Ciceronianus

I don't know Rutherford. I had to read Weber in one connection or another in one class or another in one school or another, long ago, and haven't been...

It's odd that Peter and Jesus speak to each other in Latin. When in Rome, I suppose.

Well, you've said that philosophy is "the highest activity vouchsafed to human beings." You've also said the rest (presumably that which is not philos...

If you're right, then it seems to me philosophy doesn't involve inquiry into "what is" and in fact has little to do with it, if it would have any inte...

Yes, I'm still at it, for good or ill.

I have little faith in any of our politicians. I think the time has come which H.L. Mencken thought would come: "The larger the mob, the harder the te...

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I think he shares characteristics with more than one emperor. These come to mind: Didius Julianus, who became emperor by being the highest bidder at a...

Christianity's remarkable success as a religion (judging from the number of avowed Christians over the centuries) is, I think, attributable to the fac...

I would agree, as to both philosophy of law and "philosophy of philosophy."

Here in God's favorite country, the goal of the court is to interpret laws consistent with the intent of the law-maker (the legislature). However, if ...

Are you "doing" the philosophy of philosophy, in making this statement? Is "doing" the philosophy of law similar, then? Are philosophers of law simply...

It may be that we carry with us beliefs that influence in some sense in all we do. But in my reply to Erik I said that philosophy of law would become ...

That could be the subject matter of philosophy of law. In that case, though, I think the philosophy of law would be derivative of some pre-formed phil...

I don't know what your saying, alas. It seems to have something to do with reactions to unusual sexual practices. I'm simply wondering what philosophy...

Well, we'll see what happens. The Supremes when led by the conservative justices are capable of extremely silly decisions like Citizens United, conver...

I think this is the kind of concern which arises only when we treat "Law" as unrelated to the law, and I think that's also the case with the claim tha...

I think there's more involved than that. I wondering whether philosophy of "law" has anything to do with the law. I suppose it might in a very vague, ...

I wondered whether that's the case, but don't feel knowledgeable enough in those professions to address the philosophy which is "of" them. Good to see...

Lawyers may be like tigers. I know some who are like mountains, of a certain substance. I guess I was assuming it was understood Law or the law is som...

My personal feeling is that Carnap goes too far in his critique. Nonetheless I think he and others like Wittgenstein and J.L. Austin, and certain anal...

The examples you use don't involve statements, though, and statements (actually, psuedo-statements) are what Carnap is addressing. Statements may be p...

Since we're part of the world, I think everything we do is part of the world as well and is a function of what we are and our interrelation with every...

I think it's more a question of misuse of language and the resulting bewitchment of our intelligence as Wittgenstein said. So, for example, as Carnap ...

That's hardly surprising, though, is it? What else could it be grounded on but us, our experience and our use of language as living creatures that are...

I'm not sure Carnap says what you seem to believe he says about metaphysics. Obviously, the questions of metaphysics have been debated for centuries, ...

I accept that it could indicate a philosophical disposition. I suppose that disposition would be that the philosophy of law, if it's not about how the...

Curiously, certain of those topics which seem to be addressed by the philosophy of law appear sociological more than anything else. "What is law" is a...

That may be so. Or perhaps "non curo" if it means "I care not" or "I don't care" is intended to be an expression of the joy they're experiencing in th...

I appreciate the suggestion. As I said, I certainly may have misunderstood him, and by misunderstanding him wrote the OP as I did and not otherwise. B...

How kind of you to comment as you do regarding my shitty fabrication.

See, if you'll deign to, my reply to frank by way of explanation (which it goes without saying you'll find inadequate if not dishonest--and will say s...

I don't see the word "death" in there either, though I see references to our mortality, and our being finite creatures, and of dread as a feeling of "...

As I said, I don't know why the phrase was used. "I care not" may simply be a way they wanted to affirm, before they died, that it wouldn't matter to ...

Ah, I see now. I really don't know why it was inscribed on their grave stones. It may have been just for the purpose of noting they were followers of ...

Not sure I understand, but I don't think they "announced" anything. It just wasn't a topic for them.

The Stoic Sage is an ideal only, I'd agree. I tend to think the Stoic version of serenity was achieved only by constant practice, of the kind recommen...

I don't know Buddhism well at all, but from what little I've read death and what it entails isn't a significant cause of concern or dread.

So, the Stoics and Epicureans we're secretly in dread and despair, but pretending not to be in order to obtain students? It seems unlikely, but I supp...

I thought that was in comparing purely human matters to the will of God. But Ecclesiastes, or whoever wrote that part of the Bible, is one of those an...

I don't think so. I can't think of any ancient author that wrote of anything like "the nothing" or dread, or for that matter anything like existential...

I don't recall thinking about death much at all.

Thanks for the reference.

Our dread/anxiety must be related to us, I think, at the least, and we're in the world and probably qualify as entities. But it seems we can't have an...

It would seem to me in that case that he's trying to say something about dread/anxiety/fear rather than "the nothing." Our dread/anxiety/fear can of c...

Not to Heiddegger, but to you, dear Street. I confess I was eagerly awaiting your appearance. In fact, though, I'm trying to explore whether there's a...

More like Carnap than Dewey, I would think. But I'll acknowledge "the nothing" and the fascination "it" has for some baffles and intrigues me. For exa...

Well, consider what it means to negate, and what negation means, and therefore what is meant by "negation of everything." Is it the denial of everythi...

Heidegger apparently thinks we encounter "the nothing" only through a powerful emotion--dread. That's how this thread began. Thus my comment. I addres...