Merkwurdichliebe

I would blame this on Nietzsche, who makes many comments that are awfully similar to K's narrative. K would reject postmodernism for the simple fact t...

This is an appropriate example of K's dialetic.

@"Amity" I would say that K's most significant contribution to philosophic tradition was the power of retraction (given K's disdain for speculation, c...

Never read that, but it is on my list after "Stages of Lifes Way". Any chance you have that caption on hand? In Concluding Unscientific Postscript, K ...

@"Wallows" @"Amity" K's dialectic, is important to understand. The first two terms "being" and "thought", constitute the existing subject. While the p...

Kierkegaard says that "God is subject". And he also says that objective or direct evidence of God is pagan idolatry. He does draw out the divide diale...

Absolutely. The subject is the dialectical middle term. It is the negative, and to speak about it directly, positively, is a negation.

One of my favorite quotes from K is: "it is the misfortune of our age to have acquired too much knowledge and to have forgotten what it is to exist." ...

@"Maw" A present for you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aJRY0oJQIZY

What about the inner cities, where gun violence has been a reality for over a half century. Were those guns purchased legitimately by means of legisla...

Did I not just qualify them all as cowards? You are seeing words, but not reading them. Legislator=brave. :rofl: :cry: :rofl:

Guns are for the cowardly and faithless. Gun bans are for the cowardly and faithless.

@"Amity" Btw...probably the most underrated philosopher of all time, maybe after Diogenes.

If you haven't read him then you need to begin to do so. You will see the charge he puts on you as an existing subject. His perspective is, in many wa...

But we can be relatively confident in the assertion that there is some universality in the mechanism which begets the concept-laden perceptual experie...

That is, actually what I meant.

Fuck, I ruined it. :grin:

Its nominalism for God's sake. Fuckin Christmas!!! :joke: As a nominalist, I said: By absolute value I mean "nothing". By univocally I mean "you". And...

That Aristotle was of absolute value. And we have univocally confirmed that he is not. Thank you.

Yes

You always get my jokes. So, look into the humor and you will get the meaning. :grin:

I hope he answers: "the lazy edgelord".

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Let me just re-emphasize. :ok:

Can you present an example where this has occurred in our discourse? Not disagreeing, only looking for a live example of such error so it can be prope...

But even then, the best way to watch is by entering the stadium. Watching a summarization on TV never matches being there, live at the bocce ball matc...

@"Janus" Speaking to a nominalist is like speaking to one under the oath of silence, you can always answer their questions for them, and with no resis...

It's as though we have to enter the same stadium if we are going to compete in a contest of bocce ball.

Actually, I just looked it up. That's hilarious :rofl: . But as a nominalist, you know that nothing is absolute, so why would we begin to think such a...

I'm also a sucker for the long in the tooth.

We're you aware that Jesus, our lord and savior, was revived, RESURRECTED, in a mere span of 36 hours. Hallelujah!!! Beating a dead horse can sometime...

Aristotle all day! :strong:

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@"creativesoul" @"praxis" @"Janus" So first question: what is the predominant moral authority? And, what is the primary source of that moral authority...

Indeed!

I like it. I will focus on this as the common goal (in addition to my own, personal, sadomasochist, selfish reasons :joke: ). This point has been on t...

Thanks. Hopefully praxis and I don't fuck everything up in your absence. :wink: (Stand by...addressing your last post.)

We have gotten this far, I am optimistic that we can take it a bit farther. Where is the groundwork most required at this point?

:grin: I agree. I associate moral dumbfounding with irrational moral feeling/intuition which is grounded implicitly in moral though/belief. I feel tha...

Nothing you said there had any coherence. By the time I read it, the meaning had completely shifted. Shit! It just happened again with what I'm writin...

They certainly lack a neocortex. I can agree with that at the level of immediacy and prelinguistic thought/belief. But, other than the guillotine, I c...

You are misconstruing what I said. I was referring to the scenario (regarding moral dumbfounding) in which two or more moral agents are discussing the...

Nope. Unfortunately they are enslaved. Enslaved to a system that makes them believe they have a say in how they are governed.

And is thought/belief existentially dependent upon experience? Chicken-Egg :snicker:

Now you're just getting deep. :flower:

I'm trying to reconcile this point. My concern is, what is the criterion for morality, who is making the moral judgment? If it is a true statement abo...

Well, just ask an athiest if God has meaning, then ask if God exists.

Ok good. I see how you mean to use true. :up: I believe Socrates was morally dumbfounded in his moral conviction to eat the hemlock, and he gave plent...

Its a satire on the the assumption that what we say has actual existential meaning. :grin:

We went over this before, if I could get away with prefixing every word with " the ", I would.