charles ferraro

Didn't Sartre describe a variety of ways in which nothingness can be experienced?

Perhaps it is not logic but the very nature of the human brain itself that requires everything it encounters to conform to the Principle of Sufficient...

The basic question: Why is there something rather than nothing? A relatively uncomplicated answer: Perhaps, because anyone who is able to ask and pond...

Perhaps, because we are not yet dead.

To me it is quite apropos that the Frenchman Sartre, having been thoroughly immersed in the French philosophical tradition, would begin by reflecting ...

It seems to me, the central issue for Sartre is not so much the subject-object dichotomy (he himself separates all of Being into two kinds, viz., Bein...

As per Sartre, the pre-reflective consciousness cannot grasp, intend, or posit itself as an object. If it tries to it falsifies itself. It is essentia...

Angelo, a very clear explanation of your skeptical position. Your "target" in this regard happened to be Sartre, but I suspect that the ideas espoused...

Angelo, I think Albert Camus provided an interesting twist to your observation about thinking when he wrote: "We get into the habit of living before a...

Unlike Kant, Sartre is not concerned with determining the transcendental epistemological conditions that make experience possible. He is concerned, in...

1. You do not welcome my criticsm. 2. There is no performative contradiction in what I stated. I am not performing a Cogito Sum while simultaneously c...

Your last statement, " ... 'seeking the truth' is best made sense of as seeking the best possible 'view' on the 'infinite object' of the world -- in t...

The problem is not semantical. The "Cartesian move" as you call it can, in fact, be performed by any person who makes up the human family who wishes t...

Mww, your statement "I am me because it is impossible I am not, regardless of others" is a nice variation on Descartes' performative "Cogito Sum" insi...

[reply="Alkis Piskas;8276 You're certainly entitled to your opinion. Good luck with your inviolable dictionary definitions. The only thing obvious to ...

For what it's worth, human thinking and human perceiving both presuppose human consciousness and are modes of human consciousness. When and while I am...

Perceiving, like imagining, remembering, speculating, inferring, etc., is a species of thinking. Descartes: For any human mind, to think is to exist (...

How can Kastrup argue for "full-blown ontological idealism" without first proving the existence of "God, or Mind at Large"? Does he anywhere attempt a...

Guided by what you stated about him, Kastrup seems to me to be promoting a contemporary version of Spinoza's pantheism. Both thinkers claim that the w...

Thank you for your comprehensive answer to my question. So then, I would conclude from what you and others responded that the positing of a perceiving...

Do you think that the entire world is mind-dependent, or just certain of its features?

From the frame of reference of human consciousness, the referent for both Noumenon and Thing-in-Itself is Nothingness. To intuit, perceive, or know ei...

Good for you!

As I said, best of luck!!!

Your first statement is a presumptuous non-sequitur. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. So be it. Best of luck.

No, does not apply to animals. Maybe my interpretation of his theory did not do it justice. Many explanations and theories that fall outside the accep...

An intriguing, rather unique answer to your figure/ground question can be found in Sartre's explanation of how human pre-reflective consciousness (als...

Take a read of Schopenhauer's Critique of the Kantian Philosophy to understand what I am trying to get at. Yes, that's the chapter.

Yes, that is precisely the point. In my opinion, Kant's epistemology never successfully demonstrated how the subsequent reality of any empirical entit...

Any empirical entity I encounter is given to my perception as a complex of sensations that has already been completely organized according to a princi...

I don't understand how your comment relates to mine. What does "things that are presented presuppose the necessity of their existence" mean? Are you c...

Do humans encounter Being directly, or indirectly.? Does Being present itself directly to humans, or do humans have to re-present being? For example, ...

When you say that we "model" a world of empirical objects do you mean that we deliberately "create" a world of empirical objects out of the raw sense ...

You misunderstood me. I am focusing on our non-scientific a posteriori everyday experience of the "nature" of empirical objects. Where in his works do...

When I ask "what" a spatio-temporal entity is that I am experiencing, its "what," its "nature" cannot be a thing-in-itself precisely because I am able...

I do not believe that, as you assert, "the doctrine extends to every property." Does the subject's spatial and temporal organization of an entity exte...

Yes, it would be a necessary pre-condition. And, yes, for Berkeley to be is to be perceived by a plethora of contingent, conscious frames-of-reference...

Berkeley argued, quite forthrightly and successfully I think, that SUBSTANCE functioning as a substratum for anything is equivalent to it being a supe...

I have no objection to what you said. In fact, I agree with most of what you said. But I think you missed my point. To use your example, the Form/Idea...

Plato's Ideas are both sensible and intellectual, yet they do not exhibit necessity and strict universality and, thus, are not transcendental conditio...

Since this OP originally concerned Kant, the principle I would reference to argue that there is a difference between object and subject is as follows:...

Building on what you said, we now know that both Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries can be used successfully to try to explain the occurrence of c...

But, then, am I to conclude that the mentally spatialized universe is somehow located in my mind?

Each person who wills, or does not will, this or that state-of-affairs does so in terms of motives that are attempts to explain why the person wills, ...

Have a look, in this regard, at Schopenhauer's essay "The Four-Fold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason," where he clearly differentiates logic...

More comprehensively, I think one would have to take (a) a completely objective point of view, free of all subjectivity, or (b) a completely subjectiv...

Or, perhaps even more to the point, is there a method whereby it is possible to determine if the existence of my consciousness and the existence of th...

It all hinges on the meaning of the word "external" as used in the OP question, doesn't it? External in what sense, external to what? And precisely ho...

Too bad we didn't have a debate between Sartre and Carnap.

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