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I agree with all this, and indeed it's crucial to my point. Note the 'we' that appears here. I agree, and I'd even say that it's absurd in some sense ...

The possibility of agreement and cooperation is exactly what is intended. I have the sense that 'intersubjectivty' is misunderstood in terms of some e...

I am taking this out of context, but I wanted to reply in a different way than before. If meaning and coherence are subjective, then how or why would ...

Forgive all these posts please if you find them boring. Respond to any part of them though, please, if they pique your interest. Is metaphysics the de...

Sounds great. I look forward to it. May your drive be pleasant.

You're too kind. Thanks!

Fair enough! I'm happy to have at least not been boring. I'm high on some new insights lately about just how idealistic 'all' philosophy really is som...

Ha. Well, I'd love to see what else you have to say about the issue. (And of course I trusted your open-mindedness as I raised the weird issue.) I jus...

I like the crux here, because what about deity-in-matter or deity-as-matter. For instance, Heidegger reminds of us pre-theoretical life where the 'sub...

Hi. I relate to that kind of openmindedness. I am interested though in precisely this metaphysical ignorance as a metaphysical axiom. I associate this...

Note the humanism. Perhaps materialism is appealing to some as a flight from anthropomorphism. Is this flight from anthropomorphism not also the insti...

Meaning is being or reality is meaning. Language is there, like the world. Language is the essence of the world. To live in the human world (in other ...

Have you ever checked out Husserl? I just did recently, and I only wish I had looked into him sooner. It makes sense to me that first-principles have ...

I like what I just briefly read. But then I embrace ambitious philosophy, 'useless' philosophy that tries to make sense of existence in a way that hel...

Exactly. And this even helps explain scientism as a kind of pythogoreanism in love with the heiroglyphs. It's not unlike some extremely reduced kind o...

I saw it on reddit by chance and looked it up. It really amused me. I don't really spend much time in places where the kids make up this lingo, but I ...

I appreciate the neckbeards allusion, but neckbeards are Dawkins fan-boys, haters of Hegel if they've ever heard of him. Neckbeards aren't sexy like H...

Indeed. And I believe there are other approaches. I vaguely remember interleaving the bits in another way. The black and seamless sea of the unit inte...

Yeah, this is tricky. I'm not good at living in the middle. I'm not at all claiming that I live in a state of ecstasy. I mean I usually really approve...

I generally agree, though the last time I was stricken I didn't stop believing in the good states. I knew that I was irrationally afflicted. I was sel...

I don't know how good the legal drugs work these days, but my unprofessional hunch would be that drugs are maybe necessary. At least for me the mood w...

Same here. I've escaped for years at a time to be sucked back in to the whirlpool. It's been almost a year since the last bout. I had a variety of pil...

You make an interesting point. I must confess that I feel repulsed by men who aren't 'gentleman' (in the grocery store for instance.) I remember painf...

Great quote. It's as hard as describing being in love to a kid. The heights and depths can only be words from the outside. This is a great theme. Many...

Yes. And I've more or less always identified with being some kind of writer. I find myself or present myself in words first and foremost. Father knows...

I relate. There's something so naked about singing and dancing together. The soul as a vulnerable ecstatic and gentle thing comes out. And anyone with...

This goes to the heart of worldliness for me. Let's say that a person has come to terms in a certain way with human nature. They know their own evil (...

Continuing the thought of the previous posts, certain negative or critical thinkers can be understood to be continuing the Enlightenment even as they ...

Not necessarily. Of course it depends on how you metaphysically interpret Cantor.

For me this identification of the public and the physical is problematic. When I drive, I stop at red octagons inscribed STOP. The meaning of a stop s...

I've just recently read 'The Ends of Man,' an essay in Margins about humanism and metaphysics and it's associated 'we.' Derrida jokes about whether th...

I agree. Natural science is effective by focusing on a certain aspect of experience as it ignores others. Before long there is a tendency to think tha...

I agree. You know I love Hegel, and he in Werner Marx's view was a logos philosopher. His genius was addressing the genesis of the logos. The One or B...

I think that's a great question. I'd say we have a experience/phenomenon of partially public meaning and that it's just not easy to fit in to traditio...

The tension seems to be between power-as-knowledge and a warm and fuzzy feeling directed at the idea of gazing on nature without any kind of subjectiv...

I agree, and I think you are touching on the essence here. 'Rationality' is ultimately identified with utility and power in this appeal to technology....

This is that 'isolated ego' you asked me about in the other thread. The 'subject' alone with its meaning. Let's work with this view. Then the isolated...

These are great points and questions. An imperfect answer would be that when we are just gliding along pre-theoretically through life the notion of th...

I agree, but you didn't go into how you understand explanation. What is an explanation? I agree. I think being-in-a-world-with-others is something lik...

I understand why one would say 'if you understand anything completely, then you understand everything.' It captures that the nature of things consists...

This reminds me of Derrida's point taken to the extreme. I largely agree. I'm interested in the 'finite resolution' of thought in the lifestream. Mean...

Fair enough. How do you understand explanation? For me it's the postulation of necessary relationships. It's a grid thrown over experience. If you see...

I am clarifying for myself that I don't object to the atomistic project. Analysis is good. I would just balance it out with a further clarification of...

I can at least grant that they are well-chosen atoms for certain purposes. I very much consider sensation to be fundamental. The world is not just ide...

Indeed. His word is not the last word. He does increase the complexity of the situation. If sense-data remain appealing as atoms, we at least gain a n...

I think this is a nice disassembly of coffee. In some ways we are trying to undo the mind's automatic unification of the coffee and the entire living ...

I like this and think you make a good point. This also points back to the body as the bridge between 'mind' and 'matter' as poles of a continuum (whic...

I embrace the goal of being reasonable, being rational. What does it mean to embrace this goal? What comes to my mind is something like the attempt to...

I relate to that. Illuminate the issue! Use a torch to show the the darkness (darkness as possibility?) Some assume thinking is about the destruction ...

I like this issue. We might talk of a blind faith in that very project that rarely sees itself. Your idea here is similar (not the same thing) to Stir...