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Not quite. Not that everything could be an illusion at all, not even in the running, not withstanding what analytic theorists say. Talk about illusion...
August 05, 2021 at 15:15
Perhaps all this is true. But why should one do what is part of an evolutionary mechanism? Preservation of the species? Is this what you tell someone ...
August 05, 2021 at 13:32
Right at the outset, he makes that cryptic statement about passing over in silence that which cannot be spoken. There is a lot written about your obje...
August 05, 2021 at 13:25
you may want to read his short Lecture on Ethics, which is I think available online. Then the Tractatus. He typically would refuse to talk about ethic...
August 05, 2021 at 04:46
Not that suffering is an assault on value. Rather, suffering a simply a general notion that refers to kinds of value: I value not having double pneumo...
August 05, 2021 at 04:35
An act can be judged apart from the measure of suffering involved, but I certainly don't think this is an ethical judgment. A pragmatic judgment works...
August 04, 2021 at 14:26
Instant karma? Someone watching? These are metaphysical I cannot support because I don't understand where they get their basis for belief. I try to de...
August 04, 2021 at 01:02
Justification here in intrinsic to the value affair. It is non contingently determined and apriori, but the apriority is not logical, but is apodictic...
August 04, 2021 at 00:46
No, this "same moral judgment" is not requited at all, and indeed, such an agreement between is never a real agreement (this is a Quine/Derrida positi...
August 03, 2021 at 13:23
It is not a theory of judgment, though there would be no ethical judgment without ethics, and there is no ethics without value experiences. Moral real...
August 03, 2021 at 00:30
It is a powerful position, but, speaking of Heidegger, is it defensible?: Is there no grounding for dasein that is not dasein? That is, in t he phenom...
August 02, 2021 at 14:09
Well......if no one has ever seen it, there is no beauty. We observers are not passive receivers of some beauty that is "out there". What, did you act...
August 02, 2021 at 13:58
Not that these are merely core elements of some theories. These are essential elements to any possible ethical theory. No such elements, then no ethic...
August 02, 2021 at 13:23
Well, what makes something ethical at all? It is the possibility of hedonic consequences (hedonic here making no distinction between, say, music and m...
August 02, 2021 at 13:17
The issue, then, goes to what it is that runs the argument, "it shouldn't be like that." Why not? The answer then goes to an experience that is percei...
August 02, 2021 at 00:30
Enigmatic thing to say. Actions have consequences and the argument here goes to an analysis of that which is at stake in the consequence. Therein, in ...
August 02, 2021 at 00:15
I would not defend the idea according to the way you frame it. It is not a matter of concreteness versus abstractness. In every ethical affair there i...
August 02, 2021 at 00:12
If you are going to relativize to individual historical agencies then the hedonism But is this not merely dismissive of the evaluative dimension? As i...
May 08, 2021 at 15:13
The question is what is real about religion, rather than what is just some cultural inheritance, constructed, invented, like Christmas or Hanukkah. Wh...
May 07, 2021 at 12:49
But Meyer is a scientist/philosopher and talk about intelligent design and the like is talk about science. But then, no matter, for it is not science,...
May 04, 2021 at 15:00
So you relativize ethical good and bad, right and wrong, not to individual tastes, attitudes, moods, and general dispositions, but to a multitude of "...
May 04, 2021 at 13:09
I can respond to your thoughts if you give me an account of what "absolute context" means.
May 03, 2021 at 17:28
You use the caterpillar as a model for us? And these references to Darwin pin you to the very mundane scientism you deny. Caterpillars do not give us ...
May 03, 2021 at 00:44
The point is missed. The very conditions of your accepting the actual terms of your limitations, all this talk about caterpillars and inherent boundar...
May 02, 2021 at 12:54
But where did that imposition of a limitation come from? I would suggest that you and everyone else is endowed with a suppressed intuitive ability to ...
May 01, 2021 at 17:36
But "it" is not a thing without parts, that is, it bears analysis. The trouble with agnosticism is it resignation the foundational issues as being imp...
May 01, 2021 at 17:25
As I see it, your "index" of references constitutes an endless search of grounding, any proposition that can be conceived being duly contextually cont...
April 30, 2021 at 16:13
You treat an emotion quantitatively, as if it were a principle of stability or instability that is either sufficient or isn't. But then, an emotion is...
April 29, 2021 at 18:00
But then, it may be that one biography exceeds another here as it does in all regards. I may not be able to do math like Quine could, but I don't thin...
April 12, 2021 at 00:31
The key term here would be that of semantic unity, which, too, is under erasure. I think Caputo thinks that since Derrida thinks the apophatic nature ...
April 11, 2021 at 13:09
Well, it's an interesting fact, but no it doesn't help. "I don't know" does fall short of the mark for discussion. Tell me more.
April 10, 2021 at 12:44
The single individual? Pls elaborate, if you would. How is it related to model of the good parent? And, inward reserve?
April 10, 2021 at 03:25
That stair can be a very strange place, depending on the individual. Some experience a powerful alienation from all things and familiarity itself is l...
April 09, 2021 at 16:46
That doesn't help. If you don't side with the atheists, the believers, or anyone else you mentioned, the "trend" certainly isn't going to be a step up...
April 07, 2021 at 22:54
Why is this not God-sin? But this begs the question, what is God? As for sin, speaking for K, I would say, first, there is no "every moment" as this q...
April 07, 2021 at 22:50
It occurred to me that I really didn't address this: Heraclitus 's world of flux, one has to ask, why is this exclusive of affirming the present? WE a...
April 06, 2021 at 14:48
Note that the ideas I set forth here is not exclusively an attempt at weaving textual agreement, which is what academics hold so dear. I explore, appr...
April 06, 2021 at 14:34
No. K was responding to Hegel. At any rate, K died in 1855. Aristotle is behind this. See 3017amen's: https://youtu.be/vh-IW9Y1htA
April 06, 2021 at 01:34
Excellent link. This is from The Concept of Anxiety, a seminal work. As you read through this text you find Sartre, here, Heidegger there. I wasn't be...
April 06, 2021 at 01:28
I don't know what that means until I know what you think the flow is.
April 06, 2021 at 00:10
Well then, you sound like a Kierkegaardian. the trick is to become a knight of faith, which is to live in the present and embrace the past and the fut...
April 06, 2021 at 00:06
Okay. I would genuinely like to know. Some of Husserl is very accessible, like Cartesian Meditations and others. Ideas get rather technical, but it is...
April 05, 2021 at 23:58
But cultural relevance hardly matters here, and more than it would matter for quantum physics. Alas, if people take idealism seriously, something migh...
April 05, 2021 at 23:52
Okay. So here is the passage: One can, quite generally, in defining the concepts of the past, the future, and the eternal, see how one has defined the...
April 05, 2021 at 23:40
So, I'll field these as I see fit, though I may be a bit on the outside of the issues. As to immediate presence, I see no alternative to thinking of t...
April 05, 2021 at 18:05
I reviewed what you said earlier, and it is not wrong, just not really to the point. You are being asked to look at time as a structure of experience....
April 04, 2021 at 21:50
Energy distribution? Neuroscience and psychology? But what is it about this that is not outdated by a century? Not regarding specific content, but reg...
April 04, 2021 at 19:45
This implies that an analysis of what it means to have life reveals the nature of what it is to be now. Explain, pls.
April 04, 2021 at 19:37
Begs questions. God??? Mystery?? Remains??
April 04, 2021 at 19:34
Sorry but that is not it. I mean, I'm not saying things you say here an there are all not true, but that this has nothing to do with what Kierkegaard ...
April 04, 2021 at 19:32