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If the most daring and (to your mind) interesting readings of Nietzsche do not have to be consistent with Nietzsche's text, then are they still readin...

3+1 "is" 4 but 3+1 "is not" 2+2 Added: "is" as used here is short for "is equal to".

Yes, seppuku is the only way in the face of her disgrace.

Right, a representative of the of the state. How is she doing in that regard?

I wonder who else is covered under this assumption, doctors, lawyers, Sunday school teachers?

But this was not about the very young. Except this was not provided as exemplary behavior. It was an unauthorized video of people dancing at private p...

It seems to be a political attempt to embarrass or discredit her. She was not presenting herself in public. It was a private party. The video was made...

From Being to becoming. Going back at least to Plato traditional morality has sought a fixed, unmoving point by which to guide us. Movement or change ...

Yes. I will let Zarathustra tell us.

All of life is a will to power. It does not make sense to interpret this as the will to dominate. The will to power can be seen in the majesty of the ...

No. The examined life is the life of questioning, including questioning our opinions about what is best. Or, perhaps giving serious consideration to d...

I cannot tell you exactly what it means, but the politics of the soul as discussed in Plato's Republic is a good place to start. The soul is a competi...

As I said, you mistake appearance for statecraft.

There is nothing in the video that is out of line with the behavior of people at an alcohol fueled party. She said she had been drinking. It that the ...

Does this include alcohol?

But you said: If you are to judge her professionalism you should do so with regard to her actions in her professional capacity. What we should expect ...

Then why not discuss what she has done professionally rather than clutching your pearls because she was videoed dancing at a private party?

You came to the right place, for I too am an expert on love. The article compares Socrates' claim in the Symposium with his claim in the Apology, but ...

This apparently ruffled some feathers when I said it, way back when, eight days ago:

The "space of reasons" can be a philosophical prison, a cave. The notion of norms requires desedimentation. The Greek term 'nomos' means law and custo...

I don't think so. I think she will try to return the Republican Party to what she thought it represented pre-Trumpism. Just about everyone who is not ...

Wittgenstein on the relation between facts and concepts: From PI II (PPF) From Zettel : From On Certainty:

For Cheney it means continuing her efforts to keep him out of office. If she is to help accomplish this it will not be with the support of the Trump P...

But not everyone seeks knowledge of the good. They simply assume that what they seek, what they desire, is good. If, however, they were to seek the go...

Since the good is what we aim for, it is knowledge of the good. This may be possible for one who has achieved human excellence, but for the rest of us...

Our actions may have unintended consequences. We may think doing this or that is good, but if the result is harm and suffering, then is the action goo...

I don't think so. This is an example of "Trumpspeak". He said it in such a way as provide plausible deniability, but we know how his supporters are re...

From the salon article cited by Michael: "Whatever we can do to help — because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn't, ter...

Well, if antirealism means not attributing a truth value to unknowns, then he is an antirealist. But he does not attribute truth value to knows either...

What about the fish?

Hegel's concept of truth is not to be found in truth values: From the preface to the Phenomenology:

"Give a man a fish ..." I think a large part of the problem is that we have different ideas of what philosophy is about. I hold to the ancient idea of...

You asked: And prior to that you quoted Sellars claim that knowledge requires concepts. What if someone were to ask if it is true that a self-driving ...

It is not a matter of it being strange but of looking at questions of knowledge, language, and thinking by defining them in terms of what humans do. I...

Your responses seem to indicate otherwise, but I am not going to rehash this. Time for me to move on.

Why the insult? I assume you miss the irony. You appeal to linguistic practices and call it reality.

An important question for AI, but I would say that the ability of an animal to distinguish between two colors is a form of knowledge, even though it m...

There is nothing ineffable about a world that is not limited by what we say, or, for that matter, by what we see. I am not talking about a theory. Of ...

Earlier you said: Hegel's idealism is not antirealism. Hegel's absolute idealism holds that the real is the ideal and the ideal is the real. All diffe...

Do you not have a body? In response to the claim that there is more to reality than what we talk about, you ask for more talk, for me to tell you what...

This should be quite obvious to anyone not seduced by philosophy. I said nothing about the priority of feeling and sensation. But I will say that they...

What I say about reality is tautologically linguistic, but what I talk about and what is are not the same. But if asked what this reality is, in disti...

A few scattered remarks: The story in John is told as a matter of truth, but in truth it is historically dubious. In addition, not putting the blame o...

The virtuous act is good, but virtue does not equal goodness. What is good is not limited to what is virtuous. The good, according to Plato and Aristo...

Yes. We are in agreement. Again, we are in agreement. My comment was not directed against you but against how someone might read your question: They m...

Follow-up on my post above https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/727090 It might be helpful to distinguish between the idea that a) someth...

In an early draft of the foreword to Philosophical Remarks:

Understood, but much of what I have been doing is trying to draw some of the connections in his work.

I have not looked into the question of ethics in the PI, but suggest, in a tentative way, that although ethics is not explicitly discussed in the PI, ...