I'm glad you have such a fine-grained sense of absolute moral right and wrong. You are to be congratulated. As I said, debating some particular moral ...
That's a complete leap. However he certainly isn't an ethicist and doesn't pretend to be I think. And arguably, rocketry is one whole hell of a lot mo...
I wonder if anyone has ever made a comment to someone about someone else couched in intimate terms the meaning of which was not meant for general tran...
Making the decision to abandon or accept Nazism certainly is a moral choice, not an intellectual one. Nicolai Hartmann even defied Nazism actively as ...
Yes. I don't favour social context but I have to maintain a respectful awareness of the extent of its influence. The ongoing risks of our social susce...
Two centuries ago slavery was a social norm widely embraced and even more widely tolerated. So whom from that time period should we exempt from moral ...
The alleged brilliance of Dewey. I'd love to know the alleged source of the alleged allegation. But nothing like a good ad hominem to brighten up the ...
Yes, which is what I said. I've read Being and Time five times and never found it suggestive of any kind of antisemitism or fascism. To those who dism...
Exactly what "problem"? Is Heidegger culpable for something, or of something? And I didn't mean we demonize to ignore Heidegger. We demonize one thing...
I would never assume that. However philosophy, by its very nature, is a kind of intellectual idealization. If the philosophy is explicitly a philosoph...
I think this sums up whatever substantive merit the OP contains: should we allow situational moral issues to to dictate philosophical interpretation. ...
If the thread was titled "The extent of National Socialist ideology in the writings of Heidegger" I wouldn't have said a thing. It was called "Heidegg...
It seems myopic to criticize someone for being on the wrong side of a socio-historic movement. Every author expresses his or her ideas through the len...
Wow, that's quite a detailed analysis. I'll follow up in a few days when I've finished. I will say that the narrative style of the first chapter was t...
Translation: I have failed to find meaning, therefore no one else can find meaning either. It places rather a high valuation on your personal abilitie...
I think the essence of metaphysics is that it is always about what is a little bit beyond what we think we know - hence the 'meta.' Some people just f...
I agree. The majority of people think they are living in an advanced and enlightened civilization without even understanding what civilization is. It ...
I'm getting to the end of this book on ontology. Hartmann says that average scientific minds focus only on abstraction, failing to achieve the "overal...
Exactly. Yes. Nicolai Hartmann describes the 'natural attitude', which is engaging with reality as if phenomena are independently real, which is exact...
I think the earliest mention I made of metaphysics was that "metaphysics needs to continue to inspire scientific exploration, while ethics guides tech...
I think it is a common ailment to have metaphysical presuppositions while denying metaphysics. I don't believe denial is equivalent to invalidation, n...
Yes, and it also means that there is always a correlative amount of methane hanging about in the system. It doesn't just flow from the butt of the cow...
I would say positivism in general represents the frequent tendency to elevate epistemology to replace metaphysics while denying that there is metaphys...
You are not grasping that this is a system and there is a definable quantity of methane within the entire system that correlates with a specific popul...
Yes, it would be true. This is why: This is exactly what I have been describing. Livestock population levels correlate with a certain systemic level o...
Right. And if all methane-producing elements in the environment were somehow eliminated, the methane levels would drop. Whether, in the grand scheme o...
Any process that involves methane, for example, involves the transport of that methane throughout a cycle, portions of which are stored for durations ...
Even if that were true, there is a certain "environmental load" to maintaining any greenhouse-gas involved process. If scale of cattle-farming were re...
One thing that I suggested was that the value of philosophy lies both in the academic body of knowledge, and in the quality of the minds and personae ...
There isn't a shred of logic in these statements. Even if it were true that output was stabile, that doesn't imply that the situation to which the out...
Ignoring metaphysics and invalidating it aren't the same thing though. Same thing for teleology. As Nicolai Hartmann says, it is an error to believe t...
It seems that what we mean by philosophy might be the glue that holds together all of the other formalizations of human understanding. For example, su...
Neither will it be solved by doing nothing. Humanity should be trying every reasonable approach consistent with good ecological practice to counteract...
That's funny. Hartmann laments that he cannot "reclaim" the use of the term "first philosophy" in his major work on ontology which I am just reading. ...
Yes. Hartmann goes further and talks about something which encompasses both the object of ontology and the subject of epistemology. Now you could get ...
Interesting that my new read, Nicolai Hartmann, contests this fundamental dyad of object and subject, saying it is a hypostatization of the relational...
Ontology: Laying the Foundations by Nicolai Hartmann "Hartmann developed a pluralistic, humanistic realism that attempted to do justice to both the sc...
I'd agree that it should be 'animated' by this spirit. Yes, I think talking about spirituality as something metaphysical takes away the hocus pocus fr...
Among the paradoxes of the figure of Socrates...is that we cannot classify him as belonging either to the theoretical or the practical world. Every at...
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