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Well I love philosophy. We can call science, philosophy, religion, etc. various forms of coping or flourishing. My point would be that as individuals ...

Well said. Rorty thinks of philosophy as a genre of creative writing. We philosophers have a taste for theory over novels. We may read novels, but I b...

Well generally I agree. But I'm interested in 'anonymous meme forges.' I learn from others on this site. The informality and anonymity offers new poss...

I agree. I know lots of math and have spent lots of time thinking about math. I think these guys pretty much get it right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

I'd say it's hard work and luck if one can be original. I'm happy with a fresh metaphor or paraphrase. The great thing about the philosophical passion...

I agree with the spirit of this. But I'd frame it in terms of what makes The Rolling Stones a good band? If you don't like them, nothing! If you do, t...

Note phrases like 'the true nature of things' and the 'eternal nature of things.' Nietzsche and others (all of us at times?) transcend what's terrible...

I'd say that he was an 'art mystic.' As I'm sure you know, he was powerfully influenced by Schopenhauer. His first book hurt his reputation. It was to...

Have you presented your ideas anywhere else on the internet? On other phil. forums? If so, how was the response different or similar? All other forums...

Ah I don't know if I've read that one. I've read a few of his most famous works, but that's all. I could never get into that style. I think language i...

I like your way of phrasing that: giants and gods. That's poetry. For me it's the poetry that really matters. So I was never into the logic chopping o...

Fascinating post. Some of the themes are familiar to me. I agree with the underlined part. In first quote, though, I'd say that 'Western man' will lar...

That sounds right. When does reflection become not only possible but necessary? When the old habits , commandments, and rituals stop working?... Once ...

Thanks!

I pretty much agree with your conception, which I'd even say is already in Hobbes. (The first part of Leviathan ('Of Man') would make a great standalo...

I guess it doesn't matter much whether Nietzsche is called a mystic, but still... "Whoever thou mayest be, beloved stranger, whom I meet here for the ...

As I mentioned above, Ontology: Hermeneutics of Facticity (lecture notes from 1923) is a great text for those who don't want to drown in Being and Tim...

Exactly! And this theme runs through everything. Some would abolish all distinctions, however useful, in a useless, feel-good mist. Or maybe a genuine...

FWIW, I agree. And that's some of my beef with oceans of jargon that would rather obscure this with speculative truths like the body not being a corpo...

I'll just add (and perhaps you'll agree) that I find all of those vectors tangled up in single personalities.

I agree. I'd be quite the puritan to resent such relatively harmless pleasures. If my tone was a little harsh, it's about clarity rather than contempt...

I agree. And one could argue that the deepest philosophy happens here, right at the edges. To be intelligible, one has to stay at least mostly within ...

Indeed. I like 'aptitude.' I also like 'know-how.' And it takes guts to expose yourself to criticism. There's also a sense of fair play. I meet strang...

I agree, but I'd add that we have to already be in on something friendly to begin with in order to set up the rules. So that suggests that the rules a...

I do think it's huge. I guess the fault of intellectuals tends to be pretending that they aren't all riding dark horses whose names they do not know. ...

FWIW, I don't think you've clarified your persona here. On the hand, you assert being in on something supreme. On the other hand you still mention wan...

That makes sense to me. I think we also have social conventions about what moves are allowed in the game. I call these something like power dynamics. ...

Could be Sartre or Heidegger. Look at Sartre on freedom. Old school theology! Stripped of all the baggage. It's apparently atheist, but it's arguably ...

Same here. I also think this is some of the best stuff in Wittgenstein and Heidegger. The 'form of life' is mostly invisible. The foundation of our in...

Exactly. So there's maybe always something a little bogus about teaching philosophy to children. It's the same with 'critical thinking.' The medium be...

I agree. I like noticing the darkness that surrounds us...but then getting out my fishing pole. I'm at peace with our ultimate ignorance. There is eve...

I agree. We don't want to be lost in unnecessary complexity, and we also don't want to be so anti-intellectual that we can't manage a good model. Theo...

I agree. I guess I was generally trying to point how much of our morality is 'beneath' the artificial theories we construct on top of that darkness. I...

Have you looked at Hobbes recently? I am really digging Hobbes and Bacon. Their prose is so compact. This is more on the Nietzsche theme: http://www.g...

My question is whether your slobbiness is ultimately an artistic decision, a costume of humility or transcendence of fashion.. Like a king in his bath...

Indeed, and this is where we meet. This is the Kierkegaard thing. It's as if the truth were a dark god that can't be captured in a single persona. Thi...

I like your honesty and self-awareness as always. To answer your question, moralizing and morality are about status, about what is noble. Let me step ...

I'm exhausted and have to work in the afternoon. Otherwise I'd stick around. Good night all.

I'm surprised. Well, I guess I've projected. Still, there is something in your posts I relate to, despite the places where we seem to not meet up.

I understand this view, but let's not underestimate the power of words. I don't think you get what I was getting at. And in the friendliest way that s...

Even if being at TPF is a little uncomfortable or annoying, I still think it's good to expose yourself to other perspectives. At the very least you ar...

I never read that book (I know the one you're talking about.) But if that book is like I've imagined it, you're probably right.

That's a tough one. Maybe you can relate. I try to be a rounded and grounded personality. Given the sophistication of your posts, I imagine that you d...

The radial situation might just be pragmatic. Or trying to write the same poem again from scratch, just a little better, including what has been learn...

That's a profound question. I think usually the persona is the self one is invested in constructing, maintaining, protecting. The mask just is the fac...

It's awkward to talk about. It's mostly that one expects to be misunderstood. I enjoy talking about these things, but they push all kinds of buttons i...

Ah. Well I guess you are asking for a difficult thing. It sounds like you want a co-creator of the philosophy. Even if people were willing to do it, t...

Who needs professors though? Is there some validation to be had from academia? That's the tension in your position for me. If it's reason alone, then ...

It's complicated. I guess it depends on how one values that missing thing. Obviously it's got to be talked about carefully. It's not far from madness ...

But perhaps that's its essence, for better or worse. Slapping the word 'gravity' on a pattern in measurements that we expect to persist doesn't really...