Constance

A principle in normative ethics is contrasted with ordinary pragmatic normativity, as with where one should turn the faucet knob clockwise for the wat...

I am aware. I don't think it is dialectically unachievable. It just takes the right leading questions and a willingness to follow through. Question: t...

It is what it is because it is an absolute. Value propositions qua value possess the same apodicticity of logic: universality and certainty. Value-in-...

This I think is where disclosure of being becomes radical and impossible, the impossible is what you have in mind, and I don't mean this in a critical...

Well, you're not going to like this answer, but the question about the essence of something doesn't belong to anglo american analytic philosophy, some...

The whole point here is to give analysis to that which popular religions are dogmatic about. To look beneath all those churchy fetishes. What is a fet...

Sure. But then the whole matter turns on suffering and the ethical/aesthetic dimension of our existence. This is in the OP. GM solves fairly straight ...

I think it is going splendidly. An argument is a conversation. So religion promises salvation. But I am curious, salvation from what? Do people think ...

Husserl would ask you not to use the term "organic aware-ing" simply because something being organic refers us to the naturalism that one has to suspe...

Yes, religion is an institution like anything else, and it has it's utility. But one can say this of ANY institution. GM makes automobiles and UPS del...

Wait a minute. You are reading Husserl? And not Wiki'ing him? This is earth shattering! I'll get back to you, soon. A bit busy now.

Same here.:ok:

If the whole affair were not entirely set against radical indeterminacy, then I would agree. Caring in a truly finite setting only has a finitude of r...

And thanks for yours, for reading. One parting thought, though. Can't be helped: Thrown into a setting of wretched suffering then death. If this were ...

One has to know how to judge what pointlessness is. You seem to take a lack of definitive answers to things as evidence that they have been exhaustive...

If you begin from a position of categorizing, with an intent to bring ethics to heel is a coherent system of thought, then you will be missing the ess...

Academics, religious apologists, and don't forget philosophers. Isn't this a philosophy forum?? Hmmm, What use is it to ask basic questions of our exi...

Well, just to follow through briefly, there is no answer to epistemic crisis. Not a matter of ignorance. Ignorance implies that there is something tha...

If questions about the epistemic, ontological and ethical foundations of our existence didn't exist, then I would completely agree. But they are there...

I agree and disagree. Realizing that the pain "as such" of this sprained ankle is in no way at all a discursive event, in no way derivative through lo...

I was trying to accommodate what you said here, " but in this instance I would have to argue against this as ethics is about analysis of moral positio...

I wrote "This is logically prior to, that is, it presupposes," and should have written "...is presupposed by..."

And the analysis of ethics is the analysis that is about the analysis of moral positions. This is metaethics, and religion is about just this metaethi...

Yes, I am saying in order to understand the essence of religion, one has to look to the essence of ethics. Religion is an "ethical" matter one has bet...

Well, not assigned, but appearing historically and producing signification. But take one step further: the event in which you know it is a finger and ...

Heidegger looks to history and language: There is no truly foundational truth, neither in science nor in traditional religion nor in philosophy. Truth...

I am saying no to this. The task was ended long ago with the Buddhists and the Hindus, but this jumps to the chase. Heidegger seems to defend the Hege...

Being is elusive to the understanding because it is not an object that can receive predication. The copula 'is' is for saying things like The moon is ...

I suspect it will not be a technology of synthetic materials, but organic. AI will master the human genome, and we will live in a brave new world. Onl...

And incessant answering. Pull as far away from this as possible, and questions become one question, that of being qua being. But to get here, this is ...

But one does leave it the more one brings questions to bear upon the world at the most basic level. It is an inevitability, for belief is not sustaina...

I missed this. I beg to differ: Scriptures are ancient thoughts about a time of very different social entanglements. It simply is not helpful today, a...

A curious notion. What could it mean?

But this is not about what to do. It is about a descriptive account: when an ethical issue arises, what is there that makes it ethical? Religion is ab...

And just to finish the thought, imagine walking into a familiar environment, and coming across something that does not at all belong there. Notice how...

At its foundation, religion has nothing to do with biology or politics and government, or kings. These sit on top, if you will, of a more primordial a...

Clearly we need a language to think about language, but to ride a bike or sow a seed, no. Reading Robert Hanna's paper on this very subject, I was rem...

Well, you're preaching to the choir. But the OP is about something prior to the qualified nature of the experience. One may experience something so al...

Easier to say; but I don't think it possible to go back to business, and just as likely that one was never wholly really there IN the "just business" ...

To speak the word "construction' or "organism" is a construction. This is why post modern philosophy really is the final philosophy: inquiry reaches i...

On noumena: noumena is not an ontological division but a division in ontology: when we think of noumena we have in mind that indeterminacy found IN ph...

But the giveness or presence of these constructions still IS presence. This is a pretty big point, I think. Apprehending the extraordinary nature of t...

A reprieve from explicit thinking. But to encounter at all, the agency of a self is constituted by knowledge assumptions, as when I glance at a cloud ...

Two ways to look at this, and they both belong to something I believe you accept. One deals with the "present". Now, it is not that I entirely deny th...

I followed you all the way up to "But in "actuality" it was always just xy." If your reasoning here is right, and I don't think it is wrong (meaning I...

Keep in mind one thing: there is nothing at all epistemic about causality.

Consider: On truth: I think there are some questions that have a kind of zazen nature to them, a "sudden enlightenment," and this question is among th...

Language games end where pure phenomena begin. But this can be doubted as well: for how is it "pure phenomenon," escapes being a contextual "game" con...

One has to wonder, is it possible for something to stand as its own presupposition, Kierkegaard's way of putting it. I think this question cuts deep i...

The matter here is not about goalposts, though. This is the trouble with not reading closely. This is a descriptive argument. It is not about making t...