Depends how you define "not doing anything". If whatever you're doing takes effort, then it's not "not doing anything" in my books. Simple as that. *f...
Ok TGW, so you think we can ALWAYS prevent getting hit by tornadoes and all tragedies in our life? If not, then what are we to do when we can't preven...
Yes, not obsessing is doing something when you take into account that most people would obssess in that situation. But we can't prevent getting hit by...
TGW, you say the stoic response is to do nothing, but this is just false. Say a tornado comes and kills your family. The stoic response is to avoid be...
I don't agree with everything in "On women". For example I disagree about property ownership. But I do agree with Schopenhauer regarding the faculty o...
Lol... women also had access to education, especially when they came from the upper classes. Most of philosophers and scientists were quite well off a...
I didn't say scientists or engineers. I said geniuses. The likes of Albert Einstein, Newton, Da Vinci, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Spinoza, etc. From the li...
What justification do you have for this when it comes specifically to rational capabilities? (I've already agreed there are quite a few things women a...
No, historical evidence written by the facts. The scientific/philosophical developments have, historically, been driven mostly by men. This is undispu...
Sorry my friend. Historical evidence strongly disagrees with you. Your "scientific proof" must agree and be capable to explain other empirical facts a...
Often those people aren't simply smart, they are also shy or timid. This wasn't the case for Schopenhauer. Many of the others who are smart and are "b...
I think Schopenhauer was a genius - and he had all the right in the world to mock mere mortals. The fact that the masses of people could not understan...
@"The Great Whatever" Very well, but what does this have to do with how one ought to respond when bad things happen? Spinoza who schopenhauer1 mention...
@"The Great Whatever" Somewhat. Hard to say as I am unfamiliar with many of Hegel's works other than Phenomenology of Mind, so I don't know if I'm mis...
I didn't receive any warnings regarding being mentioned in this thread, and I have been very busy recently, so haven't had time to reply. But I will r...
Questionable accuracy doesn't mean no accuracy. My argument is at least plausible - I didn't claim it to be undeniable proof - just reasonable. Of cou...
Hi jamalrob, Is it only articles you're looking to publish? How about philosophical poems, short stories, dialogues, etc? Would things like that also ...
Nothing, just not a source of aesthetical experience. Sure, it may have a political message, but in my opinion, that is not art. The purpose of art is...
It seems to me we don't have the same definition of pure reason. Epicurean philosophy for me does rely on pure reason - it certainly doesn't rely on f...
So then what's your point? That some people feel so about the world? Sure. There is something fake about this. And what is fake, is that the emotion/f...
It doesn't necessarily follow that it is a fallacy of composition. For example, a brick wall, with no rendering, etc. just the bricks is made of red b...
I don't follow. It clearly doesn't for many people. Unless you can prove that this necessarily follows, then you are engaging in a hasty generalisatio...
@"schopenhauer1" It is very likely that Spinoza thought of the geometrical method as simply the best way to convey his philosophy - not that this was ...
Yes, but you're employing "criterion of truth" in an entirely different sense from me. Here's what I've been meaning by it all through-out: http://www...
@"Sapientia"Do you think this necessarily has to be so? I mean, would you say that reason cannot influence the priority of passions? One cannot change...
I think you should read Spinoza's letter 12 (http://www.sacred-texts.com/phi/spinoza/corr/corr27.htm) :p Spinoza does not have a very good view of pur...
Okay, fair enough. Regarding your definition, on a personal note, it's too vague for me. I can't touch it. What's identity in terms of ability and loc...
But the same holds for your beliefs no? Once you have grown a self, (note you aren't born with a self), individual beliefs are, to a smaller or greate...
See the question of "having" choice is the wrong way to put it no? If the self is the framework of your beliefs, tendencies, desires, thoughts, physic...
@"Sapientia" Choice of whom? What is this "self" which you say is doing the choosing? It's not really a question of choice, since you are the framewor...
So if they are part of you, and they cause some single belief of yours to change, does it not follow that you have caused part of your belief to chang...
Well make your question more specific. I can't even begin to answer such a large question without going into what is meant by self, desire, and causal...
I fail to follow what the self being created, fragmented, and random has to do with perception or understanding - the "self" is a construct, which mea...
Clearly the issue between us is one of definition. You merely define your "self" as something above and beyond your body, your thoughts, your desires,...
This is a passion Thorongil. Just like the optimists, these pessimists are governed by their passions. They don't see the world as it really is, but t...
Well it depends Thorongil. Just like Hume/Kant/Schopenhauer, you have emptied the "I" of all possible constituents in the world. Why? Because for you,...
@"Thorongil" Choosing your beliefs doesn't have to be so black and white. Maybe you can't choose freely in any circumstance - some beliefs are forced ...
Things are determined to be true in reference to the criteria for truth, correct? But if the criteria of truth is itself true, how has that been deter...
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