Valentinus

If morality is a product of evolution, then what the human is in the order of existing things becomes a puzzle. But the puzzle is not like describing ...

I have started the book and it is interesting to me how much emphasis is put upon distinguishing the "original contractors" from the inheritors of the...

In theater, it is called the suspension of disbelief. Your comment is interesting from the point of view of how to chart the path of an individual psy...

Zhuangzi figured you either got it or you didn't. And then spent pages upon pages torturing those who did not. Explaining in detail where people get i...

I don't get it. Are you asking for an answer to something you have declared there cannot be one to?

No, I was looking at how the use of "nature" gets used for different purposes and was wondering how you got so certain about the version you have pres...

I have just acquired the book and will read it.

I am familiar with the Thoreau references and the uncertainty over whether he is the original author and what not. How that might relate to my comment...

Do I get a cookie if I respond correctly? Fuck that.

Treating the "economy" as a natural condition is problematic. The argument against planning and control of markets has been made by such as Hayek and ...

Where was it tried?

Which texts are you referring to? There are a lot of interpretations. Some argue the reverse of what you are saying about "phases."

I do mean such a participation. It is also an expansion of "rights" but with the condition that one breed for and exemplify a particular type. The sel...

In regards to your remarks about Roman society, one of their innovations was a process of introducing new citizens on a large scale. So, is that an ex...

I agree that ambition and rewards for achievement are not antithetical to "society" as the collection of what people value at the same time. People ha...

The proponents of the "strong" as a right in itself do not subscribe to the concept of society. Pick a lane.

One question I come away with from reading Wittgenstein is what is the ontology that is outside of language as a limit of what can be expressed? There...

The trust between people is a critical point of reference in the working world. That is not necessarily aligned with law that gives one redress for cr...

Fair enough. But the OP does"

This article is another iteration of asking "if you have a brain, why should it be hooked up with what is actually happening." There you are, using yo...

In regards to Nietzsche, you are correct about the "crazed prophet" part. But he did have this other register: We know stuff because of this huge appa...

From what?

To ask this: is to look at it as something that is not necessary in every instance. And that point of departure is "outside" of accepting the process ...

I thought the OP introduced the idea. I am not interested in making fun of it. It is the outline of many interesting things. My question was not rheto...

Did I just not ask that question?

How do I get outside of logic to ask about it? Aren't I using logic to talk about it? My brain hurts.

There are Christians who would agree with you and those who would not. There is a large contingent preparing for the End of Days. Others are bound mor...

You are still not using the reply function. I just happened to see this. Can you quote Auden's paraphrase?

I am not sure about the inescapable quality. Your point of view is an interesting contrast to the many who have complained that our circumstances are ...

I accept that Nietzsche's narrative has much of that quality of seeing everything on the brink in order to goad the reader to leave their point of vie...

And here we are, not sure if that is the right answer. I do like the proposition because it does not claim what it cannot describe.

We are the created. That such a thing happened is of great interest. But the way we talk about that captures some things and misses others.

The idea is only worth entertaining if he/she is not.

I meant why should any creator bother with all of this. If we are the creatures trying to get a clue what is going on, the signs on the road are mostl...

If your are going to have a creator who made all the stuff, it is going to be difficult to talk about. My first question is why bother with all this. ...

Useful toward what end? The idea is the foundation of all of the presently employed declarations of human rights. If "you" are opening up the principl...

Yes, but he also went to great efforts to relate our experiences to a breaking point. That experience of ourselves is only information under certain c...

Maybe it would be be helpful to compare Kierkegaard's efforts to Pascal's. Both worked to express the difference between faith and reason as ironic. P...

In the language used in the Philosophical Fragments, the Teacher changes the condition of the student. This is presented as the alternative to Socrate...

I may be dumb, but I am genuine. I have no idea who would bring about the changes you ask for.

That is quite a program. Who will execute it?

I do not recognize my comment in your reply. I will put it in other words. Every restriction of suffrage has been carried out by actual agents, duly a...

Unlike driving a car or shooting a gun, being a good citizen who understands the decisions that need to be made is not a skill that can be directly me...

I grew up when and where never uttering the word was a part of my parents' resistance against those in their generation who did. The Civil Rights Move...

Maybe even more. "We" are the only person around while figuring out what is permitted for ourselves. The results of that calculation is what meets oth...

As the idea developed, being equal in the eyes of the creator was always a simultaneous acceptance of "our" limits as evaluators because none of us ar...

Or prohibited. That is the more gnarly part of the right.

The element I have the most difficulty understanding is the matter of corresponding identity. If brain states are matches of cognitive events, the onl...

The Establishment of Religion clause in the U.S. constitution was a result of centuries of people attempting to stop certain expressions of religious ...

Your observation that the means of production has its own social requirements reminds me of Ivan Illich who said the use of tools can overpower us as ...