More important than whatever is said in these threads is what the dominant narrative will be that shapes what happens going forward. It has become sta...
What I said was: The second clause qualifies the first. If they are equally primary it means that no one of them is primary or before the others. That...
You said: I take it that "this" refers to: But such things are not exclusively the domain of analytic philosophy or modern or contemporary philosophy....
This is an interesting point because it is often assumed that in philosophy's progress such ideas are relegated to the dust bin of history. But Joseph...
The primary purpose is to once again ask the question of the meaning of being. The everyday mode of existence is the starting point for his explicatio...
No. I made no such claim. What I am claiming is that the things you mentioned can be found there. I should have added that these things are not the ex...
I am not sure if you are taking issue with the claim that discourse is not about what we do, that it is not, for example, as Arne would have it, turni...
From the New York Times: The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. P...
What Heidegger says is that the intelligibility of our being-in-the-world is expressed in discourse and the way in which discourse gets expressed is l...
It is not a question of limiting the discussion but of identifying whether you are interpreting BT, introducing other works by H., or addressing somet...
I hear this quite often. While I do not think there is anything wrong with going beyond what a particular philosopher says, it leads to all kinds of c...
The proper question is where do you, frank, think the statement comes from and what do you think it means. How you answer the first question should de...
It was a rhetorical question. I asked in order to provide the answer I gave. But also, such questions should be asked by anyone who is interested in i...
While I agree that they would not characterize what they are doing as the pursuit of wisdom, it is simply not true that those days are long gone. When...
Such an understanding of ethics is at odds with the prevailing schools of thought - deontology and consequentialism. Nussbaum's views are not original...
What does Heidegger mean when he says, as quoted above: "Discourse is the articulation of intelligibility."? To articulate is to separate or distingui...
I agree, but would go further. Reason is determinate for Kant not just for personhood but for moral action. It abstracts from particulars such as circ...
There is nothing Darwinian about it, except the name and a misunderstanding of evolution. I am not interested in arguing the point. Perhaps some other...
What's wrong with social Darwinism is that it is an ill-conceived and misguided concept. But yes, it attempts to defend immorality or at least moral i...
Here is a link: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=90&page=transcript Prescient. The "military-industrial complex". One difference i...
I think they want to eliminate any threat to the United States from anywhere in the world. One way to try and avoid war is by negotiating and compromi...
What does my "bias" have to do with the economic, political, and judicial realities of the time? You asked me about one thing but then jumped to anoth...
The goal is to control those in power, those who would attempt to seize power, and the people. The people are most easily controlled, that is, less li...
Does it need a foundation? Does it need an argument to be persuasive. The only persuasion necessary was the persuasive force of penalty for those who ...
No, I am saying that this seems to be Bolton's position. You asked why do Bolton and Pompeo want a war with Iran. The primary motivation is self-inter...
Of course the laws should be kept in place. Children need to be protected and educated. What does this have to do with laissez faire? In part it has t...
How free should a free market be? Are child labor laws to be abolished? Are environmental regulations an undue burden on a free market? A growing dang...
I think Bolton believes that peace, stability, freedom, and democracy can only be established if we dominate the region by military force, but the mot...
First, there is a difference between jokes and humor. Second, it depends on who is telling the joke. A joke I might tell about myself or my situation ...
Claims that the self is an illusion typically amount to the claim that our concepts of self are problematic, that the picture one might have of the se...
Although this is not addressed to me I would like to respond. I think it is the result of bad arguments, something that is only problematic for some w...
Don't underestimate Trump. The Republican Party did and now he owns them. They went from dismissing him as a joke, to accepting him because he had to ...
But I am not sure Trump genuinely knows what he wants. He is an opportunist. He will play any angle that he thinks is to his own advantage, and what i...
A minor victory in Trump's war against a free press - Trump should not allow Stephanopoulos to ask him anything at all because Stephanopoulos supporte...
Not necessarily. Pointing to N. does not mean to hold some fact about him in mind. I might mention some fact about N. in order to help identify the pe...
It might be the person I am talking about who says things on a philosophy forum that others cannot make sense of, or the person I am pointing to rathe...
We use the term 'know' in a variety of different ways. An old song comes on the radio. I say I know that song, but if someone asks me what the words a...
I think what Wittgenstein is breaking the connection we may have formed of meaning as consisting of a mental picture. To mean N. does not mean to have...
When the picture comes to mind I might think: "Oh, I am supposed to meet N. for lunch", or I might smile and wonder how he is doing, or various other ...
Yes, if he were mistaken or delusional he might act in the same way. What is at issue, however, is not the veracity of the image. Suppose a picture of...
Wittgenstein asks: what did its being him consist of? Its being him is shown by what he does and what he says, that is, how he responds to the picture...
I am not familiar with the literature on intention and reference so this may not address you question. I do not think it is an examination of either i...
The underlying question, as the context makes clear, is about meaning. One answer is that meaning is a mental activity, that in this case consists in ...
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