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That claim isn't really false, then. Just slightly misleading.

So you're not talking about any one person who allegedly made false claims about the NHS, including Mr. Farage, who has come under an avalanche of cri...

It's incorrect in one sense but not in another. The will clashes with itself in time, as the verb "clashes" implies. In itself, the will doesn't clash...

Sure it's present.

That about sums it up.

You're talking about things Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader, allegedly said, whose party only has one sitting member in the House of Commons. When you h...

Why assume he is a good and decent man?

Nah, we need some real trve kvlt metal in here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmk_PXtem4E

You mean that people thought that living in a morally dignified manner was better for survival? I would say that that's up for debate in terms of the ...

Several years ago, I tried his so called magnum opus, Sein und Zeit, and thought it an almost unreadable, ponderous doorstopper of a tome best employe...

Indeed.

Yes, the Brits should have listened to the plutocrats and remained. Silly peasants. May God save the GDP.

Citing one incoherent obscurantist's (Habermas) praise of an even worse offender in this regard (Heidegger) does little to persuade me of your positio...

It doesn't exist metaphysically. It's just an abstract concept used to describe the movement towards a particular goal. I would not link it to virtue,...

Excellent decision by Great Britain. It's a nice smack in the face to those glib, corrupt, and incompetent bureaucrats in Brussels who've been shoving...

The judgment depends on the degree to which one has accomplished a goal. If you shoot 50% on your free throws, and your goal is to reach 60%, then rea...

I'm not seeing a great difference here. It's both I would say.

Life.

This all sounds correct. I'm not sure I understand the force of your seeming criticism here. It's not that esoteric. There's the act of running to the...

Sounds pretentious and long-winded to me.

No, he doesn't. There is only one will that gets broken up into distinct acts by the form of time. The latter (which, being in time, are quasi-represe...

Both statements are so general and vague that I don't initially have a problem with either of them.

Yes, I quite agree that it's odd, or mind-bending as Wicks put it in that one comment about strange loops I made. It's really just a consequence of tr...

Well said. I agree. He was too soon eclipsed, dismissed, misunderstood, or ignored by the 1920s as a new breed of obfuscatory philosophers like Heideg...

I'll stick to this thread as you suggested. He does say that willing is causality seen from the inside, so to speak, though this is to speak metaphori...

There's objectively plenty of openly confessing Randroids in business and politics, so it's not mere speculation.

A morally and intellectually bankrupt movement filled with bitter man-hating, Western-civilization-hating children in adult bodies.

Indeed, and what does the knowing subject know? In consciousness, it knows representation, but in self-consciousness, it knows not a representation, o...

See, here I think you must not understand or agree with the intuition that Schopenhauer is trying to communicate about the will. The existence we are ...

No, the will's grades clash with each other through their individuals in time.

There are two reasons at play, one a principled one and the other an interested one. The principled reason is that, according to one interpretation of...

What are you talking about here? This language seems calculated to spread fear and has little basis in reality.

Language itself is metaphorical.

There is no mode of expression that doesn't include progression. Language has verbs in it.

The objectification into different grades (Platonic Ideas) is not empirical, no. But these grades are not in space and time to begin with, so of cours...

Empirically, we can say conscious organisms arose at a certain point in time. Transcendentally, we can say that the knowing subject is atemporal. Othe...

I didn't mean for it to answer this question, for my point has been that this question cannot be answered, as to do so would involve something like a ...

You say that from an empirical perspective, and are correct.

Two things: 1) there has always been a subject, we might say, but not necessarily a representing-organism, and 2) time is not recognized but supplied ...

Yes, as he is obliged to do when taking an objective perspective. No one apparently read my comment at the beginning of this thread. Transcendental ph...

I would also add that Schopenhauer calls the positive freedom of the will a mystery. We cannot adequately understand it from our current perspective.

Right, and Schopenhauer admits as much. However, consider also that the will, being outside of time, is absolutely free; in this case, free to affirm ...

I don't think there's a difference. The affirmation of the will just is the world as representation. Now, you could then ask if there was a time when ...

I think you would like Kant's third critique. He speaks of these precise issues quite clearly and eloquently.

I find that ignosticism is the way to go.

Representation is simply the result of the will's affirmation. When it affirms itself, representation results. When it denies itself, representation d...

In one sense, yes. When the will affirms itself, this affirmation takes the form of different degrees of self-intelligibility. These degrees are the P...

If by this you mean the objectification of the will, then no.

We're not in the same spot if you admit it doesn't change.

The will objectifies itself.