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That would be nice indeed. However, I must note that there is an extra difficulty in doing so in english, for us non-german speakers, on top of everyt...

Guess it was, funny, it sounded fitting at the time. Well, I don't know, but it seems plausible, at least. I will attempt to break it down. The first ...

What I've gathered from Baudrillard, a prima vista, is that he is over pessimistic over the current affairs. I think he means that genealogy, however ...

Well, Jean Baudrillard criticized Foucauldian genealogy, in that it loses (or has lost) its critical power: But then again, the same he believes for A...

There is another quote that you also might find of interest: It seems to me that what Adorno is saying here, is that guilt is an integral part of phil...

The full quote is: From this we/I gather: 1) Philosophy is only mediated through language, language is its only portrayal. No images, gestures, music ...

Poor Jamal, I imagine him saying "I asked for a reading group, and all I got was a metaphysician and a smelly cat!" :grin:

I've been thinking for the last few days of an analogy of what Adorno is saying of dialectics, and its relation to physics, namely thermodynamics, the...

Well, on reflection, maybe not, since negative theology attempts at something positive. For example, when they say "god is not unjust", it is evident ...

Seems like negative/apophatic theology, but without the divine and metaphysical connotations.

I don't think we are doing anything but. :joke:

Nice! I put a spell on you! :) I think I read somewhere in the lectures that Adorno was saying something like detachment while still being attached, o...

I am clueless to what it is you are saying. Nevertheless, how does all this follow from the text? I am not saying you are wrong, but maybe you are get...

So I guess we agree that, on Adorno's view, Hegel saw philosophy as an activity among others and thereby restricted it. How? I don't know either, I gu...

To be clear, I am trying to interpret Adorno. So I think he is saying that philosophy is just another human activity, like politics, science, sociolog...

I am thinking it in terms of separation of powers, much like in the political sense, where each are left to grow on their own terms, with philosophy n...

It had me thinking, if Adorno believes that conceptual thinking is some degrees away from understanding, then how many degrees further would he say is...

A lot has changed since Hegel and Marx. The classes of Victorian era don't exist anymore. Back in those days, a merchant, no matter how wealthy, could...

After having read the SEP article on Adorno and more specifically this: I have to say that for Adorno theory and praxis are two completely different t...

Could we say that the above critique applies to all universal principles, irrespective of their content?

Got it, I think! So instead of "meaning is use", you would replace it with "my meaning is my use", right? But suppose there were indeed such a princip...

In general, I am thinking of the non-identical more as the non-dominating aspect of nature, rather than the irrational.

You are saying that Wittgenstein was a hypocrite? That the famous "meaning is use" is invalid, not because there isn't a correspondence between meanin...

Yes, you are right, I think I misspoke when I said "same" or "similar", hmm "closely related" might be more appropriate, as this is ambiguous enough t...

Sure, there are differences, first and foremost because they belong to different traditions. However, both thinkers seem to be pointing to the same th...

Isn't Adorno's non-identical similar to Wittgenstein's mystical, in that both resist conceptualization? Wittgenstein, early at least, suggests quietis...

I think it is the kind of promise that is central to faith. Faith involves an unspoken, invisible promise, one that is not made by ourselves, but by t...

I think that faith is linked to some promise.

Ok, far tooo long for a response, and I am sorry. Moreover, I forgot what I was going to say... Anyway, here goes. I don't doubt that in the text Socr...

In physics, the mass of an elementary particle is believed to be generated by its passing through a Higgs field: And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hig...

Babysteps, besides we are also talking about experiences and feelings, apart from consciousness. An objective map of all feelings to physical processe...

I just wanted to point out what he sees as : the paucity of objective data. But by monitoring the general population, this problem is solved. Why not ...

Thanks. I sort of skimmed through Chalmers' essay. At some point he says: Can't we monitor people's physiology - brain activity, heart etc - with spec...

Do you think that we can safely rule out reductionism, as far as consciousness is concerned?

Wow, that was quite a ramble! :smile: What on earth was I thinking, where was my consciousness at? Lots of it is was not even readable. Also co-pilot ...

Hegel certainly thought very highly of himself. But how could he not? I mean, his discussion of world-historical figures, combined with the confidence...

Mythical creatures like dragons also constitute a reality, a logical reality, and not a physical one And usually, dragons are admired, as in the song ...

And finally, From all of the above, it seems that in the realm of logic, there is an unrestricted freedom of movement, or at least much greater than i...

Therefore, as long as the various spaces are distinguished and hierarchically arranged as defined above, we can say that geometric space is constraine...

I am sorry Banno, I am on a mission :grin: to finish this, won't take long.

Thought, as the logical image of events defined earlier, contains only the possibility for that thought to be true. According to Wittgenstein's system...

From this, it appears how Wittgenstein understood the relationship between logic and language: anything that is said or can be said is automatically l...

Here, he connects the thought with the logical picture. Therefore, from the above, it may become apparent how Wittgenstein defines the logical, logic:...

Well, it seems that this ongoing reading group is off for a while now, I will try to put it on track again. Nah, I'm joking, I just want to publish so...

I am afraid it is true, philosophy is just idle talk, well for the most part. The resort to Hegel doesn't help either, much more idle talk there. Phil...

Dont be silly, even if theres no meaning in life, one can easily create one with the technique of (auto) suggestion, u can read all about it in the ne...

For sure, doubt is central to Socratic philosophy. That the dialogues often end in aporia is no coincidence, not a bug but a feature, as we would say....

Don't know whether Plato had any hits, but he was definitely a hitman! :smile: As for Socrates:

And so it seems that Socrates, on the false premise that philosophy is the greatest music, went about to produce a philosophy completely devoid and st...

good luck with that!