We can, and have, set up limited systems within which rigid rules operate. To put forward the ‘chair’ example is to side on the position that there is...
Mentioning the cognitive bias doesn’t make you immune to it though. It’s a lazy slight used far too often on forums to shut people down. Then again, a...
We probably ‘should’, but it’s far easier to work from assumptions based on hearsay and perpetuated ideologies. We’re only human, don’t be so harsh on...
We’re ‘expressions’ of life after all when you think about it. I make moral judgements about other ‘expressions’ of life, but to judge ‘life’ seems ra...
I didn’t. I said ‘even if ...’ I value life probably due to the bias of being among the living. I kind of enjoy being alive. I’m also glad that I’ll d...
In that case I’d say the occasional punch in the face is valuable for humanity - I’d just rather it wasn’t always the same person getting punched in t...
Clearly his life has value now. We know who you’re talking about, so there is clear value there. How he is of value is another question entirely. I im...
We’re all fabricated stories. Just because I am a story doesn’t make the insignificant. The Enlightenment is also a story. We’re all stories of storie...
Refer to Kant’s “positive noumenon”. It is basically a reference - pointing nowhere - to some contrariness of language that presents the illusion of ‘...
Thank you very much for taking the time to outline what you mean by the terms used :D Other posters of new threads please take note. Meaning we’re all...
I like how you’re coming at this topic, but you seem to gloss over several areas and leap ahead without explaining your ideas. Also, some of the sente...
I’d say it’s ‘tool based’. So I can completely understand why people would be inclined to say ‘scientific’/‘technological’. We create tools for higher...
He probably isn’t. Depends on your stance. He certainly revolutionised the ‘philosophical world’. I do wonder if he was alive today if he’d call himse...
How so? He refers back to Beyond Good and Evil? The Birth of Tragedy was easily the one where I grasped his overarching approach - albeit backed up by...
It’s kind of pointless reading if you know next to nothing about ancient Greek tragedy. Read what Aristotle and Plato have to say about ‘poetry’ first...
I wasn’t suggesting otherwise. My point was that I don’t see exactly how a more ‘destructive’ solution to problems wouldn’t be the grounding of later ...
Evidence? Are you suggesting a human without language cannot think? If so you must be using the terms ‘language’ and ‘think’ in a particular way. Expl...
I agree we learn more by collaborating. I don’t see it as the first port of call though. Maybe once we learn the long term benefit of collaboration (s...
I’ve had a look. Given that it was your posts that made me mention phenomenology I think I’ll stick to thinking you don’t quite understand what phenom...
The irony here is that you made a point which I assumed was an attempt to sum up phenomenology, but was actually a refutation of phenomenology. There ...
Okay. But you I thought you said above that there was no subjective/objective dichotomy? That is essentially the position phenomenology works from, so...
What I was talking about was interaction between brainwaves to operate a computer. It was actually a woman from Vietnam that started the company up in...
In simplistic terms, yeah. It’s something like that. If we splice in Kantian terminology here, what we call ‘objective’ is intersubjectivity, the ‘sub...
If that’s the case you misunderstood then. The ‘existence’ of the tree isn’t the direct concern of the phenomenological investigation. The concern is ...
I wasn’t necessarily talking about violent action. If there is a problem it seems to me that dealing with it in a cooperative manner is not the first ...
I’m more or less suggesting that our cooperation grew from an initial destructive tendency. I certainly put a lot of weight into ‘empathy’, but I stil...
Look at this. You’re looking for an argument against something you define and then say you can’t define. It’s nonsense. People have already said certa...
There is no debate here. There is no point being made. All I see is absurdism and word play. I’ll leave you to keep create goal posts and/or destroyin...
Nope. If you change the rules you aren’t playing the same game. How do you know anyway what ‘perfect knowledge’ is? You’ve already admitted you don’t ...
You’d have to use an abstraction that doesn’t relate so obviously to human feelings and emotions. There is some parallel to the thought experiment I p...
God allows Evil. There is no getting away from that. The only plausible argument is that he made Evil for some unseen benefit - to us or God. The argu...
No. The tree you see (with your eyes) is a transcendental object of experience. The point of transcendental reduction is to bracket out your concern f...
No. It wouldn’t make it ‘rational’ or ‘logical’ either. Given that emotional weight is part of rational understanding and positioning it is fallacious...
A hard sell given the scripture and the simple fact that men and women are actually different in some respects. Of course we should strive for equal o...
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