Keep in mind that it is alive and well (and has always existed in some form) in the Islamic world. Unlike the nationalistic forms of European fascism,...
States don't need to be our friends. In fact, their whole purpose is to be the opposite: the bitter enemies of our baser natures. It would never occur...
His chapter in the second volume (and also the longest in that volume) of the WWP called "On Death and Its Relationship to the Indestructibility of Ou...
This thread has ballooned considerably since my last visit. Many posts are tempting to reply to, but as an adumbration of what I would want to say, I ...
No, not "must;" I have never been that forceful. Here is what I said earlier, ironically in reply to you: "The Ideas are not represented in art, but r...
I don't have much to say on this topic. It's been a while since I have seriously familiarized myself with Stoicism, but I remember the Roman Stoics, s...
There's no need to exaggerate. We have the Syrian rebels as our allies, as well as the Kurds and Iraqis. Turkey might also change their stance and aid...
This plays into my point in my first post about the need for an Enlightenment in the Islamic world. The problem indeed stems primarily from religion, ...
Well, I'm glad to hear you say that. I'm against any knee-jerk military response too, but I also feel serious military intervention must happen very s...
Yeah, but it's really rich coming from some of those countries, especially Saudi Arabia. Of course they're going to condemn the attacks. The question ...
It is clear now, but it wasn't prior to this helpful statement. So anyone who supports a war at all is callous and uncaring? By the way, I never calle...
Yeah, more or less. Yeah, but it hasn't adopted a strategy any more robust than simply flying drones and doing a few airstrikes. Well, to my knowledge...
Good, and I advocate the same. I just think that the intelligent strategy can only involve the use of military force in one way or another. Diplomacy ...
Meanwhile, sovereign states are threatened and enveloped, innocent civilians massacred, and one of the most brutal regimes in history will solidify po...
It's analogous to the extent that my point is that not all wars create brutal insurgencies by the losers. There are many other wars one could point to...
No it isn't. You're cherry picking one war. If you were alive on the eve of the second world war, you might have said similar things: "the ethos of Pr...
I'm not suggesting we shouldn't. An appalling tragedy to be sure, but then only a select group of people in the Pentagon are to blame, not the US, or ...
Ah, do you see what you've done here? You've cleverly shifted the language to impute a contradiction where none is present. I never spoke of the denia...
Ah yes, what would a thread like this be without the whiny proclamations from faux liberals who blame the West for Islamic terrorism? Is it the West's...
Nothing short of an equivalent to the Enlightenment in the Islamic world is necessary, in my opinion. I see nothing but the status quo of smaller regi...
He does this deliberately, though, for were he to describe such a state, then he would cease to be doing philosophy. Knowledge has applicability only ...
I'm not entirely sure he would say this, but even if he did, I'm very curious as to what difference it makes. Basically, the full import of your criti...
No, I wouldn't describe it in these ways. Perhaps the key to understanding what I mean is to consider that such an experience is will-less. One's will...
No he doesn't. Actually, this is precisely what Schopenhauer's philosophy intends to do! Have you honestly read the man? No, I'm pretty sure it does. ...
What a ridiculous statement. No one is evangelizing. We're simply having a discussion on a forum, trying to clarify our own views and correct misrepre...
No, it is not a state of being but a judgment. I am not aware of him denying that suffering is an inevitable part of life. On the contrary, it sounds ...
False. It is in one sense an attitude, and in another, a position about the nature of the world. You commit the same presupposition by using the phras...
I'm saying there is no single, perfectly replicable method one can follow that will, by necessity, result in experiencing an Idea. My position is only...
Such labeling is fine by me, as long as one distinguishes between the psychological and the philosophical. An optimist by disposition or predispositio...
I don't think all experiences are in both space and time. We're simply done here, I think. I would merely make the appeal that my definition most clos...
I think I was, which was in effect my point to John. Well, there's nothing more for me to say on this, then. I take it to be a brute fact of aesthetic...
I was in useful hints and tips when I read about the menu bar. I'm saying that in the old PF, replying to someone took you to a separate page with jus...
Another question: What does the menu bar refer to? When replying, I keep having to scroll back up if I want to read or quote what someone said, which ...
I do not honestly think I can be any clearer in what I mean. Aesthetic experiences have the quality of being timeless, of transporting oneself outside...
Not to rain on your victory parade here, but your original question - "What do you take representational art to be representing?" - is somewhat ambigu...
While it sounds like a nice parallel, I don't think it works that way. A representation is necessary as an identifiable landmark or guidepost which ca...
I came across that stupid video recently. It follows all the common tropes of YouTube "educational" videos, wherein the goal seems to be to simulate v...
I don't believe I said or implied that, and if I did, my apologies for the unclarity. The Ideas are not represented in art, but rather experienced by ...
If there were signatures on this forum I would be tempted to put as mine: "Pessimism can mean either a psychological disposition or a philosophical po...
While true, there is a way to read the denial of the will as an affirmation. He says, for example: "It can still be asked from what this will has spru...
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