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But in the morning, I'm not making waffles.

Yes, but your posts have improved markedly; perhaps my misbehaviour had an impact.

In the text following that quote Arendt shows the will to be incompatible with the political space, for what one wills is subject to change, yet the p...

I still have images of the Tongan Tsunami in my head. Yes, it seems we owe free will to the Church Fathers. That in itself was worth the price of admi...

That's not addressing the article so much as covering your ears and sceaming "She's wrong, she's wrong, she's wrong". Length is not depth.

The will does the enacting, but is it responsible for the choosing? I take Arendt's point to be the somewhat pedantic one that choosing is not an act ...

Good, good. Next thing they'll want gun laws and stuff. Ridiculous. And they got that vote on roe vs wade coming up. Serious stuff, no room for placat...

If 95% of Associate Justices were white old men, then that's because white old men are the best for the job, irrespective of race. Consider who it is ...

Appointing the best man for the job works so well for the Liberal Party. https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/88de710e48701adff38766efa5e36e36?...

Yeah, you really need more old white men. Been working for hundreds of years, why change. What coulda black woman possibly have to offer that a white ...

Dude, where have you actually addressed the article? Where have you quoted, interpreted, elucidated, expounded, or recounted in such a way that anyone...

Best end there.

Yeah, I'm being a pedant.

A neat piece of research, showing how flawed the basic assumption in the OP is. Nice.

Funny bit is, you've offered the very view that is critiqued by Arendt, without so much as recognising this, let alone comprehended her article, or re...

I deny that. I did mention free will in the second post, which as @"Tobias" noticed was a bit of a furphy. At the back of my mind was the fact that it...

Thanks for that. Seems to me a neat account of what Arendt is doing in the essay.

Arendt talks of the public space, the res publica, as the domain of politics. She describes life under tyranny as a reduction of that public space, a ...

Reading Arendt is not like being led through an argument so much as inundated by it. One has to do some work to put the pieces together. I think Arend...

Well spotted! This was indeed a thought that occurred to me while reading the text, rather than one found in it. For your efforts in making such a clo...

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Interesting. An uncomfortable reliance on George Michael. I like the phrase "delusions of opportunity"...

Are you suggesting that this is in some way counter to what either I or Arendt has said?

There's rather a big hole in all that, in that each is a belief represented as a propositional attitude. SO now I am wondering if you have a clear gra...

So one can't wish for something without deciding and moving to obtain it? I desire chips, but I've not the will to get up and go to the shop. SO do yo...

He actually believes that the clock is working. I don't think you have understood this scope thing. A bit of formal logic would do you no harm.

We might ask our friendly stoic, @"Ciceronianus"...?

Folk don't like it when you point this out. Oddly, even many of those who profess to be faithless.

There is a tension, is there not, between your actions being the result of the superior-pattern-processing of your brain, and your actions not being t...

Seems we have some agreement. Cool.

But you cannot act against your own will. If you held a gun to @"god must be atheist" and threaten to shoot unless he pats his nose three times, and h...

And yet it is the task in hand. Something to fill in time on a cloudy morning.

I've read them. I've not seen anything in them to which i might reply.

Hm. Is this an admission of trying to satisfy unnatural desires? (Sorry - couldn't resist...) Following on with Arendt's strategy, is one free to not ...

Yes, indeed. We could also look to see how the notion grew from nescient in ancient philosophical contexts and map the were's and why's of it's progre...

No. Cheers.

The mere assertion will not do. One ought first to set out the objections found in the Arendt article, then address each of them. SO if freedom is lac...

Well put. And again! :fire: Here's @"Ciceronianus"' Stoic. The question is where freedom fits in relation tot his Stoic enterprise of overcoming unrea...

If you prefer. One thesis of the article is that, as a result of this, freedom has it's being in the shared space in which we live rather than in the ...

Don't make me cry. I've made that point, indeed in detail and with a history of it's origin before Frege, over the course of this damnable thread, and...

Cheers - the article is indeed apropos of our times. So for you freedom is lack of coercion?

It is clear to me that she thinks freedom is not to be identified with sovereignty... Do we at the least agree here? That Arendt, for better or worse,...

Thanks. I don't see that @"Garrett Travers" is addressing the article - he's not the only one. A year or so ago one could start a thread around an art...

Again, yes.

Paragraphs are wonderful things. and yet, I'm not sure with what you are disagreeing. Ah. Don't let me detain you.

Folks, it is clear that Arendt agrees with you that one cannot act against one's will. I offer 's disagreeing with her, and you, as further evidence t...

SO you do not understand that "the broken clock" is not a description Jack could correctly make? That "The broken clock" could not be within the scope...

Is there a point? I don't understand how it is that you don't understand. (Jack believed that a broken clock was working) is ambiguous. Is (the clock ...

Yes, rather a neat counter, I think. There's more, including the paragraph beginning with "Politically, this identification of freedom with sovereignt...

Anyway... From the context it is clear she is here speaking of political freedom. What to make of this? In so far as rationality obliges you to act in...