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I just wanted to say that I loved this post.

I pulled out some quotes that speak to me.

I think a 'polar' dualism can be defended by emphasizing the body which runs from a 'mind' pole to a 'matter' pole. So it wouldn't really be a dualism...

For Husserl (at one point in his thinking) history was This is along the lines of what I am interested in, the functioning and genesis (sedimentation)...

By really trying something? I agree.

Awesome. Should be food for further conversation. I think 'time' is central somehow.

I am just getting into him, so I'm reading secondary summaries and already being amazed. I think he wrote a particular essay on that. This is great so...

I am fascinated by the ancient skeptics too, for the same reasons. I believe in sharing the best ideas I currently know and at the same time holding t...

I think this 'rush' of meaning is why 'time' was Heidegger's symbol or synonym for existence at one point. The first draft of Being and Time was calle...

Nice. I'm glad we can meet on this. You focused perhaps on external community (one important aspect) while I was focusing on something like 'internal ...

What comes to my mind are too 'gaps' that are related but maybe worth distinguishing. There is the gap between the individual and his community and th...

I was referring to the finite resolution of language as I sometimes experience it. The lifestream can take itself as an 'object' (it has a kind of mem...

I very much agree with you here. This kind of thing is beautifully addressed in Towards the Definition of Philosophy (early and 'breakthrough' Heidegg...

Good faith. I am pro-philosophy. I am a weirdo who stubbornly uses language that gets itself misunderstood. I would rather say something big awkwardly...

Well I think we are 'in' language-with-others in a way that's hard to specify. In some ways the isolated ego is a theoretical fiction. I've been looki...

Wow. People really do hate philosophy at times. But then what happened to Socrates again?

Good point. Yeah, Heidegger famously got himself mocked for his nothing that nothings. The poetic phrases are bad in that they can confuse but good in...

For me we still have the problem here that 'sensory impressions' and 'quarks' are signs that point to meanings that themselves point beyond themselves...

For me this bottom-up approach is not the way to go. We can't atomize the mind and reconstruct it. Of course you mention emergent properties, so you s...

I like the sound of this but I haven't quite grasped the first part. I like the 'noumenal' as a hidden aspect of all our apprehensions. I am open to g...

You may a fascinating point. Is this a defense of pure meaning? I can relate. But what's fascinating is our stretching toward this pure meaning. We wa...

Great question! I relate this to the dark place from which we speak and listen, a kind of 'nothingness' that haunts the 'ideal subject' and makes it i...

If a philosopher decides to classify such fictional entities in categories, is he not in the same situation as the author? In what sense and where do ...

Thanks for your reply. I like this. We can think of someone embracing there not being some hidden outside and just learning to enjoy the play of a sea...

I'm liking it. It's great sharing in something beautiful. If I had to pick a fundamental philosophical motive, I'd say it's a journey toward sharing s...

I respect that. I love Hegel. I've had my doubts about Derrida, a kind of resistance to him. I felt the same way about Heidegger. Eventually I was won...

I agree that it asks for a meaning. I guess one of the things I'm getting from Derrida so far is the impossibility of a perfect separation of sign fro...

That's a pretty great description of Hell. I've been there. In some ways not being able to say it is the very heart of its darkness. The flow outward ...

Beautiful. What comes to my mind is something like authenticity as being in touch with always being still a sinner and a fool to some degree. God has ...

Since you like short posts, I'll do my best to focus on this. Is the distinction of the signfied from the signifier ever perfect? A related question i...

That's definitely along the lines of what I'm saying. We might say (never quite getting it right) that the subject 'is' the process of signification, ...

I think this 'negative theology' (of Derrida and others) addresses the 'infinity' of the other (not finite, not bounded.) To exist is to be open 'forw...

I like the sentiment. I wasn't generalizing though. As I said, I had a particular person in mind. I have lived the difficultly of the situation of def...

I mention in conversation above that Derrida seemed like a negative theologian to me. I also see something like the progress of incarnation in iconocl...

You do touch on a profound issue here. For me to enjoy my 'negative theology' next to my space heater and my clock radio playing classical music, I ha...

OK. How would you categorize the idea that virtue is itself already 'heaven'? It feels good to be good. There are different ways to feel good, but som...

I am more guilty here. I do propose that we think in the direction of happiness. The word 'pleasure' has a crude connotation. We think of pleasure see...

Must we fit it into that jacket? IMV, what I am pointing at is likely to interpreted 'mechanically' or in terms of fixed entities. I have something mo...

I agree that our highest or most individual selves are in something like our (passionate) minds. What to me is fascinating is that our highest reaches...

I think a vague dualism is defensible in terms of understanding the distinction to be non-absolute. Another fix might be to recognize the intrinsic 's...

Exactly. In some ways collapsing distinctions (this is 'really' just that) is simply moving backwards on the dialectical trail. A forward movement mig...

I agree, and denying this would seem to make the very project of philosophy senseless. What is one denying exactly if there is no shared worlds or sim...

I can relate to this project. What I meant by 'weight' was something like a clarifying force. Any 'ism' that doesn't understand what motivates its opp...

This makes sense to me. I can't look at the other as a machine to be fixed, even if that is part of the situation. There is a religious aspect of frie...

I agree, and this for me threatens the distinction of guru and anti-guru. I some experience them as means to an end. But for me philosophy eventually ...

Wow. That's a powerful quote. Speaking only as a passinate reader who's trying to make sense of it all (and having only recently really looked int Hus...

I like to think of embers still hidden in the ashes. When I'm really doing philosophy (reading a book that is really doing it for me or writing paraph...

I like 'scenic' in its emphasis on a world, a social context. The depth of the we tends to be forgotten. Or at least I overlooked it in prior more ego...

Wow. Beautifully said. I love the ending, and that resonates for me. The origin is anticipated. Speaking of forgetfulness, Derrida also mentions a for...