The idea that aesthetic judgments are subjective is often taken to mean "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". In which case whatever someone believe...
In Kant's Critique of Judgment the judgment that something is beautiful or sublime is independent of concepts. That is, it is universal but not based ...
(Critique of Judgment 54) In the Critique of Judgment Kant uses the term 'objective' to mean 'disinterested'. A valid judgment of taste is subjective,...
Right. He is responsible for holding a gun to her head. He is responsible for frightening her. I would say that he failed to do what he set out to acc...
He can frighten them but they are responsible for being frightened? Right, the robber with a gun frightened the teller. The teller did not frighten he...
So, the bank teller and not the bank robber should be held responsible for the money being stolen at gunpoint since the bank teller handed over the mo...
Why the West Coast? Resistance to autocracy is not unique to the West Coast. But how effective would such resistance be without the backing of the mil...
A hang-up? Most Americans prefer a degree of freedom and choice. Under an autocratic leader both are imperiled. It may not be possible to vote an auto...
And never underestimate what they would need to do to bring about such change. I agree. But I think that this is a clear indication that not all chang...
If someone holds a gun to your head and threatens to kill you, what if anything is terrifying you? Would it be the same if you knew it was a toy water...
As I said: Speech, demeanor, gaffes, are not sufficient measures of cognitive ability and decision making capacity. Biden has dealt with the problem o...
The fact of the matter is: they don't know, but there are serious problems that cast doubt on the possibility. As with Forms and particulars one is th...
When in Plato's Phaedo Socrates says: (64a) this should be seen in light of what he said in the Apology: (40c). Not knowing what will be, the focus of...
I think it would be better for the nation if Biden did not run again, but the political good is not the same as the political will and neither has muc...
Maybe. Some jurors are capable of separating what the defendants did from what she did. I don't know if the fact that Trump's affairs and cover ups do...
What bearing does any of this have on the question of whether Trump and his co-defendants are guilty of election interference? What is it about this "...
Perhaps the latter is the result of unreasonable expectations about the former. As if by asking a question there must then be an answer. The natural s...
You do not "create" words. You make use of words, most of which have been around long before you. Whatever discretion you use in organizing them follo...
You could not mean something by using them if the words did not have meaning. Your meaning something by using them means that they are not just random...
You have been extended far more than a little good faith! But no matter how often I point out the contradictions you either cannot see them or refuse ...
You do not know Plato well enough to know that nothing in the dialogue supports your claims. Again you skip over the issue - words have meaning. It is...
If you care to understand it and are not just mining for statements that seem to support your claims, then you would do well to start by acknowledging...
You point to what you believe to be: but do not understand what it is he has in mind. The founder of the noble lie does not believe his own lie. His p...
If there is an asymmetry it is between someone who speaks persuasively about things that are not true and someone who is persuaded by false speech. An...
Hegel says that within the development or self-movement of spirit the esoteric becomes exoteric. (Phenomenology of Spirit, Preface, 13) That is, what ...
We may not be talking about the same thing. Philosophers have hidden their meaning not because it contains mystic knowledge but because they want to a...
If by esoteric knowledge you mean knowledge that is hidden because it is being kept secret then if it is made public it would no longer be esoteric. B...
That would depend on what you mean by the term. As I understand it, it is knowledge gained through some kind of transcendent experience. It is known o...
Good point. I should have pointed out that the question of generation (and decay) is what the passages I quoted from the Phaedo regarding Forms and ca...
Perhaps sooner or later you will come across something that addresses what I am saying rather than correcting misunderstandings that someone else migh...
Does that mean that at least some of what you claim the Buddhist knows about reality that the rest of us do not know is not something known by the Bud...
See, for example, Socrates discussion of his "second sailing" (99d): (99d-100e) He goes on to admit that this this is inadequate and that material cau...
Actually my questions are in response to the question you asked. If that worldview is based on knowledge of reality then why not a single unified view...
What is that worldview? Is it individual or common to all Buddhist monks? What are we to make of divergent views within and between Buddhist schools o...
My question in line with this tread is the extent to which possible knowledge is mistaken for actual knowledge. I might grant that it is possible that...
More precisely, they would not do anything to prevent what they believe is the prophesied final holy war that will usher in the end time and their bei...
I think so. But we (you and I) don't know what Plotinus or Proclus knows, do we? They claim to know something we do not. You seem inclined to believe ...
I am not interesting in turning this into yet another discussion of the limits and problems of materialism. What in my opinion and consistent with kno...
This much seems clear: 1)There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any treatise (suggramma) of Plato and 2) his philosophical thinking does not...
What is made explicit, as I have pointed out, is that all of the Forms are beyond coming-to-be and passing away but unlike the Good, they are said to ...
The primary defense used by the MAGA nation is something we learned on the playground as children. "I know you are but what am I" or "I am rubber and ...
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