It is a problem because your foundational explanatory setting is in no better position to be defended than my uncle. I'm sorry, neuronal activity did ...
But the thinking cannot go this way. How is it that the whole brain can "compartmentalize portions of itself"? What is, in the simple conditions I hav...
I want to say language sits comfortably along side of anything at all, like my cat does when I am not thinking about it and it is just there. SUre, th...
Just to note: to separate desire and the desired is a verbal confusion I never understood. If I have the desired, do i stop desiring it? I don't think...
I defer to Dewey on knowledge and the aesthetic. For him, the two are of-a-piece, part of the process of acquiring knowledge is the "consummation" of ...
I wouldn't draw a distinction like this.The entire experience in the world, replete with no exception, abandons nothing that is not "pure". As trouble...
But let's say you had met my uncle. The assumption in place is that it was my uncle, and that this was not something reducible to interior events insi...
No, I really don't think like that. Saying the past-present-future is really "of-a-piece" actually reduces the problem for the Buddhist who faces the ...
But then, what is a "sensation" in the context of this inquiry? What does it even mean to be a system of neural activity if that which produces the ve...
I do wonder about animals in this. What they do not have is a capacity for reflection, and it is reflection that generates the ability to stand apart ...
But what is it that holds the three together? In the startled moment when one levels at the world a question that stops the past from freely and seaml...
I would agree, as long as it is clear that "prior to" is understood not to say that one can have an an experience the is free of language and its mean...
When you say, "excitement for the future, wherever that may be, may perhaps be considered maya,"I think you've hit one the nails in this business squa...
But this kind of thinking denies that there can be a category of aesthetics, denying that each occasion of aesthetic experience is a kind of sui gener...
Of course, I have to nit pick a bit, you know, philosophy. How is it that the logos can confer value agreement? We can argue, and I think this right (...
Emotivity is reckless? This does move into another part of the thesis. You mentioned unpleasant smells and the suggestion that these are elevated to a...
Careful about the connotative value of words. You say evil and we think we are in a dramatic moral conflict between God and Satan, and this is precise...
No. Someone extracts your tooth without analgesic: not a fantasy. In fact, far more ethically emphatic than any rule can possible be. No, no. Facts. H...
I am not going to take responsibility for the way the world is. I don't think the world is an illusion, as when I break a bone or slip a disk; but the...
No, not literally. But the burn: I know what it is as well as anyone. It is not a "mere" fact of the world, this is clear. Facts are affairs that sit ...
God was never this. This is the talk of a historical busy-ness of filling the concept with bad metaphysics. thinking of God, why am I committed to lis...
But this is a long history of metaphysics talking, specifically, Christian metaphysics. Father? the author of all things? A creator? Why is this assoc...
Quite right. And this is just a manner of speaking, and it is why Witt refused to talk about it. It cannot be said. But consider the usual examples of...
You did put your finger on this. Nicely done yourself! Because this is where the argument lies, in the determinate world where things are usually clea...
To suggest that anything metaphysical is reducible to a metaphysical narrative, like Christian metaphysics. But this really doesn't get interesting un...
I think you have something there, and it has crossed my mind more than once. I have some thoughts: We suffer and delight in the world because this tea...
Cooperation? Cooperation for what purpose? Cooperation, principles or good conduct, a "good will", weighing consequences in terms of utility, and anyt...
But here we are at a "second order" of inquiry. First order inquiry can be talk about our relations, moral character, and ethical behavior, but a seco...
Okay. On the table is value, as I say, the weirdest thing in the universe, by far, this "badness' of a scorched finger. It deserves to be released fro...
No, this is just the introduction. The reason why God is essentially an ethical account is because God was conceived in a response to the ethical inde...
What to do presupposes the doing carries a certain weight. Metaethics inquires about this. "Meta" is an indication of a higher order of analysis, as i...
I think the term generally refers projecting features we possess on to foundational descriptions of the world. But take reason: can judgment about wha...
But you know this is because this is all scripture based and no care at all is given to making religion respectable to sound thinking. Philosophy is t...
Is it so far fetched, though? After all, God is more than just an anthropomorphic image constructed out of the imaginations of a people. It has this s...
I did say "experience of extraordinary dimensions" which doesn't sound like something is "merely" anything. Quite the opposite, wouldn't you say? But ...
If you since childhood had this feeling that something was simply out of sync between you and the world, then I most certainly do agree here, and this...
Yes, which accounts in part for my philosophical eccentricities. I would add, music is the voice of god. Music, mescaline and meditation: a very power...
Sorry for all the writing. I got a little carried away. Revelatory: Existentialist philosophers take the "distance" between what is said and what is a...
And, as I see it, this "beyond the sense" is a tricky phrase, for it implicitly draw a line: there is here, and there is this beyond. I think this kin...
Heidegger and most others would disagree, simply because the being there of the cup and the coffee cannot be parted from the "cups and coffee". Langua...
Interesting. Schopenhauer thought that without our perceiving agency to divide the world, the world would some impossible singularity, impossible beca...
I pretty much agree, except for one thing: Our acknowledgement of just this is itself a language event. This is hermeneutics. So the world has two fac...
Kierkegaard said Hegel probably didn't understand Hegel. Being and nothing the firs dialectical movement? Or something like that. Maybe one day I'll t...
Certainly. But I am not bound to this and what Buddhists talk about usually doesn't interest me. As I see it, the whole affair comes to one thing, and...
But this places the matter in a mundane perspective, and I certainly agree with you here. But then philosophy steps in and the world is no longer what...
I would counter that Heaven has nothing to do with God or resurrected bodies. One needs to get to the essence of the term, not just the historical bad...
But the idea that was put on the table was that attachments, affections, and so on, are errant engagements of our original actuality, the Buddha natur...
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