I don't think those sorts of objections are worth much. They arise from a lack of understanding, and a failure to appreciate the conceptual work that ...
To be clear again, what I'm speaking of is multiple ways of talking about multiple things which just so happened to be named 'being'. Not according to...
Depends what you mean by pluralism of course! Perhaps I can put it this way: different conceptions of 'existence/being/etc' ought to shed light on dif...
Heh, this is the $64 million (trillion?) dollar question isn't it? As far as I know, there's no real consensus on this, but I'm very partial to the vi...
But the truth of what, exactly? If two differing conceptions of existence are talking about two different things, then there's no real incommensuribil...
I think it's best not to approach these terms with any pre-set meaning, as it were. Generally, their significance changes depending on what one is try...
My Fox Keller books haven't arrived yet : ( So, before those - Catherine Malabou - Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality Catherine Malabou - Cha...
Perhaps one way to approach this - and this is my inclination anyway - is to give up on thinking of legitimacy in absolute terms. I'd suggest in fact ...
To be clear, if I focus on economic considerations it's because it's just so happened to be that the changes I'm trying to track (Re: risk, time, and ...
Ahh, yes, I do now: It's that you're unfamiliar with the grade school rhetorical trope of topic sentences. Here is a guide from grammar girl that will...
Health insurance is an interesting site of analysis because while it definitely contributes to the intensification of the individual, as you put it, i...
You didn't answer my question. You were talking about spiritual purpose before, now you're talking about creativity in nature. I didn't ask you about ...
Except the GFC was caused precisely by investment into assets that were not revenue generating (housing), and speculative finance - derivative trading...
Yep, I wrote that in a paragraph about the changing temporal relations of risk, and how that legitimises legislation like that. But sure, yeah, read t...
Except at no point did I suggest anything about 'fostering a sense of crisis'. So just one example of how you're a bit slow on the dot connecting fron...
A bit late of a reply, but I actually have very little problem with that kind of spiritual understanding of life. Power to you if you want to believe ...
You should actually check out the video that @"cavacava" posted above by Reiner Forst. Forst has written extensively about questions of legitimacy and...
But the argument is not so much that life itself becomes a commodity but that it has been co-opted into circuits of speculative finance. It's the form...
George Williams and Daniel Reynolds - A Charter of Rights For Australia Evelyn Fox Keller - Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development wi...
Regardless of the specifics, the point was simply to mark a line of bifurcation or divergence between Plato on the one hand, and Thucydides, Pericles,...
Also, re: Machiavelli and Thrasymachus: one thing that is often forgotten is that Machiavelli was not, himself, 'Machiavellian' in the sense of simply...
Ahhh you're in for a treat : D. And I know Kymlicka's text - it's an undergrad standard - and you'd definitely come away with the impression that you ...
The most basic source, now that I think about it, would be Machiavelli, who wisely counseled that one of the principal lessons the Prince ought to lea...
Heh, you're not alone in this concern. Raymond Geuss, among other others, has basically made his career out of criticizing what he calls 'ethics first...
I appreciate your reply, but will note that the quotations are only part of larger readings which make their cases in more detail. I quoted them simpl...
You misunderstand: it's not so much that this this is a 'central issue' so much as that it marks the crossing of a threshold that was previously uncro...
I'm super, super hesitant to concede that there is anything like a singular 'common sense' to begin with that Heidegger's views would align with. In f...
On middle class income growth: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-middle-class-incomes-reached-highest-ever-level-in-2016-census-burea...
Yeah, this is very true: debt isn't in and of itself a problem, but it matters when placed in the context of a whole host of other developments. Speci...
Here is a ditty I wrote on Heidegger a while back in response to a question (about the difference between the ontic and the ontological in Heidegger),...
Heh, I think you've misdiagnosed Wayfarer here: the problem is not one of accepting or not accepting one or another variety of cause - its to do with ...
If you're interested, there was a recently published collection - Reading Heidegger's Black Notebooks 1931–1941 - prompted by the recent publication o...
Just wanted to pick back up on this comment as well. I agree that this much of what is described here is not necessarily new - one thinks of Marx's co...
Not only do emotions influence your decision making, but you are incapable of making decisions in the absence of emotions. Check out the work of Anton...
Man, if we could answer this...; in truth I have no idea. Again, I'm very much in 'diagnosis' mode right now, trying to tease out the effects these de...
But this is exactly where indistinction matters: because health is no longer conceived in a purely negative sense - the absence of disease, or as "the...
Part of what's at stake in my post is the attempt to move away from 'psycologizing' explanations: things like saying 'ah, if only people would change ...
Will reply in full in a bit - I'm on a bus - but yes, this entire line of thought is massively influenced by the state of exception arguments. The spe...
The problem is not inequality per se, but the differences in growth. In the US case, numbers released the other day show that between 2008 and 2016, g...
Nope. If you study the sociology of the changes, they are most certainly not a 'function of human nature'. they are the result of very specific policy...
Fair question, I was a pretty brisk there. Basically I mean that there's been a change such that health is less and less understood in terms of the bi...
Not at all. Which is not to say I'm ruling 'slow' action out. I'm just not ruling radical action out either. One imagines it depends on the situation ...
No idea. I'm still in 'mapping' mode as it were, trying to make sense of where we stand. There's alot here that needs to be filled in, corroborated, a...
There's nothing to discuss with anyone who consistently puts into question not what I say, but the (apparent, projected) reasons for my saying things ...
Aug, I'd suggest you'd not mistake my general indifference to your posts as 'begrudging acceptance'. Some arguments and people are simply beneath enga...
Short answer: no. We deleted a thread just the other day for doing just that. Even a question can be elaborated upon: the stakes upon which it turns, ...
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