The "unfortunate, familiar" line of thought that "scarcely anyone" would accept sounds pretty good. And the response: While in some sense logically un...
I don't see how a relation is 'an example of becoming.' As I said before, it's no different from a property, it just involves more than one individual...
I don't really understand the rhetorical strategy. If the point is that you want to think about becoming without recourse to substances, moving to rel...
Maybe. Although catharsis may in some fundamental way be linked to throwing off the world rather than living in it. I get it from the production of ar...
No, I'm not excluding us in saying that. I really don't know what to do to be happy etc. I simply don't understand my own body or psychology well enou...
Right, I think no amount of skill can free you from all suffering. The contention was about improving the lot of suffering in a substantial way, even ...
I think I know what you mean with the first kind, although it doesn't happen often. It may be that a priori this type of pleasure has as much possibil...
OK, that's what I thought. I'm saying that while logically possible, humans are not very smart, and aren't capable of thinking of very many things, or...
Agreed. Maybe I should be more specific - pleasure is something like the motion away from pain, or relief from it, not a state. The state of no suffer...
Isn't pessimism 'worse' than nihilism, in its valuation of the world? It seems that the pessimist is yet more extreme than the nihilist in the extent ...
For me, anyway, I experience happiness as a reprieve from a greater suffering, generally accompanied by an anxiety that the suffering will soon ramp u...
Nice, I agree! Most of these pessimists aestheticize their own views and are in some sense ffete and looking for escape through giving up. You can't l...
I'm not so sure. The notion of experience that isn't suffering seems to be an abstraction of some sort. It could be that other people just have radica...
I'm sympathetic to the idea. Definitely there's something to the pain-pleasure asymmetry, with the hypothesis that the latter is merely negative much ...
The argument against casual sex is one of taste in the end. You could live like a dumb smelly animal, but why would you want to rather than uniting se...
I don't know about never, but having a wife and going at it in the missionary position with the lights off and holding hands once a week sounds alrigh...
Again, the Dems have called every Republican candidate fascist, at least it was commonly applied to Romney and Bush during both of his elections. So I...
Whether Berkeley's God hypothesis is plausible or not isn't tied to the plausibility of his arguments against matter. He believes he's showed the case...
Maybe. I would just add that I disagree with the Democrats in thinking white people are Satan, etc. and think that throwing a tantrum when they stand ...
I just want to highlight that these things aren't separate, in that the narrative that Trump is a fascist is inseparable from the Democrats, because i...
I think the notion that people do not have true selves is the result of being so mired in cynicism that the very notion of being ingenuous no longer m...
Eh? This isn't true. There's contradiction in natural language. You might have a way to formalize it, but the contradiction exists without the formali...
Yeah, Berkeley's great. When reading him versus his critics, I get the impression he's smarter than them. Now impressions are just impressions, but th...
In what way is it fair to have this description of Trump, but not of Obama? Did Obama not have a cult of personality surrounding him at his election? ...
This one is interesting in particular because the narrative during the election was that the dems, not the repubs, were hotter on war (w/Russia). Do y...
Hmm. Do politicians generally in your experience have rational political philosophies? What are the similarities? I agree there is resentment, but the...
Is fascism being used here as a term of political philosophy, or is it being used as a pejorative? If the former, what political positions are implied...
I've never really understood the problem of the liar paradox, even after reading a little about it. Think of checking for truth like running a program...
During my early youth, the narrative was that 'reality has a liberal bias.' And I recall vividly that as I child, given the household I was raised in,...
The more you study a subject, the less important any individual figure seems. There aren't great philosophers, and thinking there are just means you h...
Yeah, not to understand that education is a way of tracking political position, not as a matter of the two correlating, but in the sense that they are...
I doubt the attitude makes as much difference as people think. I agree it's possible to have a bad attitude and ruin even the best living conditions (...
People are depressed because the conditions they live in are intolerable. You need to fix the conditions, not the person. Self-help is garbage, we're ...
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