Pantagruel

Yes, and neural network simulations operate at a conceptual level. Simulators that actually emulate the transmission of neuro-chemical waves in the br...

For sure. I just really, really liked the way he puts it. Really gave me the sense of being "the product of mind and matter", versus purely "mind" as ...

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I just wish Alexa could follow what I say and do what I ask more than half the time. Maybe AI is making some time in big labs, but practical, interact...

Everything that human beings do is literally praxis. Philosophers teaching at schools are engaged in philosophical praxis. Are you saying that every p...

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Legitimation traditionally consisted of actions aligning with social and ethical norms, hence conformity with accepted religious interpretation and au...

Well, commitment is the measure of value and the price of reward.

Appreciate that, I was able to find the PDF. I'm pretty committed to my books. I just bought a used copy of Sydney Hooks' Metaphysics of Pragmatism th...

Ah, MIT Press, always a winner. Doesn't look like it is available to buy, checking the InterLibrary Loan system... Thanks!!

Jurgen Habermas wrote extensively on the history of legitimation and legitimacy and its status in post-modern capitalist democracy. Worth a read if it...

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I'd say it is more a fundamental premise which contradicts the reasonableness of some of the other categories. I think I'm just going to watch and see...

Yes, as others have commented, the OP as formulated has problems. Following Habermas (and discourse theory in general) if you are entering into a genu...

You might not think they are right, but you could be wrong. Hence there is a whole missing category.

They could be right.

Your interpretation of the limitations of the application of philosophical thought is ludicrous. I'm currently reading Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimension...

Absolutely, which is why it may be necessary to excavate the historical origins of some positions to see where the fundamental divergences really are.

This is why I am pursuing the sociological approach which views detailed ideological positions as representative of more fundamental social trends, dr...

Maybe. But while it may be reasonable to flag certain opinions as less credible because of poor justification (kind of ethical falsification), saying ...

This is true. There is a strong, underlying normative tenor here.

John Dewey makes the obvious point that there is nothing more ephemeral than "the modern". I like to think that, when I absorb the nuances of Mannheim...

Empiricism is a philosophical position. Maybe that's the advantage of reading seventy year old books. You pick up a few things.

Why read Plato? Philosophies can only present certain things within the limitations of the social and ideational context in which they developed. With...

I'm actually just starting a detailed analysis of the way that social membership steers political and ideological domination through an ongoing proces...

Yes, some do :)

Actually you assumed that I was seeking some kind of shortcut. Quite the contrary, I am engaged in precisely the dedicated lifelong encyclopediac unde...

You like to play 'devil's advocate,' don't you? It's a tendency I used to be much dominated by myself. I think it arises out a legitimate aspiration t...

True. But what renders a certain configuration as "informational" is something external to the configuration itself. Signs are arbitrary.The informati...

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Altruism and egoism are human traits that far predate the appearance of capitalism and communism. Neither of which is any specific thing but rather an...

Saints are the paradigm of 'natural benevolence'. But there is a motif in hagiography (which is the study of the lives of the saints) of "enantiodromi...

The age old question of selfishness versus altruism. There are plenty of examples of altruistic behaviour in the world. It remains to be seen whether ...

And this is the age-old question. Since we are nearing the tipping point of our global system, the intrinsic superiority of one or the other perspecti...

I disagree. Hence the distinctions between hedonism, eudaimonism, and agathism. I'm not unfamiliar with sensual pleasures, they eventually wear thin.

Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses. And yes, some people are just naturally more skilled in areas that are of high social value. But even...

Aristotle says people are wise who undertake to learn what is difficult. I think this is literally true in an existential sense. Each of us has capabi...

Precisely. It is fundamental to what we are. One strategy for people who are consumed with the depths of their own problems (and I'm not ascribing thi...

Improving oneself in order to help others.

I've studied the unconscious from the Freudian superego-ego-id, eros-thanatos perspective and the Jungian perspective. Honestly, I don't know. I wonde...

I'm quite convinced that consciousness operates at a collective level. Trivially insect colonies do. I think that currently humankind is on the cusp o...

I don't think there is any such school of thought - I would characterize my statement as a self-characterization. Another perspective I endorse is sys...

Is the main function of facts to shape shared experience? Civilization is just people sharing experience, in the mode of either agreement or disagreem...

Oh, I was not dismissing the material world Jack, far from it. However I was pointing out the link with the mental dimension and its relative importan...

I think that, whatever the material world is isn't so important, in the big picture, as that fact that we are agreeing and disagreeing about it.

But the so-called material world that we actually inhabit is shot-through with meaning, information, none of which is itself material. The symbolic hi...

As I said in the other thread, the premise of the material world is a metaphysical assumption.

Ok, well my answer to both your questions I can phrase again in something I just read. Each individual perspective in the Phenomenological/Weltanschau...

I like how Habermas stresses the importance of being polite in showing respect for others' ideas in the interest of establishing a true communication,...

I am all about "inclusivism." The Karl Mannheim essays I'm currently reading actually detail a tri-partite perspective on the sociology of knowledge, ...