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In: Is Learning How To Move On The Most Important Lesson In Philosophy?  — view comment
:sad: I hear ya.
March 17, 2021 at 23:06
In: Is Learning How To Move On The Most Important Lesson In Philosophy?  — view comment
It was so long ago now, early teens or before, when I – a bullied black boy on the streets of NYC – encountered The obstacle is the path. (Zen proverb...
March 17, 2021 at 21:21
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
:cool:
March 17, 2021 at 20:42
In: How to be Loved 101  — view comment
I've been listening to him (& Artie) since the 1970s. Graceland is a masterpiece, can't be hyped enough – another tiny (consequential?) musical crack ...
March 17, 2021 at 20:41
In: Dissolving normative ethics into meta-ethics and ethical sciences  — view comment
Yeah, and that's because "the why" belongs to philosophical speculation and not to scientific /model-theoretic explanation. My concession to 'the need...
March 17, 2021 at 20:32
In: What are the most important problems of Spinoza's metaphysics?  — view comment
I'll drink to that on Paddy's Day. :up: Sláinte, tw :party:
March 17, 2021 at 20:16
In: How to be Loved 101  — view comment
"Some people never say those words I love you But like a child they're longing to be told" ~Something So Right (1973)
March 17, 2021 at 20:02
In: What are the most important problems of Spinoza's metaphysics?  — view comment
Probably.
March 17, 2021 at 18:11
In: Is pessimism or optimism the most useful starting point for thinking?  — view comment
addendum to the absurd ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/511450 sláinte :up:
March 17, 2021 at 18:09
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://youtu.be/U7PBjKzaQEw "Slip Slidin' Away" (4:43) Greatest Hits, etc, 1977 Paul Simon
March 17, 2021 at 18:02
In: Dissolving normative ethics into meta-ethics and ethical sciences  — view comment
I disagree. The sciences I've mentioned also explain optimal functioning of its subjects (agents) and therefore prescribe in situ strategies for avoid...
March 17, 2021 at 12:32
In: What are the most important problems of Spinoza's metaphysics?  — view comment
"The Hard Problem" is only "hard" for philosophers because philosophizing, as Witty et al point out, does not explain matters of facts, but only descr...
March 17, 2021 at 11:41
In: Ahmaud Arbery: How common is it?  — view comment
The latest dispatch from the frontlines of activist-voter resistance to WHITE GRIEVANCE RACIAL HATRED :point: https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/17/us/metro-...
March 17, 2021 at 10:44
In: Is pessimism or optimism the most useful starting point for thinking?  — view comment
I ruminate briefly on another thread. Good night, Jack.
March 16, 2021 at 23:26
In: Are you modern?  — view comment
"General approaches" are ahistorical, or context-free, and not concrete enough, or insufficiently focused, to have much effect on exigent situations (...
March 16, 2021 at 23:21
In: Is pessimism or optimism the most useful starting point for thinking?  — view comment
Modern philosophy IMHO begins with despair (pace Aristotle) – depression may follow from remaining too long in her sickly sweat embalming "embrace", f...
March 16, 2021 at 23:11
In: Is pessimism or optimism the most useful starting point for thinking?  — view comment
Old Schop is an arch-pessimist. E.M. Cioran, like Samuel Beckett, is much more of an absurdist. Nietzsche & Kafka too.
March 16, 2021 at 22:50
In: Is pessimism or optimism the most useful starting point for thinking?  — view comment
Try Absurdism, which you alluded to. I recommend Peter Wessel Zapffe, Albert Camus, Clément Rosset, Albert Murray (re: blues aesthetic) ...
March 16, 2021 at 22:45
In: Is pessimism or optimism the most useful starting point for thinking?  — view comment
Funny thing about "positive outcomes" is all of the frozen corpses on the slopes of Mt. Everest were once optimists. :sweat:
March 16, 2021 at 22:33
In: Is pessimism or optimism the most useful starting point for thinking?  — view comment
Only one way to find out. :wink:
March 16, 2021 at 22:26
In: What are the most important problems of Spinoza's metaphysics?  — view comment
Ah yeah, that's the cliff notes version of Spinoza For Dummies. :meh:
March 16, 2021 at 22:22
In: Dissolving normative ethics into meta-ethics and ethical sciences  — view comment
:up: So "ethical science" is like medical science or human ecology (my preferred analogue) or moral psychology ...
March 16, 2021 at 22:15
In: Are you modern?  — view comment
Well, I suppose that depends on where you live and the political-economic situation of your community and region ...
March 16, 2021 at 22:09
In: What are the most important problems of Spinoza's metaphysics?  — view comment
Why not philosophical pantheism?
