Such reasoning is based on a flawed premise. Just because someone doesn't know what you are thinking in a moment, doesn't mean that no-one can. There ...
The point is more or less that Colin's enlightenment is simplistic-- all you have to do is feel God. Questions of what is ethical, work to discover or...
Our experiences do not defy knowledge. The supposed inaccessibility of the "first person" is a myth. I can know when someone is happy or sad, what the...
I'm not so sure. You are closer than you might think. Sometimes what you say about God not being a finite entity is approaching his insight. The probl...
The misreading of Spinoza makes me sad. He's and acosmist ( "God is real. The finite is an illusion- and so never God") not a pantheist ("The finite i...
He's not specifically talking about slave/bondage stuff though. The point is about the subservient way women are presented in most porn, where they ar...
Not exactly. It's true that many women agree and participate in Patriarchy, but this is not surprising given the culture they are raised in and that i...
To the understanding which only considers our knowledge, sure. In the sense you are describing, the thing-in-itself and phenomenal correspond to the r...
But that's exactly what my argument is pointing out as incoherent. The thing-in-themselves are part of the phenomenal realm. My computer, itself, exis...
In terms of representation, yes. Which is the issue with the idea with using the thing-in-itself as a measure of how much we know about someone. To sa...
But that's a question which doesn't make sense. To ask whether we know supposes there is something in representation to understand about the thing-in-...
Depends, there's a whole school of thought which uses the "noumenon" as an excuse to say we don't reallu know anything, as if our experiences not bein...
It more or less the opposite. A subject is what is NOT discourse. That which is more than any experience. Existence (thing-in-itself) which is never a...
For sure, I don't know. I haven't heard it say anything to me, but then I may not know everything about the ping pong ball. It might be screaming out ...
I know... but that's exactly the issue. For the materialist is interested in the mind being material. As a non-reductuve materialist, the point is the...
I'm saying all objects are subjects. The inability of our knowledge to be "exaustive" is only restricted to people or experience, it's true of every s...
A mind. An existing state that is a mind. Not a brain or body, but the states which are the existence of instances of awareness and thinking. Abstract...
Only to the reductionist who doesn't take subjects seriously. Objects aren't just things which exist in the world. They are things someone is (or migh...
Because Charmers is acting like our experience are reduced that particular idea of "experience." The premise of the "hard problem" relies on this redu...
For sure, but isn't that the point? The agent is more than any description of them. How then can we expect a description or explanation of them to be ...
How about pointing towards that which is beyond experience? To that a description or explanation doesn't amount to the presence of any state, whether ...
The issue is our ideas come already organised. We don't "derive"a tree from the blur in the distance. Upon recognising it as a tree, we know it to be ...
To be determined (caused) as beings who desire is not to say we do not have free will or freedom. It only says forces outside ourselves makes us, caus...
It could be, yes. Is that the relevant question though? Many things could be. Hitler could be a humanitarian leader and champion of the oppressed. I c...
I would say so too, but John seems to deny that. His point throughout has been this is about more than a lived culture or state of a person. If his co...
No-one suggested that. The call to subjectivity is about recognising it's a subject which expresses freedom. Pretty much the anti-thesis of a mechanis...
Emphasis mine. You've been saying it all through this thread. Not merely that people lack a sense of freedom, but that without belief in it, they lack...
More like you fail to describe yourselves. You take you own lacking and apply to the rest of the world. Rather than understand you are lacking, that y...
I’m not. You’re confusing the social, cultural and lived practice of the idea of freedom (or rather consciousness)is equated with having freedom under...
That's a contradiction. If that were true, freedom would be dependent on believing in it, meaning it would not be "universal" and only a particular wa...
Not with respect to the sort of freedom you're talking about. It's not a question of culture, discourse of power. Now if you meant people may be harme...
You are still demanding such guarantees though-- believe, else your freedom will be obscured, else you will not be free. The one thing you won't accep...
It's more than that. When I say "infinite" or "meaning," I am only pointing to something which my language never is. All language does this. My though...
I say it shallow because one is making an ethical argument if value is involved. One is not merely describing the suffering people will encounter nor ...
Rational/empirical investigation into what? Survival as it is now... but what says that our world ought to be seeking such a thing? In terms of your e...
It does sometimes. Shallow anti-natalist arguments which life ought to end because suffering exists make this mistake. Other ones, which argue life ou...
Which is naturalistic fallacy in a nutshell. The world must work the way it has been because... well it just must okay. To contextualise it to this di...
Pretty much. Women don't have to do anything in particular for men to feel that way. In a society where women are not locked away, where they are free...
It does not act upon or within the world. Transcendence is regarded in terms of a change. At some point, force acts to make, define or insert infinite...
Immanence sets the logical meaning (what you call the "ideal") outside the question of time. It understood to be infinite. That which is always true, ...
Agustino is into images. Fulfilling an image is what amounts to success for him, whether it be politics and relationships (e.g. particular social trad...
This is nothing but giving a free pass for predatory sexual behaviour. Passions are not uncontrollable. It's not just a biological reaction. Men make ...
To the selfish promoters of transcendent beliefs, no doubt. For people interested in the worth of their practices, as opposed to proclaiming themselve...
For PM meaning is a culture. Culture is lived, not merely a telling discourse. The question of "comes from culture" is restricted to descriptions of h...
I'm saying that very argument is what amounts to nihilism and ignorance of the self. My point is this: people who do not go beyond self-seeking behavi...
Exactly which immanent philosophies say we ought to give such a determination? The idea is incoherent. Immanence means there is an expression given-- ...
They say it comes from within, but they don't believe it. All 'traditions of transcendence' deny people are meaningful-in-themselves. Someone must fol...
That's a good encapsulation of the ignorance of self I'm talking about. The expectation is our spirited selves to come from the outside. Only to those...
Only in appearance, to those who are embedded within traditions of transcendence. Postmodernism argues spirit and freedom are immanent. We cannot not ...
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