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Marquis de Sade - Back to Cruelty https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d5qzf4RKBsk Brought to memory by the discussion on suffering.

So monism is ultimately meaningless because uniformizing?

That China will be fighting a war sometimes soon appears probable: it is flexing its military muscles and displaying a desire for dominance over its n...

I'm recognized in my family as a tickler of great dexterity and experience. You'd be surprised. :wink:

I've met a few so-called "pygmies"* is Congo, more correctly called the Twa people. Their environment is quite diverse, with plenty of open spaces suc...

So much so that we are often a different person when surrounded by different people.

But surely suffering in itself is a capacity, and therefore getting rid of suffering would be incapacitating.

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Thanks, you never disappoint. I am not interested by his mysticism as much as by the way people evolve and define themselves through dialogue and othe...

All species are preyed on. Even lions get killed, by a virus, an elephant, a man or another lion. COVID-19 is our most recent predator. Nope. I don't ...

What would you prefer, as an animal who can feel pain yourself? Would you rather exist or not exist? I would rather exist, personally, reason for whic...

Hi Proof. You've heard of this guy, Buber? You're the only one who reads here, in my experience.

There is a book about that on my reading list: I and Thou by Martin Buber. Which apparently explains that we can engage in two types of relationships:...

Yes, lies matter, and one disposes of the concept of truth at one's own risk... Deception, toxicity, con jobs are different from just having an opinio...

Isn't such morbid sentiments the natural and logical result of utilitarianism? If indeed our actions ought to be judged from a moral standpoint based ...

There was another transhumanist dude who was invited on TPF some time back. He too wanted to kill all life on earth because Darwinian life is evil, he...

All around you.

As is well known, the two party system is simply a product of the first past the post voting system. Add a second round of voting to your elections, a...

Right. Similarly, even professing the absence of necessity for a meta-framework is a type of meta-framework, like the empty set is a set.

I have two loves My country and Paris By them always My heart is thrilled https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xllFRxlqQD8 Josephine Baker will symbolically ...

So you do have some metaphysics then. It's not a salad bar.

Yes, they may not have understood as clearly as Collingwood did that they were dealing with axioms for human knowledge.

I agree by and large. The negative formulation certainly highlights the absurdity of the question to me. As Aristotle said, there can be no science of...

Hence the question: What is NOT Being?

The actual apple. It is an idea about a non-existing apple. What else could it be? ? Xtrix = there exists Xtrix ? Xtrix = there does not exist Xtrix

BTW, and to the OP, doesn't logic itself require a cause, or a story of origin?

That's you, but it is a luxury that a historian like Collingwood could not afford. Faith exists as a historical force and needs to be reconned with. B...

That may be because the other metaphysicians never actually understood what they were doing, while Collingwood did.

By definition, removing a constraint is liberating, but note that adding a constraint helps in focusing. The idea of Collingwood is that certain metap...

:grin: Let he who never sinned report you first. I added a bit to my response BTW.

Good examples of a metaphorical use of the God concept. As an atheist myself, I agree that this is a possible and often effective use of the concept. ...

It's a classic metaphysical question, though. Collingwood goes as far as advising to use religious language to frame absolute presuppositions, as an i...

Not so simple. People can't really believe in, say, one unique god in the morning and believe in no god or many gods in the afternoon. Or rather, they...

No need for several universes. This very universe of ours appears made of things popping in and out of existence all the soddin' time. An non-determin...

I know, the consequences are untoward. Even mass murder, if you go there...

Who goes by a rather precise (but perhaps restrictive) definition of metaphysics as the study of absolute presuppositions of knowledge. This definitio...

Indeed. See "Three senses of the word ‘cause'" in Collingwood's Essay on Metaphysics.

Just count how many people in your immediate surroundings are getting vaccinated against COVID-19, vs the number of people in your immediate surroundi...

No, I was referring to the death of God, i.e. the demise of religion as a credible source for truth and its replacement by science.

That song has been sung, I think.

The following points come to mind (in addition to a possible critique of causality itself): 1) It seems to me that if there can be such a thing as an ...

What caused the first cause, though?

So nothing is entirely good nor entirely bad. I can agree with that.

The TLP is nonsense from the very first page onward. Anyone talking Wittgenstein seriously is wasting his time.

Nothing so obvious or mechanical. We try to imagine what sense it could have based on the context. And sometimes we get the sense of a word wrong. Mea...

Come to think of it, there's something there that not a total waste of philosophy: precisely the fun of turning upside down old certitudes. This is of...

As a definition (ontology) of meaning, I don't think it works. But as a technique to explore meaning, it does work.

This being said, and in the way I read Witty on the beetle in the box metaphor, there is a distinction to be made between phenomena that are apprehens...

What argument is made here exactly? That you cannot see the difference between a sensation and the conscious examination and exploration of this sensa...

What an amazing attempt at building up a distinction where none exists... Pain is objective, it is a type of objects called a sensation. It imposes it...