I think an ought arises from desire. A moral desire... a duty and desire all rolled into one volition/action in accordance with the laws one gives one...
I am not suggesting that we can escape the world, I am suggesting that the way the world is structured does not necessarily correspond to the structur...
how is that related to reality? If what we perceive, and how our perceptions become structured as thought are related to utility, to survival, then we...
Funny, slip of the tongue? or are you implying that that there is no guarantee, god died so he can't guarantee correspondence theory. I think the worl...
Only the neonatal could possibly have "raw experience" as you have described it and I think that is also somewhat doubtful. If the world has a structu...
In the Meno the slave boy's lesson involves recollection, memory and images (to best of my knowledge it's the only place in 35 dialogues that Socrates...
Gravity works, its always worked, even though it was not conceptualized until 1687. A rule describes what we experience in the world, and it works reg...
If rules apply, they apply regardless of whether anyone is around to observe. The tree that falls in the middle of the forest makes a sound even if no...
Well your phrasing is better than mine, yes we live in the world. It must be circular because we have no immediately knowable criterion, no way of sta...
I think Plato's emphasis in his Meno is on the (necessary) relationship/roles between the teacher and the student. Is there really a choice in what th...
To deny the fact that there is a world that is the cause of what appears, which exist separate from us is not logical. You cannot treat the lion charg...
I think Plato's Dialogues are some of the most sublime works ever crafted. I am not totally in agreement with what has been described as his Theory of...
The world exists without us, we have the remains of previous life forms that inhabited the world for millions of years. The world does not contain tru...
Do you mean that we construct & share a worldview, the fact that it is shared, gives it reliable meaning, it has pragmatic use. The triadic relationsh...
I guess I must have missed it. Clinton won the popular vote by around 2 million votes. I don't think Reagan's policies had much of an effect on the US...
Our prior experience of pain reminds us of its inescapability, how it obliterates the dualism between mind & body, how we become an unreflective one i...
Yes, as I said I doubt it is Trump, perhaps you missed that, in any case given that this information was known prior to his election, it only strength...
My 2 cents. I think the 'left', 'right' metric lacks the dimensionality that we find in today's world. The right has nowhere to go, it's fundamentalit...
Your question reminded me of something I read in Hannah Arendt's The Life of Mind where she is discussing the will and how Christ though his apostles ...
I'm not sure Kazuma. The Doctor had displayed an unbendable will in a way I doubt I could measure up to, but his circumstances were unique and he did ...
Re: Stefan Molyneux has some points, but he is mostly hyperbolic. Newspapers seem to spin the news more and more for the entertainment of their reader...
The doctor accepts his role as a doctor in spite of his inability to escape the absurdity of this role in the face of the irrational force of the Plag...
I think that epistemology leads to and structures ontology, not the other way around. What we believe we know, determines what is, not what is determi...
What exists and what has existed prior to us as a species is in the history we tell ourselves about the world, and the cosmos. I am not claiming and I...
That's meaningless isn't it. The objective as you have described it has no meaning, it may exist and have existed but that existence is meaningless wi...
When you say 'objective' what do you mean? Are geometry, physics, and the other sciences all strictly objective, or are they also subjective. Or when ...
Thanks for the reference. No, I don't agree with Mr. Sharma's agenda. His use of statistic regarding world trade is as suspect as his information rega...
Do you have references for either of your assertions: a) That there are less democracies today than in 1996 b) That money flows have shrunk I doubt bo...
His mythical man accepts the conditions of his existence in almost stark rebellion as he trudges up and down his hill. How does he do this, how does h...
So the first problem of philosophy is a moral question, one that Shakespeare addressed "To be, or not to be?" Levinas also thought that Practical Phil...
MU I think McTaggart's argument is like a river you must cross to get to the promised land, there might be another route but I have not found it yet. ...
McTaggart suggests an A and a B series to time. The A series views time's passage. The B series views time from moment to moment historically. The B s...
Madame la Fleurie Wallace Stevens "Weight him down, O side-stars, with the great weightings of the end. Seal him there. He looked in a glass of the ea...
Not sure I understand do you meaning. I looked up time space bubble and found: The concept of Alcubierre drive, which (as I understand it) is the shif...
I am looking forward to the Supermoon on Nov 14th. It will break the horizon at 6.02 pm over the ocean where I'am at. It's the closest a full moon has...
Every work is beautiful (Schopenhauer?), I don't think so, I think that works are beautiful only in so far as they can illuminate their object, there ...
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