Ciceronianus

Well, if it's instinctive, it must be wrong.

Which is to say they don't create them, eh? Thus the quotation marks. It's a metaphor only. The problem arises when we (or others) don't recognize tha...

And one of those is an affected way.

I think what's at work here might be called a "hypertechnical" approach to questions, and meaning. What do we mean when we say "I see X"? To answer (i...

Ah, if only we were in a court of law. I would object to your "response" as being unresponsive, and I think any Judge in the external world would sust...

Are you claiming that the ancient Egyptians and others perceived each other as rigid and depersonalized, expressionless? That the Greeks discovered th...

Why engage in this kind of categorization? We're referring to processes, not isolated events or things. When a person is walking, the image of a perso...

You poor fellow. Exactly my background.

Do you really think there is an image of the flower in your mind? Is that image the phenomenal state you refer to, or is the image distinct from the p...

I'm uncertain what metaphysical ideas you think underpin feelings of pain or unhappiness and judgments regarding how to avoid it. If they amount to "i...

How often does that happen? When was the last time you genuinely doubted the reality of the world, in general and not in a particular context? What ha...

What kind of conduct and thought makes us miserable and how to avoid them seems demonstrable enough in most cases.

Right. As for logic, unwarranted extrapolation is a logical fallacy, I think.

I'm not sure of the extent to which philosophy "goes beyond the criteria exercised in the empirical domain." There's practical wisdom after all, in wh...

That's an interesting view. An affectation of necessity, as it were. That demon would be very handy in that case. Thank you for that insight.

Unless we're content with philosophy being a kind of intellectual scrum or free for all, we should make the best judgments we can using the same gener...

Peirce famously doubted James' Pragmatism as well, and so began calling his philosophy "Pragmaticism" to distinguish it from that of Wild Bill. I thin...

https://www.thoughtco.com/vice-admiral-horatio-nelson-2361155 The "side to side" bicorne hat was actually quite popular at the time. Here's Admiral Ne...

That sure looks Russian to me.

And don't forget George Berkeley, the Irish priest who thought material things were just malarkey. God saved us all in his thinking as well. I'm with ...

No guarantee if one is one the Quest for Certainty, I suppose. But in this unhappy, imperfect universe we must make judgments without the benefit of a...

One of my favorite stories of Diogenes. The other is the one where he held up a plucked chicken and said "Behold Plato's Man!" I think Goethe, and oth...

Ah. I see what you mean.

I think (but I'm not certain) that painting is supposed to be of Napoleon at the head of his army during the 1814 campaign, before his exile to Elba.

He certainly wasn't the "World Spirit" incarnate, whatever that's supposed to mean. He was a great hero to the Romantics. He was enormously talented a...

It seems to me that the view that we can never know the extent to which we (I don't think our minds are separate from us) make contact with the rest o...

I'm not sure if "on trust" is entirely accurate. I think it would be more a case of making a judgment based on the weight of the evidence, which may b...

Hegel saw Napoleon as well. Here's what he wrote about the experience: “I saw the Emperor – this world-soul – riding out of the city on reconnaissance...

There may be instances where doubt is appropriate. I'm trying to address the view that we should doubt in all cases, or cannot know in any case. That ...

Which is merely to say that we're human beings. One might say the same of any living creature. Are they "blind" as well? We must be omnipotent, be God...

In this case, by conduct; by how those who maintain that we cannot know the nature of what we deal with everyday, or experience it, or some variant of...

People who have significant eyesight problems generally know this is the case. Someone nearsighted will come to understand that what appears blurry to...

I don't understand the "controversy." Some individuals may be considered "great." Clearly, it doesn't follow from this that "we" are "great." Neither ...

Again, I'm referring to "affectation" as defined by Merriam-Webster online as I said in the OP: Affectation" according to the Merriam-Webster Dictiona...

Well, does the fact that they appear blurred to you with your glasses off persuade you they are or may be blurred?

C: Look, there's Sulla across the street X: I had no idea he's only 5 inches tall. C: What the hell are you talking about? X: Well, look at him. Look ...

We Boomers were, in general, uniquely privileged in American history (with some obvious exceptions). I'm inclined to attribute most of the American "c...

And then there is John 14:6: "I am the way, the truth and the light. No one comes to the Father except through me."

Well, it comes with the name, of course, as you hint. Catholicus in Latin, katholikos in Greek, meaning "universal" roughly.

Ah, that's interesting, as it suggests there is a religious reason behind the affectation. That would be consistent with the view that philosophy is t...

My affectation thread will subsume this forum, eventually.

We find out about the nature of the rest of world and the extent of our knowledge by our interaction with it, rather than by maintaining, without adeq...

It's a play off of the definition of "affectation" appearing at the beginning of the thread. If I criticize the view that we cannot know what the "ext...

Well, Fulton Sheen may end up canonized shortly, so you should be pleased. The Jesuits, by the way, were adept at adopting native traditions as part o...

Only up to a point, though, I'm afraid. According to the OP, the Asian systems he refers to are deficient, from the Christian perspective. They just d...

I was going to say Naughtius Maximus or Biggus Dickus, but don't want to be offensive.

Or are perverted copies of Christianity, as in the case of Mithraism. From Justin Martyr: "For the apostles, in the memoirs composed by them, which ar...

The Old Testament prophets were regularly preannouncing the birth of Jesus as well, and the early Christian apologists tended to blame the similaritie...

We're making claims regarding different things. I was addressing the OP's statement that Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism "preannounced the message o...

That's odd. Others might find it more sensible to consider "the message of the gospel" as you put it as being merely derivative of these systems, whic...