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PessimisticIdealism

['Member']Joined: October 30, 2019 at 15:35Last active: July 07, 2020 at 03:184 discussions26 comments

Favourite Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer, Immanuel Kant, F.H. Bradley, J. M. E. McTaggart

Favourite Quotations

“To those in whom the will has turned and denied itself, this very real world of ours, with its suns and galaxies, is – nothing.”

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Let's see what Schopenhauer has to say about this issue. These passages are taken straight from his Fourfold Root.
May 11, 2020 at 23:29
We experience "Subjectivity" as a kind of locus of felt, qualitative "intensity" as it were; and this Subjectival intensity cannot be "known" Objectiv...
May 11, 2020 at 00:02
It's not "perceived" because the Subject is not perceived by any sensory modality. When I use the term "feeling," I mean something much more sublimina...
May 10, 2020 at 05:05
The Subject is felt, it is not known as one of the Objects present to-and-for-itself. Actually in the argument I give at the beginning, I am speaking ...
May 10, 2020 at 01:42
In the context of what we are dealing with here, I don't think the fact that we cannot in principle make the Subject an Object for-itself (while retai...
May 09, 2020 at 23:48
I agree with you here. The represented "I" that we "know" in "Self-consciousness" (pardon the expression) is not the "concrete" knowing Subject, rathe...
May 09, 2020 at 22:48
The "Objectified Subject" is not The Subject, rather it is "Subject'" (which is not identical to the Subject doing the knowing). It is purely an Objec...
May 09, 2020 at 22:05
I would argue that it is not self-undermining. When I speak of my "I", I am unable to ostensively point to it or describe it as I would an Object. Wha...
May 09, 2020 at 21:48
Well that's a petty dismissal. Nowhere in any of my posts have I mentioned god or arguments for god. Also, regarding the bivalent equivalence and iden...
May 09, 2020 at 21:31
If we restrict the meaning of "self-knowledge" to the Subject making itself an Object of knowledge while retaining its "Subject-hood," then yes, "self...
May 09, 2020 at 21:11
This is a very interesting idea, and I have spent a great deal of time thinking about whether or not such an explanation can do justice to the whole a...
May 09, 2020 at 18:36
I can't tell what you are trying to get at here.
May 06, 2020 at 22:19
Your objection seems to rest on a misunderstanding of what is meant by "Subject" and "Object." All "Knowledge" is a relationship between a knowing "Su...
May 06, 2020 at 21:33
I'd love to see you guys tear his "treatise" to pieces with facts and logic, epic style.
November 21, 2019 at 02:58
Of course we are responsible for our actions; however, he's saying that we own actions in the same way that we can own a table or a chair. He claims t...
November 21, 2019 at 02:44
Ancap_Society claims to have discovered an "apodictic proof" of self-ownership. His writing is mostly incoherent; however, I'll copy and paste several...
November 19, 2019 at 00:35
I’m not assuming its negation, rather I am saying it’s a meaningless proposition.
November 16, 2019 at 22:35
It is indeed an absurd question; however, the question is simply a response the absurd statement “knowing makes no difference to what is known.” In or...
November 14, 2019 at 18:52
Whoops, I apologize. That was meant for @"Wayfarer".
November 14, 2019 at 04:37
Well, unfortunately, you are interpreting the standard realist position wrongly. You are exactly right, @"Wayfarer".
November 14, 2019 at 04:29
What kind of realist are you then?
November 13, 2019 at 18:17
P1) That which lies within my consciousness is what I have immediate certainty of. (i.e. I am certain that what is presented in my consciousness is pr...
November 13, 2019 at 18:07
I should probably alter the conclusion to say something along the lines of: “The realist position is not self-evident because it is a synthetic propos...
November 13, 2019 at 16:24
I basically agree. Practicality and efficiency render skepticism unhelpful in terms of getting on with our daily lives; however, this wouldn't by any ...
November 13, 2019 at 06:09
I don’t think your argument is synonymous with the original argument I present. I’ll put your argument in premise form: P1) In order to know whether o...
November 13, 2019 at 05:39
Right, and that axiom must be taken as a “given.” However, I wouldn’t say that giving the realist position the status of axiom renders it “off limits”...
November 13, 2019 at 02:07