Ciceronianus

How's this then: They claim to have no hands (or eyes, etc.) or to doubt they do, despite the fact that the see them, feel them, use them, and in ever...

What I was trying to say is that if no scientific answer is sought, it would appear no real answer is sought, i.e. that it's a pseudo-question, as you...

Philosophy, when at its best, can show us how to live, but I don't think it's a route by which we can satisfy ourselves regarding our purpose and plac...

You take me far too literally. I'm saying that calling Heidegger philosophy incarnate is like claiming Jesus was the Word made flesh. It's a substanti...

He had reason to doubt he had hands, eyes, blood, senses (though using them all to write that he doubted them)? Doubt the "external", the chair he sat...

Holy Mother Church has so much to answer for, I'm afraid.

Come now. Are you seriously claiming this is comparable, or analogous, to saying this? “I shall then suppose, not that God who is supremely good and t...

He does this after he evokes ED, though. He pretends, and after pretending concludes he was correct from the beginning.

Ok.

Well, he was an unrepentant Nazi, and you say he was great, so in what way is the statement untrue? But of course it's a silly reply to a silly statem...

The reference to Descartes and ED was inadequate? Are you seeking quotes in which he wrote what I say he wrote, because you deny he wrote it?

Obviously, I believe what I've pondered and written about may just be play, or pretense, or an exercise. When we write about something being done, tha...

In a legal context, the concept of burden of proof would be more applicable than innocent until proven guilty, I think, as the latter may be said to r...

Like so much else, alas.

Yes, and also the world's greatest unrepentant Nazi. We've been over this before. What is, and what for that matter is "the basic level"? Do you know ...

Of course that's not to say that contemplation of the fact a ball of wax melts when placed near a fire isn't, in itself, a worthy endeavor for a philo...

I like to think philosophy encompasses something more than that, or should do so. Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be the device for deali...

My take would be if there is no proof of p, there's no reason to think p exists. Depending on what p is imagined to be, however, we may make inference...

I only think it perplexing that he spent so much thought musing on the entirely unsurprising and obvious fact that wax will melt when place near a fir...

There's need to be insulting. I may be aligned to Dewey, however, who knew this and wrote of it before Heidegger. The question I would ask, myself, is...

I think it's a case of taking an unremarkable fact as the basis for a remarkable conclusion. That we are different from bees is said to require the in...

Just asking for a bit of clarification. According to what you quoted, The Book involves only proofs of mathematical theorems. But you say that it incl...

And here's an argument for it which is similarly vacuous: Hitler [ Ever read any Tertullian? A Christian, considered one of the Founders of the Church...

I suppose the Ecuador ship has sailed, or its train has left the station, or whatever the appropriate phrase may be, but I think that's what was appro...

I think he's something of an ass, myself. That said, he should have been allowed to go to Ecuador long ago, after it granted him asylum.

I think we can accept the fact that, in our interaction with the rest of the world, we're influenced by our past, our culture, our society, our physic...

I'm not a disciple of any philosopher, though I favor some over others. I'm not even a disciple of my daemon, Marcus Tullius Cicero. And certainly not...

"Co-inventing"? Not sure what that means. But for me, living in the world means being a part of it, not being separate from it. Being separate from it...

That's the one his sister put together, isn't it? Well, when you're a part of the world, you're not waiting for it in any sense. Nor do you create it....

If by "objective reality" you mean something that cannot be accessed by a living creature in the world (thus begging the question), then obviously we ...

Bias, schmias. That we have biases is undisputed; a truism, really. But too much is made of this by some, perhaps many, to raise doubt regarding our a...

I read a great deal of that excitable fellow in my naive and romantic youth. I must have enjoyed overwrought writing back then in some way. I read a g...

Also Sprach Nietzsche on Amor Fati: "My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not ...

What if we suffer, but not from evil? Would we still be joyous in that case, or must the cause of suffering be evil in order for us to experience the ...

I don't see how there would be any inconsistency. We don't commit to the view that the world cannot or should not be altered if we acknowledge we exis...

I may have misunderstood your post, then. Dewey would definitely prefer the scientific approach.

Maybe so. I wonder, also, whether the fact Christianity became less and less credible had an unsettling effect on thinkers and writers of the time, le...

I've wondered more than once whether my aversion to certain writers is related to the translation of the works into English. I can't know, of course, ...

I'm afraid that's true. All too often it seems he's too excited and self-righteous to do more than proclaim. I picture him breaking pen after pen as h...

My point is he makes no criticism. There is no critique. He just says they're wrong. He also says he's right. Thus he claims Nature is unjust, pitiles...

I don't know what you think constitutes "context" in this situation (nor do I know what you think pragmatism is), but I think it more likely Dewey wou...

I'm not sure, really. I don't know that it's necessary or useful to categorize considerations in that fashion. I agree with Dewey on many things, and ...

We explain mental illness, to the extent we can, as we explain other illnesses to which living organisms are subject. To the extent they are aberratio...

I'm familiar with the passage. Very typical of Nietzsche, full of assumptions, pronouncements, exclamation points and rhetorical questions.

I think he has a point if he's addressing the time after the rise of Christianity. Even though ancient pagan philosophers like Plato thought the world...

Wild Bill James was right-a difference which makes no difference is no difference at all. For me, that's what the best of the claims in support of an ...

So our illusions, despite being illusions, contain (?) or perhaps transmit (?) "real environmental inputs" and so we can make intelligent decisions ab...

Sorry, sometimes I give philosophers nicknames. I've always thought Nietzsche to be a very excitable, emotional sort, too fond of exclamations and hyp...

Frantic Freddie had an unfortunate tendency. He enjoyed belittling others, thinking his views were unique. But they weren't entirely, and so he would ...

Everything in our lives is an activity, because our lives consist of interactions with our environment. We're not spectators of the world, we're parti...