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:up: Thanks. Online summaries often don't do justice to philosophers but that one captures Hadot's main points adequately. My own stance, or project (...

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:up: You're Kant-Hegel to my Spinoza-Camus. What do you make of Žižek's Lacanization of Hegelian Marxism? (Sorry :yikes: ...well, not really :smirk:)

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I very much agree. A question, I suppose, is which is the independent value and which dependent – the priority of the relation? I say "prudencia" befo...

How do you know H knew nothing about the (extra-judicial murders by the regime before and) death camps during the war when so many 'educated' German c...

Wu wei, brutha. :up: Not grammatically.

:up: 'Discoursive practices' seem to consist in something like (yeah Peirce et al, but this is my working distillation of) imbedded, or tangled, conce...

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Since philosophy concerns generalities – "how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the te...

:up: Most useful skill: opportune timing and interminable patience (complementaries). On second thought, I can't conceive of a skill that is more usef...

To what end? Internal to the project, and assuming you achieve an "ethical science", with what does your then project to provide (us)? Another rung up...

The worst way to die that I can imagine is any way of dying that torments me so unbearably that I'm begging to die immediately, incapacitated to the p...

Online one's mostly a dialectical rodeo clown; otherwise, just another wayward fool who happens to be studying-recovering from folly. And what about t...

Et tu, Pfhorrest? :lol: I never claimed or implied anything in that Fartrix quote of me. I slapped a title on the link to a debate based on the summar...

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:up: Welcome to TPF.

Proof of your D-KC membership: Those like you who need to say so, don't have it; those like me who don't say so, probably do have it. QED, Fartrix. GF...

Uh huh ... says our most distinguished Dunning-Kruger Club member.

Apparently, you're not serious.

Big whup. Human is as Human does.

An interesting debate on 'compatibalism (limited free will) vs incompatibilism (no free will)': https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/daniel-de...

Ideal death: As a mindfile in a 'matrix-like' Matrioshka brain which is falling into a supermassive blackhole.

Why does it have to "add up"? The prospect isn't an argument, it's an endeavor.

Our CNS-brains are (heuristic) confabulation-survival engines and not (causal) 'truth machines'; the latter is merely a cultural exaptation. Thus, the...

Apparently. 'Unrealistic experientially' we reject. 'Unreal narratively' we crave. Ideally we don't want to be aware that our fantasies are fantasies ...

You already have So (1986) so pick up Shaking The Tree (1990) which is a compilation of hits from the mid 1970s through the late 1980s. Also, given yo...

In other words, fantasy "life" is about control – having far greater control over one's experiences than non-fantasy living. In so far as the human br...

For me, the song evokes speculative questions (oppositions) e.g. mind/matter, spirit/flesh, thinking/instinct, etc. Thus, inspired somewhat by the mus...

Um, it ain't about "monkeys", mate. :sweat:

By far his weakest book, very much written for (bright) adolescents IMO.

I don't disagree.

Thank g/G there is no g/G.

:razz: My 'hermeneutic circle' is bigger and obviously more virtuous than yours!

Right. Got to be confused first in order to lucidly remove it (momentarily). Confusion is our existential birthright, or congenital species defect.

Yeah, and we wouldn't need to walk upright and have greater use of our opposable thumbs if we hadn't fallen out of the trees in the first place ... ht...

I think it's deeper than that: if the experiential fidelity of VR is indistinguishable from R, then isn't it reasonable for one to prefer the – in pri...

Apparently historical and cultural context is lost on you. Like trumpers, for whom racist disparagement of Mexicans in 2015, bleat "fake news" about m...

So what?! Heidi enthusiastically recommended the militantly racist, antisemitic Mein Kampf (1925, 1933) – ideological bible of Endlösung der Judenfrag...

Philosophers diagnose and treat confusion in order to reduce their own. There's lucidity in confusion.

Reflective, or metacognitive, inspiration. Read Twain or Kafka. Read Ovid or Mary Shelley. Read Shakespeare or Toni Morrison. Listen to "Strange Fruit...

There is not nothing(ness); therefore, there is something.

:up: :clap: :rofl: He unapologetically supported murderers and antisemites and fascists. Again, the Dasein was Hitler-compatible ... And even after th...

Well, as I said, I believe philosophy has always been / is, objectively, the muse of the arts, sciences, history ...

Or VR will be "R (reality)" for VL (virtual lives).

Oh c'mon. :roll:

You misread me. I see Philosophia as a muse and not that she is inspired by one. Each philosopher is 'shocked, amazed, traumatized' by existence (or n...

No, N did not. "Well, everybody does it" is as intellectual lazy and immoral as "I was just following orders." :shade: Read the wiki I linked. Not con...