Fooloso4

I don't know. Perhaps Wittgenstein. Although it may be more of an attack on scientism.

I don't know where you got that from anything I said. I am talking about the significance of Zarathustra's "good news" - God is dead. How the death of...

Wheeler said "everything is information". Does that fit somewhere in your categories? I am not arguing that Nietzsche's views are compatible with Whee...

You seem to have missed the point of what I am saying. The desire to find meaning in the universe is not a linguistic quest. Nietzsche denies that suc...

I think there is first and foremost a difficult interpretive challenge here. Just a few quick points. The quote is from Beyond Good and Evil Chapter 2...

For those who seek meaning in the universe it means, but is not limited to, questions of purpose, significance, and our place in it.

As I understand it, Nietzsche denies transcendent, absolute, unchanging truths. Some contemporary physicists do as well, although others treat the law...

Wayfarer was quoting me so I'll respond. The problem is not with the meaning of the term. I suspect you know that.

I am not well versed in the subject of the philosophy of law, but I would think there is a distinction between the law as it is written and the questi...

The evidence of their belief is the fact that they are able to distinguish a red post-box from all else. But we are now just repeating ourselves.

We are not talking about the various uses of the work 'know'. We are talking about skepticism. How is it that when: the skeptic is still justified in ...

You previously said: but now: So which is it? Does a person know it or is the skeptic justified in asking for the reason they think they know it?

The quote is from The Gay Science Aphorism #109. It should be read in context. What he warns against is regarding the universe as a machine. He says: ...

I took a look at what was available to read on Amazon. The only thing "Look Inside" reveals is the forward by Hedley on the legacy of the Parmenides. ...

Nietzsche did not kill God. He traces God's death back to the Enlightenment. He does not deny science. What he denies is the: But this is not Nietzsch...

I agree.

Rather than argue the correctness of my position I will indicate why I find it more compelling. It is an intellectual challenge. I cannot, of course, ...

The resources of our will are all we have ever had. With these resources man invented God. Man created the myths of creation and purpose. Man created ...

Hello my old friend. I think the larger question that informs your inquiry is that of the intelligible order and the intelligence that is its author. ...

With Nietzsche context is always important. "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him ... Is not the greatness of this deed too great for...

Nietzsche is not talking about something that is yet to happen. God is already dead. A time of meaninglessness and bloodshed could describe much of hi...

But you previously said: and then: So, the person sees green yet knows that the post-box is red despite his sense impression not because of it. Now it...

What color is the mailbox in the dark? Does this mean that if I them to paint the box red one will do so correctly and the other will paint it green? ...

Speaking as someone, that is not at all what I mean. What I really mean is that I am able to distinguish between post-boxes that are red and post-boxe...

OC 3: If e.g. someone says "I don't know if there's a hand here" he might be told "Look closer". - This possibility of satisfying oneself is part of t...

Shhh. I want to keep my secret wiring a secret.

I have not presented a philosophical outlook. My comments were intended to point to the problem faced in asking the question. It you are asking whethe...

You might find this interesting: https://aeon.co/essays/does-consciousness-come-from-the-brains-electromagnetic-field

I was responding to your question: I don't think it is helpful to introduce one problem as the solution to another. It is clear that you do not see th...

Well, not in the Tractarian sense of the terms. I would be interested.

Thank you for confirming my suspicion that Bloom did not call him a martyr. The passage does not say in what way it might be useful. I think it has to...

It is not an argument I can't challenge. It is a weak and sophomoric argument. It is an argument I won't spend my time and energy challenging.

This presupposes a problematic representational theory of perception. I do not see two things - the thing in front of me and the thing in my mind. Sup...

There are too many questionable assumptions here posing as facts that it is pointless to argue with you.

This is why I prefaced my remarks with the quote from Wittgenstein. From Stanford: "The term ‘proposition’ has a broad use in contemporary philosophy....

Suppose you show me a sample of a red paint chip. I agree that this is what I call red, but this does not get us any further. What I am seeing, what i...

Yes, but the question of who wrote it cannot be ignored. Your claim is that God wrote it. So, where is it written and how do you know God wrote it? qu...

I'm saying there is no way to compare. Anything that you show me would be something that I see.

Imagine you come across two freshly painted signs next to each other. One says "keep out" and the other says "welcome". You conclude that someone does...

Are you claiming to know the mind of God? Or simply the moral norms and values given to us? And if the latter, how do you know that whichever moral no...

"Is my red your red"? I don't know. Show me your red.

A prefae to the remarks that follow: Wittgenstein: “The language used by philosophers is already deformed, as though by shoes that are too tight” . Ju...

The suspicion is that Socrates was lying about his daimon. He said it always guided him and kept him from doing harm. But he says being being condemne...

I think the question of why Socrates did not defend himself is an interesting and important one. Perhaps it is an admission of guilt and an acknowledg...

On the first reason, from Xenophon's Memorabilia IV. 8.1: "If anyone thinks that Socrates is proven to have lied about his daimon because the jury con...

My mistake. I only looked at the post to see if the quote was correct. I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that an accurate quote would not be taken to mean t...

This is not the metaphor and it is not mistaken. Wittgenstein knew a thing or two about architecture and engineering. What he says is: 248: 'I have ar...

I suggest Machiavelli was not simply addressing Lorenzo but intended to instruct not only future princes but future philosophers. It is not simply a q...

A key passage in OC is a quote from Goethe's Faust: "In the beginning was the deed." (OC 402) This is expanded upon: "But that means I want to conceiv...

What changed is that Machiavelli was not guided by the image of the Good. As a member of the Megarian school above all else he sought the Good. The Go...