Liberals never gave anyone anything, apart from maybe worldwide colonial genocide in pursuit of capitalist profits. Anything every wrested from the po...
Also what is it about liberals and Hitler? If he didn't exist, I'd imagine liberals would have to invent him because otherwise they would have no way ...
Amazing. And people wonder why Trump remains a threat - they think he is some kind of aberration, and not cut from exactly the same fabric as Biden is...
The opinions of morons don't count. But sure, keep up the propaganda. Maybe one day people like you will look into Biden's congressional record, but I...
I don't know why people like to say this like it means anything. Or even think it's true. Biden was the condition that enabled Trump to get to where h...
I don't think people care about Trump satellites like Flynn. Trump's the draw. Also Biden is less than useless and is a and always has been a slightly...
The act itself was far worse than even the description. Foucault's long quotation describing Damiens' death in his Discipline and Punish is the stuff ...
There are interesting questions to be raised by autodidactism - questions which are at once social and ethical, and go way beyond the question of the ...
And if people want to go off and be mystics, by all means, mysticize away. But don't say that you sat in a room writhing for an hour and now you're a ...
Sure, but Socrates was Socrates by doing the exact oppose the OP suggests - he most decidedly did not stay in his room and have the world 'writhe at h...
But this doesn't follow. History is wildly interesting and vital. Yet people don't run around calling themselves historians. Law, which affects our li...
Not to be harsh, but what distingushes this list from, say, a list of good qualities of a government bureaucrat? Or a marketing manager? Or town plann...
But this opposition is what you wield like a cudgel everytime any sense of sociality that isn't 'original sociality' is raised. Your position is oppos...
Been through this before. Your particular construal of an original socialtiy is just solipsism redux. It is relies on, is constituted by, defining a c...
No, no, no. Why are you painting? You can become a good painter just by reflecting on the world around you. You just need to have some awareness. You ...
More I think about it the more silly the OP is. "You don't have to study architecture to be an architect"; "You don't have to study literature to be a...
Michel de Certeau - The Practice of Everyday Life Tony Norfield - The City: Global Finance and the City of London Georges Dumezil - The Plight of the ...
Have you read M-P's Phenomenology of Perception? The entire book is nothing other than a series of demonstrations as to how to cash out the statement ...
The simple answer is that Witty thinks language can be many different kinds of things, none of which can be specified exhaustively in advance. On his ...
I don't think so. But Witty had... interesting views on religion. If you haven't, take a read of his Lecture on Ethics . It's about 8 pages long, and ...
Wittgenstein's go-to examples are often questions which aim to elicit instances of non-use (as answers). A nice illustrative one is §88: "If I tell so...
Ha, that's fair. But yeah, you're totally right, the problem is 'non-moves taken for moves' - diagonal rooks, or, to be more precise: 'rooks' that mov...
Missed this - look, within a language-game, yes, there can be something called 'misuse'. As in: "that's not how you move a rook". But Wittgenstein is ...
Animals absolutely have language, not least owing to the fact that we are animals through and through. What is specific about us is our ability to wie...
Sure. Which is why Lao Tzu is far more popular with yoga teachers and wellness centers for than anything resembling philosophy (I've read the Dao. It'...
Yes! I was going to use this exact image - of playing chess - as an example, but I dropped it for brevity's sake. A few more words on why it's so impo...
By what standard? "Langauge-game or not"? This is certainly has no warrant in anything Wittgenstein ever said. But look, I understand what you're gett...
If your language-game has a purpose (and it would not be a language-game if it didn't), then the words employed within it absolutely mean something. T...
This second sentence doesn't follow. If I am trying to assert something, I should not use language in the manner of a command. And vice versa. What co...
There are words which have meaning and words which do not for Witty. And this distinction maps onto words with uses, and words without uses. And this ...
The simple fact is that Witty doesn't talk about correct or incorrect use. Ever. Okay, a lie, he uses the term 'correct use' once at §146, and literal...
"Incorrect use" makes no sense in the context of the PI. There is simply either use, or not use at all. Witty never talks about the "incorrect" use of...
Is it? The first line you quoted makes the incoherent claim that ignorance ("benighted psyches") follows from "reading, arguing, writing" (!). The sec...
Imagination is spurred and provoked. This idea of cloistered genius demiurging their way to brilliance is just neoliberal entrepreneurial values trans...
I mean, the irony in this statement is dazzling. "Stop learning about anything and engaging with people or material ... you benighted knave!". benight...
You don't have to read philosophy to be a philosopher, but you had damned well be deeply and thoroughly immersed in things which would otherwise requi...
Of course they will. These people will always take care of their own when the chips are down - those in positions of power. Americans in general have ...
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