While much is made of Nietzsche’s Dionysian desires, it is the Apollonian maxim: know thyself, that is central to Nietzsche. But to know yourself you ...
Luke, I appreciate your continued attempt to bring clarity, but it appears to be a fool's errand. There is always some way in which something can be m...
You really have not understood any of this. For those who do, I am sure they find it all very amusing, but it reaches the point where it becomes all t...
Do you ever tire of stating the obvious? To reply in kind: nope and nope. You need to get passed your Platonism. Congratulations. Some of us had to wo...
It is evident that you misunderstood me. Go back and figure it out. Of course its relevant. It's relevant to the meaning of the term political correct...
That may be what you do here, but philosophical argument is a means not an end. The confusion is all yours. Political correctness is a type of correct...
Once again, we need to look at the history of the term, how it is being used, by whom, and to what end. From the Harvard Political Review (http://harv...
Dig: many of the cats who blew the horn got hooked on horse. I am sorry to say, but your still miss the point. Read the wiki article about how the ter...
If the term is used according to its intended meaning and affect then it is not being misused. The term has no meaning independent of its use. This is...
Trump was using the term exactly as conservatives intend to use it, to summarily dismiss anything said by the opposition. Fox was not being too politi...
Let's be clear. When Trump attacks others for being PC it is not because he is bothered by their attempt to avoid language or behavior that can be see...
You miss the point. There is no misuse of political correctness. It is a label, a code that says bullshit here. That is precisely its use. There are p...
Yes, I have referenced that article in a couple of earlier posts. But this does not tell me what you mean by political correctness and why you are not...
If it were something Trump and his supporters did not like they too would, and have, threatened to boycott. Except they would not call it political co...
If it is still not clear, here is what is at issue. In the words of Trump, from a tweet in response to the suspension of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro. ...
There are various things labeled political correctness, all of them were called something else in the past. There has always been censorship and vario...
From the wiki article on political correctness: PC is the face of the conservative battle against progressivism. For more on the history of this as we...
Because there is more to it. Some people feel that their way of life is being threatened by those who are going to tell them how to live, what to say ...
First of all, my attitude is not PC. This actually illustrates what makes so difficult the kind of rational debate you think is the solution. Not ever...
Here is a question that is not often asked in these discussions: Does nature conform to our ability to comprehend it? Put differently: What is logic a...
Of course its a power play! Politics is always a power play. We need to pay attention to how it is being played. It is not just those who are accused ...
It is not about you. You expressed a common sentiment. What alternative do you favor? No. The problem is living without them may be. I do not have hig...
This misses the bigger picture. It is not about etiquette, although etiquette is certainly a part of it. It is about social norms, which include but a...
I like Alan Bloom's translation and commentary. Between the notes and commentary one has a much better chance of understanding the text than with the ...
Political correctness is a symptom of a much larger and more serious problem - the lack of coherent social norms. We are in a struggle to establish so...
I think that there is another issue here having to do with the limits of language. Why is it that one can't put certain things into words? But just wh...
The question of what this thread is about has been foremost in my mind from the beginning. I still haven't figured it out. It may be there is no figur...
The last point is the problem. It depends on the meaning of 'use'. I use it in the same sense that Wittgenstein does - use in practice. Reading a text...
Wittgenstein is often implicated but is not guilty by association. I think creativesoul agrees with this but thinks it requires an argument to demonst...
Who writes in hieroglyphs? Who writes or speaks in Demotic or any form of ancient Greek? There are a few people who know how to read these languages b...
Knowing the meaning of what? The language or a particular text? If it is the former then it is no different from my example of English. If you mean th...
If you know English you do not automatically know the meaning of a particular text written in English. In fact, there may be various interpretations o...
Do you imagine that this is not so obvious that you have to state it? The meaning of a text is not dependent upon anyone at time T actually understand...
Although it is a common term Judeo-Christian is a misnomer, originally a mishmash Judaism and paganism, in time the Judeo part was demonized and cut f...
You posted this right before I finished asking if you had seen it. My post was originally longer but I decided to edit out comments about the discussi...
Well there is the carelessness of not using the preview function and not seeing that the quotations were not set off as such, and the lack of care and...
Yes, online articles that were linked and referenced. I originally posted this on another forum but when I reposted it here the quote function did not...
So, what you are asking is whether a text has meaning if no one understands the language? If so, then I would say yes. It may be that the language can...
What does it mean for a text to have users? The user of a text may not be the same thing as a reader of the text. There are plenty of texts that I hav...
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