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Humans are not on Earth "by their own efforts" which, in itself, has no impact whatsoever on "why one ought to behave ethically." :roll:

Typical whataboutery of "everybody does it". Funny thing too, I said "regimes" in general and not "Israel" in particular. Why so defensive? Their oppr...

"Aboutness" denotes 'to indicate a discursive subject' (e.g. this thread is about "aboutness"). "Intentionality" denotes 'to select an object of or di...

I mean what I said previously: criteria are used to facilitate, even regulate, discursive practices; they are tools for specific tasks however they ar...

Yeah, like regimes that practice oppression, apartheid and ethnic cleansing as matters of policy. Such regimes qualify as manifestly "evil", you'd agr...

Okay. I guess. We use the term differently, but you make my point that criteria (i.e. forms-of-life) are noncognitive.

Well, if "the next thing" is "hip", will it even matter to philosophy? I don't think so, especially if it's not intelligible. Youtube, for instance, i...

Most are definitions, or descriptions, and a few are, it seems, in/direct explanations aka (testable) "theories".

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Modern. Modernity. Modernism. From latin "modo", which means "just now, current, new" ... I use MoDo only when discussing p0m0 (postmodernism, etc) as...

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Yeah, in other words, MoDo hasn't attained its "final vocabulary" (Rorty's p0m0 – no shit, big whup) yet, and isn't this (contra pre-MoDo 'scriptural ...

Don't try to make this about me, Pop, you're the one spouting that "integrating information" pseudo-science. No cheap shot, just calling you out on bu...

To paraphrase The Killer: there's a whole lotta pseudo-scientistic confusing maps with the territory going on! So much so, that @"apokrisis"' master c...

As I wrote in reply to you on another thread so that philosophical self-cultivation isn't mere "egotism", as you say, because the benefits are intrins...

You've lost me.

My interpretation of "an examined life" is 'unlearning misery as a way of life', as an endless, sisyphusean task (i.e. self-overcoming). Yes, insofar ...

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Excerpts of longer posts from old (related) threads ... General. Particular. Personal. :death: :flower:

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This thread topic is about "aboutness" and not about intention (or "intentionality").

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... because, y'know, that other "evil" thread. :roll:

'Making up shit' (woo-of-the-gaps) is always easier than ... reasoning to the best explanation (science) ... or admitting you/we just don't know (phil...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k3s7HqsM0Zw "Red Light" (3:46) War, 1983 U2

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd60Z8AXcUA "Like a song ..." (4:48) War, 1983 U2 * conjuring the ghost of my Catholic guilt :eyes: https://m.youtube.co...

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Submissions are not due until deadline date. July 25th? August 1st? TBD @"Baden"

No paradoxes, just questionable premises.

Xanthippe drove her old man out into the agora everyday looking for youths to corrupt. Fortunately, my wanton exes have postponed that 'first marriage...

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Well, if ever you're truly interested, I recommend either (or both) • Schopenhauer A Biography, David E. Cartwright • Schopenhauer and the Wild Years ...

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In MoDo, reason is inadequate yet indispensable. Abduction (translation) and defeasibility (contextuality^). In p0m0, meaning^ is indefinite yet socia...

@"Gnomon" And so it goes from one microstate (minimum disorder, simplicity) to N microstates (maximum disorder, complexity) of a macrostate, no?

And to live is to be questioned (tested), not answered. The sense of 'definition' is described rather than defined. Pseudo. Shown not said. (Witty)

Strawmen and non sequiturs. :yawn:

Broadly speaking, a non-rhetorical question is a request for information (i.e. ignorance made visible); a philosophical question, however, is a reques...

:lol: We're not even talking about the same thing (and we haven't been all along). So good luck with that.

:up: And therein lies p0m0's self-subsuming self-refutation just like relativism, global skepticism, nihilism – categorical deflations, or negations, ...

Belief systems "supported by belief"? I suppose the problem of the criterion is lost on you, frank. And infinite regress (or vicious circularity). :ro...

No doubt, had Schopenhauer been a classical epicurean (or kynic), he would have better(?) understood happiness (unlearning / reducing miseries) and pe...

"I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar." ~Twilight of the Idols We're using the term "faith" in completely differen...

This is not true.

No idea what you're talking about, frank, as it relates to my posts about "faith".

Please elaborate a little.

Fuck off. :lol:

Irrelevant truism. "Faith" does not 'justify' believing that "miracles" happen, only rationalizes that a belief in "miracles" does not require "justif...