This is from Repetition. Living forwards, in its perfection, is to be a knight of faith, something K confessed he could not do. It would be to live in...
No, we were born to pay bills ("the bill" we pay to be here, our work, our very weird biological embeddedness and all the thousand natural shocks the ...
No wait. I do see that the passage mentions Christianity and sin. I almost forgot. But these should be considered as merely incidental. The focus is t...
I haven't read the entire book, but I have read "through" it and about it, and it is clear to me that he is an iconoclast to the scientific community,...
Let me take a metaethical position: the interlacing retentions and protentions constituting the primal impression? Is this spear in my kidney constitu...
Since Rovelli is an empirical scientist, it is safe to assume that the indeterminacy of time has to do with relativity. I gather this also from the wa...
This is the piece of reasoning I am struggling with: I see it as an argument from actuality. How can Husserlian "adumbrations" of past experience make...
Quite right that the earth does not have this. We impose time ON things when we encounter them, perceive them, talk about them, and so on. Does this m...
This is the position of a lot of philosophers, that the present is impossible, and this is because the very fabric of reality is time: the present is ...
I read through the Amazon free pages of Rovelli, and it's not like I disagree with all he says at all, but tell me briefly what it is that he says tha...
It is inspiring. Care to take inspiration its logical end? You have to be, I'm afraid, a bit crazy to relate to Kierkegaard, because he take normalcy ...
Born to die. But then, it is not the dying is it? It is the caring that we die. You mention a lifespan "worthy" but what is the standard of worth? Of ...
That wasn't Heidegger's fault. He was unapologetic, but then it wasn't Heidegger ran the death camps. Essentially what Heidegger haters are saying is ...
Who cares? He had high hopes for the Nazi party, but that was in 1933. Didn't know or condone what came after. Not as if he were Himmler. And yes, the...
If I were to go back in time, to "those" times, I would hate everyone's views, nearly everyone's. Blacks were Sambos, Chinamen were squinty eyed fools...
Prepare to be irritated. He is not reader friendly. Doesn't even try to be. A lot in response to Hegel, and Hegel is ridiculous. But you don't need He...
First, the logic is all wrong, and it actually has a name, which is affirming the consequent. We don't first theorize about freedom, then concerns, wo...
No, it's not like that. You want to think of it as an historical phenomenon. To me, it is much more interesting than that. Parsecs more interesting. B...
But is this not already unified as a structure of thinking distinctly phenomenological? The devil is in the details, of course, but to turn away fromt...
Just as Kierkegaard ignored much in Christian dogma, and was a better Christian than all of them, it could be argued. It depends on what it is you thi...
The question is why Stein goes one way, Heidegger another? What makes for the timeless indecision of philosophy is not the issues being so vague, but ...
But the point is he does go on without self effacing disclaimers, even though Kant's "Copernican Revolution" thesis hovers over everything he did. Of ...
Not visiting the text right now, I think what is meant is that the transcendental unity of apperception is a functional center of all experience as it...
But there is The transcendence of the Ego by Sartre in which he takes issue with Husserl's generative ego, very busy as the fountain of experience. Sa...
Did Husserl pay his debt to Kant? Kierkegaard to Hegel? Kant to Aristotle? Heidegger to Kierkegaard? But then, no, he didn't. In the end, after Freibe...
By H you mean Heidegger. Heidegger did not pull B&T out of a hat. It is the phenomenology that Husserl gave him, and they do agree a lot. But Husserl ...
But consider that you put the whole matter in the arena of people with a vested interest in the status quo, whether they are simply believers or insti...
His Confessions do sound suspiciously confessional in the extreme. I mean, confessions are commensurate with the deeds done, and he was way over the t...
I don't think analyses of systems of implicit power in social institutions is helpful here, and I don't know much about Lacan. But getting understandi...
But this begs the question. God? What does Kierkegaard say about God apart from the religious dogma? And what does he say about religious dogma? You r...
But here we speak of philosophy. We make inquiries, describe, contextualize, and not to make the unspeakable speakable, but to explain what it is all ...
Don't worry about being nice, you do just fine. But you know where I am going with this: When Buddha had is his significant enlightening moment (momen...
Intimidated by what? And you are seeking out "abstract writers"?? He used Hegelian dialectics in his own reasoning to confound Hegel. His complaint wi...
Yeah, that is annoying. But I don't know why he makes this claim about German and Greek so I just leave it alone. On the other hand, how is it that he...
That really is the issue. I think of it in terms of Heraclitus and Parmenides: the ego that is conversing here with you is memory that seizes the pres...
Everybody is put off by that. But I think, if it were discovered that Louis Pasteur were, say, a child molester, would we simply stop taking vaccines?...
You have to see that Heidegger believed that language is an integral part of the construction of Being, and so, when you examine works of philosophy, ...
But the proof is in the pudding, a conversation about doubt, moral realism and the rest. Otherwise, it is just a generic complaint. Do you think the B...
But I do propose a solution. It lies with phenomenology. And Wittgenstein. And Husserl. and others. The point is not that any one has put their finger...
But you will have to deal with objections that come in later. If there is to be a true phenomenological description of what unfolds before us, the "no...
But this ego is a slippery discussion. If it is taken to mean the assertive self, with confidence and even aggression behind it, as if in competition,...
Is knowledge an intuition? I know my cup has coffee without looking. Memory, of course. But memory simply "comes" to you. And how do you know you can ...
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