Walter! Nice. In my view the traditional existential ethos is that existence precedes essence. Meaning we understand our existence more than our essen...
Todd! Of course, you are not an advocate of 'Presidential Leadership' skills that encourage domestic violence and law breaking and disorder, in order ...
Agreed! And thank for the links...very germane to the OP I must say....I'll have a look-see and get back to you, thank you! In layman's terms, are you...
The actions of those who broke into the capitol, the definition of insurrection, legal precedent and history. What occurred simply doesn't resemble an...
...and the voting machine companies are suing the lawyers and FOX for defamations associated with Dumper Trumper's lie. I forgot to add that a donatoe...
The actions of those who broke into the capitol, the definition of insurrection, legal precedent and history. What occurred simply doesn't resemble an...
The actions of those who broke into the capitol, the definition of insurrection, legal precedent and history. What occurred simply doesn't resemble an...
The actions of those who broke into the capitol, the definition of insurrection, legal precedent and history. What occurred simply doesn't resemble an...
Trump himself, by duping his supporters, and lawyers. And there is no theory to the fact that he watched it happen and let it happen for 90 minutes, j...
I read this from Wiki: He outlines how drugs and technologies, including intracranial self-stimulation ("wireheading"), designer drugs and genetic eng...
SSU! Thanks ssu. I don't want to stray too far off-topic, so I'll just add an ancillary note only to say that just like hiring and firing employees, m...
Gnomon! Great point! William James (aside from being one of my favorite psychologist-turned-philosopher's) was also a self proclaimed pacifist. In you...
You're fine TMF! I think you raise a good point there. We know there have been theories associated with the philosophy of beauty (Aesthetics/Kant, et....
Synthesis! Sure. Thank you for that thought... . For reference, we can look to Kant and Schop (few of many) in parsing the different theories of knowl...
The temptation to belittle others is the trap of a budding intellect, because it gives you the illusion of power and superiority your mind craves. Res...
Sure, but that is not germane to the issue. Thanks anyway! As Jack alluded, are you saying we can't use our minds to think about our own mental limita...
If loving you is wrong, then I want to be right LOL But seriously, emotions are the nexus between the mind and matter. Have you studied pathology? The...
The former is a classic example (liar's paradox) of binary truth values associated with a priori logic, and the limitations of language (thereto). Thi...
TMF! Thank you kindly for the link, it said: Ineffability is concerned with ideas that cannot or should not be expressed in spoken words (or language ...
Javi! Interesting. Is it safe to assume we are talking about Subjective and Objective truth's? Perhaps one can think of their own sentience as their o...
CW! Okay, I was just trying to confirm... . In other words, if something is ineffable, does that mean, in your mind, that there is no other way to use...
These wouldn't be limitations of language because language can't be used to discover its own limitations. Wow, keep them coming all... . TMF & JC: I t...
...good stuff all, keep them coming please!!!! Not to single any one out, however said something that reminded me of Keats: "Truth is beauty, beauty t...
Yep :up: I think the OP might could reflect on what kinds of philosophy are relevant here. For instance, as you so well pointed out, whether it's poli...
Keep in mind, that at some point , the regressive description of existing things (atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons...) ultimately, right now, have ...
Thank you. I read thru that, and found this: Schopenhauer contrasted Kant's transcendental critical philosophy with Leibniz's dogmatic philosophy. Wit...
Ok, using some sense of logic, not that logic can explain certain/all phenomena of Being, perhaps we can analogize to, say, the mysteries associated w...
Schop1 ! In our humanist framework, is this correct: Being and Existentialism: Existentialism (earliest form in the west/Ecclesiastes): let be/a time ...
Sure. In that context, needs, can be synonymous with the metaphysical will. The will to be. The definition of a human being is an interesting conflati...
From the Psychology of Being: "So far as the person himself is concerned, all he knows is that he is desperate for love, and thinks he will be forever...
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