Pantagruel

I see that you are taking liberties with the unambiguous concept of pessimism. If you want to create some ad hoc, doctored up definition of some emoti...

A little too uncompromising was I? Maybe so. I think I am just losing patience with philosophizing by way of equivocation. Start with a premise X, the...

Agree one hundred percent. Unfortunately, when it comes to behaving according to a standard of reasonableness, most people tend to feel they do, imput...

If the difference between success and failure is a healthy attitude then perhaps that is enough. We are speaking in generalities, after all.

Optimism is not gambling, it is a fundamental attitude that underlies a perspective in which one is positively motivated. Likewise, pessimism is not c...

If pessimism and optimism represent free choices, then I would endorse always taking an optimistic view. My wife's cousin was visiting this summer. I'...

Sure. Pragmatism is all about actual effects in the world. I don't see that implying any kind of relativism though, if that is what you were suggestin...

Agreed. Exploration is a valid driver of culture.

Interesting. I would assume that anyone professing any interest in philosophy would already have come to terms with the non-negotiability of truth.

Thing is, everyone knows something. Even if they don't know why that knowledge is justified. Think about the classical division between coherence and ...

Just so. That's why Polanyi advocated 'substantivist economics' which considers all aspects of human existence, instead of simply monetizing life. A g...

Dilthey says the intention to understand precedes conceptual cognition. I'd go along with that. If it's a chicken or an egg thing then I'd say it is a...

Technically a minor but only one credit short of a major, with all core courses, so I voted for bachelors :)

Well, Jung has an entire book based on his "confrontation with the unconscious," The Red Book, which is a compendium of paintings, dreams, fantasies, ...

Yes, consistent with a systems theoretic interpretation. Physics (and all physical science) operates by limiting the scope of experimentation in order...

I'm also currently reading Dilthey. His project involves understanding "objectifications of spirit" and the extraction of "spiritual content from the ...

And yet suffering can seem like an eternity. More so if others appear happy. Perhaps contemplating a change of attitude is more palatable?

Sorry, I missed some of the replies! Since posting this I've read 3 books, the seminal texts by Laszlo and von Bertalannfy, and a recent survey/synops...

Are you asking why some people actually do choose "right" over "expediency"? Clearly because that coincides with a higher value in their personal sche...

You want me to explicate Jung's entire theory of the unconscious for you? He repeatedly describes how dreams and religious experiences link to the sym...

Yes, the definition is, but is its extension? Sure, the collective unconsciousness houses transpersonal archetypal symbols and material, but who is to...

Does Jung actually say it has nothing to do with this? Certainly Jung writes about oceanic feelings and having such experiences.

I would characterize this as the challenge of uncertainty. How is it that what is presentationally and logically most given is reflectively most elusi...

Formation of the Historical world in the Human Sciences Dilthey's Selected Works, Volume III

The original PC-acuity. I like to say, if you push special treatment for minorities to its logical conclusion, we all become minorities, at which poin...

Based on the sum total of my experiences (which may not coincide with yours) I have sufficient evidence of connectivity which transcends the domain of...

That is just Daniel Dennett's argument and I didn't find it convincing when he delivered it. Reasons for believing are ultimately contingent on the en...

Of course not. I established my criteria of epistemic adequacy and cumulative knowledge already. You're statement is just...flippant.

The whole debate hinges not on the actual existence of God, only the possible existence of God.

For me the biggest single argument is the cumulative nature of knowledge. Knowledge about quantum fields would be meaningless to a mesolithic hunter. ...

Sorry, that was an FB rant, I try not to tirade in here since you are interested though "Capitalism is the philosophy of the rich. And it is working: ...

If you are in your eighties, and your partner of many decades passes away, you should absolutely have the right to follow. I think that counter-exampl...

Did you know that probabilistic calculations actually don't apply to some natural systems? I just finished reading a section in "The Systems View of L...

Indeed. My latest rant is that capitalism is working, because it is making the rich richer. What capitalism is NOT doing however is solving our proble...

So yes, I'd agree

Isn't the welfare state an expression of our mutual obligations? Mill believes that obligations of 'perfect justice' create duties which give rise to ...

Another tidbit you might find cool. After doing a lot of reading on cybernetics and neural nets, something struck me. Neural nets are "trained up" by ...

I believe the expression is pearls before swine....

I think that reality as we experience it is a construct. We are experiencing an interevolution of mind and matter. Sometimes loosening the categories ...

I wouldn't do it. I don't even like being 'plugged in' to my phone....

This article may be of interest, hippocampal neurogensis and memory: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eci.12920

As long as it's the right strain with some coffee it puts my focus through the roof, reading and writing.

Mannheim would say that you can't create culture, rather it emerges spontaneously from its milieu. Not that I believe in any of that bullshit.

When I read especially difficult material (right now I'm working on Dilthey) I prefer just a touch of caffeine and cannabis. It is less like reading a...

That doesn't answer my question about "organization systems theory"? Yes, I'm pretty well-acquainted with the various applications of systems theory a...

I am unable to find any articles specifically about "Organization Systems Theory"? As it happens, I'm currently 3 books into studying general systems ...

Maybe because your proposition seems to be substantive, but isn't, as it is open-ended. Either A is true, or not-A is true. But not-A could be B, or C...

Who knows who is really happy? Some people make it their business just to be nice to others, and when someone is nice to me, that generally makes me f...

It seems self-evident to me that a decision by a Substitute Decision Maker is not literally equivalent in this case. i.e. Authorization by an SDM is "...

No, was just referring to the gender-identification itself.