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I agree, but perhaps the essence of Kantian style philosophy is the separation of religion and science. The truths of religion can be endlessly contem...

I'm surprised that your money isn't talking. Are you ambivalent about being critiqued? What kind of money have you offered?

Thanks for the answers. I guess what I'm trying to specify is how much you associate rationality with mysticism. Clearly you are interested in concept...

Would you say that you are still organizing that book? And that the ideas we see here will find their way into the final book? That suggests to me tha...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology

I've been interested in the rhetorical mechanics of the mystical position for a long time. Really I could probably improvise a handful of types who ap...

So did you begin to have a mystical experience and it has continued unabated? I ask sincerely. I am curious. Maybe it really is different from my expe...

I can dig it. But I think a person can get high on Nietzsche, Hegel, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Derrida,.... When a person is plugged in to what-you-may...

Welcome to the forum. I like seeing a fiery pragmatist join the mix.

I see what you mean. Our pragmatic, mundane ways of talking are cheap models, good enough for government work. But this is a stretched metaphor! Actua...

Is that really the gist of 'pragmatic'? Why would people trust scientists more on certain issues? Certainly not because they are less comprehensively ...

I skimmed the paper. It's well written, and (FWIW ) I get the impression that you know what you are talking about. It is indeed thick with Heidegger a...

Awesome. I'll check it out. I respect that you offer an answer to the question (which I think is fair.)

Let's zoom in on this. When will we know that we have fully understood such a glorious thing as 'the dynamics of its structuration with respect to the...

Heidegger is a great philosopher. But like many great philosophers he emphasizes one important theme at the expense of other important themes. FWIW, t...

http://web.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/phil%20306/kant_materials/prolegomena2.htm In short, this is an old theme. And Kant was already reacting against...

That seems solid to me. Like anything it can be taken too far or interpreted crudely. Nevertheless, I think we have a rough sense of the difference be...

Great link. I've looked at that paper before. Good stuff! Incidentally I used to love making strategy games. One of them involved a king that could in...

Great quote. I agree, and it's great to point out that pure color or pure tone are constructions. But we can also defend the utility of such choices. ...

This ignores why we evolved to do such a thing in the first place. Such 'violence' is necessary for our survival and sanity. Who's willing to deny tha...

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I agree. I suggest that consciousness is 'summoned' to interruptions of otherwise smooth, automatic, habitual know-how. This is an old idea, but I thi...

I agree that intellectual talk shouldn't be shunned just 'cuz. It's a fairly innocent pleasure even when nothing is at stake. And actually I have dabb...

I agree. I don't remember being potty trained, and I don't need a theoretical justification for the wrongness of hurting cats when I walk at night. Or...

In case it helps, I gathered together a few quotes that all hammer on the right nail. Looking at the thread, I think others are also seeing it my way....

I agree, to the degree that I understand this yanked out of context. There's a popular game where a thinker pretends to have no perspectives or all pe...

Good point. And my dig at the Hegelian hippo is an attack on the idea that tradition can be transcended and included in its full vitality. It can't! M...

Bingo! That's what I meant about the newer stuff largely being more style than substance. It's not easy to be that creative, and the low hanging fruit...

I'm glad we agree on the empiricists were really about. I also agree that Marx and Hegel are dangerous. What's a little sad about Marx is that he was ...

I definitely empathize with this. Taken to extremes, we get some of the scarier moments of the 20th century. At the same time our free society seems a...

I recently read Locke for the first time. Overall I liked the spirit of his book. Before Kant we already get the theme of humans figuring out what kin...

I agree. But for me that's not bad thing. I guess we agree about the negative influence of Descartes --or part of Descartes, because his math was grea...

Life calls. I will check back. Great thread!

Fascinating. From my point of view the metaphysicks of empiricism in Hume, admittedly obsolete, is perhaps less important than what that obsolete meta...

So do you not like Hume? Here's another quote from Hobbes that impressed me. It's something that we 'already know.' And yet I find it a plausible imag...

Thanks. And when I look into the ancients or the moderns I like...it seems to me that not much has really been accomplished since. Admittedly some imp...

Good point. How much of philosophy is left over once part of it becomes literature-mysticism-politics and the other part of it becomes science? Others...

This is a great point. The shrewder philosophers must assimilate these criticisms. So Wittgenstein and Heidegger become the greatest philosophers of t...

Word! And it's a nice thing to see!

FWIW, what I get from Wittgenstein is his disgust at the idea that the higher things can be treated scientifically. What's wrong with metaphysicks isn...

You may be right. I have read most of Epictetus, though, I think. There's a certain amount of redundancy, so it's hard to remember if I got it all. Bu...

Of course. And I hope my clarification didn't come off rude, because it was meant in a friendly tone.

No. I didn't mean to imply that he was. I was misleading in my prose, perhaps. Epicurianism is (in my mind) the same kind of thing as stoicism. It's a...

Awesome. Thanks. Though I might look for a paperback too. Philosophy is great in the tub. The hot water heater and the air conditioner are my househol...

I meant Epicurus, but I had Epictetus quitely in mind when I mentioned the stoics. I like all of those guys who focused on living life well and used t...

I have read some K that I really liked. There's so much stuff by K that I think I need to find a great intro that skillfully chooses the highlights.

I also love the ancients. I just got around to seriously reading Aristotle's Ethics. I thought it was great. I also like the stoics, Epicurus, etc. Th...

Nietzsche has been huge for me. He's such a pleasure to read. Obviously he's extreme at times, but that's part of the fun. What's excessive in him unf...

Fair point. And I don't agree with all of Hobbes' theories. But I would stress that he was doing 'my' kind of philosophy by concerning himself with so...

I like that you get what I mean by the Hegelian hippo. Since the theme is lit up for me right now, I'll expand. By this I mean that intellectual fanta...