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True, but people don't like to be in subjection, so that's difficult for the US. If you keep them too much in subjection they will rebel and form a co...

Not really. As things stand now, in 20 years, China will be twice the size of US X-)

It could be read that way, but doesn't necessarily have to be. I think Trump is quite isolationist in terms of military. He wants US to be strong and ...

Yes kind of. For Schopenhauer, what necessitates the assumption of the noumenon is the fact that experience occurs on a stage which is ideal and not r...

Oh yeah, I'm sure you can John. Granted by the fact that you can't even control your mouth, I have high doubts about your capacity to control somethin...

Can you explain what your own view of mathematics which we've talked about before by the way, has to do with Schopenhauer's transcendental idealism? :...

First you should watch for that prickly and arrogant attitude of yours. I'm under no obligation to provide you with anything, especially while you lac...

>:O I never claimed to have thorough knowledge of Hegel. Hegel is not Aristotle, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Pascal, Schopenhauer, Hamann, Kant, Aquinas, E...

Again why does that matter? You post things which are really irrelevant to the thread that is going on. Yes, the fact that non-Euclidean geometries ar...

:-} I have read Schopenhauer's WWR Vol I and II, On the Fourfold Root, and numerous works on him like Bryan Magee's, etc. You should stop with this re...

The other interesting feature is that non-Euclideanness always presupposes a larger, n+1 dimensional space. So presumably spaces cannot be non-Euclide...

You are making an appearance/reality distinction again here. So is this a pheonemon/noumenon distinction then? You are using your terms in a very stra...

Ah yes, now it seems to be working... It seems that Heister wanted me to see a grandfather poet engaged in study :D

We cannot perceive what it would be, because that would entail having 4D eyes. But - we can perceive what it is by analogy to other dimensions (and he...

Sure. But how do we have such knowledge? Is it synthetic a priori as per Schopenhauer/Kant? Do we perceive non-Euclideanness in a priori perception? I...

Yes, hence visual/sensory fields The reason behind this thread is that Schopenhauer makes it clear in WWR that space, time and causality cannot apply ...

Okay, then I seemingly misunderstand the way you are using perception. Would you like to define it more clearly, so that I can make future arguments b...

>:O Well yeah but I use gif in a non-technical way as "image" lol Can you see the image?

That's very wierd. But either way, it shows like a wrong link to an image. Does anyone else see that?

Firefox or Chrome I tried it with both

>:O That's good no? O:)

No no I mean it really doesn't show up. My browser shows Willam_Cullen_Bryant-300x246.jpg

That gif doesn't show >:O

What am I to understand out of these dots? :P A gif would be better >:O

Hah - how have I never thought of this for all this time ... Heister Meister Eckhart Eggcart - now it makes sense - you're playing your Eckhart/Eggcar...

By the way, I'm disappointed that I'm no longer your favorite philosopher :-} - I mean who the hell is that Leister Blowdart? :-* >:O

Eckhart Tolle? O:) >:O Or Eckhart Meister? >:O In either case, I have no doubt about that lol - I never read either one.

In addition to those three, @"The Great Whatever" also deserves a mention. While he has moved beyond Schopenhauer, he has read him and has good unders...

Curved in a 4th dimension, obviously.

Y is time and X is space :-O - but what happens if the x, y, z axis are space, and time is the m axis ;) ? Can you see that? A system with four axes.

But we can conceptualise it very easily. We can't imagine it perceptually, but that's another story.

Yes that is true, but I've already been discussing with him. He is indeed the only one I'm aware of who is highly knowledgeable in the metaphysics of ...

Which one?

I hate dealing with such misrepresentations as these - how is space as given in perception even Euclidean to begin with? Parallel lines in perception ...

Are there so few people fluent in Schopenhauer on these boards? :s So far no one with any knowledge whatsoever of Schopenhauer has replied in this thr...

Yes, I think you are partly correct. But then, not all idols, as Wayfarer adds, are material - there are also immaterial idols. So what is the commona...

No, all that it assumes is that one must have a master in the sense used Biblically. Even if there is no God, one must have a master.

So if nothing practically makes your life about love, then it really isn't about love at all is it? It's one thing to try and fail, and another not to...

"Yes, it happened when he told me that casual sex is immoral" X-) >:O

Yes! It's not the action, but the heart. Indeed! The next thing to investigate is how an object, an idea, a person, or anything else can become an ido...

Let's go back to the Kierkegaard quote with which this thread started. If I can bow down before a stone shaped idol, and still pray to the true God, t...

Well I stated my point clearly - so is it a true statement that "life cannot be reduced to a concept" or is it a false statement? Even an entire life ...

Right. So then life cannot be reduced to concept, is that correct? Why so quick to judge? :)

This is not a thread for discussing Kant's transcendental idealism - that should have been clear. You do perceive non-Euclidean space. Not directly. B...

Why is this a problem? Why can't the lived well-being be reduced to some conception?

Ok. So if Love is greater than you, it is not completely contained by you - it always exceeds you. And in order to know it, and be closer to it - you ...

Is all of it in you? Or is your asceticism a way to reach out of yourself? Is Love greater than you or equal to you?

So it seems you see no problem with a priori intuitions being false. In trying to save Schopenhauer, you're already on the run - re-treating to saying...

The metaphor isn't central. Space, time and causality form the framework in which representation necessarily occurs, according to Schopenhauer. This f...

It certainly doesn't seem like you'd find such a person right under your nose :)