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March 14, 2021 at 17:36
Wherever driving licenses are administered people sign forms indicating they've read the materials which explain the hazards of the road (along with g...
March 14, 2021 at 17:31
I'm an 'epicurean-spinozist' (or absurdist) meaning that aponia & ataraxia without transcendent illusions (or sisyphusean eudaimonia) is (my) "hedonis...
March 14, 2021 at 17:05
:death: :flower: :lol: Au contrair, O Simplicius! :point: Nature-minus-mystery (where 'mystery' is a fiat-of-the-gaps, appeal to ignorance) is clearly...
March 14, 2021 at 15:27
No. The Tractatus Theologico-Politicus makes explicit why not.
March 14, 2021 at 09:32
Just checking, because you suggested previously there wasn't.
March 14, 2021 at 06:34
I very much agree. By claiming there is only one unique substance S implies that only one unique subject is real with no 'separate objects' to be cons...
March 14, 2021 at 02:44
Not at all. I'm with @"Banno" in this because I think (though he's just another "broken cuckoo clock" to Banno) Freddy was more right than not: (Empha...
March 14, 2021 at 02:28
My metric?
March 14, 2021 at 02:08
:chin: :up: All I can say about this is that Spinoza didn't make videos to convey his philosophy. ("Ok, boomer!") :roll: I don't understand this quest...
March 14, 2021 at 01:59
March 13, 2021 at 21:00
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March 13, 2021 at 20:58
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March 13, 2021 at 20:46
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March 13, 2021 at 20:44
Attributes of Mind & Body belong to substance and not to the modes themselves. "Everything" is not conscious; rather mind can be attributed to any mod...
March 13, 2021 at 20:41
True. Yet all the flavors of 'immateriality' are even more unsavory, more ad hoc or preposterous, and demonstrably more maladaptive for surviving & th...
March 13, 2021 at 16:49
"And you're making me feel like I've never been born" :yikes: I don't imagine "it would be like" anything at all ... except the absence those who have...
March 13, 2021 at 16:33
So you're denying that the distinction between (e.g.) reflective equilibrium & begging the question makes a difference or that the latter is a negativ...
March 13, 2021 at 12:01
"The most Good one can do", I think, is to engage in solidarity, with as many others as possible (especially) in any exigent situation, to simultaneou...
March 13, 2021 at 09:37
To my way of thinking, 'circular reasoning', where needed, is not problematic IFF 'the circle' is virtuous (i.e. a positive feedback loop) and not vic...
March 13, 2021 at 09:10
Perhaps. If possible, cite an example of an thing, event or fact the 'inconsistency' of which is not an artifact of a 'description' (i.e. what Spinoza...
March 13, 2021 at 08:45
Really? Not Spinoza, not Hume, not Kierkegaard, not Schopenhauer, not Nietzsche, not Zapffe, not Sartre, not Merleau-Ponty, not ... but Heidi?! C'mon....
March 13, 2021 at 03:34
Well, as they say: Covfefe is as Covfefe does ... :mask:
March 13, 2021 at 01:21
:clap: "Goo goo g'joob!"
March 13, 2021 at 01:15
:up: Poseur & bricoleur, respectively. For Witty, understanding of the forms-of-life within which we undertake living is gained from, or enriched by, ...
March 13, 2021 at 01:09
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March 12, 2021 at 19:13
He sure did! Spinoza has cured me of any Heideggerasty I might've contracted from getting a little too familiar with the old Black Forest bugger back ...
March 12, 2021 at 18:03
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March 12, 2021 at 17:51
:up: Good advice from an incorrigible Heideggerast.
March 12, 2021 at 17:48
Ditto.
March 12, 2021 at 17:39
Give Oak & Maple my regards, syn, and don't forget your meds. :smirk:
March 12, 2021 at 17:37
Welcome to TPF. I think the question is misplaced, or poorly formulated; understanding pertains to scientific theories – the degree of causal depth, o...
March 12, 2021 at 17:27
"Mind"? "Body"? "Subject/Object"? "Physical"? ... Will you please study Spinoza ... (& Thomas Metzinger & Ray Brassier). :confused:
March 12, 2021 at 16:57
They're "baffling" when one forgets or denies that only as one deviates farther from this – our – scale-perspective the more "inconsistent" those high...
March 12, 2021 at 16:13
... and now, another projection from our Dunning-Kruger highlight reel: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
March 12, 2021 at 15:42
No, not in the least. It's a conceptual paradigm (i.e. methodological coarse-graining filter), btw, and is N O T itself a scientific model (i.e. expla...
March 12, 2021 at 10:49
The impossibility of being 'the same X in two places simultaneously' isn't merely "practical", Fool, but fundamentally physical as I pointed out in re...
March 12, 2021 at 05:06
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March 12, 2021 at 04:53
Whatever you/we say about the unsayable, syn, is all noise & no signal (i.e. you're not conveying information). Of course people aren't "aware" – don'...
March 12, 2021 at 04:29
If that's so, why are you even talking about "the absolute"? Can't eff the ineffable – that's patent nonsense (i.e. woo woo babytalk).
March 12, 2021 at 00:16
Which is it? The "intellect" and "time" are not the same, the latter is definitely "outside of" the former (in so far as "our intellect" is itself tem...
March 11, 2021 at 22:38
And also a comfortable familiarity with them, no? So does your attraction differentiate among black men from North America, Carribean islands? Cuba? B...
March 11, 2021 at 22:24
March 11, 2021 at 20:54
I prefer a conception like human ecology to the essentialist shibboleth "human nature". ? ? ? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/325726...
March 11, 2021 at 20:48
Preach it, brother!
March 11, 2021 at 20:13
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March 11, 2021 at 20:02
:point: Dunning-Kruger in full effect.
March 11, 2021 at 19:57
The unnatural is immanent to nature, it's shocking distortions perversities grotesqueries, which disgust us with proximity to the ordinary. The supern...
March 11, 2021 at 16:27