Constance

Not really about freedom, but about a value ontology, or value-in-being. The nature of religion tells us nothing about freedom and determinism, for th...

Now, asking if knowledge claims are possible is not a lot of obfuscating weeds. And Mick Jagger is confusing. A long story short, ask, what does it me...

I am a bit annoyed when lines like this are drawn. Things you cannot say and things you can. The finitude of science and everydayness, and the impossi...

Errr, not really. Tell you what, jump to the chase, skipping all the tedious parts, and just tell me how a knowledge claim is possible, then I can mak...

Transcendence: that cat or any thing you might imagine is a transcendental object unless you can tell me how it is that that, whatever it is, gets int...

Transcendence? How about let's start with the epistemic relation I have with this cat at my feet. Tell me how it is I know that there is a cat there i...

I have here a book, Wittgenstein and the Metaphysic of Grace by Terrance W Klein. I'll get back to you if I discover an insight into how his thinking ...

A religious institution. What is an institution? Something instituted as an integral part of a culture. A formal way to say, regarding religious tradi...

One's sees the same in Quine: "there’s mystery at the bottom of every question ultimately." When the priority is science and clarity at the level of b...

Yes, I gathered as much. The priesthood is an institution, transcendence in the context of religion is the foundational indeterminacy of our existence...

Heh, heh, why Tom Storm, what are you suggesting? That Wittgenstein's spirituality was just as stuipidly conceived and corruptible by power...as Josep...

THIS is what the OP is about. There are things you that belong to opinion and things that are certain, putting aside the aporia that questions can hea...

I have Wittgenstein and the Metaphysics of Grace by Terrance W Klein which gives a similar account. So Wittgenstein was, call it deeply spiritual (fai...

There are two Wittgensteins: The one found as a kind of demigod for analytic philosophy because he drew a line, and as I have read, this line remains ...

One has to understand ethics as Wittgenstein did in the Tractatus. See also the Lecture on Ethics and his Culture and Value. Apparently this is hard t...

The trouble I have with this is the metaphysics. You take a narrative, or allude to several narratives, and say things that only toy with the theme of...

Well sure. But as I agree with this, I also have been trying present the idea that the analytic language used to describe how this works has to be mor...

I am a little puzzled. Perhaps elaborate, if you would.

First, it is not positive and negative valuations nor what can be "thought of" that ceases upon thought at the outset. This is where you have your iss...

Myopic philosophizing? Without being scientifically informed?? What are you talking about?

I do see what he is getting at. It is not that he says what he says I take issue with. It is what he says. He fails to see the nature of value in ethi...

It is a long story. If science does not and cannot explain knowledge AT ALL, then all of its knowledge claims rest within the claims as claims only. T...

I wonder what you think about Schopenhauer's ethics? I don't think I will read The World as Representation just because I don't have the time and I'm ...

Noticed I overstepped with this: "The issue of evidence simply loses it meaning here." Should say it is here that the problematic begins. To say being...

Before you get to quantum physics, you have to ask more basic questions, those of philosophy. What is knowledge? What is language? What is aesthetics ...

I don't remember the context in which this was said.

Look at it like Rorty did, and he was a qualified naturalist: See out there among the trees, there are no propositions. And here, at my end, there are...

Fascinating. I trust he is being truthful, and there is only one way to explain his position: He truly did not understand happiness, love, music; of c...

But it is not about the ethics of pain, nor is it about the significant whole. This is not an argument about ethics any more than Kant's Critique is a...

But I was referring specifically to the apophatic nature of the reduction. Michel Henry argues how this negative "method" takes philosophy to the puri...

..."these are.." not what I wrote. I never proof read. Bad habit.

I take this to be VERY important questioning: The attainment of a goal or desire, Schopenhauer continues, results in satisfaction, whereas the frustra...

A curious position to take indeed. Even if I were to grant that the experience of pain was memory contingent, this would not, nor can anything, undo o...

The space of essentiality if you think like Heidegger. Husserl was an absolutist who thought that there is a true actuality in the eidetic presence, a...

I take this in the affirmative. I simply ask, what IS it that is beyond oneself? Turns out to be a fascinating question in phenomenology.

As to language revealing to us the nature of thought, there is that problem that language cannot tell us what language essentially is because to say w...

Yes, but all of these "most trained" philosophers are trained in analytic philosophy. Those who have actually read serious philosophy see this kind of...

Not first, but, as Heidegger put it, equiprimordially. He simply is agreeing with you, saying the moment something is apprehended at all, it is always...

I would agree that it is a waste of time ONLY if one has not asked about the nature of God in the first place. What sense is there in talking about Go...

The idea here is that when you when you talk about the meaning of life and basic questions, you have to look to the most basic understanding of what i...

.....isn't taken seriously by those who have never read it. To those who have read it, it is taken very seriously. But Wikipedia is not reading.

Well, if ever you get the impulse put to heart and soul forward, be aware that anglo american thinking is very different from the metaphysics of conti...

I lean to saying yes to this. But "spirituality" is in need of a proper "deconstruction" and by this I only mean that when you start looking into the ...

On the other hand, the science that discusses a tree is not just filling space, not just a lot of empty fictional narrative. Religion, too, taken seri...

If you are looking for the godhead, than ask that fateful question, only take it very seriously: how does anything out there get into a knowledge clai...

I do continue to disagree with this. To get to Universe/Reality/Godhead, you have to work through phenomenology. There is a letter to someone, can't r...

In a very serious way, everything around us is already anthropomorphized, but to see this, one might have to go through Kant. But the basic idea is th...

There is too much in this to take on. You know Heidegger was arguably the greatest philosopher of the 20th century, and his views are comprehensive. I...

But this analysis is not about judgments people make and where they disagree. It is about the existential ground of ethics. A metaethical argument: wh...

The most curious thing I can think of. Where Husserl, and everyone for that matter, goes wrong, and this lies with ethics: even Heidegger with is Bein...