Constance

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Sorry Nickolasgaspar. I mean no disrespect, but you are starting to sound like a nitwit.

Nickolasgaspar, just say it. Why do you think Kant is just metaphysical speculation? Proof is in the pudding. Give me a paragraph, your assignment: Wr...

People are pretty clueless about this sort of thing. Back in the 40's, The Fountainhead was made into a movie starring Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper, ...

Details, Nickolasgaspar, details. What, exactly in his Critique is metaphysical speculation? What makes the case of the brain so unique is that while ...

I have no idea what this is about. What makes you think Kant talks about metaphysics?? But none of this applies. You are having a discussion with your...

And dangerous. Like libertarians, morally unevolved.

You are saying there are no "accidents" in the world apart from the mind that conceives such things. Calling something an accident is simply saying it...

Better: Morpheus: "Do you think that's air you're breathing now?"

I know what they do and how they think. Philosophy's job, as I see it, is to take this, and give a reflective analysis. What is going on when we pull ...

Still too slippery, Harry. How is this different from what I said?

Yes, it can look like this. It can also look like my uncle Raymond who has a phd in geology. Do better!

But reading Kant does not yield zero information. That is, well, silly. Not that he's right about everything. Not the point. You toss terms like "pseu...

This "reinventing ourselves" sounds like Heidegger and Nietzsche before him. True, I think. But I would go one step further: I put aside terms like "h...

. Derrida is not Plato. Analytic philosophers have been very helpful for me. It is the sacrifice of content for the sake of clarity that I don't appro...

Fear not, I breathe. It is not as radical as it sounds. But you are invited to wonder what the experience is about.

You certainly should not be. I take this question to be truly primordial, issuing form the the world, if you will, not the church. The church invents ...

Ahhh. But what is hypoxia? It is not a deficit of oxygen outside of the physiologist's lexicon. And there IS an outside of this.

It sounds like you are saying that by calling something accidental we imply the nonaccidental, and the nonaccidental is just presumptuous assumption t...

I think you are right about that. But then, a newspaper deliverer does think of herself as, say, a pawn in the grand capitalist game. There is "living...

But then, one can put aside this kind of thing altogether, not dismissing it, just affirming it likely true in one way or another, then ask another qu...

But nihilism can be taken both epistemologically as well as ethically. When I say annihilation of the world, I refer to language and culture that cons...

But religions have that dimension of the radical unknown, the metaphysics. I can think of many ways cultures take of the world and systems of thought ...

Perfectly right. I never argue with what is supported by observation and logic, and if religion were the kind of thing that could be handled in this w...

Right view is a method, and has to do with what is not liberation. As I see it, the matter is simple, but the language we fit to it, and the contextua...

On postmodern thought, it tends to be ignored because it is so damn mysterious and apart from normal thinking. But I think philosophy makes it clear t...

It is the ultimate control, watching air hunger rise, then calming it down, but it insists, but there are moments when the massive energy of thought a...

As I see it, one needs to take the matter all the way to Derrida, which is not a happy thought for people, because he is deliberately obscure. But wha...

I have read, and pondered, the Prajnaparamita, and, of course, one can easily see why thinking like this is all but absent from our culture and thinki...

I practice stopping my breath. Genuinely interesting, for air hunger comes along and is very insistent. And I have to ignore this, tame it, and there ...

But then, there is that very mysterious phenomenological reduction. People take this as best they can, and even Husserl was surprised by the effect it...

What does it mean that it cannot be done? It is not a breaking of logical rules, and one cannot really argue against it. It is not an argument. It is ...

But the important point is that logical restraints have no hold on content. Atomic propositions being empirical or not begs the question: what is it f...

Exactly! But that fire on your finger, is THAT a concept? It certainly can be taken up AS a concept, but it most certainly is not a concept, and there...

It is demonstrated on the premise that knowing the world is either an empirical knowing or an analytic knowing (putting aside Quine's attack on analyt...

Keep in mind, these are my thoughts about Husserl and others. I'm not just recalling text. What is the phenomenological reduction? It is a suspension ...

Put aside attitudes, dispositions and judgment in the mind of anyone. It is an argument about the presence of suffering as such. The utility illustrat...

Not more scrupulous; emphatic. These philosophers drew a very distinct line not to be crossed, and left very little room to vaguery or intimations. Bu...

Just to add, and this is where he got it wrong, in the same way Kant got it wrong: it is not impossible of vacuously speculative to discuss metaphysic...

Sorry if this gets tedious for you. Part one, in brief: Moore went on about the good being a non natural property, and back then, they say, most philo...

But if you like Kant, then you'll adore Heidegger. And Husserl. And Fink; here is an intro: instead of soaring up over the world "speculatively," we, ...

A brilliant passage. But Witt, like Kant, in denying metaphysics any meaning, opened the door for positivism. You know, the only wheel that rolls. Pos...

I read it. So I wonder if you would be willing to engage the issue. Let's say I understand all of the arguments, because I do, frankly. None of these ...

I agree with both. I lean towards yours.

No problem. It's my little obsession. If ever you do find the mood for this, you might want to check out Simon Critchley's Little, Almost Nothing. He ...

I ask, what is there, in the world, that makes us reach out and scream WTF? I think about concrete and steal raining down of Ukrainians, and there you...

The issue I take has to do with your "same naturalistic principles". Philosophy is not naturalistic, if I take your meaning. the method? Well, I can o...

For me, after I read Kant, I felt I understood the foundations of philosophical issues. It occurred to me that there is simply no way AT ALL to escape...

But religion is not about "god(s)" and the Mahabharata is extremely long and and where something symbolic and enlightening may be there (Hinduism in i...

But as you know with all serious thinkers, all ideas are presented in context. the ordinary, churchy faith of the many is something Kierkegaard reject...