I agree to this. But difference is inherent in this dynamic process you mention - un-eliminable. Indeed identity develops in this process as the resul...
That's logically incoherent though. Fire is always different from banana for example, even though they are incommensurable. To specify what fire is, o...
In other words, to specify ~A you must already specify A. And to specify A you must already specify ~A. This presupposes an underlying difference as f...
That's only if you presuppose the opposite system in which identity is basic. But if difference is basic, and identity is a product of difference, the...
To be finite is to be illusory, as I will explain below. Modes are illusions simply because they aren't Substance, and only Substance necessarily exis...
Just because reality is not immediately and non-inferrentially given doesn't mean we don't know what it is. The Myth of the Given isn't necessarily re...
Okay I don't understand how that is different from the way I've read it. If our desires are aimed towards ignoring the world ("direction of the desire...
:-} Well what have you actually said? How is what you said different from how I've rephrased it? Instead of being all arrogant and so forth, you could...
Sounds like good times :D I am similar to you in this expectation, although I think it has to be largely with the way I am. I open quite easily to oth...
I defined madness in the sense I was using it: living entirely in your head, completely broken off from the external world. The mad person, who walks ...
Why do you say that? If you find my point trivial that is an indication that you have already gone mad - ie reached the end point of your philosophy. ...
But I know exactly the type of woman you're talking about who goes on endlessly on her own story... >:O >:O I experienced that and it was terrible, I ...
Pretty much THE common experience, considering the number of moronic women that exist out there... Smart women are a rare find bruv ... many women I c...
>:O So you really believe madness is the telos of the human being? The fulfilment of our desire lies in madness? I think that's quite a mad philosophy...
But isn't the madman the only one who lives in a self-made world of semiotic sign? So the direction of desire is towards madness and the mad is the mo...
In what sense? I limit desires when I don't act on them, but not acting on them doesn't mean ceasing to have them. I don't like Buddhism, but I do lik...
https://archive.org/stream/lecturesonphilo03hegegoog#page/n351/mode/2up/search/spinoza One of the few I remember being cited. "Spinoza says what is, i...
It's the nature of man's mind to desire. The mind cannot stop desiring unless it stops being a mind. Fulfilment is structured such as it can never be ...
Right, the logical structure of OUR UNDERSTANDING is physics. The logical structure of REALITY is metaphysics - and metaphysics explains our understan...
No, fantasies aren't unfulfilled desires at all - they are the result of desires, but they aren't themselves desires. Rather fantasies are a way of te...
Well yes, you should thank yourself for that, for not making any derogatory remarks and for being respectful. I always am respectful when others are r...
It depends on the age of the student obviously. In addition to that, I would consider inappropriate as actually trying to kiss the student, or trying ...
No, that would be to act on the fantasy in the real world - trying to bring the fantasy into reality. I haven't suggested that. A fantasy is something...
Only if he forced her or intimidated her, obviously. However, due to the fact that men are generally physically domineering over women - or can be - s...
I've added more to my previous post. Well you could enjoy it too if you were playful, instead of serious about it. In many ways you treat it as a real...
Personally I think fantasies are unavoidable, and in addition they can be enjoyed without causing any harm. It's when one seeks to turn fantasies into...
Physics is what deals with empirical reality - with the series of on-going and particular causal events. Metaphysics deals with the logical structure ...
:s So you think Spinoza would confuse physics and metaphysics? Even Descartes separated them, at least conceptually if not in practice... The separati...
The translation is confusing you. I recommend Curley's... "Therefore all things have been determined from the necessity of divine nature, not only to ...
Okay, what I gather from this is that according to you, Deleuze, Zizek, etc. prior to Kant "error" entered from the outside, while after Kant, error i...
Measuring time only becomes possible after time already exists. It's not measurement that makes time possible, but time that makes measurement possibl...
Don't we also conceptualise the nature of that which is doing the conceptualising? :s That which conceptualises also conceptualises its own nature. I ...
In other words Wayfarer - time is transcendentally real - it exists beyond perception, and beyond even sensation, which perception necessarily presupp...
I fail to see how this is anything more than a distinction without a difference. Whether something is an error because of a transcendental illusion, o...
Yes I am aware that Kant thinks so, but his assumption must be questioned. How do we know that time is only a form of the sensibility? Isn't the sensi...
Yes, pain is something that is always there when there's the specific firing of certain neurons. Whether one is conscious of this pain is different, a...
Right so when human beings will disappear, the Earth will disappear even though there are no perceivers left for which it can disappear right? :-} App...
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