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Yep. Nietzsche always maintained a healthy scepticism towards what he understood as the science of his day, and only total and utter ignorance could m...

Yeah, alot will stick to an intellectually dishonest hack.

Yeah, glad that your scholarship is so deep that 'oh I Googled some random quotes' is your pathetic excuse for literally making shit up as you go alon...

Doesn't sound like a question to me, back-peddler. Sounds like you vomiting words out of a keyboard based on zero textual evidence whatsoever, unmotiv...

I swore at you because you're literally making shit up.

Ugh, come on dude, do better than this shit.

Just another way of saying 'our new way of talking about things', I suppose.

You seem to have got it down relatively well, albeit in a bit grandiloquent terms.

It's not a question of ignorance ("don't know what truth is..."), so much as it is a question of indifference. That is it an idea - whatever it is, of...

Sure, but then, Nietzsche would probably argue that all truth is 'the idea of truth'. Hence the wonderful line about truth being a mobile army of meta...

In a way, I'm not sure it matters all that much for Nietzsche what his - or any - 'theory of truth' would be. Nietzsche's questioning rarely broaches ...

I didn't address this because I have nothing to say about 'free-will' that isn't disparaging. Nobody has any idea what a 'will' is, let alone a 'free'...

You couldn't have set out any better the exact premises that Deleuze's philosophy explicitly sets out to undermine. Showing these assumptions to be il...

I pretty much know nothing about Peguy either, but I've puzzled over that passage for a long time too. What I make of it is this: repetition (in the s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIzIhWt0q8U Mr. Men gotchya covered.

Yeah for sure - Deleuze cites Kierkegaard as a principle inspiration for his thoughts on repetition, although he ultimately criticizes him for subordi...

But Aristotle does employ the genus-species distinction, specifically in relation to difference, in book Delta of the Metaphysics: "We call contraries...

I think I know what you're getting at, and part of the complexity here is that Deleuze ontologizes the selective principle. That is: if every metaphys...

I probably can, but I really don't want to. Deleuze's use of the eternal return is easily - for me anyway - one of the most complex aspects of his phi...

Heh, I was literally reading those passages this morning. But yeah, I don't think it's wishy washy at all: the whole repetition chapter is set up to m...

Hi - the 'we' in the thread title refers to humans as a species, on an evolutionary level, not on an individual, psycological level.

Nope, I don't mean that.

I agree that it's almost certainly a Porphyrian Aristotle in the background here, but in truth, I don't think I did justice to Deleuze's reading in th...

I used to be impressed by this but now not so much. I mean, I like Sellars, and even then I find this a kind of nothing-definition of philosophy. One ...

Jaegwon Kim is an analytic philosopher of Korean decent and who is something of a giant among analytic philosophy, having written some field defining ...

I guess with respect to epistemology, it's the status of selection that is in question: if it's status is unclear or unstated, there's no being sure a...

Yeah, this is exactly right. If anything, Deleuze's problem with previous thinkers is that they aren't clear about the nature of selection: what is it...

I don't know if epistemology is the right word. In Plato, for example, the question of epistemology follows quite straightforwardly from the doctrine ...

You might be on the last page of what is a multi-page thread. At the bottom of the thread is a series of numbers (it goes up to 11 as of this post), a...

True, true. I guess I'm employing a different sense of recursion, not in the sense of nesting (qua linguistics), but rather 'self-reference' (although...

I think you're right to focus on what you call 'the idea of never', and what I generally prefer to call 'negation': it's negation, the ability to desi...

Heh, I dunno about 'super dumb', but the significance of the first three or so pages are kinda lost on me. I'm not sure what the discussion of practis...

Yes, Ghandi is another exemplar of the subject of freedom par excellence; Ghandi, who unlike any other two bit hermit who could starve himself for ide...

Lol. You think this. Sure - symbolic with respect to what? Her historical circumstances? The way the black community was being treated, both in terms ...

Also I have to admit, I can't really read the words 'radical freedom' without giggling a little, no thanks to these which were doing the rounds a whil...

What in the world is 'spirit'? It is another completely underdetermined and fuzzy feel good word? As if Parks were not driven by the real, material ci...

Because to think 'live is lived' is exhausted by our 'thoughts, beliefs, intuitions and experience' is to conceive of life in a horrifyingly narrow an...

I've always found it helpful to rephrase the question in terms of significance, rather than meaning - as in, "what is the significance of life?", rath...

Yeah, tell that to a black lives matter activist or a child laborer. Seriously, does this not strike you as a frankly embarrassing line of questioning...

I have no idea what you're talking about. The subjugated don't give two hoots about abstract nonsense regarding appearance and the "true world" or wha...

Yeah, I don't much care for dreamed up freedom. A slave in chains remains so regardless of whatever state of 'consciousness' they remain in. Lucid dre...

But what in the world has belief got to do with freedom? A belief in unicorns speaks nothing as to their reality, and I don't see what a 'belief' in f...

You mistake me. When I speak about 'guarantees', I mean precisely statements like this: I mean, if you really believe this, then all you bluster about...

Incidentally, this line of reasoning is more or less exactly what drew me towards these kinds of thinkers; the notion of human freedom as guaranteed b...

I agree though - I just meant that Foucault, far more than Deleuze or Derrida, was a theorist of subjectivization, it's modes of operation, etc, etc. ...

This is manifestly untrue. There's not much else to say about that. Eh, the disjunction between the subject and the self (or the 'ego') has a long and...

As far as I understand Henry though, he would reject that there's anything for such immanence to be transcendent to in the first place. 'Worldly relat...

Hmm, like I said, I'm not super familiar with these lines of thought, and the only work I've read of Henry's is his Material Phenomenology, which requ...

I should note that there is a rich tradition of theological thought among those authors considered 'post-modern' as well (another reason why the label...

I think you'd call it deconstruction :D Anyway, perhaps the trouble is that Derrida doesn't 'simply' collapse the distinction. Part of what's at stake...