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The Departed: 7/10, going off my memory of when I watched it. An exciting thriller with an interesting twist at the end. The soundtrack is very enjoya...

-Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics

"9-11, I'd like to report an incident." "What is it?" "Someone on the internet made a broad, general assertion and failed to justify their metaphysica...

You might as well have said that promoting individualism entails precluding rational argumentation. Trying to "purify" philosophy by filtering out any...

Actual philosophy? No True Scotsman? A primitive descent into tribalism? Philosophy is philosophy! Stop trying to purify it!

Well, your reply came across as disagreement, and I felt it characterized my position unfaithfully. I said philosophy is highly individualistic and in...

Oh, man, you got me cornered. Don't shoot! :yikes:

Like I said, there isn't a single model for this. Bad philosophy is obviously going to include anything that is factually incorrect, clearly logically...

:chin:

There is good philosophy and there is bad philosophy. But I don't think there's one single model for what good philosophy is. I recognize good philoso...

Well, you turned out to be a disappointment. :shade: Come back when you learn how to read.

Isn't this just a massive petito principi? Aren't you just begging the question against theism? You come here with an already pre-made picture of what...

Then these people are not doing philosophy, and thus are not philosophical atheists. Call them what you want - irreligious, non-believers, whatever. I...

Oh, I can't remember. It might not even be in that thread. But I distinctly remember dealing with a few self-proclaimed "agnostic atheists" on this fo...

Do I see philosophy and science as two separate paths? No, absolutely not. Neither one has full hegemony over the field of inquiry. Additionally, I wo...

Here. Actually, this has come up several times here in the past.

If we are doing philosophy of religion in the analytic sense and arguing about the existence of God, then there are precisely and only three basic pos...

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Something-something persecution complex; disagreement misinterpreted as hostility and transformed into self-righteous ego-inflation. Boy, aren't you m...

Intellectuals have an over-inflated sense of the importance of their discipline and make broad, sweeping generalizations of other disciplines they are...

Well, color me embarrassed.

Sure, yeah. You could try reading Being and Time alongside a companion guide, Richard Polt's Heidegger: An Introduction is quite good in my opinion - ...

But of course - Dasein is the allegedly-privileged mode of understanding Being. It is where the question of Being arises. At least in some. "Spontanei...

But again: you tell me that "absolutely nothing" cannot be referred to by definition, yet all around do just exactly that. It's not a funny kind of so...

Yet here you speak of it. Clearly we can speak of something about absolute nothing, if we are to say it cannot be spoken of. For this to be true would...

Nor was it supposed to. Specifically, the il y a refutes egological idealism, procedural solipsism in which something only is when the ego assimilates...

So because you can't know it means it is...what? Nothing? What do you mean by nothing? I want to know what you mean when you say something is nothing,...

How do you know what a square circle is, then? Fine, let me ask you this: do you recognize the ontological distinction between a being and its Being?

Right, but I wanna know what nothing is. If a square circle is synonymous with nothing, then what does nothing mean? What is nothing?

Then what exactly is it? You said it yourself: "It is not a possibility." Then what is it?

Probably because, as Heidegger says, all metaphysical questions put the questioner themselves into question. That the world exists "over there" and we...

Possibility. I think we can. That which does not exist and never has is possibility. That which existed but no longer does is a failed possibility.

Yes, this is why I said that the hard problem cannot be "resolved" given the current vogue metaphysics; it must be dissolved as a non-question through...

I grant this. Levinas attempts to refute egological or solipsistic idealism, the metaphysics of the totality where everything that exists must be disc...

Mathematics has fascinated people for longer than Galileo's rhetorical success. Pythagoreans worshiped mathematics. Mathematics was the model Platonic...

Agreed. Disney is hardly even advertising it. My suspicion is that the film is going to suck horribly (the lead actor had to get acting lessons!), and...

So it turns out Mephistofeles might be a neo-nazi group. :lol: Which sucks, because I really liked this one song by them: https://www.youtube.com/watc...

David Goodall, aged 104 years, ends his life via assisted suicide in Switzerland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU8RCsbWHMM

The Divided Self (An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness) by R. D. Laing. "When I certify someone insane, I am not equivocating when I write that ...

My initial view is that yes, even something as extreme as this should not be disallowed in virtue of it being extreme. Censoring bad ideas doesn't sol...

Thank you all for the suggestions.

Thanks.

I agree! We're getting lots of rain here in CO. Perfect weather.

Easily their best song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9gOAFa7bnk

You can't have free will if everything is random. That's not free, that's random.

If you don't do it, someone else will and they might fuck it up.

:up: In my experience, it's not antinatalism that makes people queasy, but its pessimistic undertones. Antinatalism reminds us of the awfulness of exi...

I might ask the same of your naturalism. There's a common trend in philosophical trends around the globe that see the Good as transcending the materia...

Yeah a constraint might be a good word for it, although it's imposed by a supernatural rather than a natural entity. God constrained morality, enough ...