I read that he was like Willard Quine, very religious, but firm in the belief that philosophy had no say in the matter. Quine, a great philosophical m...
Way more! It takes a commitment to literature, frankly. Not an easy thing to do, especially with analytic philosophy dominating so in the US and GB. I...
Hmmmm If I take your meaning, you say that addressing another with talk about colors requires a certain assumption about the interlocutor, which is, f...
Which is not how Heidegger intended it to be taken, and I consider this kind of thing to be exactly at issue here. Heidegger is leaning on Kierkegaard...
Evolution and politics? This has not entered philosophical thinking. What I am doing looking into the existential basis of religion, on this point. It...
Mine was an inference. I wrote, He says what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence. Of co...
But he goes further than this. He says such questions are nonsense. Absolutes, world, existence, being--these are nonsense terms, philosophically. And...
Such is the impossibility of the world. Simon Critchley wrote a disturbing book called Little..Less..Almost Nothing. In it he reviews the way philosop...
Yes but the creator God is not just an incidental conjuring of an idle mind. Religion and all of its unquestioned domination throughout history cannot...
I think you are right about that, more than right, actually. Beauty? Absolutely. Love, joy, bliss and so on, I am convinced these, if you will, resona...
Yes, but read more closely. It is not this that is at issue. It is what underlies popular religious ideas that we are looking into. The past is full o...
Can you imagine thinking of religion without that god notion ruling thought? To me, most atheistic reasoning is straw person arguing: The man in a clo...
Dividing logic into first and second order is, I think, what gives rise to all the troubled thinking. There is no meta-logic logic. Logic cannot think...
It's a metaphor, and such things make for unclear ideas. But there is something important here, I realize. It is not that W is wrong, but that analyti...
But what if, as I see it, the truth lies in those knots? And the reason metaphysics has been such a bad model is because it created more knots than it...
The trick, if you don't mind me saying, is to take "inconclusiveness" and give it its due, which is in regions of thought that demand a division, like...
That single standard pretty much sums up the success of analytic philosophy. And yeah, the "old" self is the everydayness (thinking of Heidegger here)...
Well, Thich Quang Duc would be the definitive case in point. After all, being burned alive ON PURPOSE has got to be a whole other universe of superhum...
I wonder, "where" do you think Thich Quang Duc was when he set himself ablaze? I think the event tells us something about the relationship between the...
You see, I disagree with this, at least the way it is stated. I won't bring a lot of names into it, but keep it close to simple sense making. Being in...
Here is a rather "weird" piece of reasoning. But then, the world IS weird: In the traditional sense of "out there" there is nothing but repetitious fi...
If you bring it into everyday life, then you will live in a different world. And very, very few will understand you. Meditation makes you into somethi...
Yes, that makes perfect sense to me. The world is a language and cultural construct. When one is with others, structures of language and culture are e...
But all of these issue from the origin, which is an agency of human consciousness. All hard sciences, all logical propositions, all that can be said a...
But to add: that oak tree dis present not out there in some remoteness from experience, but in experience itself, and experience is generated from one...
There may be something in this. But it ignores the essence of ethics: pain and pleasure, suffering and bliss. This may fit into a causal matrix in our...
Perhaps, but then, there is Husserl and Derrida and those in between and the idea that eternity is not some infinite succession of moments, but rather...
A nice practical approach. But if one wants to go into it more deeply, it takes sacrifice. I mean, time reading phenomenology, or meditating two hours...
Sure, I've read the Enneads, or, enough of them here and there through time, and I understand pretty well the essential thinking. It is written about ...
The issue hangs on consciousness having this underpinning that is not available to thought, which is I think clearly true. BUT: the actual generative ...
This "what is" has a philosophical history that is not altogether antagonistic to, if you will, reclaiming something deep and primordial about being a...
Attention of the heart? You mean emotional attention, to regard the world in a loving way. Self questioning leads to this? I think it requires a certa...
Of course, you're right. I only add that what is spoken is brought into understanding. I can talk about being in love, explain the physiology of it, t...
I think it is right to say things are, as I take Heidegger to claim, of a piece: concepts, pragmatics, value, meaning (Dewey said the same); and it is...
The "non thinking mind"? And what is this if not a thought in your head about something you observe. Note that every time you take up something about ...
But then, the "meta" end of value is just this ineffable "property" or as Moore put it, non natural property. Putting value into its contexts, theoret...
One has to see that the claim there is an interpretative backdrop, a "predelineation" in place that defines the world when you are in your daily affai...
But then, what is the bottom line? For me, there was a good reason Wittgenstein both denied talk about ethics at the foundational level, yet posited d...
It leads to itself, after all, when you encounter a thing in the perceptual moment it is already taken up in thought. A glance is inherently interpret...
Ah, the soul. Pray, elaborate. Fine, but tell me more about the soul, I mean, what there is in experience that gives warrant to this notion as a meani...
Not sure why I'm looking for meaning where there is none. Clearly, meaning is there, in indulgence, the rapture, bliss, suffering, pain, and so on, IN...
Since the acorn is a metaphor, the merit of acornology lies with its borrowed explanatory powers, and to me, it doesn't really capture the analysis of...
Fine. Now what IS it? When you put your attention to the self, its apparent descriptive features, what is there to "see"? this presents questions like...
If you want to think about evolution and metaethics, then perhaps De Chardin is the best way to go. At least he recognizes qualitative divisions in ev...
Not just words, but observations of the structures of experience. Hermeneutics says that knowledge is deferential: terms always have their meanings ti...
The same as it is with all concepts: it is hermeneutically grounded. Talk about quantum mechanics is first language, and it is here that phenomenology...
Okay. But K is by no means typical. His Attack on Christendom rails against the banality of middle class Christianity. He thought the medievals has it...
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