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Cavacava

['Member', 'Subscriber']Joined: October 28, 2015 at 12:42Last active: January 14, 2026 at 18:5110 discussions2397 comments

Discussions (10)

Emmet Till

March 27, 2017 at 22:53 48 comments Philosophy of Art

The Barycenter

November 16, 2015 at 13:48 2 comments Philosophy of Art

Mr. Bean

November 08, 2015 at 20:58 6 comments Philosophy of Art

Comments

June 22, 2018 at 03:08
Disinterest applies to art as well as it does to reason. The beauty in art does not depend on any pleasure referenced by the work. Beauty lies in the ...
June 11, 2018 at 19:45
Based on the U.S. Office of Trade Representative Typical Trump cherry picked bull crap.
June 11, 2018 at 10:41
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June 09, 2018 at 21:54
https://youtu.be/5UVIpBVVQFk
June 06, 2018 at 15:16
I like the bike example. You can spend time watching people ride a bike, you can pick up a book and read all about how a bike works, and you can touch...
June 06, 2018 at 14:45
My country right or wrong, is still right....where "my" means white. The majority ethnicity claims possession of an abstract notion of "country" whose...
June 03, 2018 at 10:56
Do you think the doctor ceases to be 'objective' if s(he)'s plan of action is undertaking, since like a narrator s(he) now becomes part of the story?
June 02, 2018 at 17:49
I don't quite understand why you said "Freud approached this issue but encountered a problem in respect of suicidal or self destructive drives." He se...
June 01, 2018 at 15:17
Drives are inherent in us, they are part of the Id, headless as such. They are different than desire, but become mixed up with desire typically reinfo...
June 01, 2018 at 14:52
Roy Orbison's "Crying" from David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. There is a very raw feeling though out this song with emphasis on ending which goes off th...
May 31, 2018 at 23:10
So everything is explainable but then I wonder why this is so. Does that mean the Being must be explainable. Why something rather than nothing. Or per...
May 31, 2018 at 02:34
Yes my explanation was not the best. Here is an explanation
May 30, 2018 at 21:12
Something that exist independently of men like a mountain or something for which no other explanation is possible or necessary.
May 30, 2018 at 20:02
Yes, I think it is a normative construction, a way of talking which assumes that the words we use are what are expected of us as members of the same g...
May 30, 2018 at 19:21
I am stating that without Others the I is impossible...there are no "wolf children" No, others enable you to understand that you are a separate indivi...
May 30, 2018 at 14:36
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May 30, 2018 at 13:30
I don't think that 'racism' is natural, I don't even believe it is correct terminology since there is only one human race which is comprised of separa...
May 30, 2018 at 13:22
Not sure I understand what you are stating....are you an idealist taking the position that the real structure of the world is in some sense identical ...
May 30, 2018 at 12:21
I am using the "I" to refer to the self conscious self, the self that recognizes itself as such in a mirror, which I maintain is not possible without ...
May 30, 2018 at 12:04
Others are always there, that's an empirical fact, not some sort of logical regress argument. It is only by means of interactions with those closest t...
May 30, 2018 at 11:49
An infant is like a sponge it soaks up everything it experiences, it does not differentiate it self from what it experiences until it starts to develo...
May 30, 2018 at 11:33
It does not work that way. It is though interactions with others that we come to realize that we are separate individuals with similar likes, dislikes...
May 30, 2018 at 01:55
This is also taken out of context. I am not sure what your point is? Yes, they are similar that is what I stated, but fine art is not instrumental bas...
May 29, 2018 at 14:21
Here is the full quote from the OP If by transcendent subject truths you mean " Truth that is, ultimately, beyond human comprehension and before all c...
May 29, 2018 at 14:17
Clothing styles are ornamental, they are not fine art. The aesthetic effect of fine art arises from its being and not from any purpose or instrumental...
May 29, 2018 at 12:41
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May 29, 2018 at 12:26
Because they say "eat your beans, little meta"
May 29, 2018 at 02:51
So you are not denying that the individual distinguishes itself from the many because of the existence of other persons. My contention is that in the ...
May 28, 2018 at 11:20
Here is what you said: An individual suggests a differentiation, and how could that differentiation be possible if not from other individuals..duh.
May 27, 2018 at 23:34
I tried to indicate that such logical assertions can't begin to explain people. Your description also didn't sound very logical for that matter. Lacan...
May 27, 2018 at 13:21
I think you may be referring to Giuliani's implicit self refutation of this own statement regarding the subpoenaing of a president. In 1998 Charlie Ro...
May 27, 2018 at 12:30
The infant child does not identify itself apart from its parents until it becomes self aware of itself as an independent agent, this is what Freud is ...
May 27, 2018 at 11:55
A human infant cannot survive without a caregiver that's a fact and all children by definition have parents. People are not numbers, and logic alone c...
May 27, 2018 at 02:43
Meta levels...we become self aware, we are not born that way, and we are able to make ourselves an object of our own thought. We do it, you want to ca...
May 27, 2018 at 02:13
Perhaps the continual coherent processing of the subject's common sense data has no exact pin-pointable location beyond the human body, as its locus. ...
May 26, 2018 at 19:18
Chillin https://youtu.be/ZVANQheoRUw
May 26, 2018 at 16:33
I can think a society might be built (we are already partly there) within the structure of a diversified corporation where the corporation provides fo...
May 26, 2018 at 15:02
A dog, a mouse, and so on are all conscious but none of them are persons. What I am saying is that to be a person is to be self consciously aware of o...
May 26, 2018 at 12:27
Our existence lacks any purpose without love, regardless of money, possessions and all the trappings of success. Erich Fromm
May 26, 2018 at 10:36
So no one raised you? You didn't learn how to be a person on your own, sure consciousness but you learnt how to be conscious by studying what others w...
May 26, 2018 at 02:23
I don't think so. You were raised by some one and they told you who your are, sure you are conscious but only because there are others that you have m...
May 25, 2018 at 23:01
Why? It seems to me that we only become who we are by way of others.
May 25, 2018 at 17:03
"Donald Trump calls off meeting with Kim Jong-un due to North Korea's 'open hostility'" Telegraph Confirming how much of a nincompoop Trump is. I gues...
May 24, 2018 at 15:13
I think @"apokrisis" is right about social construction. I would go on to say that individual intention is derivative of collective intention but coll...
May 24, 2018 at 01:01
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May 23, 2018 at 20:30
Yes, because Marlowe apparent;y met with Giordano Bruno in 1880s when Bruno visited London. Bruno was kind of a nut, but a well informed nut.
May 23, 2018 at 19:50
Just kind of a side note: Oxford University Press drew attention last year for deciding that, in the New Oxford Shakespeare, the plays Henry VI, Parts...
May 23, 2018 at 17:40
And they hurt :rofl:
May 23, 2018 at 15:41
Is a dollar bill just a piece of paper or is its value based on our consensus, which is not abstract, it is the product of mutual agreement. A person,...
May 23, 2018 at 15:40