Of course myths are far more flexible than E =mc^2. As for objective knowledge, what is the measure of that? In my view we respect science primarily b...
I like this definition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology To me religion fits in with that nicely, including the 'religion' of the enlightenment ...
Your manners could use some work, but nevertheless I'll answer you. I like Dewey's general approach (other names might work as well.) Note that your m...
This myth isn't so easy to interpret. One of the safer interpretations is that Mary represents the unselfish love of a mother, with the virginity inte...
A truly stale metaphor is no longer recognized as a metaphor. The idea of literality (itself a dead metaphor!) is contrasted with metaphoricity. We te...
He sounds like an enlightenment hero, doesn't he? Is this not enlightenment humanism personified? And is this not our currently dominant hero myth? In...
For me the way to put this is that groups of humans use marks and noise as part of surviving and prospering in the world. The marks and noises they us...
Perhaps thinking is fundamentally technical. Heidegger can be read as analyzing a spiritual problem and finding that the only tool for the job is a ne...
I respect what you say, and I don't dismiss his observations. I even try to live more in the direction of such values. I agree with Wordsworth and Hei...
The Wiki page on Eliade is fascinating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade I agree with the last point. The secular identity depends on the t...
Could you make a case for that assertion? Some thinkers have argued that analogy is the core of cognition. Philosophy has been largely based on an unn...
As I've argued within this thread, it still is. As is science and math. This isn't to deny a change in mood and the move toward professionalization. L...
The question ignored here is: why philosophy? If philosophy only breaks our hearts, then why is it preserved ? Why do we spread the heartbreaking viru...
I don't think you're understanding me. 'Knowledge is unstable' is posited as something stable about knowledge. 'It's the nature or essence of knowledg...
The prose is terrible, but this is clearer. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger-aesthetics/#ModSubLatModEnfAes Heidegger captures something a...
Fair enough, but note the metaphor of light/darkness. I don't object to this making of clarity or light as hero. To the contrary. I'm just shining a l...
For scientific explanation, this makes sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive-nomological_model At the same time, reality is messier than that...
As another hyper-critical atheist, I agree that intellectualized theism tends to stray into contradictions, differences that make no difference, gestu...
First thing that occurs to me is that philosophy is appealing partly because it helps with just this kind of situation. I first liked it as a kind of ...
What comes to my mind is that our crazy times make us nostalgic for a past we've only lived imaginatively. To what degree is the later Heidegger a new...
Ah, well I agree that organism is not a perfect metaphor then. For me the main idea is that our beliefs are entangled in a kind of system. We meet eac...
I agree with that criticism. My most considered view is that the meaning of 'explanation' depends on context. Even then that meaning is strictly deter...
Indeed. But I'm suggesting that seeing knowledge as evolving is seeing its timeless essence as evolution and change. So a skeptic in this sense ultima...
It occurs to me that this argument itself seems metaphysical, or at least meta-metaphysical is some quasi-Kantian sense..which supports the quote from...
What's interesting here is the metaphor of stripping reality naked, of unveiling or unmasking it. Perhaps those with more physics training can correct...
I'm glad someone else liked that quote. 'As simply, completely, and exactly as possible' means also perhaps as economically or efficiently as possible...
Here's a nice quote regarding the relationship between something like Kantianism and science. It's a long, illuminating footnote from the Wiki page: h...
Perhaps, but does it not offer us nevertheless the pleasure of being wised up about our situation? If it didn't put us in a superior position, why wou...
Marx is a good mention. Dewey even briefly touches on priority of theoretical knowledge and its relationship to class. The elite man is (or was) a man...
Perhaps the timelessness or eternity of such a realm is what seduces. How are knowledge and time connected? In general, philosophers especially have s...
Since Dewey wrote in English, he should have his own say. Later in Experience and Nature, we get: https://archive.org/stream/experienceandnat029343mbp...
As I read your 'approximation,' it implies something like an essence that is being approximated. 'Even though we don't know exactly what we are talkin...
That sounds right. We are trained to employ the language as a whole. Afterwards we can argue about what 'subject' or 'justice' or 'being' mean. But th...
I agree that we don't have full control of our steams of words. I agree that we don't (exactly) know WTF we are talking about when we use words like c...
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