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Those are not seperate. Remove the "neomarxist" aspects of those studies and one fails to teach objective truths about the topic, society, its people ...
June 01, 2019 at 22:56
The difference at play is between giving some kind of justification, which is held to demonstrate some sort of fact over and above just and intuition,...
May 23, 2019 at 02:55
1. They can recognise why/we can teach them why. Holding there are ideas we ought not hold, or even forbidding someone from following, doesn't mean we...
May 20, 2019 at 00:47
Do we have to consider actually being an Islamic Extremist understand why it's unethical and we want our society to avoid it? We don't have to conside...
May 20, 2019 at 00:21
You misunderstand my use of "don't treat with respect" I don't mean in the sense of people just being there opposing someone. I mean that society take...
May 20, 2019 at 00:10
I think that's an absurd reading because those opposing Shaprio know exactly what they want in the situation: a lack of platform for Shaprio/a society...
May 19, 2019 at 23:08
I still have a response to your earlier in the works, but I should leave a comment on this one. In terms of a response to the colonisation of many par...
May 19, 2019 at 21:09
It's that supposed difference which is the problem. By the measure of the content of their postion, that conservativism is a problem. They, in many re...
May 17, 2019 at 21:27
It worse that that: every single victory was won by attacking what seems to be counted as "free speech." Each time we make a change of policy or cultu...
May 17, 2019 at 12:16
The consequence is giving free reign to abhorrent politics. It's a society which is unable to take falsehood and immorality of certain politics and va...
May 17, 2019 at 06:20
The reverse is actually kind of true: his position on causality is metaphysical and has profound consequences for our accounts of how metaphysical pri...
May 16, 2019 at 20:41
We need to remember Hume is talking about the necessity of a cause. The problem here isn't a question of proving existence. We do that every time we e...
May 15, 2019 at 19:52
All of which suggests a direct correlation to the sort of politics involved. What's inviting is a take down of these (supposedly) wrong and inaccurate...
May 11, 2019 at 01:27
You missed option 4: There is an underlying catergory error taking that a change in the world involves a change in meanings or abstracted ideas. In th...
May 07, 2019 at 22:47
While I'm complaining about the way people are engaging with these issues, another thing which really annoys me: the supposed splintering of communiti...
May 07, 2019 at 03:50
I want to reframe this discussion somewhat because you a missing a key element: its the values and ideas which are the problem. They are the threat an...
May 07, 2019 at 01:38
I see that as, at least at this stage, a false problem. Knowledgable users, most of all, want knowledable users they can have discussions with. Giving...
May 01, 2019 at 22:01
I would speculate sometimes, I did see an interuption the other day, but it was by someone with some background in texts. Overall, I do think the foru...
May 01, 2019 at 21:50
I have some experience with this context. In a time in which I wasn't as busy, I was on staff of a philosophy Discord. We did have a seperate section ...
May 01, 2019 at 21:01
That's exactly why we attack their ideas. If we just stood by, for example, congratulating Scroton on his perfectly acceptable opinion women were disg...
April 30, 2019 at 22:27
But that's precisely the issue: harm on the basis of sex or to someone of a sex, it is not a comparative measure. When sexism occurs, it affects a sex...
April 30, 2019 at 22:11
Yes, for the sexist impact here is upon the the individual. The problem isn't a comparison of men and women, it's the devaluing of the personhood of a...
April 30, 2019 at 21:56
I'm strictly talking about the quote women rubbing the clitoris and his account of how it is disgusting. My point here has to do with no other stateme...
April 30, 2019 at 21:13
The attack is against his views precisely because that's where the sexism is located. It's his view which is the problem. He's put out the call to soc...
April 30, 2019 at 20:25
Indeed, the effect objectification is not determined by a comparative measure of whether both men and women are objectfied, but by its impact on an in...
April 29, 2019 at 22:01
Difference and Repetition majorly. Obviously, I'm putting into specific analytical terms with respect to the point of contention. I don't think, you'l...
April 29, 2019 at 04:36
Deleuze doesn't put difference before identity (at least in the sense you seem to be using it here), he puts "prior" to form. For Delueze, the identit...
April 29, 2019 at 04:07
I'm talking about the context of the statement, about what they hold women to be in society and to others. It's not a question of emotional harm (ther...
April 28, 2019 at 23:02
It does apply because the in question is defined not on a comparison between intentions of men and women, but by the effect on a woman. The effect of ...
April 28, 2019 at 22:03
My point was the comment had more in that just a case against general masturbation. He specifically referred to how a woman touching her clitoris was ...
April 28, 2019 at 21:45
I find it too eager to abandon the question of what one is doing to others. The distinction between "sexist" and "a person who does something sexist" ...
April 28, 2019 at 21:13
It's got nothing to do with a general postion against masturbation nor the sexual revolution. The sexism of the statement is in the expectation the ma...
April 28, 2019 at 12:00
Far worse than that: it's a deeply sexist expectation that woman must have no interest in her own pleasure when engaged in sex with a man.
April 28, 2019 at 00:39
He attacks the important point without quarter: that our meaning is given through tradition. We have to remember these traditionalists, to Nietzsche, ...
April 28, 2019 at 00:30
Insofar as "postmodernism" is used in relation to philosophers, there is a reason Nietzsche is counted. The critcism of "postmodernism" isn't directed...
April 27, 2019 at 22:50
I'm coming from a Deleuzian postion, but I don't think it's really a counter. The moves made by SX suggest to me he's been trying to talk about a cert...
April 27, 2019 at 21:59
I'm uneasy about this because it would seem that it is our kind of houses and our kind of flowers which are always at stake. It seems to me there is n...
April 27, 2019 at 10:15
You say it when you insist "women," whomever that is meant to be, then assert they must of some kind of weakness, which supposedly makes men, whomever...
April 24, 2019 at 22:53
I mean it entirely earnestly. (and it is a contrast, hence the emphasis, to Peterson's approach of suggesting our social organisation is given by a tr...
April 24, 2019 at 08:23
Any distraction from the Brexit debacle will do?
April 24, 2019 at 00:18
Diffuse is probably worse to Peterson. It means understanding a social relation though the specific and individual, rather than a lens of a singular t...
April 23, 2019 at 21:03
It's actually the analysis of power which Peterson has a problem with. All the stuff about "postmodern" is circling a certain move of social analysis,...
April 23, 2019 at 20:24
Not throwing gay people of buildings is better. This doesn't make The West better than everyone else. We used to do it to. Sometimes places start up a...
April 22, 2019 at 03:21
For sure, but it's not about a specific cause, it's about a result. Are capable women contributing? If not, quotas address that problem (aside from sp...
April 21, 2019 at 02:42
Quotas work on the opposite basis, that's to say, because of the capability of women (whether equal or greater than a man), we get more of them in pos...
April 21, 2019 at 00:25
I'm not sure the comment was addressing those issues. It just seemed to be commenting on how our statements lose subjective character because we talk ...
April 15, 2019 at 03:05
I can follow it. We are subjective entities who make statements to report to objective things. Our statements are, however, states of our own existenc...
April 15, 2019 at 02:50
I like to disrupt that thought process because people cannot beyond the object they are no longer seeing. My question in these situations runs more li...
April 15, 2019 at 01:56
I'm going to be a little bit meaner. In terms of the "independent world" set out in leo's quote, I don't think it can be coherently rejected. Even if ...
April 15, 2019 at 01:41
I tend to think there is less of a difference in that context than we might expect. In either case, I think "subjective" is referring to the fact the ...
April 15, 2019 at 01:34