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IMO, you are correct here. A problem is only pseudo from the perspective of a later stage in the critical conversation. The danger in 'language on hol...

While I do like to criticize metaphysics myself, I'd say that Laze is one more metaphysician, however much he hates the term. He's got one more conspi...

I'd just about swear the same thing. That 'little ego' is like the kernel of various ideologies that are superficially opposed. I went from Derrida to...

Yeah, I was hoping to hint at that. 'Literal' is a dead metaphor. To be literal is just to stare at the letter, but the letter is itself a string of m...

I'm just now really looking outside of philosophy toward sociology for instance because I've grasped the theme of 'spirit' running through philosophy ...

Till next time, my airlock brother... That Hamlet was Claudius all along is a perfect outro, btw. I love that.

I think I agree with the analogy applied to real life. But on the level of art or poetry, that doing-laps-around is everything, which does make the ga...

It is indeed! I think the keyword for you might be correlation? Understood as relationship, it does make sense to me, given my holist leanings, that r...

OK, that helps. And I very much agree. What's funny is that I am usually in a good place when I hang around this forum, largely because I have so much...

I agree with Nietzsche that the whole game of philosophy is built on false equivalence. That's basically what a metaphor is. Note that bewitchment is ...

I'm not sure I feel what you mean. Is it more than being immersed in washing the dishes, chopping carrots, a walk in nice weather?

This is a great point. I should have been careful about mentioning the womanizing. I tried to do some of that myself once in long gone days, and there...

Thanks. I'm fascinated by 'philosophy is metaphors' as a metaphor that uses 'metaphor' (itself a dead metaphor) metaphysically. Derrida's essay 'The W...

On an applied existential level, I think I agree, sort of. (But) The real Derrida was a globe-trotting womanizer, famous enough to create a backlash, ...

I tried to find the quote (read it once in an anthology), but the idea is that being is like vision itself while beings are what are seen. I relate th...

Fair enough. It might help to articulate where I'm coming from by distinguishing to aspects of being thrown. The first aspect (which maybe you thought...

I do want to hear more about that. Perhaps you'll agree, though, that maybe there will be no perfectly adequate criterion, since we don't legislate th...

Absolutely, and that's why I try to read and synthesize insights from lots of thinkers.

That sounds good. I might get around to that. I'm not currently in a Heidegger phase, tho I can't resist jumping into a good Heidegger thread. I have ...

My point is (necessarily approximately ) that any such method is insufficiently critical. To pick up that method and use it is to pick up traces in or...

I'm sure Russel has some nice hints for the recovering Christian, and I could give his ghost some nice hints for the recovering insufficiently self-cr...

That's a great point, and I should say that I adore the TLP. I don't claim to have mastered it, but it's meant something to me. I guess my comment is ...

I'm no expert on the later Heidegger, but I think that he had a new 'sending of being' in mind. I think he saw us (in this stage) as control freaks. O...

Here's a little more background on the 'enacted historical we' that runs like a thread through the philosophical conversation, which Hegel (among othe...

Heidegger explicitly called himself a theologian in a letter, so yeah! But this structure also haunts anti-religion. We see this in Stirner reading Fe...

To me it's not so odd. There's a violence in philosophy as it questions dearly held assumptions. There's perhaps the same violence in authoritatively ...

That all sounds more or less correct to me. Dasein is enacted. We bark and meow about substance and subject as if we meow what we are barking about, b...

That does seem right to me, so I guess I'm trying to fish more out of all of us. How is ti a background? To be thrown (speak only thru inherited trace...

I think of our dualisms as useful practical tools that harden into metaphysical-strength concrete. I think we might already agree on the following, bu...

Let me float this idea by you. Hamlet was wrestling with a conspiracy theory. He really wasn't sure if the ghost was legit. He could also question his...

I do feel that. For me it's tricky because riffing on what I got from Derrida and others pretty much is my poetry. We are recreating Plato on this for...

I was thinking more about this and it's maybe the question of being. The beetle in the box is there. Something 'is' behind the signs. But the signs ca...

'There are only differences without positive terms' connects for me with the beetle-in-the-box and something like a radical holism that for me connect...

That song was great. Thanks for sharing & no hard feelings.

I like your sense of humor! They somewhat sum up what Derrida means to me. I know you don't like him (probably his style), but I can't help mentioning...

Thanks for sticking up for him. I actually read quite a bit of him, and he was valuable to me. 'Whatever is unconscious is projected.' That one will s...

I love it. Yes indeed. We've got to risk those tentacles. We can't curl up like worms.

I have looked at it. I was quite gung-ho about Heidegger for awhile (he was my favorite), so I bought more books than I could get around to, checked t...

I agree. I understand Dreyfus to aim at symbolic AI especially. The 'connectionist' approach is actually working. The 'thoughts' are just huge boxes o...

Right. This is that Games People Play idea of adult-to-adult or peer-to-peer. And it can't (I don't think) be formalized. It's a dance, with a certain...

I love Ashbery, by the way, which somehow I'd never looked into until you mentioned him. I still have only seen what you've shared. Masochism is deep ...

I think this is a great issue in itself. For me it has been mostly about 'idle talk' or 'botspeak' as the 'incarnation' of the 'One' as discussed in a...

Polonius is my shadow. I read lots of Jung once, I confess. I connect him to idle talk, chatter, or bot-speak. We always leave (or I always leave) a s...

Right. I like that approach while knowing it's not the only approach. In some ways my vision of what enlightenment is is just so mundane that it hardl...

Exactly! And that's us here too. Always. That's what I try to load in the 'ironic' of the ironic aphorist. I can't mean what I say or say what I mean....

Yes, and fortunately it's online so no one has to pay for it. That's part of Heidegger's guilt. I know he got out early, but he read that book and pra...

For me it's tricky, because I don't want to either just virtue signal self-righteously or act like his being a Nazi wasn't important. That letter I qu...

I do what I can to follow certain scholars on the etymological issues...but I am haunted by a sense of being outside all of the languages I don't know...

Yes, I too like philosophers who gesture beyond themselves. I still need to really look into Deleuze. The set of weapons metaphor in nice, and goes we...

Seconded. And this can probably be generalized. Who can we take wholesale?