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Since the first commandment is "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" you could say that Christianity is explicitly polytheistic. Of course, the ph...

Nazism was itself the product of a complex historical chain of ideological and political developments. Just because it went horribly awry in the hands...

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The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy: Karl-Otto Apel's Semiotics and Discourse Ethics by Eduardo Mendieta

Spinoza: Practical Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze

I think you optimize your mind towards the object of application for the general benefit. So how you do that varies with your personal preferences and...

I was thinking about that this morning. I guess this is asking, to what extent is philosophy modular? And it is as modular as you need or want it to b...

I'm finding everything uniformly good. Three seemed a little dense with the catalog of characters and titles, but I think it reflects that world. As I...

À la recherche du temps perdu #4: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust

I think this is the basis for a kind of meliorism, versus pessimism. I would typify myself as a melioristic naturalist.

Yes, as I embrace the spirit of Naturalism, I see myself as an agent of the the universe. So my greatest moral duty is maximize my own potentials and ...

So would it be fair to say you see philosophy itself as kind of enlightened humanism?

In the same way that Kant says the "prohibition of publicity impedes the progress of a people toward improvement" I think the evident corruption of th...

What is your answer?

The hallucination is that you are hallucinating.

You can call an atom a thing if you want. Things are systems of a very basic or maybe well-understood kind. The point was you said an atom had a purel...

Yes, that is the obvious fact here. My education must have gaping holes in it. Much more obvious than the facticty of atoms being evident qua properti...

Ye are quite mad lad. Bon voyage, enjoy the ride! :)

Systems are functional entities characterized specifically by their differentiation with respect to an environment and their stability, among other th...

Systems are absolutely a fundamental feature of natural reality. I completely espouse Laszlo's perspective that the systems theoretic framework is a p...

That's a huge assumption that only illustrates the limitations of human knowledge. It originates from an core orientation of philosophical pessimism w...

I actually covered a lot of my views relating thermodynamics and information theory by way of cybernetics in the dialog with ChatGPT I just posted in ...

This is very interesting and prima facie not in my acquaintance. Thanks for sharing!!

Whitehead was my personal preference, because I happen to think process philosophy is a powerful concept. I hoped that people would feel free to recas...

Right now I'm having fun with ChatGPT for free. I realized that, as a neural net, its primary operation consists of processing data through a layer of...

Interesting. I have heard entropy characterized as the tendency to disorder or randomness, negentropy as the opposite. I'm also familiar with the info...

Maybe I'm just naive, but how is the well-documented physical phenomenon/fact of negentropy not in and of itself sufficient evidence of this?

I like to say, perspective is everything. Asking what is the point of anything sounds like more of an emotional than an intellectual response. The alt...

Thanks, noted. I read Descartes' Error, I preferred Damasio's Error though.... :naughty: I am still keen to read Jaworski on hylomorphism. I'll just h...

Thanks for the feedback @"Nickolasgaspar". Like you, I'm motivated to try to find application of philosophical concepts where they can be of most bene...

So as a kind of mental training or discipline? I would one-hundred percent endorse that.

Would you say that Spinozaism constitutes a "philosophical system", such that "philosophical systematicity" could be considered a category? Is the exe...

Well hermeneutics perhaps. But then, is that a philosophy, or a tool? Depends who you read. Ricouer covers a lot of ground, and he uses hermeneutics l...

No doubt, there is a rabbit-hole there. If you don't feel that it is possible to create a category along the lines I did - primary tradition and recen...

If your personal aesthetic is philosophical, then your personal reasons might also be?

Yes. Although, not to quibble, but isn't the entire point of providing an example to clarify? For example, I could provide the truth tables for inclus...

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I agree, and I considered creating a very broad category of "Philosophical Systems" for such radically different thinkers as Hegel, Locke, Schopenhaue...

I don't consider exemplification to be a vague concept. Wouldn't you agree that the premise of exemplification is to illustrate and clarify?

Hmmm. Maybe I should have said contemporary. Do you think there are any contemporary heirs to the tradition of Spinoza?

The reason I didn't pick metaphysical is that I think the phenomenological subject exemplifies the most metaphysically interesting aspects of reality....

Who would you cite as a modern exponent of the Metaphysical-Ethical tradition?

I wanted to pick Metaphysical because I have a sinister preoccupation with the ultimate nature of reality. But I also went the social route. As you sa...

I'm not sure that I do. By all accounts, things were a lot more equal before money. Money facilitated first trade, but then capitalism, which definite...

But how is it going to come to pass that a society values labour more than capital? Just now read Habermas' analysis of the formation of the 'bourgeoi...

I think the sad thing is that we are contentedly cultivating a culture of mediocrity. We just had a $60 lunch, no drinks. It was, meh, at best, if you...

Or if the elite weren't using the power of their resources to completely shred value of the information, to the point where most people are so obsesse...

Unfortunately, if we do not at some point figure out how to manage an equitable redistribution of wealth and educate enough people to ensure it stays ...

Which is the reality. Which is why I now do my most important banking where there is decent brick and mortar access.

Customer service - particularly technical support - is already in the shitter. Does it really matter if it drops out of the toilet bowl into the sewer...