Valentinus

I wonder how comparable different means and ideas are to each other. The various encyclopedias of Philosophy are helpful in throwing different points ...

That Yorke is always trying to cross the same river.

I thought the Forum was using me. I get a lot of things backwards.

Maybe it is a category mistake to say we "have" a life. No deed to the property has been issued. The light and darkness are mine, if I bring them in. ...

It may be worth considering that Kant did not argue that reason is self sufficient regarding the source of the energy needed to bring about good outco...

It also implies an ordering principle whereby the different views are related to each other. Various and sometimes contradictory elements are presente...

I did not know of this. Thank you.

If I understand your point correctly, I would say that the British blokes agreed with Aristotle that the nature of perception works by not being a con...

I have long thought that Nietzsche made too much of the mathematical format of Spinoza's Ethics. The observation overlooks a humility that is thorough...

Chose to be born? I am not "contextualizing" people. The views I am referring to are not an attempt to explain what is possible or give a last word on...

That is not what I said. I replied to your following comment: "I don't like to talk about ethnicities as being interpretatively relevant but apart fro...

Me neither.

Does the thought require so many people? The self identified are invested in certainty. The curious don't know what is happening.

It is interesting to me to consider a gap between self-identification and the desire to know how one's opinions relate to others. On the face of it, p...

Wanting to make this a better place doesn't mean that the motivation must come at the expense of the instrument that could help. That you can do what ...

Well, the whole Job story was trying to address that question. I won't shake pom poms for the claim of victory that is made there. But it is hard to s...

Where will you put Pat Buchanan on your map? He specifically frames the replacement of "our" culture in terms of demographics. "Our" way of life will ...

You are right. I should not have called the post a name.

You are claiming that Moore is a racist while asking if she is. Pick a lane.

After the presumptions you make, the "questions" are merely rhetorical.

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You may be precisely incorrect. My experience with people who hate each other as groups is that they have very little to do with each other, use media...

I think you are looking for the line between crappy things you wish you had not done to other people and the perception of a boundary or frontier that...

Stupid has its own life. Think of it as something that wants to be free in the face of attempts to control it. It is highly probable that our attempts...

Unomuno is interesting to read because he is not interested in any kind of immortality that does not include living his already started life forever. ...

The agreement to a common understanding Broke out into a fight That allowed the trucks to get away with the loot With few clues to point at what actua...

Maybe a way to approach the matter is to look at the limits of psychology in a different context than the contrast of reason against the background of...

I am not sure a belief is a creed. The first word is the translation of the other so that is a problem. The identification of faith by items declared ...

The gap does not require explaining why some do one thing and others do another in response to the question of what is arbitrary in moral judgements. ...

I take it you mean "evolved" in the sense that thinking over time approaches what is good and evil as they really are. The non-arbitrary element being...

Mortality sucks. But nobody owns their non-existence. The difference between life and death is you in each of the moments that will never happen again...

Some of the limits of offense are generational. What was generally permitted in my grandfather's time are actually crimes now. And well they should be...

Tangled up in the blue humiliation game is the factor that is applied to oneself by oneself. Somewhere in the formation of identity in the Erik Erikso...

The nature of logos, and the way it is presented as having a life of its own, may not include the psychological as something that it explains but it b...

I am not sure what philosophy is or would be apart from the problem of learning who we are and what helps us live. There is a lot of interest in psych...

I recommend reading the book. While doing a good job of distinguishing the "ancients" from the "Christian" points of view regarding the art of living,...

In this capacity, some are more accurate than others. It is disturbing when one encounters a person who sees even when one has a good mask to hide beh...

I am not sure about the first part. He celebrated discipline and "orders of rank." His fight against Christianity took the form of denying the "person...

On the Nietzsche side of your question, following rules "only understood by oneself" relates to the differing opinions about his notion of the persona...

For myself, the idea of being responsible for what is happening now is the most interesting thing. Whether that happens through the register of religi...

I am not ridiculing your argument. I read the update. I don't agree with one of your assumptions because your description does not square with my expe...

Pascal said a number of times that the "scandal" of the Christian narrative overturning a particular rational deliberation was a reflection of the hum...

That makes sense. Is there something in the arrangement that you don't like?

It is valid as an expression of a condition. I don't know if it excludes other expressions. The necessity invoked serves a purpose but maybe not purpo...

By presenting a case from his text, I meant those written by Nietzsche himself. But I also asked for citations from his interpreters. I will respond t...

There is much disagreement between different interpretations regarding the role of the will to power in Nietzsche's writings. The central place you gi...

I can follow that explanation. It leads me to not understand your postscript: What is it that you want to be talked out of?

That dilemma appears often in Nietzsche's writings. It is a contradiction he did not appear interested in helping the reader to figure out. But he was...

Are you saying with Jimi Hendrix that, I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to? Say more ...

Kierkegaard presents this element as a kind of default that needs to be superseded: When the originality in earnestness is acquired and preserved, the...