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For the sake of the argument let's assume there is a simple, divine substance. What knowledge of it might we possibly have? We cannot take what is tru...

Well if you have talked through it with him that settles the matter. What then are you doing here? Proselytizing? Surely no one here can tell you anyt...

My view has nothing to do with it. It is the view of the rational theist that you are addressing. Now unless you define a rational theist as someone w...

Can there be faith without it being faith in something? So, you are talking about faith in some concept you call God, who presumably is not just a con...

I find the idea of a self-destructive god interesting but do not think it represents a serious challenge unless the rational theist is one who holds t...

Two contributing factors are the availability of high power semiautomatic weapons and the idea that guns are the solution to a host of problems rangin...

It is not a question of what a potential murdered would do but of what others think he will do.

Is your god constrained by logic? The question itself is without basis. The question can only be asked by something that exists in a world of things t...

I think it far more likely that the collateral damage might become great enough for you to rethink the whole thing. No one would be safe. You cannot p...

It stands to reason. Protecting yourself against guns with guns is not effective. Arming our children with guns won't work. At a minimum they need the...

So, you do think that children should be sent to school carrying guns as long as they are competent to do so! What kind of hell do you wish to live in...

Most people with cars do not just go out and start killing people, but it has become distressingly evident that more and more people with guns are goi...

But schools are not the only place where this happens. Should there be armed guards everywhere? Should there be armed guards protecting every church? ...

A faulty argument. The purpose of cars is not to protect us. If cars were not a viable means of transportation we would not have them. If guns If guns...

@"NOS4A2" Can the claim that we have a right to defend ourselves be squared with the fact that the leading cause of death of children in the US is gun...

I would argue that it is simply impossible for us to conceive. The universe need not conform to our limited understanding. A clumsy side step dance at...

You are using a sledge hammer in your attempt to sever religion and faith. The concept of 'faith', empty of content, is empty.

Guns are now the leading cause of death of children in the US.

When I was teaching philosophy I thought about teaching a class based on his jokes.

I can understand that. What kind of philosopher talks this way? How many will read this and toss the book aside? It is as if he wants to antagonize th...

I don't. One thing that may not have been made clear is that with Christianity's self-overcoming, the eternal return, with its philosopher-god Dionysu...

I don't think that he hopes that there is anything in essence the reader will gain. In the section of TSZ entitled "Reading and Writing" he says: He l...

I will leave it there. I am going to return to the eternal return.

Not at all. Some might find it boring, I do not. Not very well, but that may change. But even if it could, for me careful reading and interpretation i...

I will need a bit more time to answer this. For now I will say that I think there is more to it than a test. I don't think he would have introduced th...

It is not only questionable, it is not something I would do or recommend. Why must we do as they do? How many distinct voices are there that are worth...

From time to time I think about starting a thread, but keeping it short while ranging over a wide terrain is difficult.

Quite a few but this thread is not the place to get into it, but has to do with thinking and seeing and saying.

As a work of literature we enter this world and from within this world attend to what we find in it, as what is literal within this world. The dwarf s...

A specific example: Christianity and Latin terminology stood between us and Plato and Aristotle. But that need no longer be the case. We can now stand...

In simplest terms, we need to look beyond ourselves. We can and do change our perspective. We can broaden it. We can change the direction we are looki...

I feel sorry for the Trump faithful. They must be suffering from whiplash. First he tells them he is going to be arrested and is ready to put on a sho...

If the only tool in the toolbox is a hammer ... Although I accept the idea that we are historically situated, I do not think it necessary to impose po...

Here we see a fundamental hermeneutical difference. On the one hand, the attempt to understand an author on his own terms, on the other, the attempt t...

Spatial thinking supports this. From geometry, to rearranging the furniture, to packing the car, to getting from one place to another. (Wittgenstein, ...

I suppose that being shown that you are wrong about his "theory of truth", being a Kantian, and the eternal return does not inspire comment. A signifi...

It is because I have studied him for years that I know he is not a Kantian. To raise the problem of the concept of a thing in itself does not make one...

It seems to me that Nietzsche is a skeptic in the Socratic sense of knowledge of ignorance. The metaphor of the ship, having left terra firma, and an ...

Thanks. An interesting essay, with lots to unpack. I will limit my comments to the problem of the eternal return. Beginning with the title he has alre...

The dwarf is the spirit of gravity. It calls Z. a "stone of wisdom. Hurling himself high but sentenced by himself to fall down. What is the spirit of ...

He does not have a theory of truth. He rejected fixed, unchanging truths. He does not put a high value on truth in all cases . Truth should serve life...

What may surprise some is that Leo Strauss sent some of his best students to study with Kojeve. They are very different but found common ground. Somet...

I am asking for evidence that his "theory of truth" is that truths are metaphors and how we can make sense of that. This is a misunderstanding of both...

In order not to repeat myself over and over, I will say it one more time and move on. Being or "beingess" is not an attribute of what is. Something mu...

What are the attributes of everything that is that they have in common?

In my world responding to what you said is discussing it with you.

I don't think so. You introduced attributes, I don't think they have a place. I already did.

A one word answer. Doesn't seem like too much to say while on your phone at work. But it does explain why you think it is not likely to be a cosmologi...

The point is that this is not what Heidegger is investigating.

You first.