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Then I suppose you're unfamiliar with philosophical investigations.

Yeah, anatomical maps are particularly apropos because they are largely for the sake of medical interventions: the point isn't really to create the mo...

This seems a silly question and symptomatic of your post in general. Any good thesis clearly and convincingly sets out the stakes upon which it turns;...

I'm very weary of the Goldilocks moralizing impulse ('not to much, not too little, just right') because it strikes me as overly abstract. What is too ...

This seems a good way to put it, though the reference to flourishing makes me think that 'negative' pride is pride loosened from its object; where one...

I didn't think about pride, despite it being the natural paring to shame, actually. But considering it, it actually does seem like an interesting cand...

Yeah, this is something I've noticed recently - a tendency to translate political problems into psychological terms (and thus take them out of the run...

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I have no interest in discussing Levinas' ethics, I just found his formulation of shame to be particularly appropriate.

:grin: A lovely album.

I've always found this argument entirely disingenuous. By putting murderers in prision, we do not make them 'martyrs'. By locking away rapists we do n...

The terms matter and substance are generally said to correspond to hulê (usually set alongside 'form' or morphê), and ousia ('being'), respectively. I...

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'Different', 'same', 'mean', 'denote'; these are all fraught terms if you're not clear what is being understood by them. The thing is, there's no answ...

In classical logics yes, in paraconsistent logics no: "Classical rules which govern the valid procedures for assigning the values of true and false is...

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'A meta-battle for framing' is a nice way to put it; and the challenge here is to avoid - at all costs - fixing the value of this meta-framing once an...

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You asked if abuse is ever appropriate in argument. It is. Ideally, not so much in a place like this where the stakes are generally low and abuse is a...

The idea that 'niceness' must be maintained at all costs in the face of the hurt, abuse, and injustice is insane. It's an argument for coddled schoolc...

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I don't think there is any need to dilute the forum with dedicated space for psychological topics. Quite apart from the fact that most of the so-calle...

There's an argument by Adriana Cavarero - which I've been much influenced by - that philosophy's historical obsession with death has had a, well, mort...

Widening disagreement with Nazis is an excellent goal to pursue. It is right, and good, and just, to hate them, and everything they stand for. What di...

Return the accidentally pilfered ring before it is no longer accidental.

It strikes me that the singular greatness of philosophy is that it resists this religious temptation at all costs; that nothing could be more detrimen...

Paolo Virno - A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life Giorgio Agamben - The Use of Bodies (The ninth and final book ...

You're the one asking questions of me. No, but it looks super interesting. I'll take a gander and see if I can muster up anything.

Read: to be able to have a minimal grasp of philosophy. If this is quietism - and its very questionable that it is - then philosophy has never had any...

Consider it a twist on quietism.

'Raps' are for idiots. Then forget the very idea of a 'real solution' - a chimaera that leads one to think 'quietism' has any content other than its o...

Every other way? No, just one.

To show why a problem matters: the purchase it has on what it aims to come to grips with, the degree of fecundity with which one can see the world in ...

It isn't. But then, to equate 'solutions to problems' with 'success' is, of course, an infantile image of philosophy.

It's not a sorry predicament at all. Particular 'philosophies' are nothing but problems taken to the very end: problems explored for all their implica...

Problems. Find yourself a problem or set of problems that you're interested in, and read around those problems. A caveat here is that one also needs t...

There are always posts - and occasionally posters - beneath the dignity of a response. And many worse than even that.

Cool. Funnily enough now I'm worried about the lounge! Would it be too much to pin a notice - at least for those who miss this discussion - that the l...

I'd support trialing categories at the least. I suspect, with JRob, that having individual active discussions not appear might affect traffic - there'...

I'm so sorry to hear that Tiff :( I don't think it's about letting go so much as just being there for him. Just your sheer presence - even if just you...

They got Kant wrong.

Hmm, I've never really approached questions of time 'directly' - generally it's through other lenses (X's or Y's take on time) - and there's nothing I...

Any other institution - a Red Cross, a lawfirm - would be shut down and burnt to the metaphorical ground. But not the Chruch.

Gramsci once called for an optimism of the will and a pessimism of the intellect: this has always been, I think, a lovely formula to live by.

I missed the Hitler avatar, but I distinctly remember reading that first post and being unable to make it through more than one sentence before my eye...

/uploads/resized/files/c9/9387cdyuoxuo23ue.jpg I. Love. This.

:lol: Yes, Twitter, that medium of deep discussion of substantive issues.

Methinks you don't understand how Twitter works.

Itt: butthurt men upset that people - male or female - are not obligated to respond to each and every solicitation they get by randoms. Also the idea ...

I'm not particularly concerned with what you think, I'm telling you how it was, and how the current distinction between subject and object is an outgr...