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Thanks for clarifying. :up:
January 15, 2025 at 06:42
So duality is not an illusion – 'samsara is nirvana' is ignorance? :chin: ... chasing its (fairy)tail. "Object" presupposes (a) subject, or (an) actor...
January 15, 2025 at 04:25
Yes, in other words The Clown's goal is a White nationalist apartheid dictatorship and the means to succeed – transforming this (failing) neoliberal c...
January 15, 2025 at 01:54
14Jan25 Mr. Smith: "F-U, Douchebag!" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/14/donald-trump-2020-election-conviction-special-counsel-report-jack...
January 14, 2025 at 13:07
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January 14, 2025 at 03:25
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January 13, 2025 at 17:53
So 'only what is known is real (happens)?' – that's idealist-solipsist / antirealist nonsense (pace G. Berkeley ... pace N. Bohr et al).
January 12, 2025 at 23:37
:fire: I.e. our "fall into time" (Cioran) ... "nostagia, or philosophical suicide" (Camus) ... Strawman – I never claimed or implied that anything is ...
January 12, 2025 at 19:19
Explain in what way (e.g.) a fatal birth defect is "meaningful".
January 12, 2025 at 05:55
This statement doesn't make sense (e.g. birth defects, natural disasters, mass murders, vague utterances, discursive nonsense, random events ... are i...
January 12, 2025 at 04:42
... then its not "life". Btw, why do you assume being human "means" anything at all?
January 12, 2025 at 03:00
Yeah, and decadent cynics bleated like that about Nero too.
January 11, 2025 at 15:13
Apologies for not reading the entire thread before responding ... My 'philosophical interest' was/is rooted in everyday encounters with stupidity (i.e...
January 11, 2025 at 09:47
Insofar as "personal habits" – in the context of my previous post – specifically means virtues, then I think so. Two policies come to mind: retributiv...
January 11, 2025 at 08:28
:fire: :up: Some of my own 'aphorisms' ... (2023) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/851181 (2025) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discu...
January 11, 2025 at 05:00
Addendum to https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/851181 Bemusings 2 ... (To be continued ...)
January 11, 2025 at 04:55
10Jan25 It's official: DJT, Convicted Felon-in-Chief https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-sentencing-hush-money-new-york-9f9282bc Sometime in the nex...
January 10, 2025 at 20:36
Shameless and insipid non sequiturs. Good job, lil troll. :clap:
January 08, 2025 at 21:06
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...
January 08, 2025 at 02:05
6Jan2025 :mask: "In your ruins I find shelter." ~Samuel Beckett, from letter to Emil Cioran https://youtu.be/_RQZlz_i1M8?si=iO09MyQi46VSzjAf
January 07, 2025 at 12:24
Do you agree or disagree that we as individuals, communities and as a civilization should outgrow – overcome (as Nietzsche says) – evidence-free stori...
January 07, 2025 at 10:40
Not necessarily. Yes. Afaik, personal habits (ethos) are normative and institutional priorities (polis) are applications of norms to public conflicts ...
January 07, 2025 at 03:04
"Cursory searches" are more often too simplicistic (lazy) and misleading, especially in modern physical sciences, than deliberate study. Given the ext...
January 06, 2025 at 23:26
What do you mean by this? (re: archetypal psychology à la James Hillman ... C.G. Jung ... Joseph Campbell ... :sparkle: ) Ex post facto teleological h...
January 06, 2025 at 05:00
In what way do you think so? :chin: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/955844 I don't. Your concept concerns 'what persons deserve' 'ri...
January 06, 2025 at 04:45
Addendum to https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/954898 @"Brendan Golledge" Please explain why do you assume that a so-called (un-knowabl...
January 06, 2025 at 02:01
January 02, 2025 at 04:53
– ergo reality is necessarily more-than-subjective.
December 31, 2024 at 15:20
So you're a 'disembodied subject'? We're just 'disembodied subjects'? What "demon"? :up: :up: :up:
December 31, 2024 at 01:47
I.e. AGI (neural network (not program)) that learns (to mimic?) empathy, eusociality, ecology and nonzero sum conflict resolution (e.g. fairness) for ...
December 29, 2024 at 12:03
A topic-adjacent interview you might find interesting: Re: the relevance / significance today of (German) Idealism? https://philosophynow.org/issues/1...
December 28, 2024 at 21:17
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December 28, 2024 at 09:08
Addendum to https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/947477 https://www.zdnet.com/article/openais-o3-isnt-agi-yet-but-it-just-did-something-n...
December 28, 2024 at 09:05
:up: :up: No doubt Woo-farer doesn't even understand the question. :smirk:
December 28, 2024 at 01:24
Welcome to TPF! Consider the following post from a (2022) thread On the beautiful and sublime https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/722906...
December 27, 2024 at 19:29
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...
December 27, 2024 at 06:25
An excerpt from p.14 ...
December 27, 2024 at 06:16
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...
December 25, 2024 at 10:17
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...
December 24, 2024 at 19:19
22Jan69 Thanks for Billy, George! :up: https://youtu.be/h6Y-3-91aYA?si=OhllpRee1ZHyhpFF "You're in the group!" :cool:
December 24, 2024 at 18:23
Suppose spacetime is fundamentally entangled ...
December 24, 2024 at 06:03
I think rational-pragmatic philosophies aspire to much more than 'superstitiously living according to the folk stories of miracles and magic' canonize...
December 24, 2024 at 05:57
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...
December 23, 2024 at 22:15
:up: :hearts:
December 22, 2024 at 22:39
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...
December 22, 2024 at 22:17
Yes, that's why I wrote
December 22, 2024 at 04:39
: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...
December 22, 2024 at 04:35