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JerseyFlight

['Member']Joined: August 18, 2020 at 03:39Last active: September 30, 2020 at 02:5414 discussions768 comments

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I'm a serious thinker always on the look out for other serious thinkers. I am against privilege. If a thinker has intelligence it's not because he's special or better than other people, but because he was lucky! In this sense intellectuals cannot boast, they have nothing to boast about. The more social benefits they have gained from society the more responsible they are to society. If I had to classify myself I would call myself a Revolutionary Humanist.

Favourite Quotations

"To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life." Denis Diderot

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In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
Society, that accounts for your individual quality, plays a part in the overall calculation of value. This is how we avoid pure egoism/subjectivity, b...
September 30, 2020 at 00:13
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
Your life and its limits, this is both the criteria and the measure.
September 30, 2020 at 00:02
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
That's hilarious. The Left always think Trump is going down. I wouldn't be one bit surprised if he won the election.
September 29, 2020 at 23:46
In: Deconstructing the Analytical Complex of Truth  — view comment
What exactly do you mean by "it" and "think?"
September 29, 2020 at 23:07
In: Deconstructing the Analytical Complex of Truth  — view comment
Are you asking the question, stating your opinion, claiming to "assure" of a fact? If there is no point, then why make the claim of assurance? Why giv...
September 29, 2020 at 23:00
In: Deconstructing the Analytical Complex of Truth  — view comment
But what then is comprehensible? Does one perceive it thus or does one make it so? Is what is comprehensible, "fully" comprehensible, or merely a char...
September 29, 2020 at 22:47
In: Deconstructing the Analytical Complex of Truth  — view comment
"Is it certain that to the word communication corresponds a concept that is unique, univocal, rigorously controllable, and transmittable: in a word, c...
September 29, 2020 at 07:04
In: More on Suicide  — view comment
Stated clearly. This is the other side of the coin which is never perceived.
September 29, 2020 at 06:45
In: Deconstructing the Analytical Complex of Truth  — view comment
Where has philosophy then succeeded?
September 29, 2020 at 06:42
In: American Belief  — view comment
This is assuredly true because knowledge must be governed by something. Adorno was confronted with this question, the question of the meaning and purp...
September 29, 2020 at 06:39
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Strong points, hopefully this populist experiment in political anger is about to come to its end, and hopefully it will take the entire Republican par...
September 29, 2020 at 01:45
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
I hope this analysis is correct. Lots of emotional people ready to pounce, they want a fight so they can express and therefore relieve some of their a...
September 29, 2020 at 01:35
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
I would suggest a philosophical experiment to bring an end to this thread. Let us contrast this paper of Davidson with these aphorisms by Gracian. It ...
September 29, 2020 at 01:19
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
We have a major problem here in American. 1) Trump will not accept loss. 2) The Republicans will join him in this stance. 3) The Justice Department wi...
September 29, 2020 at 00:57
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
Not sure why you assume that only those who agree with these thinkers would have been the one's to comprehend them? I have had this fallacious argumen...
September 28, 2020 at 22:38
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
This is a red herring. The counter of subjectivity arises from the claim that one cannot define "importance," that the idea of value is entirely subje...
September 28, 2020 at 21:45
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
There are already fields in the social sciences that do this much better than philosophy. If you are here rehashing the argument that has already been...
September 28, 2020 at 21:14
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
I think it would be worth the time to have a listen: In Defense of the Polemicist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsvKyCvCBi8
September 28, 2020 at 05:38
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
I like to keep these kind of things private, only because they don't belong on the threads, but you have accused me here in public, no doubt, because ...
September 28, 2020 at 05:32
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
I have been talking about philosophy, specifically philosophical form and method, what you have raised is a red herring or an equivocation, but even s...
September 28, 2020 at 02:03
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
This is not my argument. I do not subscribe to your characterization of this conversation. What was wrong with the definitions I provided? (I have lit...
September 28, 2020 at 01:26
In: Amy Coney Barrett's nomination  — view comment
It's a concept that a power-class can make use of in order to control society. Law gives a class the ability to use violence.
September 28, 2020 at 01:08
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
Not all philosophical forms are of equal value. As a philosopher wouldn't you want to know that you were practicing a form of language and analysis th...
September 28, 2020 at 01:01
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
See the point about subjectivity I made above.
