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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...
January 21, 2020 at 08:02
I like this definition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology To me religion fits in with that nicely, including the 'religion' of the enlightenment ...
January 21, 2020 at 07:58
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...
January 21, 2020 at 07:46
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...
January 21, 2020 at 03:33
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...
January 21, 2020 at 01:30
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...
January 21, 2020 at 01:18
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...
January 21, 2020 at 01:11
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...
January 20, 2020 at 05:18
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...
January 19, 2020 at 21:44
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...
January 19, 2020 at 21:25
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...
January 19, 2020 at 07:53
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...
January 19, 2020 at 07:22
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...
January 19, 2020 at 02:24
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...
January 19, 2020 at 02:14
The prose is terrible, but this is clearer. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger-aesthetics/#ModSubLatModEnfAes Heidegger captures something a...
January 18, 2020 at 20:52
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...
January 18, 2020 at 20:39
For scientific explanation, this makes sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive-nomological_model At the same time, reality is messier than that...
January 18, 2020 at 09:03
As another hyper-critical atheist, I agree that intellectualized theism tends to stray into contradictions, differences that make no difference, gestu...
January 18, 2020 at 08:55
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 ...
January 18, 2020 at 05:51
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...
January 18, 2020 at 05:30
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...
January 18, 2020 at 05:10
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...
January 18, 2020 at 05:03
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...
January 17, 2020 at 20:16
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...
January 17, 2020 at 06:41
What's interesting here is the metaphor of stripping reality naked, of unveiling or unmasking it. Perhaps those with more physics training can correct...
January 17, 2020 at 06:24
Do you mean that we hardly share a single culture these days? If so, I agree.
January 17, 2020 at 05:25
I'm glad someone else liked that quote. 'As simply, completely, and exactly as possible' means also perhaps as economically or efficiently as possible...
January 17, 2020 at 04:55
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...
January 17, 2020 at 03:53
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...
January 16, 2020 at 21:07
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...
January 15, 2020 at 19:49
Perhaps the timelessness or eternity of such a realm is what seduces. How are knowledge and time connected? In general, philosophers especially have s...
January 15, 2020 at 19:36
Since Dewey wrote in English, he should have his own say. Later in Experience and Nature, we get: https://archive.org/stream/experienceandnat029343mbp...
January 15, 2020 at 04:55
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...
January 15, 2020 at 04:20
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...
January 13, 2020 at 21:23
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...
January 13, 2020 at 19:50