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Aristotle. The following from Leo Strauss "The City and Man": Yes, I think affects are blind without reason, but reason is practical, the only 'ought'...

Plato's Georgias I think of Qi as the sound of that lyre. The rhythm of life, its vibrations, with all its harmonies and disharmonious parts. What we ...

We are social creatures only negatively. Human's by nature are desirous, greedy, needful, spiteful, weak creatures. We are social creatures because we...

You say morality comes from us, so then it is not individual. It arises in our relationship with others, a "code of conduct" a sense of fairness , jus...

The miracle is that we are.

Consciousness of pleasure and pain arise in our experiences of our own body. The reflective ability of our consciousness enables us to reasonably sort...

Maybe Jung's notion of Synchronicity, "falling together in time.” of the external and the internal as in meaningful coincidences. Astrology as a scien...

I cannot accept justice by allegation regardless of the situation or the "scum" involved. "... all allegations must be examined and pursued..." Corbyn...

Your rhetoric has the tone of a wooden coin. It is not the claims of women I object to, it is the claims of a virtual swarm being taken as facts leadi...

Corbyn gets it right https://youtu.be/GKkbVpvuyIo

Of course I am concerned about the plight of women and others in our society, but it is society built on laws, not innuendo.

I am troubled by the power of a viral mob, how it envelops people's lives and pushes its participants in a blind manner. This is not justice, it is gu...

How does one decide who is the oppressor and who is the oppressed if all that one has to go on are allegations? How can that be justice....did Carl Sa...

I agree. What I find troubling is how the powerful the viral #MeToo has become.... reminds me of the pitch fork scene in Frankenstein. Social media in...

Consider the utilitarian approach. Does your work do more good than harm for all those involved from your standpoint? There is always someone else who...

CK letter today.

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Then when we experience a tree, it presents itself to us, when we think about the tree , we represent it to ourselves with our memory, imagination and...

Why do you say that? Does it mean that we can only approach the truth, what is.

Reason provides guidance. It enables us to sort things out, but I don't think reason is good or bad, moral or immoral. It is the way of thinking that ...

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Our phenomenal experience of the aesthetic depends as much on what we are perceiving as what we are up to when we perceive. We give privilege to what ...

Don't we negotiate this pragmatically...habitual vs consciously intentional, conscious vs unconscious.

If so then what other mental agencies are constitutive of experience and how do they affect experience, isn't that the point.

Perhaps, but our reflection on what we experience has agency.

Yes it is another experience, which always adds and leaves things out.

Neither you simply experience what you experience. Trying to understand what happens in experience is not the same as the experience.

No you are experiencing it, how you deconstruct your experience assumes a different pov.

Our culture thrives on addictive personalities. It continually pushes us to consume, but the pleasure in consumption is not enough. We want more & mor...

I liked Russel Brand's answer: https://youtu.be/8NaJdHZSPqM

Kant's Togetherness Principle This applies to judgments, Kant agrees that we sense without concepts but that it is only through concepts that judgment...

To put this another way. Suppose you did not have the concept of a rabbit. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Duck-Rabbit_illusion.jp...

Our ability to convert our perceptions into complex concepts differentiates us from other animals in whom this ability is rudimentary.

Thanks, that's right, the post does not exist as a 'post' to them, and they tend ignore it, they don't see the meaning in it because they have not lea...

We perceive sensuously, biologically, and classify these perceptions according to concepts that we have learned or that we have construed from our own...

I don't know what you are reply to.

How did you bring goals into this....how are they related to our sensuous perceptions, you seem to be agreeing with me here.

I answered your question. We learn how to swim, not the dog.

You might try answering my doggy swim question.

We don't invent concepts, they are given to us, and we assume them. No one grows up in isolation from others.

Did you have to learn how to swim? Did your dog have to learn how to swim. No I think the correlation breaks down.

Animals organize their experiences differently from us, we seem to agree on that. I also think they are conscious and have some limited capacity to le...

I think that if what we sensuously perceive does not fit into our concepts, we tend to ignore it because there is no place for it in our imagination.

Have you considered that a dog's "conceptual" system may be geared towards scent. I note that they tend to sniff and sniff around until they find just...

Yes, I agree that sensory perception precedes classification, but I think "instantaneous classification" is due to its habitual re occurrence. I think...

I stated that without the concept or idea of what a tree is, there is/may be no tree. What is observed has to fit into person's conceptual structure i...

His "consistent world-view" are the concepts he works with, how he classifies his experience and makes reality coherent regardless of whether this is ...

So consciousness perceives a tree in a certain way, 'it's a green tree' which corresponds to its concept of a tree in itself, and which allows for the...

So is perception of a tree... phenomenological given and therefore we play a passive role or is the tree a representation which we actively construct,...

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