Constance

Quite right.

I really should add that I am by no means a master of any of this. I simply read with understanding, and I usually do passably well. I read Heidegger ...

But i do take issue with this. I think philosophy is THE religion. It's the people who are either inclined or disinclined to see it this way that make...

As to Kant, his transcendental idealism is all about representation. When an idea is put in place, and its logic on tact, this structures our world, b...

You said this. I just want to know what you mean.

I take this issue the way Jean Luc Marion does: Husserl's reduction is incomplete, but it has a trajectory, which is toward givenness, and givenness i...

Tell me how in Kant the perceptual act does not construct anything at all.

What doesn't it construct? I mean, the moment you say what this could be, there is a trace to a perceptual event that has to be there, the absence of ...

Sorry about that. If you find pagan mystery cults and gnosticism fascinating, then we should be agreeing a lot more. You see, I find that, for me, the...

But I think you have in mind some kind of simple multitasking event, and no significant distinction to be made doing two different things. I would inv...

I put thought in the front seat because thought is a reflection of the structure of experience, and generally it has been believed that while incident...

But it is not pragmatic engagement all the way down. Sure, when you turn the key and the car doesn't start, you don't have an existential crisis, but ...

But it is the very notion of intuition itself that is at issue. Does the concept make sense at all, apart from the casual talk about premonitions and ...

But the question does bring the structural feature of dasein, freedom. The hammer is ready to hand, but when the head flies off the hammer, the nail i...

As to Dostoyevsky, What I am defending is rather up his alley, for what it means to Put distance" between oneself and thought is to deny the privelege...

Saying thinking is conduct merely exchanges one problematic word for another. Conduct, how one comports oneself, it too confining. Thought is an event...

To see this, you have to try to conceive of something as being irreducible, which is what an intuition is supposed to be, a non discursive disclosure,...

Well, you have to see that some things are embedded. To explain them takes time, for the clarity is not really simple. It is contextually conceived, a...

Why ask me? Go read Derrida. But then, you would have to read more than Derrida for this. Why not do what I did: I just decided one day that I wasn't ...

But the point I want to emphasize is that it really has nothing at all to do with basic principles. These are just a means to an end, and the every ho...

Should have led with this. Reading: https://www.saraniya.com/books/meditation/Bhikkhu_Bodhi-Comprehensive_Manual_of_Abhidhamma.pdf Also here: https://...

Or perhaps not full of ourselves enough. I lean more towards Emerson. From his Nature, walking through a bare common: There I feel that nothing can be...

If karma were to be conceived within a social and ethical framework of our affairs then it would be fairly clear" you reap what you sew. But reincarna...

I'll let Wallace Stevens have the final world on this. Only to add that the final two lines is the consummation of all that went before, for how can n...

Hmmm, I think language is essentially a pragmatic epistemology, true, and by this I mean pragmatics in the literal sense: a term is an inherent propos...

Pass over in silence. OR, just read Heidegger, and put aside his flirtation with monsters. Husserl, too. Then Kierkegaard is behind them, and Kant beh...

To me, rebirth is a metaphysical idea, only to be approached by first observing the world. I mean, this is how metaphysics has any reasonable standing...

Now there is an issue. Not falsifiable, but then are logical propositions really propositions at all? they have the form of a proposition, but exhibit...

I would stop you at "the world is the world". The question is, I surmise, about "fun and gloom and gangrene and Haagen das" and the claim I made: "the...

I read it, or significant parts of it. first, I did like, and frankly, already understood, that, "The Buddha was a radical phenomenologist in that he ...

Assumptions are assumed knowledge. No one is saying some proposition is not falsifiable. All are. One has to consider that nature of a verification, f...

On the other hand, dread is pointedly not concept, which is the point. Nor is fun and gloom and gangrene and Haagen das; I mean of course everything i...

This is not as easy as it seems. The itch is there, as an unquestioned immediacy. But then it is one thing acknowledge the itch spontaneously, and ano...

Dostoyevsky was not happy about the world, or about anything as far as I can tell. Probably permanently emotionally damaged when then put him in front...

Well, there is the subject matter one discusses and the structure of discussion itself. You have to separate the two. If I am, for example, going to e...

Being and Time is the pinnacle work on existential thinking. Maybe Sartre is to one's liking (can't imagine), or just Husserl, but Heidegger really dr...

Not that they confuse them, the there is a movement toward unity, and you are probably familiar the attempts to pull away from dualism toward some kin...

I have never read anyone that think there is nothing there, outside of our experiences. But what it is, if one withdraws all that the perceiver contri...

It is not the from one world to another idea that we are being invited to consider. There are no metaphysical claims about here and there. Heidegger s...

This is a very good statement, and is the core of my complaint. "seeing connections" has been the bane of analytic philosophy. The conditions of verif...

There is a contradiction, hence the counterintuitive nature of the claim: if everything that can be brought to mind and made sense of is conditioned a...

It is an interesting issue, and not without its counterintuitiveness. One does have to, well, follow along and put aside certain normal assumptions. S...

I completely agree with this. But there is a certain inevitability. There is the nature of language itself which is inherently mediatory, standing "be...

Okay, then let me look more closely. Why do you object to my saying that the issue you raise lies with the assumptions Wittgenstein is accepting about...

Don't know how I missed this. To me, this is right where I think it all goes. I've read it and many others like it. The Prajnaparamita makes extraordi...

Heidegger's Being and Time is the seminal work. If I had kept reading analytic philosophy I would not have left it. It was accidental that I came acro...

I don't know what you're talking about. Put a proposition on the table, give it some support, and I will respond.

Okay, but first, what do you think? It seems like you want to bring inquiry into the assumptions of communication possibilities, as if before W can sp...

Sorry. I don't know where you said this. What did you say?

And you've read Kant, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and the rest, and understand their analyses of the structure of experience, but none of ...