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Aristotle answers this question in a direct fashion that I appreciate. To summarize: We wonder what is going on in this place we have arrived. The won...

Sounds philosophical to me. Hegel wrote a book with that as a title. Are you interested in some kind of summary of arguments? Toward what end?

I am proposing that stupidity is not the sort of property that is revealed by listing the common characteristics of stupid people. One can observe tha...

The OP presents stupidity as a condition that exists in a different way than any sort of continuum where people operate with varying capacities and in...

In the spirit of exhaustive accounts, one should add Deborah Harry's distinction: "I am your dog but not your pet."

In that regard, it is interesting that the word comes from the Latin stupere, which means to be amazed or stunned as when hit on the head with a stick...

That is a good point. Having some means of annotation that is made in the moment and can be found later.

What do you think about a lot and wish you could understand better? You are the only philosopher you have to answer to.

In the key of "mitigating the unwise decisions", I have a theory of stupid that developed from working as a project manager for a long time. Stupid is...

A lot of the people who have these labels pinned upon them are suffering and are the first to say they are. There are many problems with diagnosis and...

Socrates defended himself as a citizen of Athens, striving to do the best he could for its sake. In the Republic, the City is only possible because of...

Or, what might be the same thing, one hard-working Athenian saluting the virtue of another.

He is very much worth reading if you are interested in how the conditions of modern man relate to a desire for life as expressed through religious exp...

I am not aware of any account that puts the matter in that way. Some Neoplatonists say Plato is teaching a personal transformation while one is alive....

Your reminder that Socrates is not asking for a different life after death than the one he is having while alive does suggest he does not expect to be...

Porcine emergence from Schrodinger's shadow box, frightened Uncle Ned.

I was saying Alkis Piskas' view was like describing time as a river, not that it adequately described Kierkegaard's version of Eternity.

He is stepping away from the "normal" seen as a society that is content that the Christian values it purports have been integrated seamlessly with the...

Yes, indeed. It is hard for a Gnostic Bishop to find work in this town.

Fact or Fiction, the story has had many consequences. Our lives have been interwoven in the story as a matter of it being repeated many times. It is n...

This view was strenuously deleted by the early Christian Fathers as a species of heresy.

If you do not think something is worth addressing, what is the point of saying that? Why put down the inconsequential as you see it? Should not that a...

Narcissism, as a diagnosis, is different from the classical references made to refer to a certain activity. In the clinical sense, if it is not one co...

I see that you are dealing with these issues as a professional trying to help people. Trying to toss around different meanings of an old story is not ...

To be precise, the lectures do not address the absolute differences you claim to exist between "moral systems." The lectures claim Jesus was a Sage in...

Whatever else one might want to say about Kierkegaard, your description captures his rejection of Hegel fair and square.

That is certainly the case. I remember a Jewish comedian being asked why Christianity emerged. He said: "We got too good at arguing with each other. S...

That is Grime's position. For him, Jesus is a Sage in the Platonic tradition. You are using Grime's work to claim that there is an absolute contradict...

Grimes is making the distinction between the Q document and Judaism in general, not specifically the Torah. You are the one claiming there is a self e...

And what truth would that be? I watched your video. You made some ill informed comments. The only assumption I have made so far is that there is some ...

The issue is not about his identity alone but whether his teaching did or did not involve and draw from Judaism. Grimes is saying it did not. You have...

The video you linked to has Grimes arguing that the true message of Jesus was not Jewish. He did not talk about his being a Jew or not.

That matter of actually knowing other people comes up a lot.

That does get to the observation in the story that noticed Narcissus was not conquering cities or promoting world peace but was paralyzed by an obsess...

You seem to have traveled some distance from carefully reviewing texts that reveal a number of very different responses to Jesus to assigning parts of...

I look forward to your OP explaining how the entire teaching of the Torah can be distilled into quoting: "An eye for an eye."

One approach has been to view exchanges of information as a network of the mind which includes all the different component of the experienced world. T...

With or without "Bible talk", what Kierkegaard is calling for is theological in so far that it tries to locate an individual life in the ultimate cond...

I watched the videos. The presentation on distinguishing the texts from each other is concordant with other analyses I have read. However some element...

I was referring to the "Moment" in the way Kierkegaard uses it in talking about time and our experience of it. I don't want to derail the thread over ...

In terms of the Kierkegaard use of the term "Eternity" Constance has made reference to, the Moment that is possible to participate in that sense is no...

One element worthy of mention is Thomas Aquinas, deeply engaging with Aristotle in the 13nth Century when the texts became available on the Latin side...

That is one strange image. The drinker isn't looking at the mirror. The statue behind him seems to be watching. And what is with the triangles printed...

Fair enough. The brain finds itself in a not brain place. So the argument that it is where it is all happening is mostly supported by noting the circu...

That darn mirror, whether held by Trump or Lacan. Yes, Egoists do exhibit more situational awareness but are not trying to change what is happening be...

I am a poor representative of whatever the Philosophy Forum might be. The question is a problem for me. If I am asked to locate a process in one place...

The obsession to attend the picture in the reflection is odd. From the version you cited, the fascination is no different from the one consuming Echo....

How does that observation relate to Wittgenstein recognizing the limits of his enterprise against the background of what has been left out?

I am a Christian of some sort. Your challenge is worthy of a response. But I make a poor champion for others. especially if we disagree about what has...

Does having an opinion about where it is happening change any of the burden of being a person who finds themselves having the problem?