Constance

The ethical question I have is THE ethical question: What is the ground of ethics? This is the be taken as Kant took up reason (though, not to even co...

Which begs the question: is this foundation discovered in the mere thinking, or is there something timeless and absolute in the presuppositions of an ...

Right and wrong just a matter of thinking something to be so? Sounds absurd. The prima facie obligation not to bludgeon my neighbor certainly has to b...

You are perhaps a qualified Heideggerian. NOT that he thinks language occludes our real being, he is not like this at all, but he does argue that subj...

If you approach religion like that, you will find no solution to the question at all. Ask, why doesn't science have this problem? Well, it does, but w...

If you approach religion like that, you will find no solution to the question at all. Ask, why doesn't science have this problem? It is the consistenc...

these can be transgressive, meaning they bring into the world an alienation from our true nature which is a "spark" of the divine (without putting too...

No, no; that's not what I mean by disembodied. This is the phenomenologist's world and all bets are off re. physicality and its many sciences. The fac...

This sounds like Kierkegaard in his Concept of Anxiety. See what he says: Innocence is ignorance. In innocence the human being is not characterized as...

Oh. Thanks for clearing that up.

But of course religion "provides reasons why an act, good or evil, is right or wrong." Religion tells us that God is moral foundation of such "reasons...

Oh. Really? Explain.

It certainly does depend on what is meant by metaphysics. Here I refer to metaphysics in the way of "bad metaphysics" which rises out of groundless sp...

I wrote this piece of nonsense:" Its overpromising and underdelivering is itself for into metaphysics, i.e., beyond verification and falsification." S...

No. What is defended and discussed here is an analytic of religion, not religion as it is taken up in regular affairs. Read the OP. God is a term that...

Its overpromising and underdelivering is itself for into metaphysics, i.e., beyond verification and falsification. Christian metaphysics is not at all...

I am of the school that says if something hasn't been through the analytic grinder, then it is not worthy of belief. I no more take religion in any po...

A thing which suffers? Nobody argues this. Heidegger interpreted Descartes to make the point that dasein is not what he called a mode of desein's bein...

There is a lot in this. I won't wag a critical finger in your direction, but I should ask questions. For example, Does the Bible have any prima facie ...

But religions are about a dogmatic authority, and so the analytic of good and bad has no place. As for a description, this is what observation does. S...

Well, it tries to. But the point here is that when we are trying to understand something in the world, we look to a description of how that thing appe...

But when you say untraceable, I find room for issue. It is a simple thing, yet troubling. It goes again to agency. Whatever is outside of the states o...

You haven't. There would be evidence in your thoughts and there is none. I really did read all of your long post and found nothing, absolutely nothing...

Might I remind you of your juvenile intrusion into this thread?: Weirdly, this response is the kind of outlandish, comedic set of assumptions that has...

You have not made a single reference to anything in any text at all. And I am sorry you wasted your money on a vacuous education in a field that has a...

Look, AmadeusD. I read your post top to bottom, and I understand your position. My fault for misleading you, for sometimes I make the mistake of think...

Yes, religion as a determination is a body of what I lately like to call a bundle of churchy fetishes. A fetish is, after all, something that has a de...

1. Make a qualified Cartesian move. One is not affirming the cogito as the ground for all possible affirmations. In fact, Descartes made a fundamental...

Trace relationship? But there "is" no trace relationship, for such things are under erasure. What deconstruction does is deliver the purity of the wor...

Welcome to deconstruction. We both know that heat is measured in molecular agitation, say, and if a then ask, what is agitation? we know this refers t...

[ What if I asked what hot is?

State your case.

First, everything is a concept for us. One could argue that this is true for ducks and goats, but it would be a matter of defining what we mean by con...

Now you have me confused. Put it this way: If we lived in a world in which no one cared about anything, is ethics possible?

It is an interesting issue. I think it comes down to agency, not so much the knowledge claim about value. To be in a profound meditative state is not ...

Just say something interesting, AmadeusD.

Hard to respond nicely. The bottom line is this: you really don't demonstrate any knowledge of the issues. Yet you have opinions. This is a very bad s...

Not sure I understand the question. A place? How about the delight my cat felt as it tortured its mouse last night?

Yes.

Please take notice, AmadeusD, That after reading your post, twice, I find nothing at all that is responsive to the idea you quote. Do read this thing ...

But try understand that ALL of this "host of concepts" presuppose something that is not a concept at all. This is a reference to existence, not a cate...

Accomplished Buddhists report that the sense of well being we have in the familiar world is actually, even at its best, spoiled by concerns and anxiet...

On order to take metaethics seriously, one has to look, not to the concept, the understanding's counterpart to the living actuality, but to just this ...

I think you have it. Redemption is a fairy tale, as is consummation of faith, unless there is an absolute decree making it so. What would this be? Tra...

It is about putting conceptual considerations aside. This is the point. Suffering as such is not a concept.

Just to add: This turn from the "comings and goings" to "present being" is not a turn away from language. One has to incorporate language into the rev...

Abstractor? But consider that it is just the opposite in the case above: It is not the abstraction of thought and the imposition of an interpretative ...

Because it moves life to homeostasis? This is the very meaning of contingency here: Pain is good IN the context of moving life to homeostasis. Remove ...

This kind of thinking is inevitable. One has to make the move from the way contingencies create multiple contexts of engagement. When we observe suffe...

As an old prof used to tell me, you're not going to get that tart to your dessert plate. Hard to argue this because it has this uncanny quality in the...