Valentinus

You could read your observation the opposite way. Why does it is take so little to refer to something? Whether a description is true or not is a funct...

Well having read James, I think Wittgenstein was holding out for a limit to what could be explained, not saying one just could decide to not bother af...

Well, I think Fooloso4 has been much more helpful in his remarks than I was in mine. My reference to Timaeus and Philebus was to emphasize the range o...

I thank you.They are good. (I am about half way through)

I don't want to make light of the theme that Descartes was careful to not anger the Church but I don't agree that the argument that we have been given...

It is good to read the actual dialogues because the accounts of them capture some of what is going on but the experience of dealing with the relentles...

As you have noted, the death you are able to bring about does not belong to you. Perhaps your life doesn't belong to you either. The agency that permi...

I don't agree with your judgement either. Oy vey.

I expressed my opinion. Just like you did. What did I come here for? That is a good question. I will think about it.

I don't see how the opinion you express here requires so much denigration.

Death, look into it. It exists.

I think you might get more of a response if you raise this issue on the Feedback part of the site. I am a newcomer here myself. I often find some judg...

I don't think the ground for science is a straightforward matter. I acknowledge that Nietzsche's critique of objective "facts" would seem to undermine...

Sure, we could talk about other things. But what is wrong with what we were talking about before? We read books and listen to how other people read th...

The properties of ressentiment were "prefigured" by the limits of how ideas could be expressed after Nietzsche critisized Kantian metaphysics?

Maybe not. But it is an attempt to use history to claim something beyond fiction. It matters if Nietzsche is correct or not in his reasoning. Yes. Tha...

My comment asked how you understand this quote from Nietzsche's notebook when placed side by side with the historical method developed in his publishe...

In the U.S., we have this Establishment of Religion thing. In regards to speech, it allows groups to say stuff to themselves that is theoretically onl...

I think it is a mistake to take Nietzsche's objections to certain metaphysical ideas to be an abandonment of objective description or that nothing can...

Give us a piece of what you like from Hintikka.

Whoa. I didn't mean to challenge you in that way. I was asking about the questions you asked in this post and if you were interested in the answers fo...

So, are you outside of the game, seeing how others would play?

I don't know. Nietzsche was pretty clear about what he opposed that happened in his time and before him. We can discuss his actual words toward that e...

I get the agency reflecting agency part of what you are saying. But what was your interest in asking the question as you did?

That description is difficult for me to understand because I read Kant's intent in separating a priori from a posteriori as the "epistemology." The se...

Thank you. I guess this points toward the topic often debated here over whether the Cartesian duality is identical to the one used by Kant and the oth...

In the context of Descartes' argument in the Meditations, the experience of thinking includes all other perception as equally "self evident" : But it ...

The objective is what one can perceive. So, it will always be messed up with other things. So I see and hear people. They are like me, wanting to unde...

Yes. That sort of thing. But I will have to reject it on the principles established. Damn you, remorseless donkey.

I am presently reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. It starts with the Devil arguing with Soviet intellectuals about Kant's "proofs" ...

I just want to point out that The Will to Power is a collection made from notebooks. It is useful as a companion to his finished works. But it is prec...

The limit of what should be tolerated is a function of how and why the permission is given and by whom. For instance, Popper calls for a limit that is...

Your point is well taken. My reluctance is not an unwillingness to explain how I understand the writing. I just want to encourage reading without alre...

Well, that statement is made at a point of transition between claiming what can be said and then making some claims after addressing those issues. The...

How much have you read of Nietzsche's work? Nietzsche's sister helped make the work a thing for the Nazis. Not to say that one can remove him from the...

I thought about different passages to quote but the quality I am singling out is a way to hear what is being said more than a thesis. I argued for a t...

Zhuangzi describes it quite differently: His cook was cutting up an ox for the ruler Wen Hui. Whenever he applied his hand, leaned forward with his sh...

On the contrary. The emphasis in the text is that what is happening is happening to everybody at the same time. The deflection from being an author of...

The book does not say the Master never does anything; He does not do what is happening anyway. So the issue is about replacement of resources. If "I",...

That works for me except for the absolutely part. The "you" can be the horizon of the philosophical; Sartre talking about consciousness where the ego ...

That is an excellent explanation. Great metaphor.

Spinoza addresses this topic at length in his Note to Proposition 15, "Whatever is, is in God, and nothing can exist or be conceived without God."

hmmm, maybe I do belong here.

I think different depictions are supposed to be accurate for the purposes undertaken in each case. One of the elements that intrigues me about the Soc...

I have changed tack. I have other routines than the self destructive one. There were so many opportunities to die that I somehow learned to not take a...

You might find the The Story of Utopias by Lewis Mumford to be interesting. His thinking cuts across many areas of philosophy and ties them into conte...

I will check it out someday. There is a peculiar quality to PK Dick's writing that is at odds with film narratives. Descriptions of fact are woven int...

That is a good question. I think the dialogue wrestled with it in Book Nine where the diagnosis of various polities are compared with states in the so...

I am not saying that they cannot be a destructive duo. The disinclination of thumos to ally with desires in opposition to reason is one of the ways th...

In the course of restating Thrasymachus' argument, Glaucon cites the story of the ring of Gyges which allows unjust actions to go unseen to introduce ...