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Because I rarely do it I wanted to quote Descartes on this. It's a passage Levinas really likes: I think the laws are contingently so in the sense the...
September 09, 2016 at 23:23
It's meant to place The Other as the metaphysical foundation of ethics, as ethics as first philosophy that comes prior to ontologizing. Which more pla...
September 09, 2016 at 23:16
Obviously in the sense that God doesn't have Being if he's radically Other. It also doesn't offer us a teleological explanation, explain the problem o...
September 09, 2016 at 22:43
He's a part of that tradition, I think. Although, I personally haven't read much on Jean Luc Marion.
September 09, 2016 at 22:34
As in the God depicted as Otherwise Than Being. A part of the philosophy of Levinas that attempts to get away from intentionality in the early phenome...
September 09, 2016 at 22:32
Well, I actually normally wouldn't defend a Thomistic God, as that's a God that's both, in my opinion, transcendent and immanent. The God that I would...
September 09, 2016 at 22:06
These are theological questions, though, not philosophical. This argument is to simply argue for God simpliciter. Though, again, having a divine intel...
September 09, 2016 at 21:07
I'm honestly inclined to think this isn't true within my experience, and always offered some level of charity. So time to time I asked people how they...
September 09, 2016 at 19:36
I mean, that's fair. I agree with Pascal that the matter is one of disposition and not proposition, but then it becomes a matter of motivation and sur...
September 09, 2016 at 19:25
The Kalam maybe is since it has to state the universe has a beginning. But any cosmological argument is merely going to state that all we need is a co...
September 09, 2016 at 18:58
But isn't this just simply anthropomorphizing God? That in order for there to be a mind at all, it must relate to something bodily. It just simply cou...
September 09, 2016 at 09:34
Isn't La voix et le phénomène on Library Genesis? Although, I'm not finding the English equivalent. At least not the Leonard Lawlor version on there.
September 09, 2016 at 06:03
No, it's not smuggled - it's basically argued for. The reason why it's a God instead of any other being is i) the being must be simple. Which means it...
September 09, 2016 at 04:53
To put a demand on myself for a responsibility for the Other. Ethics as first philosophy. However, I'm not sure if this has to do with accumulating vi...
September 08, 2016 at 08:40
I'm not sure if Schopenhauer's will is any different from the TS, but the transcendental subject doesn't exist outside of space-and-time, or as a thin...
September 07, 2016 at 21:52
I'd read Derrida's Speech and Phenomena. I've been meaning to get into Derrida more recently, and it's a great text that usually serves as a introduct...
September 07, 2016 at 21:07
Some aspect of transcendental philosophy makes enough sense to me to think we are both immanent within our factical life, and transcend ourselves with...
September 07, 2016 at 20:28
Well, it's not a detached object. It's your body. There's obviously a difference between feeling your arm, and feeling your broken arm, right? Or say ...
September 07, 2016 at 09:30
Do you, when you feel hunger, not feel the contractions of your muscles near your stomach? Do you not feel pain in certain areas they're bodily? Then ...
September 07, 2016 at 09:02
Hunger still affects the body, and is produced via the body which is outwardly connected with the world. All suffering seems to be bodily, which means...
September 07, 2016 at 06:14