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Octopus Knight

['Member']Joined: March 10, 2020 at 03:42Last active: October 15, 2020 at 00:22None discussions10 comments

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It is mind boggling. Perhaps it is helpful to draw an analogy between the non-repeating sequences of the decimal representations of numbers like Pi an...
October 13, 2020 at 18:32
I was speaking of Nietzsche's view of Christianity. Far be it from me to suggest that Christians hold a common creed or a shared worldview. :wink:
October 13, 2020 at 14:30
Nietzsche rejected the rejection of this world that is found both in Christianity and incidentally Buddhism. The Christian rejects this life and this ...
October 13, 2020 at 04:31
Correction: They are in essence an omnipotent sophist. Or at least that is the word that Plato would have used here. It is the sophist who can make th...
October 13, 2020 at 04:02
If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for Biden or Trump then you ain't White.
October 12, 2020 at 04:17
I appreciate the warm welcome.
October 11, 2020 at 17:06
Kant worked these into his aesthetics and a theory of national character in Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime. That's an earlie...
October 11, 2020 at 17:02
Reductio ad absurdum ergo Manichaeism.
October 11, 2020 at 16:52
To Dasein or not to Dasein, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler to become open to the disclosure of being as such Or to take up arms against a s...
October 11, 2020 at 15:11
In a positivist or purely descriptive mode one can get by without feeling the weight (or the unbearable lightness) of Being. One might insist that Bei...
October 11, 2020 at 05:43