JerseyFlight

Friend, I am not dogmatic. Not all intellectuals bear the same burden, context matters, social conditions matter. In my opinion, it is intelligence th...

This is an important question. What, after all, makes a serious thinker serious? A serious thinker, among other things, is a person who wants to compr...

I agree. :)

Yes. Most certainly. You and I are both intellectuals. The problem is not that one is an intellectual, but that intellectualism has become of kind of ...

Indeed it does friend, but it's tragic that our psychological structure is so emotionally set against it, that even those who teach it still fall prey...

Well, this is quite accurate now isn't it? After all, everything depends on how you define the being or beings you claim exist? It's a fun little game...

I don't think Adorno ever did, keep in mind I have criticized critical theory for getting lost in itself. Nevertheless, the question is exceedingly im...

This was exactly Adorno's position, that we need to be able to calculate, in one form or another, that our revolutionary action will have some relevan...

It's a fine tool, so are shovels, just don't start attaching God to these tools and we won't have a problem.

Not even close. I am no Nihilist, one must be religious in order to be a Nihilist.

I think there is much truth to this. The responsible intellectual walks a hard road. However, I do not accept the one-sided nature of your position. I...

This reminds me of Plantinga's sophistry. 1) There's such a thing as a Holy Spirit that exists. 2) This magical being gives you a direct knowledge of ...

Analytical thinkers are scared to death of dialectical thinkers, if they can censor them they will. The irony is quite hilarious, analytical thinkers ...

If this was the reason your thread was moved, that is disappointing. Adorno was a hundred times the philosopher anyone on this forum is, and he basica...

This is a super important question and I don't have time to explain it in detail, to do it the justice it deserves. What I recommend is that you get a...

Yes. But not just them, I am steeped in the entire dialectic movement of thought, which began with Hegel.

It's strange that this assumption repeatedly surfaces as I have discussed this topic throughout the years. The assumption seems to be that my objectio...

Not as I understand it through the lens of the strongest thinkers: Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx. In this sense thinking is a painful and consequential activ...

A culturally responsible intellectual in Nazi Germany, for example, would precisely be one, not merely who disagrees with the status quo, but one who ...

This is an appropriate question and an important one. A culturally responsible intellectual is an intellectual that uses their mind, not merely to adv...

One of the most frightening things about class awareness is how many intellectuals don't have it in any shape or form. This essentially renders them a...

With all due respect, this merely tells me that you have not thought very deeply about social resistance and its ramifications. You are probably an Am...

Allow me to take a bit of a different approach here. You strike me as honest and sincere, at least as much as any of us can lay claim to it, and I res...

Embrace idealism or cynicism? I think not. Resistance is a matter of dialectical intelligence, it is not, a matter of succumbing to the false authorit...

This must certainly factor into the equation. Non-conformity nearly always seems to come at a social price. The thinking subject is really only making...

I agree, these things do exist. You ask, what do they mean? This is a strange question, because you seem to be assuming some extra-dimension to which ...

I think it was meant to be rhetorical. I mean, you are free to prove the existence of "higher things," if you can? I'm all ears.

Did you just assert the general existence of "higher things?" Well this is certainly proof of a strong, Primate imagination.

This are some important points here. I like the direction of your thinking.

Strange that one would see this as an objection. My only concern is what takes place in terms of life and its concretion, I could care less about the ...

Translation: where reality is negative there I bury my head in the sand.

This is false. Such a criteria will rob you of much general wisdom.

So say you. You are of course, free to explain why reasoning has to be "objective" in order to have value? This is not my assumption.

The only paradox here is the one you have created with your loaded premises. This line of reasoning is a waste of time.

In order to make math intelligible one has to use other languages besides math.

This is a non-sequitur. "rely on objective reasoning" is your own confusion, false premise. Clearly you have an agenda bent in the direction of some f...

True enough, but mathematical symbols are not the only thing that accounts for the cyber world and computers, other symbolic structures (and social st...

Humans assume the world is mathematical, I think, for two reasons. 1) Because math is powerful in terms of approximation and 2) because it makes them ...

I just got done attempting to discuss something very close to this thread post with a Christian author. Surprise surprise, trained at the University o...

I would like to save intelligent young people some time. You can forgo Heidegger, he was essentially something very strange (a philosophical mystic?)....

This post strikes me as ignorance on a whole other level. Clearly the author of this thread has never studied, even the most introductory texts on soc...

The question of the "justification" of property is interesting. However, a distinction is in order, private property is not a problem per se, it is a ...