I took a quick look. The question of map making does not appear in his translation of the passage. Nor do I see anything about "tabulating grammar". R...
You are right. That was from the Hacker translation. I pulled the quote from an earlier discussion (3 years ago). https://thephilosophyforum.com/discu...
I did not want to get into the problem of translating übersichtliche Darstellung.At this point I think it would just muddy the waters. In any case, th...
Copernicus reoriented man's place in the world. It goes to the heart of how we see ourselves and our place in the world. Darwinian evolution did much ...
There are two issues here: 1) Modern skepticism. The problem of judgment, based on a theory of ideas or mental representation. 2) Descartes' doubt, wh...
But that is not what Plato and Aristotle thought. The effort is to maintain a stable equilibrium of the soul. It is in this state of being that we are...
The point of view of Copernicus or Darwin is that the method and tools of philosophy are in plain sight? I don't think so. The rejection of something ...
The assumption you make about mental illness may not be the assumption made by the preacher. Your assumption seems to be that since this person is men...
It is Wittgenstein's example. The full quote: He is talking about ways of seeing things. I don't think he is using the term "ordinary" in a way that i...
This really does not make sense. It is not a matter of enumerating unenumerated rights but of recognizing that not all right are enumerated. It is odd...
It is not by such ordinary criteria that "a Copernicus or a Darwin really achieved a fertile point of view". The ordinary criteria at the time of Cope...
And what follows from this? Nope: It is not quite so simple. Abortion was legal and protected. It did not become illegal simply because of state legis...
Roe was not based on an unenumerated right to an abortion. It was based on a right to privacy. The Texas law at issue in Roe was based on the theory t...
In what way has your labor and wealth paid for these benefits? Paying taxes does not make you a slave, but not paying taxes does make you a freeloader...
My questions are very pertinent to the larger issue being discussed according to the thread title. If what follows doesn't interest you please skip it...
Is this compatible with the claim that a fetus has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Or, for that matter, that children have t...
It is what you are not saying that is at issue. You do not live in isolation. It is unjust for you to benefit from all that the state makes possible w...
It is not simple a matter of having acquired the power but of having the ability to do what individuals cannot. You cannot lay asphalt and build bridg...
Do you live off the grid? Can you build an interstate transportation system? Can you develop a national and international communication system? Can yo...
What you seem to fail to understand is that the state, including such things as infrastructure and legal protections, is a condition that makes possib...
Of course. It is a question of whether we take people as they are or try to change them. Great harm can come from trying to do great good. Pre-interne...
It is not a matter of some "therefore". People have always had different opinions about their obligations to others. What are we to make of that? Is i...
quote="Tate;724972"]We can agree it's not right to ignore people in need without establishing the status of morality, can't we? And yet in practice ma...
Is it? There is a great deal of unresolved disagreement: We cannot even agree on the status of moral principles let alone what they are. They are not ...
As things stand, the demagogues propped up by a segment the rich and powerful acting purely out of self-interest have managed to recruit a significant...
There are various forms of relativism. If we reject the idea that there is an absolute moral authority that determines right from wrong, good from bad...
This, in my opinion, is part to the problem. It presents it as if it is simply a matter of competing values. Each side believes it knows what is right...
Socrates' response: a) He tells a story of how he set out to refute the oracle (21c) b) He changes what the oracle said from no one is wiser than Socr...
Here once again we are confronted with the illusion that we are autonomous islands of rights. It is the failure to recognize that what is ours is a ne...
Rather than goodness being what gets one closer to that telos, what gets one closer to that telos is what is good, what is in accord with human nature...
But for the purpose of this discussion, what is meant by knowledge is not justified true belief. It means, as @"180 Proof" pointed out that hexis is a...
We should make a distinction between myths and what is called "mythology". Plato makes frequent use of myths. Some are his inventions, some are rework...
After absolutely agreeing with me I'm a bit hesitant to raise a note of disagreement: What does our ordinary means of judgment mean? Are we ordinarily...
I agree. See my earlier post: Surveyable representation - übersichtlichen Darstellung I take this to be what is meant in 126: I discussed this earlier...
Of course he didn't! He thought he had but he eventually realized he hadn't. But see below. The idea that something is hidden does not have a single e...
Or contradictory. ( 4.46-4.461) If contradictory then false. Logic says nothing about the world. That is not in dispute. Logic is used as a aid in exa...
It is a statement about human history. The belief that there are hidden things only disclosed to or by the few who are wise is as old as the desire fo...
Nonsense! It is not a question of whether it has a special meaning, but rather whether it has the meaning you think it does. There has always been and...
It is because they do not represent states of affairs that they are without (non) sense. As Banno pointed out: Logical form is the transcendental cond...
The presupposition of intelligibility is neither Wittgenstein's nor mine. It is behind the notion of something hidden. If the world does not yield to ...
All objects exist in relation to others. There are no objects that we can know of that exist in isolation independent of all else. If there is no rela...
I have attempted to do two things: First, explain Wittgenstein's distinction between necessity and accident. Second, make clear our fundamental differ...
But we do act. There is no getting around that. What guides our actions? Aristotle's answer is we act according to the way we are disposed. I agree. I...
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