He equates logic with grammar. And there is not one grammar. Right. Logic is no longer seen as the transcendent and transcendental scaffolding of lang...
Yes, but not in this sense: The point is that perception is not passive, it is active, constructive. And yet he says very little about morality and ae...
I agree that there is an ethical aspect to working on oneself, but how one sees things is a prominent and recurring theme for Wittgenstein. Beginning ...
By the possibilities of phenomena he means the various ways in which we can see things. This is connected to what we say about things, that is, the wa...
The additional statements from 126 should be examined: The first refers to what he calls the "subliming of logic", that is, to certain assumptions abo...
Some of the limitations of philosophy are the result of questionable assumptions about what philosophy is and does. There is more to philosophy than r...
As Wittgenstein is using the term 'concept' he does not mean a rational construct, but rather, pictures of how things are. Such concepts do not provid...
I want to address this again in a way that might be clearer. He did not address the question of God as a matter of fact, but rather, conceptually. He ...
The question is, what is it that is overcome? It is not the self, but rather external forces. We may regard it as simple-minded and perhaps as a matte...
In a passage that has often been overlooked he says: Elsewhere he says: His concern is with "possibilities of phenomena" (PI 90). The possibilities of...
When the content is theological and mythological an interpretation that ignores them is empty. That is not my view. My view of what is at issue is not...
Many regard problematizing as the problem with philosophy. As if, if they were of any worth they would solve problems. A case could be made that this ...
It is clear that you have no idea what my view is. I would ask the same question with regard to any text. It is not a matter of theology, but of how y...
So,rorschach test? . No, my interest is hermeneutical. Why start a thread on an influential theological text only to deform it and try to make it into...
By dissecting and twisting you end of with something that no longer resembles the thing you started with. A "psychological reading" is ambiguous. Your...
You might want to avoid a theological discussion, but I do not see how the text can be read that way without ignoring what is actually said: What evid...
Your preference for Aristotle based in part on your finding Plato too romantic I take to be a matter of taste. Arrogance is not simply a psychological...
I think so. When I was teaching, many students, like Socrates interlocutors,became confused and were aware of their ignorance. But, of course, they we...
Well, it is not false modesty in so far as he attributes ignorance to all of us. Have you ever changed your mind about anything you regard as just or ...
I'm not sure I know what you mean. Despite the mythology of transcendence in the Republic, the Phaedo, and elsewhere, I think Socratic philosophy is g...
What does it mean to confirm one's uncertainty? Confirm that you are uncertain? Attempt to eliminate the uncertainty? There are many things about whic...
I think there is more to Socratic ignorance than simply knowing or acknowledging that you are ignorant. The examined life is an inquiry into the quest...
The latter is the result of the failure to make the distiction of the former. Right, but as you say, in such cases we only believe that we think we kn...
Is this not an expression of what you believe about believing, that is is better to avoid believing? To believe is used in distinction from to know. W...
I appreciate it, but no apology necessary. Disagreement is standard practice in philosophy. I learned long ago that it is a mistake to take such thing...
I did not claim that ousia is the formal cause. Which is what I actually said, several times. Except that the question of being qua being is of primar...
Translation of terms is not philosophy, it is a well documented matter of fact. There are, however, philosophical consequences. Wayfarer asked: Aristo...
Well, he certainly makes an argument in favor of this, but that is not the same as believing it. The Forms are posited as hypotheticals. A hypothetica...
The zetetic skeptic, unlike some other skeptics, does not deny the possibility of knowledge, claiming only that we do not know. Nor is it the suspensi...
I think we are generally in agreement. It is important to distinguish Socratic skepticism from other types, both ancient and modern. It is zetetic - i...
The fact that Plato situates the dialogue at the time when Socrates was young suggests that the whole of the Socratic dialogues that take place after ...
Nietzsche's political philosophy is an inversion of Plato's. Both are concerned with the politics of the soul, and in that sense works of psychology. ...
When I was teaching I had to address this challenge on occasion. When I taught courses in Chinese and Japanese philosophy the challenge was usually li...
Understood. Bringing this back to your OP, the assumption addressed in the article is that we can only see things according to our 'type'. It strikes ...
I would make the distinction between what is experienced, in the sense of what happens to someone, and how it is experienced, in the sense of how one ...
That is not always the case. You are conflating an ideal with reality. The fact of the matter is that prejudice has not been eliminated. A white man i...
A large part of the current problem is not extremism versus free speech but rather free speech extremists. Reasonable limits on speech is not a denial...
It is not that the difference should be ignored but rather that such differences should not be regarded as exclusionary factors for what it means to b...
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