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I like this too. Again I find something like this in Hegel and Heidegger. Phenomenology can be a primal science that doesn't still the flow of life be...

I think this makes sense. We can describe this as the journey of potential freedom toward finding itself as actual freedom. Let's say that enlightenme...

Beautiful. This makes sense to me. As I've been reading Derrida and Heidegger's 'breakthrough' lecture about 'pre-science,' I keep returning to Hegel,...

That is a fascinating theme. In this case I think Derrida really wants to say it, but he's had or rather repeats an 'experience of language' that show...

Have you looked at Spurs? I may type up a quote, but perhaps you've looked at the part about the forgotten umbrella. I think that Derrida finds the op...

I like this interpretation. It helps me make sense of what is going on. Maybe I've misread some of these threads as a kind of game of concepts driven ...

I like this. Husserl is grasping something 'sufficiently' real. There are essences. There is stable-enough meaning. Husserl is not cancelled. His dist...

The living sign is something like a unity of signified and signifier. The four letters S-I-G-N are just letters in themselves. In German we would use ...

The thought of meaning apart from all public signs is problematic. The thought of the pure subject who experiences pure meanings apart from all public...

Thank you for your kind response. I think this is a great issue, and I thought that we were at least in agreement on some insight that was worth clari...

I'd say there are reasons to look inside, that it is indeed tempting to think of meaning as internal. The idea that meaning is on the inside gets some...

I like this. The signifier is 'noise' entangled with history, and therefore genesis and mortality. The signified is a timeless essence. The signified ...

Well this is what reducing 'mind' to 'matter' leads to. Matter gets all the embarrassing and poetic qualities of mind that materialists perhaps wanted...

Yes, assuming a primary substance, I just mean its tendency to be like persons or non-persons (that which inspires the loose, everyday distinction in ...

I'm open to this. I think it's fair, however, to question whether it makes sense to talk about a primary substance. Maybe it does. The mind (or matter...

I agree with the spirit of this. Substance is subject, or subject is substance. But either way this subject or substance tends to divide itself into.....

I'd say the distinction is imperfect but useful. I agree that their interaction shows the limitations of the distinction. At some point these issues l...

I don't mean edgy as in disruptive. I mean that the weight of the idea is reduced as matter swallows what used to be called mind. At most the distinct...

If we say that everything is matter and yet that matter includes mind as a process, we aren't saying much in some sense. The drama or edge of the init...

I'm not for or against mind as a process of matter versus matter as a process of mind, but something occurs to me. If matter includes the process of m...

Materialism is 'the doctrine that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications.' Matter is 'a physical substance in general, as di...

Those are a couple of my favorite ideas. The goal is a mode of existing. 'Virtue is its own reward.' The desired mode is fundamentally giving and frie...

Well I will leave off if others want to keep on that level, but I think the problem can also be dissolved or transformed by looking at a deeper struct...

I understand what you mean, but I think we are something like a movement against this bias, directed at an ideal community that makes truth valuable a...

Thanks. I am writing a reply. Great issue.

You accidentally quoted me as saying your response.

Why does the sign escape this question? I have my thoughts, but I wonder if others like this line and have something to say.

Beautifully expressed. I agree. The idea of mind-independent existence falls apart in some sense. But I also think the thought of the subject depends ...

One perspective that occurs to me is that red is the color of fire-engines because the socially synchronizing function dominates and maybe even produc...

I like this, and this is itself a map to aid us in the journey or our map making on its journey into its blindness.

Is reality partially made of questions? To that degree, he has a point. Any description or name of the real that forgets the question and its own nami...

Excellent point. And if our speaking is directed outward in order to change (initially) the imperfectly mutually experienced conceptual and emotional ...

But only in the doing of it, perhaps. To think the other of division is to divide. Division's other is a product of division (while maybe division is ...

Very beautifully put. Spirit has to lick its wings clean to know itself as spirit. I like this as a line that brings everything down to earth. Instead...

This to me is the thought of the pure, eternal present -- the 'pure witness.' This 'I am' at its most general, the 'I am' that anyone (and therefore n...

I like what @"Jake" says about transcending the sign-system itself, eschewing the articulation of the absolute as its self-violation. 'Don't try.' The...

Thanks. I wish I could claim those metaphors, but they are mostly borrowed. As for increasing self-awareness, that is indeed one of my favorite ideas ...

Indeed. I just singled out one line, but the quality is reliably present in other lines too.

Just wanted to pop in to say that this is a beautiful line...

Have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2bPTs8fspk What does speech presuppose? I'd say the ear of an other, if only a self-as-other in s...

This is roughly how I understand Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. I'm looking into Werner Marx's interpretation based on the preface and introduction,...

The more recent argument in the posts above reminded me of Hegel. How might science-directed philosophy be related to quasi-religious philosophy? Sinc...

Hi. I'm reading about this kind of issue in Husserl at the moment. I think the idea is that we deduce them from experience as always already structuri...