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The first part of that statement reads: The question then is whether in determining the whither and why of mankind the philosophers would pull in the ...

Yes. As I understand it to know yourself you must become who you are. Nietzsche likens it to the art of the sculpturer, removing all that part of the ...

I prefer Plato to Platonism. And Nietzsche plays a role in making that distinction.

I think this overstates the case. We still read Plato and Aristotle. They played the long political game and made significant advances for freedom of ...

I think it more helpful to determine what someone making the argument for or against materialism or naturalism or metaphysics means. Rather than the m...

Yes. And so can you. Do you want to do away with trial by jury? As you said: So how is that to be determined if not by a jury based on evidence?

This shows just how deeply anti-democratic you are. It also shows a disregard for the legal system.

What if the jury finds him guilty based on evidence? Would that be enough to convince you that he did so fraudulently?

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The movement of Geist (Spirit/Mind) is the movement of the whole to its self-realization, its consciousness of itself. The movement has come full circ...

Yup.

Does Hegel say this?

The whole and not just individuals comes to self-consciousness. The death of the individual is not the end or death of self-consciousness itself even ...

I don't think that the decision to respond or not divides in this way. Since the same topics come up over and over again, some members don't want to r...

The statement was a direct quote from the section "participation". I don't agree, but will leave it there.

I would think that the pragmatist, or some subset of pragmatists, would say that opening the drawer and finding your socks where you claim they there ...

According to the article: This is a common but questionable assumption in the philosophy of education, a vestige of a factory model. A way of measurin...

If you mean individual self-consciousness, it is aufheben. A moment in the self-movement of the whole. In this way self-consciousness is preserved.

Right, but what is the connection between activity and importance? It is easy to post something that will generate a lot of response, but this can be ...

Two philosophers who influenced Hadot are Thoreau and Wittgenstein. He wrote a paper on Thoreau: "There are nowadays Professors of Philosophy, but not...

First, it should be noted that the guidelines were written for teachers leading classroom discussion. I think the following claim is questionable for ...

This is similar to the affliction many suffer when the first read psychology and convince themselves that they have various dire psychological disorde...

The whole. From the preface to the Phenomenology: And: He continues: The universal is unity of the immediacy, direct and unmediated, of knowing and be...

Those who favor autocratic rule would have us believe that the DOJ does not and should not act independently. Trump is quite transparent in his intent...

Those dwelling in the cave are just like us: When Glaucon says how strange this image is Socrates replies: They are just like us ... This does not des...

For the plutocrats America was great before Roosevelt and the New Deal.

My interpretation is in line with both the text and well known and well regarded interpretations of it. Quoting from the text: The nature of the educa...

The irony here is that although with the image of the cave Plato is warning against the persuasive power of images he does so using images. And this i...

And I very much appreciate your appreciation.

A couple of years ago I started a thread on Phaedo. When I completed it I compiled my separate posts so that they can be read through without having t...

Perhaps the warning not to kill the messenger is apt. How well the widespread view holds up in light of the passages I sighted is up to the reader to ...

I don't know if he ever thought of them as a source of truth. Although Parmenides is generally considered a late dialogue, it is contextually an early...

There is no better source of why this is not true than the works of Plato. Several of the dialogues can be cited, but Timaeus, in which Socrates remai...

The Greek term logos gives us a better sense of the problem then 'language'. What is at issue is the logic of saying, a logos of logos. The ability to...

Empedocles claimed that Love and Strife are active principles of the universe. In the Metaphysics Aristotle says: In the same section of the Metaphysi...

In the Philebus Plato addresses the question of the relation between language and world. It raises the problem of what Aristotle called the “indetermi...

I think Trump would be seen by Nietzsche as an exemplar of the last man. The uberman is first and foremost not a matter of dominance over others but o...

There is also the sense of true as straight. Carpentry uses the term in this way. Related to this is 'orthodoxy' - straight opinion, and 'orthodontry'...

So, when you read the word 'same' you hear it as 'different'? Is that possible without some notion of 'same' that maintains the distinction between 's...

The reason why we miss the mark is simple. We have no knowledge or experience of any immaterial entity of process. Absent evidence, reasoned argument ...

The problem is, not all "political rallies" are created equally. It is not as if the rally was held without the seeds of a deep state conspiracy havin...

In the first paragraph, what " is thought to rule and lead us by nature" does not suggest a transcendent realm. Nor does "what is noble and divine". C...

He may be the go to guy for Platonism, but for that reason not the go to guy for Plato or Aristotle. Of course he and other Platonists would not agree...

I think he is addressing a predominantly Christian audience, starting with the dedication. Some scholars have made a connection between Descartes and ...

I think you know much more about Renaissance humanism than I. What influences from Renaissance humanism do you see?

Not one part but piecing together several things. There is an ancient expression, still common today, that all that happens is God 's will. If one is ...

As I pointed out: It is in the first sense, of what I choose or want or desire or pursue, that the will is unlimited. The second sense, as you say, is...

But that is what we do! It is not the will alone but the will combined with the intellect and body, that is, human beings who do this. That modern, te...

It is not clear to me what you are saying.