle the fl...

I am on board with cooperation not being outside of the "state of nature." As Rawls presents it, the "original" contract is not so much about that que...

I don't think Aristotle is saying that what is potential is not "happening." In De Anima, knowledge is described this way: Actual knowledge is identic...

Aristotle noted that matched pairs of qualities collapse into single things like unhappy couples at a wedding. Keats noted that truth is beauty. I thi...

I read the Stoics to be saying that anger diminishes autonomy. That is not the same as training oneself to not feel it. The problem with anger is that...

Well, what if one disagreed? Saying there is the line in the sand as you describe a "necessity" is presented as a limit to what is possible. There is ...

I am okay with hanging with the five year olds. From that point of view, it is difficult to tell if your comment is directed to Nussbaum or myself.

It does not clarify the picture to corral the idea of determinism to be merely the epiphenomenon of those interested in validating the cancellation of...

I don't know. All these aphorisms assume i own my life. If I was that uncertain about what it is for, I would not also assume I knew what was going on...

I am good at some things. Handy, if you will. As I get older, there is developing an odd inverse reciprocal relationship between what is easy for me a...

Taoist expressions of the limits of Confucian principles do not negate them as a matter of being wrong on the basis of what they claim be the case but...

As I continue to read the book, I think she is arguing for a third thing. Maybe a different way to conceive of the state of nature as a starting place...

To be precise, he did not say being alone meant doing nothing. Pascal promoted a severe form of personal discipline. In that key, the message would se...

Well, at the very least, do you accept that "people" are not accepting the role you describe because it sickens them? If there is nothing in the packa...

I am not sure you are saying that either. Your position is interesting in that your statements are consistent to themselves and the environment you de...

I don't know. You seem to be saying that all attempts to limit authority as a means to predetermine conditions for subsequent generations is a loser's...

I agree that there is an incredible quantity of inertia in regards to what binds our lives to the means of continuing to live in the way we do. On the...

I don't read Nussbaum's description of Rawls' starting point of "equal" parties to the deal to be a sham. The end of the State of Nature comes about e...

After the opening section on the State of Nature and halfway through the section: Three Unsolved Problems.

Frontiers of Justice, page 18 and thereabouts.

As Nussbaum presents it, the difference between the designers of the deal versus who the deal is made for is critical. So there is an element of repre...