Right. And doesn't it seem to you like his insults are a red herring based on the fact that he doesn't want to address the Spinoza points I have been ...
Well music certainly has eternal properties, if you buy Schopenhauer's Kantian point that the in-itself of the world is revealed through man. This mea...
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; nor do we enjoy it because we restrain our lusts; on the contrary, because we enjoy it, w...
Because his philosophy, as he has expressed it at different junctures, would entail that someone shouldn't behave this way (and I would hope that he a...
Yeah I agree, I didn't actually mean that to be there, it was just the first image I found with the find x problem - and me being lazy I just took it ...
Yes being capable to deal with failure I agree is important. But I'm not sure that's everything there is to it - personally I haven't really ever fail...
Interesting points. I'd just add that in my opinion, the child needs to encounter, at some point, part of the harshness of reality - and they will ine...
How will it point out and prove this? The mystic, in my view, is concerned about his relationship with the ground of being instead of with mere unders...
Russia and the US have been fighting, while China has been heeding their own wisdom: "The mantis stalks the cicada unaware of the oriole behind it" ;)...
US is pretty much already dead after Obama man. Trump can't do miracles, even though he's probably America's best bet. China ALREADY has economic lead...
Which critical questions have been left unanswered? It is you who hasn't answered my questions, and who have made unsubstantiated allegations with reg...
But I don't think Trump's politics for that matter are "post-truth". They do value truth - a different truth than the liberals value, that's all. Rega...
But either way, I don't think you're the first man in history who has thought that his society is the most advanced that has ever been. Indeed this ha...
Arguments which are based on value judgements people do not share cannot convince them, this is what I was trying to convey. If you want to convince s...
In fact - I think this "post-truth" is a liberal meme to rationalise their defeat, and avoid coming to terms with the fact that they (along with all t...
Personally I'm quite pro-Trump tbh (not my ideal President, but preferable over pretty much all the other Democratic candidates that were available - ...
Yes but don't misinterpret - I'm not claiming to be able to judge all of John's character. I just said that that's what his attitude as it emerges fro...
I never claimed to know something of your life. I only know something about your character which results from reading your writings - just as I would ...
I'm not the only one who saw this John - but alas - you keep to your own wisdom then, I see it's doing you good. :) I don't know what religion or myst...
Based on what grounds? What ignorance are you talking about? To know the ignorance is already to transcend it. This seems like an empty distinction to...
Revealing it certainly isn't a mistake, it's the thinking it that's the problem, if you still haven't realised yet: "By doing this you are like a man ...
I think the distinction is meant for a political setting. Regardless, In real politics, whether someone loses the right to speak or not depends on how...
If I was Clinton, I would have faked illness (even if I had to actually injure myself somehow) and not attended the ceremony - what a humiliation, how...
Sure but those arguments start from the values one already has and advance from there towards a reconsideration and perfection of the entire system of...
Arguments don't persuade people regarding value judgements. One starts from some central value judgements and proceeds forward from there. You're doin...
It seems that you believe that one either thinks they are not of the world, and hence can be transformative, or they are of the world, and can't be tr...
I found out that it is better that people don't know that you are smart - people are wary of those who are intelligent, and are at least twice as care...
How can they be anymore transformative than other potential experiences in the world? All experiences, are, to a certain degree, transformative. Falli...
It isn't somewhere. Somewhere is a distinction from somewhere else. What's the difference between something being nowhere and something being everywhe...
Then certainly you realise that argument can do little. More important than argument is being aware of the ineradicable conflict that exists. Conversa...
https://youtu.be/7EXoutAIG4k?t=3m1s Heaven and Earth are impartial; They see the ten thousand things as straw dogs. The wise are impartial; They see t...
To be entirely honest, I think Zizek is just enjoying his rock-star status today - and he's achieved that precisely by being a leftist (which is popul...
Well this is why I'm not a mystic - I cannot fathom nor comprehend why people search for "the beatific vision" or any such experience - it's still an ...
It's not that we don't have observation for it that makes it difficult to become aware of it. It's precisely that the infinite inheres within the fini...
But if one position is superior, what would be your objective criteria for establishing this superiority? But it is a fact that we have different valu...
No doubt that historically this was the case - they were back in those days still confusing physics and metaphysics and the boundary wasn't very clear...
Wealth creation (and I'm talking about real wealth creation, not peanuts), just like empire building takes the right circumstances, the right position...
Personally I don't think matters are that settled. It may very well be possible that the planet has a self-regulating mechanism which is capable to di...
Well for example the video I posted of him supporting Trump against Hillary. That kind of stuff. Zizek isn't the usual kind of PC leftist. I am obviou...
The world is born, grows, dies and then is re-born. We're at the end of civilisation - this has happened many times in history and will go on happenin...
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