Hegel. Do I always believe him? No. I've largely read interpretations and secondary sources, but I've recently been tackling translations of the man h...
I think this is an important point. As much as I love some of the old masters, they could not have foreseen the 21st century that I walk, live, and br...
I'm surprised that you'd say he was a horrible writer. I read the Kaufmann and Tanner translations and consider them some of the best philosophical pr...
I think the rationalists got something important right. I like Hegel. I generally think in terms of assimilation --an increasingly complex synthesis -...
I think we start with what might be called "ordinary" experience. We live in a world where there are numbers, people, ideas, chairs, germs, atoms, etc...
I checked out the links. Good stuff. I've looked into Pierce a little and pragmatism in general significantly. I roughly believe that the human being ...
Actually I largely agree. The importance of this practical wisdom, though, is one of the things that thinking about thinking can clarify. On the other...
Absolutely. I think that this is just the usual bias that afflicts judgment made especially obvious. I'm tempted to stress something like a necessary ...
I can relate to that. It seems to me that as philosophers we have to relate or organize all of our less general forms of thinking. Philosophy is somet...
I live the US. It's very polarized here. Most folks are sure that they are good and that their opponents are evil. Some of the more restrained express...
Would you say that you are not terribly interested in philosophy as the pursuit of wisdom? I'd describe it as thinking about thinking in the pursuit o...
Thank you. Would you agree that we have little doubt in local or everyday contexts? I do of course see a connection to religion and culture here. I pe...
Perhaps you'll agree that we experience at least the "illusion" of that which is not ourselves. In other words, there are "objects of consciousness" a...
I can see why you would say that, but I'm actually talking about an insight that trivializes the nominalism/realism debate in terms of its uselessness...
One could argue that narcissism, which I do understand as basic human "drive," is sometimes more powerful than hunger. Humans will risk their lives ov...
This is exactly how I see it, too. I think that we philosophical types have very little genuine doubt about the meaning of "real" and "exist" in given...
I agree that the decision to live is not "rational" in an "absolute" sense of the word. But maybe we should question this absolute notion of the ratio...
I propose that self-esteem satisfies a sort of drive just as food satisfies hunger. To look in the mirror, whether physical or in some medium, such as...
I think many of us are raised in the context of religion. If not in the context of religion proper (God created the world and will eventually judge), ...
I'd suggest that its because religion tends to precede atheism. I'd also suggest that individualism, closely related, also evolves late in the game. T...
Is Truth Mind-Dependent? I'm hardly the first or the last to do it, but I think we have to question the question. If we take the question seriously, i...
I would agree with you that there is no "cosmic" or "absolute" reason for the show to go on and on and on. Many are tempted to answer in terms of loca...
I'd say that we all as at least implicit philosophers demonstrate our varying answers to that question every day. If some crusty professor assured me ...
So true. Somehow the assumption crept into various skulls that everything should and could be justified from scratch. Presuppositionless self-evolved ...
I find that most people (or at least most people I'd seek conversation with) have an interest at least in non-academic philosophy or the "philosophy o...
If we presuppose cognition as a sort of instrument between the I and the world, then it's going to be hard to find anything unmediated or non-subjecti...
I agree, but perhaps we experience this terms of reality changing on us. The models we live by are more or less reality-for-us until they break down. ...
I agree, and I think this is very important. Philosophy (seems to me) is at least as much about deciding what to pursue as it is evaluating the means ...
Hi. Respectfully, does this not bring us back to the ambiguity of "exist"? Does there exist a fixed, context and practice independent meaning for the ...
Exactly. How does one get beyond the ambiguity that haunts this kind of philosophy? I'd say look at the results of thinking on that which is not "mere...
Hi. While such an approach is hardly exhaustive, I would look at the religious "roots" of art. While some art became quite abstract, much of it seems ...
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