It is a buzz kill but you have to accept that you just weren't invited. I left when it turned out that there were no virgins being offered. The brochu...
So, asking about the use of something called "metaphysical" is on par with a problem of how we use language to describe something. There cannot be a p...
Saying: "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence" is pretty enigmatic. I would not presume to follow such a remark with an exegesis of...
I take your point regarding the importance of presuppositions to any developed argument but isn't the OP more open ended than that? Now perhaps you ar...
Saying "thought itself" is a metaphysical statement. In so far as you framed the question as "do we need metaphysics", that cannot help but ask if it ...
Because the desire to understand is itself information of a kind. The theory of the intelligible as an integral component of what exists is an express...
Expressing the matter as a need is metaphysical in so far as the question recognizes that there are agents and they want to understand what the hell i...
The banality of evil was not presented as a doctrine. Arendt presented the trite affect and emptiness of Eichmann in the context of her analysis of to...
From a task point of view, my work experience suggests to me that people don't actually perform acts simultaneously but some are agile at switching jo...
Long term relationships are odd. Tolstoy said that what was the easiest sort of thing to understand but he was wrong. Desire does not explain itself. ...
Arguments against "planning", in the economic sense, are made in the "tribal" register used in your narrative. Hayek, for example, was not a Libertari...
Well, my reading of the City of God does not fit with the idea of just war. Does that add up to a different God? If the relationship is so much depend...
Popes have a tough job. Management is a scam. I would direct your question to Augustine or Aquinas. They carried the water. There have been other deve...
Matters of taste are things we are least likely to share. It is clear that you do not share the same criteria of excellence as has been expressed by t...
I am curious as to whether you have read Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. He more or less says that the dynamic between master and slave was the engin...
Well said, In regards to your first question, I was born in 1956 and can report that my generation bears a lot of responsibility regarding complacency...
One thing that can not be interpreted are experiences that either happen or not. We want these experiences that make other questions mute. The rest is...
One way to approach the idea is through time. Hegel presented the spirit as something that lived both as a possibility and as an agent of history. In ...
I like Aristotle for marveling that a translation was made at all (especially in De Anima). His confidence that it conveys something essential is base...
The old fashioned objection to ad hominem arguments is not based on whether they are accurate or not in regards to any description of the interlocutor...
So, you read the fly as representing yourself in the bottle. I think of it more as a way to not just keep repeating certain problems. Not because they...
One teacher I had while reading Wittgenstein pointed out that shooing the fly out of the bottle is not an event if you don't own the both the bottle a...
That is unfortunate. I did not get the impression while wrestling with him that he was solving all the problems in so far as they could be solved. He ...
It may be good to remember Goldwater at this juncture. He claimed to want a certain set of progressive values while also claiming that the social engi...
Marx did call for class struggle. But your list of 'central conditions' leaves out the most important one: The way we make things shapes how we live w...
The first thing to consider, in my mind, is the focus in On Sense and Reference upon distinguishing the form of identity of a=a from a=b. Toward that ...
Whoa, I did not say it was stupid. I don't happen to agree with this pastor's rhetoric although I understand what is intended by its use. Do you have ...
I presume you are referring to me saying that arguments repeat themselves. Your statement is true in some respects but may be worth challenging in oth...
On the plus side, the discussions here have given me many different ways to look at things and talk about them. I have read a lot of new authors becau...
How does this point not just become one person calling another person a moron? It it good to explicate contradictions. Contradictions are the meat and...
I had a long struggle with smoking and quit. Everyone is different and the register of addiction may be correct in many senses without touching the wo...
Well, one approach has been to distinguish the City of Man from the City of God as Augustine did. Since then, what had been talked about in the contex...
Your project is pretty darn challenging. Maybe it would be good to look at "winning" and "losing." The effort to get beyond Thrasymachus' view of just...
Don't they need each other? Being clueless about what is happening usually involves a deficit in either or both experiences. If what marks a capable o...
This observation regarding "many souls" that make up an individual is something that stands in stark contrast with Nietzsche's use of egoistical expre...
One way to think about it is the distance between writers and readers. The writers strive to make the words their own. Readers compare writers, ever u...
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