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There is a direct connection between his concept of time and his acceptance of Nazism and its atrocities. He called it "hearkening to Being".

In Joshs explanation he is talking about objects determining each other. You say: In what sense is what I have been the language and conceptuality I a...

How is this physically possible? In what way is what happened 1,000 years ago not prior to what will happen 1,000 years from now? How close together i...

To tell you the truth I was a bit disappointed that there was not more response at that time. The link brings you to my first post. I trust you will b...

According to Genesis we are already gods, although that was not the intention and not a task we were ready to take on. A responsibility that god took ...

Can you explain this in your own words?

DJ Grab 'em by the Pussy, who constantly seeks to have legal matter decided in the court of public opinion, now seeks to have a trail against him for ...

I don't read it that way. He asks: As to the first question, I see no reason to curtail research working toward that end. As to the second, it asks wh...

This is Wittgenstein's term. He came to see this. In the Tractatus he regarded language as transcendental, determined by the logical scaffolding that ...

Some years ago I participated in a discussion of the Tractatus. I ended up going through a lot of it, making connections. Not quite the annotated work...

Logic underlies both the facts of the world and language. Language represents states of affairs. It certainly seemed that way to me when I first read ...

For Homer and Hesiod the gods were willful and capricious. Plato demoted the gods, but I think would would argue that it was not to conform to human v...

The question in the Euthyphro is: what is piety? Socrates proposes that the pious is what is just. (11e) The gods as well as men are to be held to the...

The Tractatus is a rejection of ethical systems. He makes a distinction between the world and my world. The world is the world of facts. He denies any...

Here are some relevant statements from the Tractatus: 6.41: In the world everything is as it is, and everything happens as it does happen: in it no va...

There seem to be two different definitions of definitions at play. The first is a matter of making clear what one means by a term. The second is to se...

Once for exams I had to defend Nietzsche in front of a bunch of Jesuit priests at Boston College. It was a long time ago. I don't recall what I said, ...

It has been a while since there has been a thread on Descartes. Looking forward to hearing what you have to say. What will you be reading?

In the Tractatus Wittgenstein treated morality as an aesthetic rather than intellectual matter. A matter of what one sees and experiences, of how one ...

I think it is important to consider Descartes' rhetoric. He uses the terms 'I', soul, and self interchangeably.

As he explicitly states, Descartes removes himself from the world for the purpose of his Meditations.

As I understand him, it is not a mark but the thing that thinks. The 'I' asserts itself. Claims its place and authority. Does he make this distinction...

The 'I' is the usurper of the Church's authority. The 'I' is the thing that thinks, that reasons, that chooses, that decides, and wills. .

In Socrates' defense he was not looking for definitions but accounts, and this for the sake of inquiry. For example, in Plato's Republic Socrates defi...

I know that Gaspar has been banned, but I would like to point out that I have not provided any definitions. My point is simple: there is no consensus ...

Once again, there is no consensus on the definition of the terms. Without such consensus the claim remains ambiguous. It is ironic that you say: when ...

First of all, it is two terms. Second, your posting a definition of one of them, even a scientific definition, does not mean that the terms are not am...

I think this overstates the case. The first quoted passage seems to argue against your claim. There are two parts, where we begin and where we aim to ...

Claiming the one conceptually ambiguous concept is the author of another conceptually ambiguous concept gets us nowhere, and fast.

Pistis - trust. On the divided line is trust in 'things' around us. Noesis - knowledge of things that are as they are. Doxa - opinion or belief. It do...

The will of God means either the will of man vested by man with absolute authority, or what happens beyond our ability to comprehend, as in the story ...

It is not a matter of psychologising but contextualizing. The Republic is a political dialogue. Politics of the soul and politics of the city. In both...

Why do you think he does that? In other dialogues he says something different.

On the other hand, it does not feel like I have lost control, that I need to gain control. The thing to frustrates a lot of musicians is not being abo...

I am sorry you feel that way, but I am surprised. I have no intention of trying to trip you up. I am trying to address the question of wu wei. It is n...

As I see it, this is what is at issue: I don't doubt that this happens, but simply acting spontaneously without reflection is not what wu wei is about...

Why the snort? The best translations are being done by scholars who have studied the language, the history, and the philosophies of China and the West...

Another observation about Cook Ding: In the opening paragraph: And when he is done: (In Ziporyn's translation he just stands there) There is a sense o...

When I play sometimes the experience is what I would describe as wu wei. Other times I can't get out of my own way. On occasion it is as if I am watch...

There are better translations. Here is one. Cook Ding says: It is because he had been dividing oxen for three years that he could no longer see the ca...

Really? Can you cite a reference? The story says otherwise.

A few scattered comments In The Gay Science he asks: From Epicurus the idea of gods as blessed being who are unperturbed. From Marcus Aurelius the sou...

The question is too general. Were plans and intentions required to compile and organize the work called the Tao Te Ching? It did not happen spontaneou...

It is not just what a lot of Taoist teachers and authors have said but what the teachers and authors of the Tao Te Ching have said. Whatever wu wei me...

I don't think there is one. There is a great deal of conceptual drift. Some appeal to tradition, but not always the same tradition. It might be some f...

@"Mikie" To put things in perspective, there are Taoist teachers and authors. There is certainly intention and purpose in what they do.

The problem with this is that it prescinds not only from what politicians do and say but what they attempt to do, and the efficacy with which they can...

This is why Socrates was both revered and hated. Even back then there was the equivalent of the internet guy. I think this is one reason why Plato wro...

Chomsky is a skeptic in the original sense of the term - one who inquires but does not know. But this is not to say he is a member of any school of sk...