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Houellebecq coined it. I think it is supposed to refer to a large shift in the way a civilization views themselves and the world.

I don't think complicated historical events can be broken down into monolithic stages like this. Metaphysical mutations don't seem like good explanati...

Yeah, thinking philosophically is not always congruent with (healthy) living. Thinking too much about existence makes you depressed, yes. So what is t...

@"schopenhauer1" did you have any thoughts on my reply here? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/584073

Strongly disagree with this statement. Pornography does not help men objectify women less, and that's not even virtual reality. IMO this would make me...

Oh yeah definitely I agree, especially wrt the technological factor. Technology is no longer a tool, but an environment with an imperative of its own,...

Not sure if I agree with this exactly, since Kant says in many places that space and time are intuitions, albeit pure; they provide the form, sensatio...

Was camping. I agree.

What tools are you talking about here?

Right, like I have said elsewhere, the point is to get people to feel like they are rebelling, without them actually doing so. Give people outlets to ...

Isn't this just another form of censorship, though? Sure, there's the 1984-like censorship, with the State literally hiding and destroying information...

And why was that? As you said, the communities were so small that stratification wasn't possible. What was it that made H&G groups patriarchal? The on...

It's true that the women who raise the next generation are usually complicit with the patriarchal status quo. No wonder why motherhood is so vilified ...

Good question, I think it could be that women simply haven't had the opportunity to, given that men have monopolized power structures. Women can be sc...

But we already know that, generally speaking, prehistoric groups of H&Gs were much more egalitarian than any of the agricultural states. Slavery and w...

It's hard to say what the negatives of a matriarchy would be that are specific to matriarchies, and not just any hierarchical society. Ruthless compet...

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Damn, that's a heavy lift. I feel a bit foolish for having started Allison's book without reading the CPR alongside it. Unfortunately, while what I ha...

Yeah, I'm realizing that we can really get side-tracked by hairsplitting comparatively minor issues. Probably I need to ease off the perfectionism a b...

Cool, thanks that makes a lot more sense.

I am not disagreeing with Kant's claim that space is an a priori intuition, or that we can't imagine objects not in space. All I am saying is that I d...

The Afghanistan Papers, Craig Whitlock

The room is still an object, with walls that have color.

Because the Transcendental Logic is much longer than the Aesthetic, and also in order to more frequently visit this forum, I will try to break my note...

Thanks again for the responses, much appreciated :pray: I don't understand what you mean by systemic successions, could you clarify this? "Give to our...

Nice work here, thanks for sharing. So in summary, transcendental can mean: 1. any knowledge that is about the a priori conditions of experience and t...

I re-read your previous question and I'm not sure if I have the prerequisite knowledge to offer a proper response. I will say that a spontaneous intui...

Depends on the form of Christianity. Gnostic traditions of Christianity are pretty wild and have much in common with Buddhist traditions, since it is ...

:100: This is so commonly used as a "got eem" in countless books on metaphysics today, particularly those of a religious bent. Your commentary on the ...

Thanks very much for your response, I'll read through them more thoroughly later when I have more time.

I recall a discussion of the infinite in Allison's book that made the point that the concept of infinite need not involve the actual presentation of a...

I think transcendental has different meanings depending on the context. There seem to be at least two different meanings: Knowledge pertaining not to ...

Questions: 0. In the Introduction, Kant says that the Critique is not a doctrine; yet here he calls part of it the Doctrine of Elements (and later the...

I compiled all my notes for the Transcendental Aesthetic and found that I had quite a bit of questions. I have used bracketed numbers in my notes to p...

Finished Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Started The Tunnel by William H. Gass.

Maybe instinct isn't the best term of use, but I don't think preference is the right one either. I suspect children typically represent hope. When all...

I have forked off a thread for Kant's Critique here, as to avoid getting the two books tangled up in one thread.

Introduction Summary I: On the difference between Pure and Empirical Knowledge With respect to time, all knowledge begins with experience. However, th...

You could, but it would be question-begging to say that it is a simulation without any justification. The world in our heads need not be anything like...

I think this probably the key point here. You don't see the pull of having kids. OK. But most people do, for whatever reason. Certainly cultural indoc...

The PDF is available for free from that page, if you're interested in reading more than the abstract.

I found Graham Harman's take on Metzinger's PSM to be interesting. I read The Ego Tunnel a while back, and while I know it's not his magnum opus, I fo...

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The US pulling out of Afghanistan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxEle_lPWgg

Do you have any thoughts on where the "next Vietnam/Afghanistan" will be?

Got nagged into joining a reading group at my work, a few months back we started Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. The book is a steaming pile of shit, I ...

:up: Hence why I consider procreation to be an act of blameless wrongdoing.

I have not read either Gass or Markson, though I'll put those on the list. Beckett for sure is great. But there is something about Céline's use of ell...

:victory: I was most inspired by Céline, Borges and Houellebecq. Céline especially I adore (not the man, just his literature).

Thanks for the detailed responses, I appreciate it :up: Okay, memory (or imagination) was the thing I had in mind when I wondered about Kant's definit...