David Mo

I am not sure that we agree on Dostoevsky's assessment. As a novelist he is an undoubted genius. As a thinker, he became fanatized because of his trau...

The word 'reason' means two different things: a) The cause or motive for something to have happened. b) The ability to reach valid conclusions accordi...

Rationality consists in being open to the possibility of evidence against our belief.

Rational: you decide to buy in a shop because it sells the same products at a better price than another. Biological: You drink water because you are t...

Common humans in common situations do not use axiomatic belief systems. Therefore, I assume that your mention of "axioms" is merely metaphorical. I su...

I don't think so. Psychologists also talk about rational or biological motivation. Faith is the motive for believing in a god. They believe that a god...

What does "fae" mean? Fairy? If I can translate this in my own way - with or without fairies - I would say that men would do nothing - knowledge inclu...

What is known about Pyrrhon is basically through Diogenes Laertius, who doesn't mention mathematics at all, much less the mathematical probabilities o...

There is no absolute certainty outside the formal sciences. In any case, my certainty about almost everything is not quantifiable. I am not speaking i...

Do you have a first-hand interpretation or do you talk for talking's sake?

Indeed, Foucault gives a very particular meaning to "visible" and "hidden". I don't think your interpretation makes much sense. Rather, you have to re...

First of all: no one really believes in Pyrrhonism. Pyrrho is a character of philosophical joke or a way of putting sticks in the wheel of absolute ra...

I think that in order to know where Foucault is going the following two texts are interesting: I would like to comment on them if you find them intere...

This seems to contradict this: “Determined in time and space” in “a given period” and for “social, economic”, etc. "area", is what is usually understa...

I think that your answer doesn't match my question. See this: Warn this: even when isolated, even divorced from the natural context that could throw l...

Domain of material objects possessing a certain number of observable physical properties, a domain of fictitious objects , a domain of spatial and geo...

I would say that these words of Foucault are equivalent to what is called in common language "context", both intralinguistic and extralinguistic. See ...

That is what I had more or less understood. I don't know much about structuralism, except Barthes (a little) and Althusser (less). I don't think they ...

My mistake; this excerpt is by Foucault.

Are you referring to German conservatism before Nazism or the current conservative revolution? In any case, although some concepts such as destiny, an...

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In Wittgenstein's idea, the "analytical" philosopher is not concerned with language for its own sake, but with the epistemic values to which its uses ...

Foucault's opposition to analytical philosophy seems to be based on the fact that the analysis of language leaves out linguistic functions that are no...

No one believes in analytical philosophy? Many philosophers believe in it or go on the same way.

Yes. In reality he is against all analytical philosophy and similar. But to understand Foucault, if such a thing is possible, we should go to p. 90 ff...

The way you explain it seems pretty confusing. The best thing is to go to Hume himself in his "Abstract", where he talks about himself in the third pe...

You ask too much to my prediction skills. Santiago Niño-Becerra, a Spanish economist who appears a lot in the media, sets the climax in 2065. I find t...

A sick person is only worth when he produces profits for the health industry. In the medieval cities there were mortuaries ("atriums") where the termi...

Producing things that are now worth money, a mercantilist would say. What could we say against such an implacable logic?

Well, then we don't agree on everything. Fortunately.

I also find this conversation interesting. When I speak of dependency in the society in which we live, it is of two orders: economic dependency and ph...

No. He underestimated Mark Antony's brutality or preferred to defy death.

Because Plato builds a Socrates to suit him. He is a fictional character, more than the real Socrates. The difference between Plato and Xenophon is us...

I don't think so. Old age means a stiffening of neural connections. How can it mean "wisdom"? It seems contradictory. The myth of the "wisdom" of the ...

I would say that the criteria for considering a man old is more flexible today. But if ancient Greece was a set of cities at continuous war with each ...

What your daimon was doing was defending the senatorial power against imperial attacks. This is why he stresses that old age is only desirable for ric...

There is a lot of talk about the problem of memory in the elderly. It is not just memory. There is a general loss of mental abilities. Especially that...

It is empirical, though not scientific. Scientific inquiries that I know limit themselves to particular aspects of the problem. I am trying an overvie...

The ability to participate in the war. Hellenistic culture was a culture of war. Every citizen had placed in a preferential place in his house the wea...

Why isn't the shield criterion useful?

There are always exceptions to the rule. But that does not invalidate it. Of course, you have to pay attention to the circumstances. A very obvious on...

This is not an isolated case. It is the age Plato attributes to the rulers of his republic. If I remember correctly. I think I already said that. The ...

From the moment he could not handle the Hoplite shield, which was quite heavy. Anyway, Plato does not defend the superiority of the old only, but of t...

Few old people have the mind of an eagle. More like a plover. And then the moment comes when you pee yourself. Probably the solution is in the Socrate...

Well, I haven't been a young man for a long time, but I believe that the real problems of old age must be considered at every stage of our lives. Afte...

How can there be a growth of wisdom when the mental capacity decreases on the run? The study of famous cases of old men who were once great sages does...

According to you, a proposition that is false is not wrong or incorrect. (???) You speak very strange English. No. You don't understand Heidegger beca...

This is called juggling with words on the tightrope. Sorry, it's not that "aletheia" “may be translated” as "truth". Heidegger's very concept of truth...

Purpose? Many. But what philosophical purposes are based on reasonable means? Not many. The main (only?) use of philosophy is that it helps to questio...

If you had not mutilated the phrase you would have realized that the ordinary interpretation is "in" Aristotle already. It is part of the Aristotelian...