March 16, 2021 at 15:55
In: Before the big bang?  — view comment
:smirk:
March 16, 2021 at 15:48
In: Dissolving normative ethics into meta-ethics and ethical sciences  — view comment
Why "satisfy all of our appetites"? And explain what makes that answer both "ethical" and "scientific". Thanks.
March 16, 2021 at 15:46
In: What are the most important problems of Spinoza's metaphysics?  — view comment
:up: Thanks, you beat me to it. Spinoza might say 'Because it is not in the essence of rocks to have qualia or think as humans do, if at all.' In othe...
March 16, 2021 at 15:15
In: How much should you doubt?  — view comment
Have a good one, my friend. :up:
March 16, 2021 at 14:36
In: Are you modern?  — view comment
:up:
March 16, 2021 at 14:33
In: Are you modern?  — view comment
:blush:
March 16, 2021 at 14:33
In: Is pessimism or optimism the most useful starting point for thinking?  — view comment
Pessimism, yes – Assume the worst, plan and proceed accordingly; and whether or not the worst happens, roll with those anticipated punches when they f...
March 16, 2021 at 14:16
In: What are the most important problems of Spinoza's metaphysics?  — view comment
Elaborate. I'm not following this ... I don't believe it can be made plainer than this: And substance aka "God" is not an entity – not a "person" – bu...
March 16, 2021 at 12:59
In: What are the most important problems of Spinoza's metaphysics?  — view comment
"It" doesn't "think" or "will" as I point out here. So explain how you get a "personal god" from (my description of) Spinoza's substance.
March 16, 2021 at 12:42
In: Are you modern?  — view comment
I beg to differ, Jack. When was it ever not 'modern' to examine, critique & thereby develop how "our thinking is constructed". At best, p0m0 has alway...
March 16, 2021 at 12:36
In: What are the most important problems of Spinoza's metaphysics?  — view comment
A fifth way is spinozism: thought is one out of an infinity of parallel attributes (essences) of substance (natura naturans) by which degrees / comple...
March 16, 2021 at 11:42
In: How much should you doubt?  — view comment
You're in some "mess", for sure, but leave me out of it. I'm moving on because you've made a fetish of 'inconsistent reality' for which you've not pro...
March 16, 2021 at 11:19
In: Are you modern?  — view comment
"Tips" for what exactly?
March 16, 2021 at 11:05
In: How much should you doubt?  — view comment
You know what a parallax is, right? The visual object seen differently does not indicate that the object is inconsistent. Maps are not the territory, ...
March 16, 2021 at 10:59
In: How much should you doubt?  — view comment
:lol: The photon's 'wave-particle complementarity' is no more of "an inconsistency" than is a coin with opposing faces because it's not "a wave" & "a ...
March 16, 2021 at 10:25
In: Does Materialism Have an a Priori Problem?  — view comment
What part of "Materialism ... is not itself an explanatory hypothesis" don't you understand? :roll:
March 16, 2021 at 10:06
In: How much should you doubt?  — view comment
Descriptions. Ok, my point precisely. Those are not, however, inconsistent things events or facts to which descriptions might refer. Also, only 'theis...
March 16, 2021 at 03:12
In: What are the most important problems of Spinoza's metaphysics?  — view comment
:confused: ???
March 16, 2021 at 02:57
In: Are you modern?  — view comment
I am modern, that is, committed to resisting the recurrences of pre-modern atavisms (periodically manifested in 'theo/auto/pluto-cratic anti-humanisms...
March 16, 2021 at 02:54
In: What are the most important problems of Spinoza's metaphysics?  — view comment
Yes. "Materialism" (re: natura naturata, or modes) is not ultimately real (re: natura naturans, or substance) in spinozism and, therefore, it's false ...
March 16, 2021 at 01:53
In: Before the big bang?  — view comment
:smirk:
March 15, 2021 at 23:13
In: What’s the biggest difference Heidegger and Wittgenstein?  — view comment
To clarify my position on how biography might affect a philosopher's work, I'm not claiming the relationship is causal but rather, in a broadly Nietzs...
March 15, 2021 at 18:35
In: How much should you doubt?  — view comment
Strawman. In fact, you're the one guilty of what you accuse me of here. :shade: I have asked you to counter my claim which I assert in the absence of ...
March 15, 2021 at 18:00
In: How much should you doubt?  — view comment
'Things, events & facts' (i.e. the universe) cannot be inconsistent. You haven't cited an example, of course, because, as I wrote,
March 15, 2021 at 10:20
In: How much should you doubt?  — view comment
Right! My point exactly. To wit:
March 15, 2021 at 09:37
In: What if people had to sign a statement prior to giving birth...  — view comment
Like I thought I'd said: "drunk and aggressive and distracted" fucking/nataling will persist. :wink:
March 14, 2021 at 17:52
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