unenlightened

I can well imagine an audience of philosophers looking up the word in Merriam Webster and discussing back and forth which of the 42 definitions applie...

Where X, with deep irony, stands for anything at all. And what is this "not"? It must be an unsaying, like the all clear after an air-raid warning. Pa...

When one shouts "Fire!" in, say, a theatre, one does not mean merely to refer to "the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemi...

I'm not familiar with Adorno, but going by this crib-sheet, he seems a bit unenlightened. https://iep.utm.edu/adorno/#:~:text=Adorno%20argues%20that%2...

I'll leave this here with little comment, as it hits that personal blindspot where I cannot distinguish wisdom from folly. https://oscillations.one/As...

I find it amusing. If one were to speak of a spirit world from which we descend to be incarnated in the mundane to -say - determine or build our chara...

Now it comes a bit more clear to me. It's nobody's business to care a damn, and you are making work for them that they will get no credit for. So they...

What is shocking is the lack of clarity about what are undisputed facts and what are your claims and what are 'their' claims/interpretations. This is ...

I'm a native speaker, not a lawyer, but somewhat familiar with formal language. This is ungrammatical; it should be "police are planning". That strong...

Chapter 2. In which it is discovered that not all words are nouns, and the discussion becomes 'heated'.

I think I could make a case for this:

Now that's what I call polarised intolerance. You disagree? you must be insane!

I wonder if anything more than the illusion is even possible, short of civil war? The US and the UK versions of democracy effectively limit parties to...

Finally, I have achieved it. A funny dad joke in the shout box. My life is complete!

uno. Uh, no! "I am not a number."

Building that tower of Babel was definitely a bad move, but why you scaring us with news from 2018?

A communist regime owns the means of production, and generates income thereby, It therefore does not need to tax, like the kings and barons of the goo...

But, but but,... is not tax only possible if there is private property? And therefore a feature of non-communist regimes?

That's a difficult calculation, and no one can be sure of the numbers that lie in the future. But given the particular history of Ukraine under Soviet...

The hiddenness of nothing is what allows movement and interaction. Thus the more one fills the emptiness of awareness with the images of self, the les...

Nay, lad. It will stop, and that right soon. And if the politicians cannot manage it in good order, it will end perforce chaotically, with much suffer...

The imagining self is the imaginary self. That's what it means to imagine oneself.

Hence the technical instruction – "Imagine ..." It's a brain exercise achievable only by the fleet of mind. Unfortunately, humans can think, and becau...

I wonder why he said that to the Occupy movement, and not to their opponents, that they are already knowingly making radical changes to the environmen...

Yes, quite possibly. But not phenomena. If you go putting phenomena in the world, what are you going to do with the noumena?

Eat a bird, and you feed for a day; teach a bird to pass you noodles ,and you feed whenever the stupid humans don't hide their stash. Why on Earth cou...

It's all Kant's fault. It's nearly always either Kant or Descartes, But this is Kant. The whole point of talking about phenomena was to be as vague as...

Thank's for the compliment. Laziness is the engine of civilisation. The wheel was invented by someone who found dragging stuff a drag.

Well nor do I. I'm waving in the general direction of how you might feel about this I understand. But the way you put it is as if there is someone - G...

That is interesting, I wonder if you can say more? I can imagine at least two different scenarios in which this makes sense. the first is the sense in...

Why, is a matter of poor philosophy no doubt encouraged by powerful interests. Oh wait, you mean why do I think differently? why do I question accepte...

I think you're confusing the collective with the state. As per usual the individualist denies their responsibility for others and ignores their depend...

I think communism is opposed to individualism, not to capitalism. Capital does not mind who owns it, government, mafia, narcissist or philanthropist. ...

Literally disproving the metaphor. Next you'll want to demonstrate that rivers do not actually have mouths. Because, (private language argument) the s...

We all got fed up with drinking hemlock, and caved in to the polis.

Indeed, but that's not how it happens. If you set out to become engrossed, you never are, because you're always thinking about being engrossed, like B...

That was an interesting video. I'm not usually excited by the recitation of a series of big cheese names and the ascription of -isms. But I like the w...

And here's a new article: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/what-the-discovery-of-massive-early-galaxies-could-mean-for-cosmology/ In which i...

God did it. Just for balance, this is not a new problem. This from Jan 2021 —well before the launch of JWST. https://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...

Is that an exact definition?

I disagree. The shallow end of flow is music and dance. Breath and movement and sound are the same rhythm, and thought is absent. Meditation is the sa...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/05/1006008/ai-face-recognition-hack-misidentifies-person/ It's the entanglement. I remember the middle ages w...

I think perhaps a philosophical discussion needs a linguistic hierarchy of three classes of words. Most words being working class, taken for granted, ...

Just a bit jumblied up.

Far and few, far and few are the lands where the Jamalrobs live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a sieve.

There are far too many Js in this shout box. It cannot be coincidence, and therefore must be nepotism, unless it's all the jokey jousting jamborees.

Of course. Philosophers are the thought police. Meaning is use, and lies are only useful if they are understood and believed. Therefore the thought po...

Pointing is just a particular kind of handwaving — unless it means something, of course. Then it is sign language.

Does it? Does resting on the seventh day go against creation? Does a celibate priesthood go against procreation? Killing goes against procreation, des...

Some people support the local football club and never waver, through good times and bad. Others wonder and question, and others again look for a winne...