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This 'feminine subject' is of fundamental importance. I connect 'her' to Kojeve's / Hegel's skeptic. But this skepticism also troubles the revolutiona...

Yes, I relate to that view. An atheistic humanity believes seriously in the incarnation. The shift from theism to humanism 'is' the incarnation. Have ...

I'll defer continuing on that tangent until we find a better place. @"creativesoul" Perhaps we can continue on that old meaning thread you started lon...

As far as circles being independent of humans, I don't see an easy way to prove that. How can we see around our own eyes? That appeal to biology is a ...

I suggest that rationality is essentially public, while strangely being grounded in individual conceptual capacities. It's a shared dream, if you like...

Calling concepts 'true for all observers' doesn't seem quite right. Statements made possible by concepts might be viewed as true for all observers. Wh...

Yes, this is more like what I was getting at. I'm influenced by thinkers like Heidegger and Derrida. While it's an overstatement, I think there's trut...

The informal talk of 'flipping the bits along the diagonal' is just handy way of describing a function not on the list, f : N \to \{0,1\} . You have y...

What is the gong-tormented sea? Is there a clear distinction between the metaphorical and the literal? What part does sound play in meaning? Or feelin...

Thank you, your majesty. But in case it wasn't clear, you asked me why I quoted the words. And that's because I was referring to the words. https://en...

This is a theme I like. Universal criteria. And that's why the philosopher isn't exactly or simply the solitary ego. Whim or mere opinion is no intere...

The idea of the purely mental, however, is itself a product of language. It's a distinction within language. The notion of the mental depends on the u...

I quote the words that we already know how to use. OK. So the referent of 'thought' and 'belief' is prior to language, to words? That's plausible, but...

But do we really use some device to understand 'thought' or 'belief' in ordinary language? What if an investigation of thought leads to the conclusion...

I don't have The Fragile Absolute, but I have thought about Marxism-meets-Christianity. What do you think of this review? I'll respond to it. We can g...

I agree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptualism The important point, for me, is that concept isn't private. Concept is essentially public and soc...

It was a pleasure to read. Some of the stuff I didn't respond to, but only because I couldn't find my way into it. Feel free to elaborate or paraphras...

Perhaps you can say more about this. I recall Zizek writing that 'men' think they know who they are, whereas women know that they don't know who they....

I get that. But what of the gap between 'is and 'ought'? The philosopher sees through the noise and transcends trivial, local identities. At least rel...

Well I think there's wisdom in that. It's also just sophisticated Christianity. The notion of loving the neighbor is indeed profound. We meet 'in' rea...

I love talking about this stuff. Your post was deep and ambitious. Just my kind of talk. Right. That's one of the complexities of Zizek. And yet what ...

Here's another quote that applies. The open-ness toward infinity seems important here. And, perhaps more important, the distance that philosophy enjoy...

'Could be' applies to so many things. That's the 'problem.' While some skeptics may be so in the mode of scientism (and not so skeptical after all), o...

Nothing. But what do we mean by 'rational'? Once a person starts talking about 'ideas' that aren't expressed in language, they seem to be leaving reas...

I agree that a community's embrace of a set of axioms manifests among other things something like metaphysical preferences or basic intuitions. But th...

I'm reading Masks of God, so I'm not allergic to these other planes of existence. I do object, however, to presenting them as a kind of alternative ph...

It's not a good paper. And Cantor was definitely sophisticated enough to see what he is supposed to have missed. The author is instead failing to see....

Nausea is a great little novel. There are lots of great passages in Being and Nothingness. And his Baudelaire is fascinating. To me Sartre is fascinat...

I don't think it's good argument for creationism, for all kinds of reasons. But let's assume that it is. What kind of creator do you have in mind? Is ...

If we mix philosophy, politics, and religion, then yeah. Tho math is clearly useful, it's something that many only do because they have to. We like ou...

Well said. What we can't seem to avoid is a faith in 'properly critical reason' itself. That to me is the implicit humanism in philosophy. What do we ...

The chair is a chair. When I look at the chair, it fills my consciousness. 'I' am that chair, and yet I'm not. What am I besides that chair? I am the ...

This to me is the second, secret purpose of philosophy. It's not just about truth. It's also creative enterprise, a form of poetry. It's not non-ficti...

Oh yeah, I am trying to squeeze out a fresh meme now and then. But I like anonymity too. A nice compromise is launching a meme and see a few people as...

I don't think it matters much, as long as the conversation is permitted to continue. I never pay attention to the categories. Like never.

I like this theme. I've been writing about the patricidal fraternity of reason, which is an indulgent way to describe the good philosopher as eschewin...

Well I guess I'm a peacock. But I like to work with the most understated, classic elements. A person just projects competence and self-respect when th...

Nice contrast. I do like H&M. Lots of there stuff is too...something. But occasionally they really nail it, and it's a good price. But I scoff at diam...

I've always been fascinated by Lacan & yet ambivalent. But I like the idea of the impossible object. I connect it to a distance effect. From afar, the...

I think I know what you mean. And there's truth in that. But isn't there also truth in 'a fool and his money are soon parted.'? I've seen people squan...

Ha. Well I've never been much of a coin collector, though I am good at spending them slowly. I love grocery stores. As mundane as they are, so much of...

To answer playfully, from you & Zizek. Who is this 'we'? Surely you speak not only to share a mere opinion but to make a case to all reasonable and de...

Aad aroim fsgomsrgb sdfpmsefvmoksfgbfsv ? To me it's your false knowledge (your 'omniscience') that impedes your movement toward something truthier th...

Responding to this thought: I personally think that a certain type of person will tend to gather coins. That doesn't make them better or worse. Even a...

This sounds like the rational approach. At the same time I think we're only rational at our best.

No, to me those are different thoughts. My point is that it's easy for poor people to brag about their greatness of soul. At the same time many poor p...

I can't, and neither can you, else you'd have no role to play here. Like the rest of us, you need a foil to shine against. Well it does and it doesn't...

If those who 'hate the rich' could be 'magically' made billionaires, it would be fun to see what they would do or not do with those billions. While I ...

I don't want to hijack the thread with this digression, but I will add one more point. What you don't give an account of is the transformation from an...

I love the old artilleryman. But sometimes people also deceive themselves in terms of aphorisms like those. Conspiracy theory is full of that stuff. T...