So duality is not an illusion – 'samsara is nirvana' is ignorance? :chin: ... chasing its (fairy)tail. "Object" presupposes (a) subject, or (an) actor...
Yes, in other words The Clown's goal is a White nationalist apartheid dictatorship and the means to succeed – transforming this (failing) neoliberal c...
:fire: I.e. our "fall into time" (Cioran) ... "nostagia, or philosophical suicide" (Camus) ... Strawman – I never claimed or implied that anything is ...
This statement doesn't make sense (e.g. birth defects, natural disasters, mass murders, vague utterances, discursive nonsense, random events ... are i...
Apologies for not reading the entire thread before responding ... My 'philosophical interest' was/is rooted in everyday encounters with stupidity (i.e...
Insofar as "personal habits" – in the context of my previous post – specifically means virtues, then I think so. Two policies come to mind: retributiv...
:fire: :up: Some of my own 'aphorisms' ... (2023) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/851181 (2025) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discu...
I didn't say anything about "logos alone". Yes, analytically. We also ought to strive to live according to logos over above mythos in order to flouris...
Do you agree or disagree that we as individuals, communities and as a civilization should outgrow – overcome (as Nietzsche says) – evidence-free stori...
Not necessarily. Yes. Afaik, personal habits (ethos) are normative and institutional priorities (polis) are applications of norms to public conflicts ...
"Cursory searches" are more often too simplicistic (lazy) and misleading, especially in modern physical sciences, than deliberate study. Given the ext...
What do you mean by this? (re: archetypal psychology à la James Hillman ... C.G. Jung ... Joseph Campbell ... :sparkle: ) Ex post facto teleological h...
In what way do you think so? :chin: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/955844 I don't. Your concept concerns 'what persons deserve' 'ri...
Addendum to https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/954898 @"Brendan Golledge" Please explain why do you assume that a so-called (un-knowabl...
I.e. AGI (neural network (not program)) that learns (to mimic?) empathy, eusociality, ecology and nonzero sum conflict resolution (e.g. fairness) for ...
A topic-adjacent interview you might find interesting: Re: the relevance / significance today of (German) Idealism? https://philosophynow.org/issues/1...
Addendum to https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/947477 https://www.zdnet.com/article/openais-o3-isnt-agi-yet-but-it-just-did-something-n...
Welcome to TPF! Consider the following post from a (2022) thread On the beautiful and sublime https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/722906...
Yes, because, as any experienced attorney or judge will attest to: "justice" is not normative (re: micro bottom-up –> well-being (i.e. utilitarian)) a...
Well, I'm the kind of fool who thinks the world is undead: a shambling zombie that appears to be moving inexorable towards oblivion as every part(icle...
Fyi – I've not read this thread but, fwiw ... You & co seem to be conflating normative ethics (re: interpersonal harms) with applied ethics (re: struc...
I think rational-pragmatic philosophies aspire to much more than 'superstitiously living according to the folk stories of miracles and magic' canonize...
Apologies if the following rambles too far off-topic ... An excerpt of a post from a (2022) thread The Philosopher will not find God In other words, i...
Afaik, deism is just 'the god of theism' on its day off (or on vacation), and so, if the latter is a fiction (e.g. ontologically separate – "transcend...
:chin: Why do you believe this? For instance, the ancient Hebrews would not have survived as a "people" – viable social group – "wandering for 40 year...
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