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If by workable you mean conformity to your private intuition of the continuum, then actual mathematicians have famously wrestled with this. https://pl...

I'm trying to tell you that maybe you shouldn't take this old view for granted. Apply this to 'knowledge.' We learn how to use it as children. We don'...

Hegel and Feuerbach came earlier. Feuerbach is largely remembered as the bridge between Hegel and Marx, but I think he's underrated. Wittgenstein and ...

Well put. And, for what it's worth, I think that philosophy makes and has made progress. 'Know thyself' can be understood as directed at the 'global' ...

Yes, this makes sense to me. At the same time, I think symbols are necessary for conceptual sophistication. I'm guessing that some primitive unformali...

I think this forum is great for discussing our readings away from this forum, but I don't at all think that online debate is a substitute for that rea...

Perhaps there's a clue, found in a previous post. To me the 'realm of meaning' which includes noetic objects like 7 is related to the 'ideality of the...

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I found this. https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/03/books/all-language-was-foreign.html Fascinating! Thanks. A human being without language would seem to...

I agree. To be more blunt, strong cases have been made (later Wittgenstein, for instance) against thinking that knowledge is something definite like a...

Even a rough sketch might help me locate what you're getting at. I do think that there's no clean separation of word from deed. Much of our language u...

I've had a love-hate relationship with Heidegger for years. I'd write him off and yet be pulled back. For me a decisive moment was reading translators...

That's what I love about philosophy. It goes for the biggest picture and also the deepest picture. I agree, and some of my favorite philosophers are f...

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Sure. Understood. I'll just reply a couple of points you made. Respond when you have time. I happen to have lots of free time lately. Right. So there'...

I highly recommend A Thing of This World by Lee Braver. It weaves Heidegger into narrative that stretches from Kant to Derrida. I read it for free as ...

The important thing to grasp is that math doesn't ultimately work with mere intuitions of what a point 'really' is. Such intuitions can guide the cons...

Nicely put. These are also themes I'm interested in. Mystique and Nothingness would be the kind of philosophy I like. Great project. I think the trans...

Well I can try to explain what I find valuable. But I don't read German. For me studying Heidegger further illuminated Hegel and Feuerbach and Wittgen...

I bumped into Eckhart in Caputo's book on Heidegger. Also Angelus Silesius. I think this is what Hegel wanted to rationalize. Also this: This reminds ...

I like the poem. It reminds me of Whitman, and I love Whitman. That's how I tend to view it. There is no enduring escape, but moments of insight and e...

I tend to agree, I guess. I think theology should be rational or just confess itself as poetry. I enjoy this input. I know the ecstasy of music and ra...

At this point I withdraw from our conversation.

I figured you'd know Feuerbach. 'All must pass through the fiery brook.'

I completely agree. I just emphasized (by exaggerating, let's say) the historicality and sociality of human existence. In this context, nature was bei...

Perhaps. But 'history is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.' People learn by talking as well as reading. That people on this forum vary in t...

I got into Hegel via Kojeve, translated by Allan Bloom. I thought the English prose was great, and it was Hegel from an atheistic point of view, influ...

I might use different words, but this roughly gets the joy of reading and writing right. A person should of course exercise and eat well, but beyond t...

OK, thanks. I've mostly read the continentals, though I had a long Rorty phase. I'm glad you joined the forum. Your posts have been illuminating.

I think I understand this, and I think that's why various philosophers have more or less identified God with all of reality. To ensure that God remain...

Food for thought. It's one of the annoying things about specialization. Who has time to keep up with it all? And scientists have to eat too. I have no...

I like this, but skills is perhaps better than beliefs, in that 'beliefs' casts the whole thing as more explicit than I think it is. Have you looked i...

Good answer. And that's because the divine predicates are familiar human virtues. Who made who? We created God in our own image, unconsciously, automa...

But it's still good! It's like Husserl blended with Hegel and Heidegger. It's strange though that even a PhD in math is still suspicious when he gets ...

While I understand where you are coming from, I also think the evolving idea of g/G has been and remains important. Why this monotheism? Why this God ...

How can one violate the laws of nature? I think you're framing nature Nature as another god.

That naturalism Naturalism (our demonic protagonist) would find homosexuality 'unnatural' is...absurd. Homosexuality has probably always been with us....

I would just switch from information to interpretation. This is an active process. Metaphorically speaking, we are readers, readers, readers making se...

I relate, if I understand you correctly. I love phenomenology. I fear that some will categorize it as mysticism, while the mystical-religious types mi...

I think this connects to one's conception of philosophy. Should it be poetic and/or 'spiritual'? Personally I think that it must be. We care about the...

Excellent post! Not that 'we' always do a good job, but I think the ideal is that we protect young people from their own impulsiveness.

I think I know where he's coming from. When I first read Kojeve on Hegel, I was filled with intellectual ecstasy. I understand him to be sharing a bea...

I understand where you are going. But how sensible is this time before time? I find it as questionable as intuitions of actual infinity. Personally I ...

At some point I think this leads us into the philosophy of language. How do the signs 'actual infinity' function in our community? Is there ever some ...

This is a beautiful post. Thank you.

An interesting position. But what of great music, great art, great poetry? While I like the idea of silent monasteries, I'd also like an entire cultur...

Logophilic/logiphilic philosophers should perhaps consider how language itself and human rationality have properties traditionally associated with the...

For practical reasons. We abstract from the totality because it's instrumentally valuable. When I just need a chair for a guest, I don't need to under...

I really enjoy our friendly and sincere conversation. Thanks for being a charitable conversationalist.

We probably agree that secular culture is largely dominated by selfishness and materialism. I'd say look to leftist thinking (at its best) for the hum...