One way to approach the matter is to look for what is the matter of human agency versus the influence of gods, fate, or what have you. The Cratylus di...
Smugness is definitely my friend. I am not sure about the consensus part. Agreement can be conditional to factors one is not able to experience direct...
It was a recognition of the general reluctance to affirm statements as you noted but also exactly what is expressed in Book III, chapter 5. Whatever i...
There is this exuberance for the anti-christian which is similar to the point of view being criticized. The text reads differently if one assumes the ...
In De Anima, the means for perceiving the other are the work of the senses. Touch notices touch. Hearing hears. Sight sees. The mind "minds". It is an...
The matters are not resolved. I think Aristotle was trying to establish a basis for being an organic being in De Anima that is quite different from be...
The Einstein factor shows how one has to be as capable as he was to argue on his level. Using him as a reference may be valid as a point of reference ...
That makes sense when looking at the way Aristotle described what other people thought before he giving his response. He is engaged with past and futu...
There are such times. By saying that using such references are not cancellations of an argument, it is meant that deferring to others can become neces...
I resemble the remark, being someone who uses that "jargon" on occasion. The references to arguments based upon authority, as noted in the Wiki page, ...
I like the old timey meaning of a troll as a creature who hung out at bridges and hit people up for cash or goods if they wished to pass. It captures ...
Well, I don't want to make a judgment of intentions. I see that you are struggling to decide what to respond to. I showed my son this thread and he la...
That suggests that it is self evident. Such a notion is contrary to the proposal in the Republic that a special effort has to be made to see what thin...
Yes, you did not appear from nowhere. I am all for disagreement for how to read a text. Arguments based upon authority are the weakest kind. On the ot...
I will try it another way. You claimed that Foolso4 was an outlier by eschewing labels such "idealist", "materialist" or what have you as adequate des...
Not being able to tag a label such as "materialist" or "idealist" upon a reading is to restrain from formulating a last word that is the product of a ...
In the academic milieu of the last 100 years or so, Fooloso4's approach to read the dialogues as not being a map to a doctrine is the commonly accepte...
I agree that the distinction between speech and practice is critical and is the woof and warp of the Republic. But it doesn't seem to me to be a matte...
My comment was not meant to argue against that aspect of Socrates' approach. I was hoping to bring up the views of generation and respect for family i...
Some of the matter of what is "one's business" relates to family obligations in tension with others. There is piety as it relates to the gods but also...
Merwin does recognize what Frost is pointing at. On the other hand, Merwin uses "us" and "we" differently; He expresses certainty about his perception...
W.S. Merwin tackles some phenomenology: Talking Whatever I talk about is yesterday by the time I see anything it is gone the only way I can see today ...
One interesting thing about the Bushido code is that acceptance of death does not change "who you are." It is suggested that self awareness will becom...
I am not sure who has who. I inherited my Grandfather's books. Where should they go when i go? There are all my books. Where should they go next? I ha...
Well, the jibe aside, I meant to say, as you noted, that Maslow did not describe what "self-actualizing" meant as a quality in itself. My comment was ...
As far as lucid dreaming goes, it seems to me the reason one gets tired is that it does not allow for the not lucid part to have a chance. As a person...
That dreams involve wrestling with fear and anxiety is obvious. There is a problem-solving component interweaved with those conditions that returns us...
The way I understand his approach is that we can itemize our limitations but not what being bound by them permits to exist. So the "actualization" reg...
Alienation is complex. When referring to the context of Eliot's poems, I didn't hope to make it simpler. Caught in his moment, he navigated as well as...
The "idea that states form and rule by conquest and exploitation" is an odd place to find the "individual liberty" you also advocate. So, you have two...
The State sucks, for sure. The absence of State sucks too. There are various arguments from Hobbes and Rousseau who put the matter into relief. For th...
It does apply to all of us. I didn't mean it only related to those who experience war directly. There is the alienation between those who do and don't...
In regards to Eliot, some regard for the generation(s) lost at war(s) merits notice. The dry voices of the Hollow Men come from victims of trauma who ...
As the statement appears in the Discourse Upon Method, the interest is in establishing a way to distinguish facts from whimsy. So, not an exploration ...
@"Outlander" makes a good point about how the emphasis in one argument does not connect easily with the emphasis in others. It is not like they share ...
This reflects my experience in the trades. There is a lot of disagreement about the best approach to a problem but much agreement about what is kickin...
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