No, no, my good friend. You are being invited to think a bit. When you raise your awareness to philosophical thought, you find you are always already ...
No, you are mistaken. And a nervy thing to say entirely without warrant. When I say religion has to be delivered from traditional narratives, it is si...
No. Metaethics is discovered IN the analysis of mundane ethics. Ethics has its grounding in the value dimension of our existence. This is an apriori a...
True. I am referring the argument at hand, though. Here is what I wrote in response to Janus just now: Janus wrote: For me 'God' signifies nothing bey...
One discovers the basic level through inquiry. Heidy found there to be no single primordiality (as with the Christian God), but rather, a complex onto...
But metaphysics is not about thinking practices. These are hermeneutic. No, religion is about the dimension of our existence called value. Religion is...
No, jumping To the burden, and bypassing the endless parade of descriptions of God that are entirely fabricated. God the creator? But where did this c...
Heh, heh, no, creativesoul. I don't mean behind the refrigerator. I referred to metaphysics. This is about the lack of fixity our ideas have at the ba...
Now you are talking like Heidegger. And Rorty who, in his Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, says it outright: The world is not discovered; it is made...
I have to lean Kantian on this one, but only lean: The apodicticity shouldn't be denied what it is: one cannot, say, even imagine an object being its ...
But the point is that it being a concrete social institution is exactly what one has to put aside to understand the essence of religion. No. Read the ...
But you have to ask why he took that position. You think the OP is obscure, but I am saying the issue is obscure, the OP is clear. But it does take a ...
Look, it's Wittgenstein's claim about ethics, the world and value in the Tractatus. It is Witt you don't understand. It was so obscure for Witt that h...
The OP says nothing about mortality. This has no place here. Now the caring about mortality, this is quite different. Radical contingency, this is a S...
Well, fear of the world is obvious and the need to flee is just crystal clear. But what IS it that one has to flee from that is in and of the world? T...
In my thoughts, there is no separation of the caring person and the essence of religion. Religion is nothing conceived as some independent objective s...
So I did read all, and there are many things I am aligned with, but now I just want to say that all of the terms in play here as well as in religious ...
I know what you are saying. You would find in Husserl and Heidegger a way of talking about this that would greatly make the idea more clear and meanin...
It doesn't really matter much to me, but it happened again. I clicked "post" and it didn't post. I thought I had missed link with the cursor so a clic...
Your question was why does this analysis of ethics and religion "end up in the same place." I want say that if ethics were just as coercive (meaning o...
Your question was why does this analysis of ethics and religion "end up in the same place." I want say that if ethics were just as coercive (meaning o...
You know, since this really just nails it, I will attend exclusively to this. Rather simple, really, but this is what philosophy is looking for but ne...
It is not to be treated outside of the manner in which it appears. Of course, things are at first muddled prior to a clarification of terms and their ...
Then a parting thought. Philosophy has one end, and this is the truth at the most basic level. Truth is an epistemic term, and the reality that is "kn...
But this is the real hard question. Being in a prison implies one is not free, so the question then is, what is the nature of freedom? And you likely ...
Yes. And Queequeg, calm, adept, spiritually attuned, unquestioning (unlike Ahab who had been to the university, where he no doubt studied philosophy, ...
I think of Ahab and the whale for this "distance": Note that Ahab did not chase down the whale to get revenge against the mindless brute. It was what ...
I think you are in the middle of it. If I understand your use of the terms "displacing projections/imposition" you refer to the way language "displace...
A good example of the failure to understand. Death is only an issue if one first cares about dying. Death, to be taken seriously, needs to be understo...
What questions arise? This is the most important. One faces a world of terrible impositions and joyful engagements, and religious questions arise. I t...
No. It is very important that one is able to witness something they "know". Otherwise, it is just bad metaphysics. You might as well be talking about ...
I dont consider empirical science the steward of knowledge at the level of examining the presuppositions of science. Science gets into very serious tr...
We put the plain ontology of "stuff" out of relevance, but we keep the term "material" if you like, simply because it can be used to indicate the actu...
Yes! But hold on with that word justification. The process of the affirmation is discursive, but the evidence, in the end, is ontologically revelatory...
Not quite there. It is more fundamental than this. The value dimension of our existence is something that cannot be further reduced to more talk about...
Something weird going in quantum mechanics. But the weirdest thing I can imagine lies in the simplicity of the epistemic impossibility of there being ...
But then, all this is standing on the outside looking in. Why does one read philosophy? Is it to understand all that your confrères were talking about...
But go a step further into Kant, where Hegel got it. The universal is part of the structure of language's logic. I say "look there!" But "there" is wh...
I have no doubt that this is true. How does one respond to the question , what is caring? as an ontological matter? What is value-in-being? And what i...
But, I am arguing, none of this is metaphysics, any more than attending church and listening to sermons about the the resurrection, the ascension, and...
But it shows that concepts are not empty things. They are palpable errors. As I see it, when we talk about the world, we are using categories of under...
To discover the essence of religion, one has to be torn away from default mundane relations with the world. I mean, the world we experience every day....
True. But ask a more fundamental question: why do we "care"? Yes, it is traumatic, as are many things. But to be traumatized, so strongly affected has...
Because you and I have spent our lives in a world that ignores metaphysics. Such a thing is both the furthest away from "common sense" yet the closest...
I think this is an insightful statement. Yes, we are always already IN a religious world, whether we are explicitly religious or not. Of course, relig...
Perhaps you can see that I am pursuing a rather odd take of this kind of thing. Fear of death is not primordial because it begs the question: what is ...
Anything can have some form of quantification. But consider: in defining the nature of ethics, we have to deal with value, and this looks to the infam...
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