Identity is descriptive rather than prescriptive for the intersectionalist. Climate change, for example, is a racial issue because it's going to impac...
Not the rape, the guilt over the rape-- the realisation of the wrong etched into the eternity of history. The understanding of an immorality which can...
The fantasy of those who cannot accept what they have done. They are haunted because they are seeking what they can never have: the world without sin,...
I said the future does not depend on the loss or hurt of the past, not that causality doesn't function. The point being that our inability to undo hur...
A strawman. I never said anything could be redeemed. Indeed, my point was just the opposite. Nothing can be redeemed because sin is eternal. No matter...
Not in any life. The hurt delivered in this world is irreversible. An afterlife doesn't take it away. That's a fantasy which denies the world and our ...
Removal was never the point. Sin is, indeed, eternal (Christianity's major failing is it doesn't take sin seriously enough; we are told the falsehood ...
Agustino's problem is he considers virtue to be of the nature of a person regardless of whether they are virtuous or not, so he can act like virtue is...
Only if you aren't thinking about context. Such polices are in place to prevent women's voices from being overwhelmed, particularly by men saying horr...
No-one said it was explicable to you or that it must be. To say anything could be known is not to insist that it is known. People never know about a w...
The irony is delicious here. The proponents of "mystery" are the ones always seeking an explanation. For them, it's never enough to describe (or not d...
In the sense you are talking about, yes. For something to unknowable means it doesn't have a meaning in experience. It is that which is beyond experie...
You have two realms, the known/unknown and the unknowable. The latter is an apology for woo because if something is unknowable, it's always a mystery ...
I'd say SX is correct for exactly this reason. Children don't understand themselves to be experiences before the development of theory of mind. They a...
I'm a bit unsure of your distinction here. The general structure you talk about seems to be exactly what I'm talking about when I refer to logical (or...
More like a metaphysics without intention or destiny. A metaphysics which only concerns itself with describing logical relationships, rather than supp...
On the contrary, yours are incoherent by their content. Being is nothingness precisely because it infinite. If someone is to claim Being as foundation...
My argument is saying exactly the opposite. Since nothing in the world is necessary, the absence of necessity has no impact on who or what people are....
I know. That's why I say he's stuck in the transcendent mode of thinking: criticism is understood as the way we save ourselves, rather than a way of d...
I've never said fantasies were not worthwhile, only that they aren't true. My argument extends to the philosophical responsibility of reporting truth....
The post-modernist's point is that our scientific discourse is cultural regardless of how well it describes the world. It is always our statement of w...
I've never said nothing matters. That's the myth I'm refuting. The transcendent force is not necessary to mean because life itself is meaningful. Only...
My point is Nietzsche is still steeped in the myth he identifies. He still views meaning as transcendent, as an expression outside of human life rathe...
That's the abstraction I'm talking about. Culture and identity supposely have nothing to do with living humans. Instead of understanding them to be ob...
I wasn't talking about the abstraction of knowledge versus living. That's a feature of every argument or instance of understanding-- to merely know is...
The material difference in voltage isn't used to construct that binary distinction though, for the discintion is it own state, not something that nece...
Only if you're a traditionalist who thinks meaning is in the abstraction of culture into infinity, as opposed to living it: someone who doesn't realis...
All true: it's a study of culture and it's logical relationship to it, rather than many individual cultures themsleves (though it is its own culture t...
Only if you are thinking in modernist terms. For those who come after (i.e. post modernists, post-structralists, those interested in the interaction o...
In the context of philosophy, secularism basically amounts to none. (A) religion is altered from a giver of insight and wisdom to anyone, to nothing m...
I think that's is misreading given by those who identify with past traditions or the idea of being more than oneself. Secular humanism (at least once ...
The difference is really that the former is a normative command while the latter is nothing more than a myth. In the latter case, there is not a neces...
My approach in this is deliberate. The major point I'm refuting is precisely that distinction. Meaning is infinite. It's not a "human mind" nor a "wor...
I'm inclined to say that's the point being refuted: the boundary is not placed anywhere upon the world. It's entirely on it's own-- when I speak a cat...
I'd say you've got it reversed. The "thing itself" is clearly not temporal. It's true of a thing no matter its point in time. I'm still a "thing itsel...
It does malign the majority because Radical Islam is the only discursive category in which the West places Islam in relation to itself. We don't get-u...
The telling feature of the "in-itself" is relational. As a concept, it marking the difference between things, between where something belongs and wher...
You still misunderstanding radical contingency. It's not an actor on the world. There aren't a set of laws which constrain the world until, at some po...
Yet, any memory is but one moment of experience. All the "build-up" of memory is given in an instance of experience. The story of the world is not giv...
Exactly. It's state unique to any other-- it is "what it's likeness": the existence of being aware which is not captured in any description. This is t...
Behaviour isn't radical contingency. That anything might happen doesn't say anything about what exists-- we can't use it as warrant for knowledge. Kno...
I'm referring to the response amongst the Western media and its commentators who suggest Radical Islam is not being taken seriously. It's hardly an oc...
Worse than that: regardless of the credibility, it is Islamophobia. The problem is not necessarily the accuracy of any statistics (though they are fre...
To me it seems like individual denoting expressions are considered the problem. When we make a statement denoting an individual, we draw them up in re...
The point is to avoid the equivocation of what's happening to black people with others, so allowing it to just be passed of as "an issue which affects...
I'd agree. Undesirable men have never got what they wanted, not even when men were economic providers and heads of family. But I'm talking more on the...
I'd say power is a much better description in this context. It is the power of the man which is protected-- his wife cannot leave him, cannot be witho...
The embarrassing thing is the is/ought distinction is exactly what you are (supposedly) describing here: that values are not states of the world. They...
This is a strawman. Under emergence sensation is not the same as a wavelength hitting rods and cones. Rods and light are only objects involved in the ...
I think that last paragraph speaks to classical liberalism misunderstanding of identity. People are never seperate to the identity and culture they ex...
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