Do you know everyone in your country? No strangers? Do you allow all of them in your home? Do you have as much say in who enters your neighbor's house...
This is a faulty analogy. Your country is made up of strangers, many of whom you may not want in your home. I think this should sound familiar to you ...
#7 continues the issue of #6: That is, the requirement that the absolute be felt and intuited. Then: The result is the opposite of what it intended. F...
Do you imagine that when you close your eyes the world disappears? I have done just what you say must be done, only with your eyes shut you do not see...
This has become a problem in many countries. What is not always so clear is how much the problem is created by the influx of immigrants and how much i...
A great deal has been written about Aristotle's concealment. Here I want to point out a few things that may serve as hints as to whether Aristotle is ...
Call it what you like but it is nothing more than a claim for the existence of a being whose existence you assert but cannot prove or demonstrate exis...
Philos means love sophia wisdom. Although philosophy is today primarily an academic study that was not always the case, but if you hope to get paid th...
Plato's Forms - when I first came across this and for several years after I took this to be the truth, accessible to those few who have had transcende...
Yes, but this needs to be understood within the whole, that is, it is comprehensive in the double sense of comprehend and inclusive of the subject mat...
What you may regard to be the relationship between thought and reality is simply your thoughts on that relationship. A clear example of why your simpl...
If philosophy is something highly personal then what counts as a weed would be highly personal. And sometimes we may come to change our mind. There is...
I don't think it is ominous. It is not: but rather, a school or trend or approach or individual that some are opposed to. Of course there are differen...
#6: Hegel is opposing his claim that: with the claim that it is not the concept but the feeling and intuition or immediate knowing of the absolute whi...
With regard to quantum mechanics and time: "Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time" https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-leaps-l...
I am agnostic regarding the observer's role at the quantum level, but at larger scales I do not think the observer effects the outcome of what is obse...
This is part of what Wittgenstein was getting at regarding solipsism. He is not using solipsism in the sense of doubting the existence of an external ...
I don't follow. Address what? You quoted several things. Experience is always my experience. I don't think so. The inward workings of the mind would b...
The whole of the subject matter includes not just the result of what has been worked out but the working out itself, which is to say, the working itse...
How could we know how close we get? But this is the wrong way to look at it. With regard to the facts of the world we should be able to agree. But my ...
What are you going on about? There is nothing commercial or reactionary about what he says. He points to Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Bohr and Einstein fo...
There are various forms of skepticism. As opposed to modern skepticism the ancient skeptic does not claim that we cannot know, as if this were a thing...
No, it is that you do not get it, and you don't seem to be aware of what 'it' is. The only straw men are of your making - your attack on non-present '...
The question of the age of the universe cannot be dismissed as vacuous by invoking Sellars' "myth of the given". Of course the determination of the ag...
In a double sense. It is not just that they have grown individually and separately but that they have grown one from the other to form the whole. Trad...
Some things is posted in the Tractatus reading group thread page 14. 5.6 The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. — T What is the signif...
In Classical Chinese philosophy there is the School of Names. One of its dialogues is "White horse is not horse". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_a...
From #1. The first thing at issue is: It is: What is essential to the question of how to present philosophical truth is not how presentation is carrie...
Tim, could you take a look at one of the translations I linked to and see if you can find some common numbering? The two I linked use the same numberi...
It was about the Baille translation. I deleted the link. I think the Miller is still widely used. It was what we used in the last class I took, but th...
I was thinking in terms of the development of character which was central to the ancient schools of philosophy but not so much to modern and contempor...
The German title is "Phänomenologie des Geistes". Geistes is translated as either Spirit or Mind. Same book. The link I provided is not the Kaufmann t...
That is a common problem. I am not sure we can really get behind those who came later and stand between us, but being aware of it helps. Those who inf...
My approach is not archaeological. The works of Plato and Aristotle, for example, are in my opinion as vital today as they were when they were written...
Confidential communications sent by British ambassador to the United States critical of Trump and his administration were leaked. He hurt Trump's feel...
Here is an interesting discussion between Davies and scientists from several different disciplines entitled "The Reality Club": https://www.edge.org/d...
Light is used as a unit of measurement. Of course. There is no human activities, including measurements, that are not devised by humans Our understand...
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