Speaking from the perspective of common sense, I of course agree. I relate to an experience like that, but I tend to interpret it in terms of condensa...
Hi. I like this questioning of the 'now.' It seems to be a kind of default metaphysical assumption, and yet I argue that it does not square with exper...
If I insist that there is a blind-spot for human reason determinable by reason itself, then I have at least one sure result, in the name of this same ...
Oh I very much agree with you here. To be blunt, our situation is freaky, mysterious, uncanny, wonderful. And yet practical life obscures this. 'One' ...
I'm tempted. My threads haven't exactly been taking off, though. I'm trying to minimize my annoyance of other people without just saying nothing. I'm ...
Indeed. There's no question that meaning is sufficiently determinate for practical life. So please don't misunderstand my point in terms of the explos...
Indeed. And I am more ironist or mystic than philosopher. But to clarify my point, let me ask you a hypothetical question. How would you react if a ph...
I guess I'd just exclude these philosophers from the narrow idea of philosophy that I was working with or include them as late philosophers who determ...
Ah yes, I remember that thread. I'd just like to emphasize that I don't at all deny meaning. Indeed, I am playing with a theory that radically priorit...
I'm happy to answer this, since this is the very heart of the issue. I mention again that the theory I'm presenting is to speculative or strange to ac...
I completely agree. 'Feeling is first.' We need concepts and metaphors of course, but this is the 'letter' and not the 'spirit.' This spirit is 'the f...
I think this touches on a problem you've already mentioned, the difficulty of finding the right words. We have different conceptualizations of the fut...
I thought I'd sketch what I think is the strongest non-philosophical position. I'll use 'ironism' and 'ironist' but I have a certain kind of skeptic i...
This seems important to me. I get a similar idea from Hegel. Do you have an opinion on Hegel? Would you not say that this happened even before natural...
My question is whether we can ever have pure information? Clearly we have the concept of information that is able to be 'encoded in any number of phys...
This is a deep issue, but I think that one can (not at all must) argue that the 'intellect' is one more sign within a steam of signs that refers to re...
What do you make of the pairing of 'meaning' and its 'vehicle'? For instance, the intelligible aspect of the voice as opposed to its arbitrary sound. ...
Great post. I like the mention of World 3. Have you looked into Husserl? Whatever 'meaning' is, it is largely objective (unbiased) and effective in wh...
Great Horkheimer quote. Something occurs to me 'against' the pop atheists. Let's just pretend that somehow religion was erased from the earth. Do we h...
I'm tempted to say yes, but I think 'absolute idealism' is no longer this kind of idealism or attempts to transcend and include it. Still what idealis...
Indeed. And what do you think of the idea of the primacy of the future for human beings? We 'incarnate' the future, acting in the present in terms of ...
Beautifully put. But @"Wayfarer" himself emphasized detachment. I think we can all meet on this common ground. I suggest that the move basic to both '...
I'm enjoying your posts. I'd like to hear more about the religious conception of time. Heidegger was influenced by this and did some great work with i...
What I was stressing is that the individual brain is structured to work with other brains. To think the brain in isolation is misleading. We can stare...
Note that the entire gist of my post was about idealism and humanism. Because I was describing philosophy at a high level of abstraction, the words 'r...
I think you are bound to misunderstand me if you try to zoom in on this or that word and interpret it within this or that narrow system. By 'essence' ...
Hi. Thanks for joining the thread. The very idea that 'rational' and 'real' can or need to be defined in a few other words is questionable in my view....
If I understand you correctly, you are suggesting a gap between us and reality in its nakedness? A Hegelian might say that this gap is a negation with...
Hi. Thanks for jumping in. I like what you say above. I'd like to suggest that Hegel had no choice in his own eyes as far as 'cribbing' from others. T...
Indeed, I read science in its most expansive and romantic conception of itself as a 'theology' of the real understand in terms of publicly available o...
I agree, and internalizing it differentiated it. We are all 'still Protestants' inasmuch as we believe in freedom, one might say. The meta-belief (the...
I think we are really at the heart of things here. Science in one understanding of itself (a quasi-religious understanding) is a passivity before the ...
I like this. I think we can also speak of reason as the divine intellect. To be reasonable in the highest sense of the word is to incarnate the 'divin...
Indeed, and Heidegger and other thinkers continue the demolition of this picture. 'Language is the house of being' is 'idealism' as my (mis)reading of...
I agree. The scientific subject is an ideal, unbiased subject. It is ideal both as an idea and a goal. Indeed. What occurs to me is that this is preci...
Good point. I think those who can see beyond the fray mostly just avoid it. Others (like ourselves) can't resist suggesting a third position outside t...
Indeed. And defining rationality pretty soon becomes philosophy's project. To determine the rational is in some sense to determine everything else. If...
Indeed. We close ourselves off, often to exactly what we need to hear. In theory we need to hear, but in practice we aren't ready to listen. In practi...
What could maybe be added here is inter-subjectivity. Or rather I think 'inter-subjectivity' is still too theoretical but points to what I have in min...
The first meaning of idealism given by the SEP is From the 'idealistic' point of view I want to present, the definition above is a misunderstanding of...
For what it's worth, I think politics is the effective manifestation of philosophy in the world. I don't mean 'effective' as in good or bad. I just me...
You make a good point. All I get from the argument is that determinism is not rationally justified if determinism is true. This doesn't (obviously, to...
Indeed. It's tricky. Because I know a few people who have been just eaten up by substance abuse. I'm probably lucky in that I don't like alcohol that ...
I've looked into Horkheimer. I liked what I read. You mentioned 'subjectivization' of meaning, but the annihilation of the isolated subject seems like...
I get it Aquinas, Aristotle, Hegel. Indeed, the idea of the idea. No complaint. We are on the same page as far as I can tell on that particular issue....
Thanks for the Aristotle quote. I think it's quite clear that they were at one on this issue. Meaning is not subjective. It is objective. It is the po...
Before I argue with you on this, let me say that I recognize your intelligence, even if we disagree. Maybe this is unnecessary, but I'd say real conve...
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