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Mickey

['Member']Joined: June 06, 2020 at 18:19Last active: June 29, 2020 at 17:51None discussions14 comments

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What I'm saying is that an assumption is being made about things being internal and external based on the way they appear, and that it is possible tha...
June 17, 2020 at 08:30
It depends on what you mean by mind. If you limit mind to intelligent behavior and abstract thinking, then it is clear that panpsychism is an untenabl...
June 16, 2020 at 16:57
You are correct. Heidegger did not identify Being with our current understanding of consciousness, he considers Being to be more basic. He provides ju...
June 16, 2020 at 08:44
I would add that we can't know things in themselves apart from the manner in which they appear to us, according to Kant, but we can infer that certain...
June 15, 2020 at 02:32
What if meaning isn't what life is really all about? Life does not have to be dependent upon meaning. Living a meaningful life is an activity we engag...
June 14, 2020 at 21:20
Awareness of the object is distinguished from noumena, which is the thing in itself, according to Kant. Kant was very concerned with questions regardi...
June 14, 2020 at 20:13
I believe Heidegger is concerned with something more basic than the physicist is concerned with, and phenomenologically demonstrating that that is the...
June 14, 2020 at 19:24
He treats pain in his account as well. He is not arguing that subjectivity and objectivity do not exist. They exist, but are grounded upon a more basi...
June 14, 2020 at 19:06
In your normal experience, the hammering shows up in a referential totality, in terms of why you are hammering something. You experience the hammering...
June 14, 2020 at 07:52
Good question! There is something very different about thinking in comparison to our perception of the world. For one, thinking involves contemplating...
June 14, 2020 at 07:36
It seems possible to make a distinction between various states of awareness, such as our thoughts, feeling, perception and emotions, and consciousness...
June 14, 2020 at 06:55
Meaning is that which is typically thought of, for example, when we talk about the essential underlying nature of things, which distinguish one thing ...
June 10, 2020 at 21:32
In response, I would say that purpose at its core involves meaning, and meaning in general presupposes beliefs and assumptions. Assumptions and belief...
June 08, 2020 at 00:03
I think that it is important to recognize, as the nihilist does, that there is a conflict between freedom and purpose. However, they are not necessari...
June 06, 2020 at 18:44