I wouldn't say they are critical of materialism (in the sense of the metaphysical position). They're more critical of the use of the material as a tra...
I think some are interested the transcendent, but it differs to most instances of transcendent tradtions. A lot of postmodern interest in the transcen...
Again, that's a probability, not a description of the individual. If we are actually dealing with describing a person or tiger, such assertions have n...
I'm sorry but that's exactly what you're saying. If there might be a elephant weaker than a man or woman, then it's not true any man or own must be we...
Which man or woman? The weaker individuals we are aware of? I have no problem saying a stronger tiger, silverback gorilla, rhinoceros or elephant is s...
I'd say you have to look at the tiger, rhinoceros, elephant or man. Probability doesn't cut it. The individual may differ from the supposed "universal...
That would a group probability. You say that's it obvious, but it's exactly that sort of action which "universals" ignore. We've just spend decades un...
AMAB bodies (mature) are stronger on average than AFAB bodies (mature). But that's not the question that was asked. An average only speaks about a tre...
I'll just repost the commentary about the question of the universal, since the other stuff was referring to a comment made about a text discussed in t...
Then other people don't find reflective of their experiences of the internal dialogue. I certainly don't at times. Sometimes my internal voice is just...
Maybe... but is it consistent with the rest of his arguments? What of the unity of things other than our experience? Are we not made of atoms, fingern...
The material body, sure (i.e. the existing body). I wasn't talking about that. My point was about the "soul" of the body. The logical meaning of my bo...
They are "like atoms" in the sense monads are substances distinct from each other. The monad of my body is not the same as the monad of my mind. Combi...
"If the world is not a fiery pit, we'll make it one. Then they'll understand the horror they've turned the world into." The only trouble is, you know,...
So he's meant to run the country from jail is he? Furthermore, the evidence is against progressivism causing people like him. Even a quick look at his...
Judged how? You are giving him a free pass. You don't specify any sanction against, either lawful or social. Indeed, you activatly say it doesn't real...
A more concise expression of your faults I have not seen. What matters is, you know, not avoiding immoral actions in the first place, but rather just ...
He assumes that women don't have any expression in the context. To say that "women let him" is not a statement of truth (as the women coming forward a...
I'd go a step further than that. Plenty who consider the transcendent means "going forever," and are attracted to the idea because of its endless reso...
Apo is ignoring what the "Romantic reaction" entails. It's actually description of the individual within a social context or environment. The individu...
The issue it can only ever define itself in biological and economic terms. In the mythos of transcendent freedom and immortality, the culmination is a...
That's a truth of knowledge, insight, ethics and experience. Some people are better at things than other people. Some states are more ethical than oth...
I don't mean it in that sense. People who believe in the transcendent experience synthesis all the time, some more than some who reject the transcende...
I was speaking metaphorically, not empirically. Wisdom and ethics are not magnetism. Though it's worth discussing empirical forces because they are re...
There is no force setting the compass. It just points. When we know something, we are already what we are. I don't understand the foolishness of scien...
I mean you get along fine without it. Your life doesn't suddenly lack meaning because you don't understand post-modernism and meaning like I do. No-on...
In terms of certain knowledge, yes. I know more about post-modernism and understand a relationship between discourse and meaning. Is it more meaningfu...
This is an example of the single narrative from which we are supposed to spring. To understand the passage, I supposedly have no access to the passage...
Or it means you don't realise that someone else's text is intelligible. Texts don't need "correspond" to a referent to be intelligible or be meaningfu...
I should add there is another group which doesn't like this understanding of knowledge: advocates of the transcendent. Philosophy with a transcendent ...
In this respect, both Marx and Hegel (and countless other philosophers) make the same mistake. They say their logic amounts to prediction of the futur...
The evolution of consciousness is material. Inspiration from people within an environment and ideas handed down through the generation. Hegel is actua...
For sure, but my point wasn't that you were saying the world needs to suffer. It was that you were putting more loss and suffering in the world, witho...
Because if you are talking about policy, then it's those you trust. The "conservative" label does nothing to make a point. It's just an excuse to be l...
Clearly false... the person who (supposedly) deserves suffering is part of the world. Not to mention they have their own social connections, friends, ...
Yes... I talked about it in a previous post. It's just heaps more damage and loss on the world. That is what "deserves suffering" means. For nothing m...
No, it doesn't-- it stems from you definition of justice that suffering is deserved. The point is this is not true. Wrong doers may deserve something ...
Missing the point, Agustino. The point is doing politics through the "liberal" or "conservative" label is lazy. It's trying to use a (frequently inacc...
I don't think the terms have much relevance beyond political cheerleading. As terms I don't think they say much at all. Policies and values are where ...
This is an ethical point. The desire to suffering only heaps more pain and lack of well-being on the world. It clouds judgement. One who seeks to infl...
No. No-one deserves it, not even Hitler. Punishments for the protection of the community and improving the lives of victims in certain ways are deserv...
If you'd said justice in the sense of preventing future harm, you'd be right. You didn't. "Paying back with suffering and pain" is always vengeance. I...
Exactly. In denying gay people marriage, you exclude them and their relationships from public approval. They understood to be of lesser value, to not ...
The issue of heteronormative tradition doesn't have much to do with any of that. It's defined by disrespect for other identities and relationships, no...
You aren't thinking beyond whether other people are saying your position is wrong. Here is is you that define the prejudice. It's your position (wheth...
From what you've said so far, no. Legal sanctions ought to be reserved for stuff like hate crimes. But the point is you don't seem recognise you own p...
I'm not debating the question of procreation here. We are in agreement there. My point is using that definition do deny people marriage is inherently ...
For sure. My point is not the people thought otherwise. It's that definition is discriminatory against gay people. Anyone who holds that position unde...
I think the problem is that it ignores the responsibility of our choices in responding to someone. Appeals to "nature" or "choice" remove the role of ...
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