David Mo

From what I've read Heidegger wasn't a Buddhist. However, my knowledge of Buddhism is not superior to that of other religions that I have not personal...

If you don't mind being alone in the face of danger, go ahead. But Gary Cooper only wins in the movies. Of course, you don't read what I write. Of cou...

I'm not at all original about this. Gilbert Ryle already did it with mind. The Concept of Mind, a fascinating book. I believe that materialism is not ...

What assumptions? I am simply describing the position of enlightened philosophers. It's another thing if you want us to discuss them.

You're dancing on a tightrope. Your objections to my interpretation of Heidegger (by the way, this is the standard interpretation) are only based on w...

You can't expect definitive answers to your questions. Remember that we are in the philosophical field. Anyway, my answer: Two types of materialism ar...

This is a bit of a mess. I don't think the alternative to scientism is perennial philosophy. I don't think the Enlightened philosophes were thinking a...

Oh, boy! This would raise Camus from his grave. He wrote a whole book to combat nihilism because he considered it to be the essence of humanity's ills...

With Heidegger's permission, the problem of the essence of technology is nothing mysterious. To begin with, one must distinguish various phases in the...

European racism has different roots and problems than North American racism. There are notable differences between traditional Polish racism (anti-Sem...

It was a way of talking so as not to be rude.

We can wait ten years to see, if you like. In the meantime, I think "the whole world" is a bold statement.There have been bigger movements against rac...

Answering a question with another is dialectical malpractice. It assumes that you don't know how to answer the first question and try to get rid of it...

I do not know what wonderful country you are talking about that in 1958 had no problems with religion and was liberal in its education system. Where I...

What assumptions does Kant not make explicit? What is your criterion for considering Kant obscure?

My argument was based on the relative consensus of the expert community. I don't think it's an argument based on popular belief. The argument for a fl...

I think the problem is not whether Western culture is enlightened. It's not in the terms that the great thinkers of the Enlightenment thought. A thin ...

I don't think so. Between a nonsense and a reasonable indication, there's a lot of space.

I am not only a materialist but also a social-hedonist. I think that so-called moral emotions are the basis of our moral feelings of solidarity. Since...

Strange. It is the same I have repeated again and again. The answer is in the very texts by Heidegger and his commentators that I have quoted here. Fo...

Dennet is another example of difficult reading. I got stuck with his book and left it. In my opinion, it's not worth the effort. But I made the effort...

"Proof" in a broad sense.

I agree. An important part of the solution is to create free and respectful spaces for discussion among ordinary people. Preferably real contacts, not...

I think you're mixing up the moral and epistemic senses of "being wrong". I'm not talking about respect in moral sense. I'm talking about fundamental ...

Well, that's what I find extremely inconclusive. After having destroyed Judaeo-Christian morality, anarchism, socialism, liberalism and the Prussian m...

There may be discussions about isolated points, but the commentators I have read agree on the fundamentals.

I take the liberty of copying for you here an excerpt from an article by one of the sharpest thinkers - not philosophers - in my country. Can you expl...

Because it lays the foundation for modern knowledge theory. I share in essence his critique of metaphysical thought. Kant's ideas are not obscure. Or ...

You' re right. This is a good reason... for some.

These are some examples that I have chosen at random. There are some that are harder to swallow. -If mythical violence is lawmaking, divine violence i...

According to Heidegger, taking up the line of Parmenides and Heraclitus, which is what he was doing. According to Heidegger. Because the path that beg...

Good!

I wouldn't call it detailed. There's no description in Nietzsche's books of the superman society or the means by which it will be reached. It is actua...

The absolute rejection of existing values implies some kind of strong criterion (i.e. a counter-value). In Nietzsche's case, the will to power. Whethe...

Dark examples? Or dialectical truth?

All or almost all nihilists (in Nietzsche's positive sense) think so. First we make tabula rasa and then something better will be built. Worse than wh...

There's no one way. If you're interested in that, you've certainly found a way to help.

What are the terrorists doing here? To end the terrorism of the multinationals? Terrorism against terrorism, I don't think it's a good idea.

This is a very serious matter. It involves what philosophy is and should be. In my opinion, philosophy is meant to clarify, not to hide. However, ther...

I don't mean Kant. Kant's language may seem obscure to us because he was writing more than two centuries ago. You can understand Kant with a little tr...

Trivial, blind and perverted is not "wrong"... according you. What means "wrong" to you? In my opinion you are blind to the true meaning of Heidegger'...

"Greek philosophy is then interpreted retroactively—that is, falsified from the bottom up—on the basis of the dominant concept of substance" (ItM: 148...

Sorry but you don't understand Heidegger. The meaning of words in Greek philosophy is not an academic issue for him. Inaccurate translations are a ref...

What I was trying to explain is that Newton's theory is still valid in the terms that the theory is limited. That is, it is valid for concepts defined...

Nietzsche was in favor of active nihilism that attacks social values (beyond good and evil). He was against passive nihilism that goes against life (w...

I don't understand anything. The text above is by Heidegger? If so, it's misquoted. Quotes and reference are missing. I don't understand either who ta...

This is rigorously disproved by the quotes I have placed above. Your interpretation of Heidegger seems a little "autistic", if I may say so. I mean, y...

I think Camus places the issue of suicide in the foreground because of Dostoevsky's influence.The theme of suicide in Dostoevsky was a central piece i...

About this last one. Georg Lukács: El asalto a la razón, Madrid 1976; p. 406. Curious this semi-praise. It should be taken into account.

That's fine with me. Neologisms can awaken stale concepts when they are sufficiently provocative. But as long as they are clarifying. That is, as long...