Constance

Space is real, and I don't think space bending is a metaphor. No mysterious force acts upon any two particles with mass that attracts them to each oth...

The point? It is a diffuse point, sort of bound up in the ideas presented, each one in its own right a challenge, but the general point would be that ...

But that choice we make is still bound to what the understanding can conceive, and this makes something like "independence of the law of causality" ju...

That really is adorable. A wolf in sheep's clothing. Just got that one.

Oh, this is Wilfred Owen. I didn't recognize. I taught WWI British poetry once to high school students (in India, no less). I did not teach this one. ...

Christs finest moment is his cry of dereliction. Was he a nihilist for the moment only, or did it follow him to his death? Then, the withdrawal of God...

It does make you wonder. A Korean man nailed himself to a cross, somehow, imitating Christ. Easy enough to call him mad, but the real question to me i...

Well, that does put a damper on going to the state fair, and everything else, really. What survives? The question insinuates itself into every corner ...

Well, I am taken aback again. If you've read Heidegger, then you have a perspective. The intensity of withdrawal? Not many would talk like this around...

Yes! I conditionally agree with this. I mean, this is a very tempting idea, especially when we examine the community nature of language, history, educ...

Well, you throw me off a bit with "soul" talk. But consider an adjacent idea: you are suggesting a body of dividedness rather than unity; or rather, t...

What I gave you was a philosophical argument. The thoughts I presented issue from a phenomenological perspective on freedom, which takes the matter in...

You wrote, "The naturalists, or followers of naturalism, argue that we don't have freedom in thinking, like Descartes, Aristotle, and Schopenhauer imp...

I didn't proof read. Left off here above: .....have no argument, no justification, no explanation. We cannot say we really understand such things at a...

A determinist will argue that the principle of causality has no exception, notwithstanding the weirdness of quantum physics; and here, physics do know...

It is a good approach to an analysis of the self. The self is fashioned after a model of plurality, witnessed in the world of others. This idea has a ...

It is at first, a simple question confirmed by the presence of thought in the asking of the question itself. The trouble rises when you want to reduce...

The concept of a brain is itself an empirical concept, and empirical concepts like brains and beetles do not constitute a basis for tautological reaso...

Oh, well you've read Kant. Why didn't you say so. I would have to resort to materialist assumptions like brains thinking of brains, which was only don...

You lost me at "it is most certainly itself so" I'm beginning to suspect you haven't read Kant. to understand the world philosophiclly you have to rea...

The "ways" you are talking about are already in place. It is called phenomenology. You will find it is Husserl, Heidegger and lots of others, but its ...

I apologize in advance for all the writing. Too much time on my hands these days. That which sits before me as an apperceived phenomenon is thing of p...

More at a performative contradiction. To speak is to imply that which you speak of can be spoken (nothing you can sing that can't be sung, sort of thi...

Quietism sounds like the Christian/Catholic response to meditation. Only the latter is generally not explicitly about God, the meditator "yields" the ...

You wrote, "Ah, so you are misunderstanding my point about unnecessary suffering. Unnecessary in the fact that, unlike most of life where you do indee...

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I just don't think you understand your own argument. Children to be don't exist, true. Parents can bring these into being; it is a choice. True also. ...

Christians will call this a transgression to God (See Luther's Smallcald Articles). The evil here is qualified in this way. Also, this is affirming th...

Look, it's a given that when you have children, they will not have a life free of suffering. This is not heaven. But your argument analytic in that is...

It's a dreadful argument. Always wrong to create unnecessary collateral damage? Living and breathing is creating unnecessary collateral damage. Time i...

Finally, someone put the proverbial finger on this. Arguments are only as good as their definitions. You can't go on about the GOOD unless you have in...

No, not lousy. Does saying something deny it its own validity at a certain level of understanding?

I must go on; I can’t go on; I must go on; I must say words as long as there are words, I must say them until they find me, until they say me (The Unn...

But in that responsibility, we think.

Essentially saying what point would their be to creating anything outside Himself if He were already perfection itself. Not a far throw from Leibniz, ...

I don't think about popular religion here, just as I don't think of bad reasoning when I think of Kant. what people do with religion is an entangled b...

All this talk about ineffability and things in themselves creates a problematic division that leads away from the substantive issue. One has to first ...

Consider the difference between happiness and gratification. the latter comes and goes. The former is abiding. Beauty possessed by an object is, I thi...

Better put perhaps: literature Is religion. How so? Just some thoughts: Let's call literature a kind of mimesis, to borrow from Aristotle, of a praxis...

\ While it may be true that being poor in the country is less stressful than the city, at least it sounds intuitive true, you still sight the virtues ...

I am rather on the other end of this. Philosophy does not show us how to live. It's not a what to do? kind of thinking, but a what Is it all about? ki...

He should have denounced the Nazis. Beyond this, I don't see anything substantive. Not for me to say what people see when they spend a lot of time sec...

Ad hominem fallacies go to the person rather than the argument. Everyone knows this. And then the straw person argument that because Heidegger embodie...

Just to add, Dewey is a part of my thinking only. As is Witt, Heidegger and the rest. So don't take to the letter anything I say as I USE them, to be ...

its a vacuous reply. A fallacy that is so obvious it has a name: ad hominem. I gave you an example: I know what an apple is in a ready to hand way, bu...

Heidegger is radically different. He is an embodiment of the entire history of philosophy as he critiques and rejects many of its central claims. The ...

And speaking of Descartes, think of that wax of his: do you think a self, an "I" is reducible to what the was is reducible to in his famous analogy?

That is promising. Nothing worse than the dogmatic adherence to what someone said. Less interested in this, much more in how this serves my own evolvi...

Ciceronianus....are you being serious? You are a pragmatist. Knowledge is pragmatic, not ontological. Knowing other parts, as you say, is a matter of ...

If I have time? Sorry, but yes, I do have time. I like writing about this because it reminds me of what I actually think. Hope it's not too long. Any ...