September 28, 2020 at 00:57
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
This is exactly the question, what does thought tell us we should do? How should philosophy be used? The reason you are able to arrive at these conclu...
September 28, 2020 at 00:56
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
I have a very different view of philosophy, knowing it to be thought. But to answer you from the basis of your own premise: then what does philosophy ...
September 28, 2020 at 00:48
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
I wonder, are other people buying your line of reason, that is, that the quotes I provided are invalid? You did not refute my position, you didn't eve...
September 28, 2020 at 00:40
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
Quite the contrary, the presumption of value has not been sustained. Since you want to thrust yourself into the fight: what exactly was wrong with the...
September 28, 2020 at 00:25
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
I have no problem with conceptual analysis, in Analytical Philosophy this analysis has gone off on a tangent. It has yet to be demarcated that Analyti...
September 28, 2020 at 00:21
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
Existence, the concrete and contingent life we live on this infinitesimal rock.
September 28, 2020 at 00:16
In: Gotcha!  — view comment
Psychological and philosophical maturity consciously strive to bypass this game by making use of 1) intellectual standards and 2) practicing a sense o...
September 27, 2020 at 23:26
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
This is an incredibly weak and emotional argument. Further, it is elitist: "while the adults are working." This validates everything I have been sayin...
September 27, 2020 at 23:10
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
That depends on what we are trying to do with our criticism? Not all criticism is of equal value. When philosophy begins talking about the attributes ...
September 27, 2020 at 23:01
In: Amy Coney Barrett's nomination  — view comment
There you have it, the antithesis of justice. For anyone who seriously wants to look into this topic in depth (law as ideology) there are some superb ...
September 27, 2020 at 22:32
In: Should We Fear Death?  — view comment
I second this. :up:
September 26, 2020 at 22:42
In: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs  — view comment
Not so. That's pure subjectivity, you might as well be a hedonist. It depends on what's important! I could go on about this, but I won't do it in this...
September 26, 2020 at 22:33
In: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs  — view comment
My simple question is, how much time should I spend on this? How important is it? Are there other things that warrant a better use of my time?
September 26, 2020 at 22:24
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
What? Even if what you're saying is accurate in terms of Sandel... (so very strange you're making it sound like Sandel is contingent on Austin)... you...
September 26, 2020 at 22:20
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
I think a serious problem in philosophical discourse is that individuals feel like their intelligence is being attacked when their belief is being att...
September 26, 2020 at 09:08
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
Asserting that your view is "grown-up" is like an exercise in self-justification. One merely needs to go to your thread of Plato to see your Analytica...
September 26, 2020 at 08:53
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
All three of the academic sources I quoted from say the same thing I just said.
September 26, 2020 at 08:39
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
Analytical philosophy conducts conceptual investigations, specifically into linguistic, idealistic logical structures. Well, one does not need to do t...
September 26, 2020 at 08:36
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
You spoke about "acceptable ways of talking," no? My reply was to state that the only thing that matters in this sense 'is whether a premise is statin...
September 26, 2020 at 08:25
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
If it's considered a false appeal to authority to quote from philosophical dictionaries, how do you propose we go about defining the Analytical style ...
September 26, 2020 at 08:20
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
Come on man, this is all ad hominem: "outsiders," "neophytes," "misplaced craving," "ignorant," "impudent." Do you realize you just condemned three ma...
September 26, 2020 at 08:07
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
The only thing that matters is whether a premise is stating something accurate in this sense. You demonstrate exactly what I've been saying, a bias fo...
September 26, 2020 at 08:02
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
But there is a common thread that runs between them, a very intensive kind of logical analysis that emphasizes the attributes of concepts. "If asked w...
September 26, 2020 at 07:54
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
I need to make it clear, for me the distinction is not between Analytical Philosophy and Continental Philosophy, but these taken together in contrast ...
September 26, 2020 at 07:40
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
There is no need for either one of us to get emotional here. This is how philosophy works, it contradicts positive knowledge to make gains in knowledg...
September 26, 2020 at 07:34
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
Then it should be super easy to refute. 'I take this to be a strong antithesis to the Analytical form: one doesn't have to use the Analytical style to...
September 26, 2020 at 07:25
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