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So am I!

Thanks, I just read it, and I'm sure I will read it many times more. It's a wonderful poem, dense and rich with allusion. I don't remember having read...

I certainly agree that there is movement against what you here characterize modernism as being; to deny that would be absurd. But I also think that mu...

I agree and I love Frost's poetry. Fair enough. Let me just say that I think there is a sense in which what you said is right, but there are many sens...

I don't think Kant;s noumenon is really similar to the Tao. The Dao is understood to be a "way" of being or living which can be intuited but cannot be...

Do you think Heidegger's understanding of being had a precursor? Hegel's dialectic? Spinoza's God? Kant's noumenon and transcendental ego? Descartes' ...

So, treating this not as poetry, but as philosophy for a moment, is the claim that all beliefs are always true, and are only counted false at times, o...

I agree with this; there is no well-defined boundary, and I'm not convinced there is any well defined difference between modernism and postmodernism o...

So, for you, the examined life, then? The unexamined life being confusing...and...not worth living? Intelligence being the ability to effectively and ...

Of course there have been new ideas arising in the evolution of philosophy; the history of ideas. I haven't see any new ideas expounded on these forum...

Or even back in 1927 (Being and Time).

I think part of the problem is deciding just what philosophical literature should be counted as postmodernist and what should not. Deleuze, for exampl...

No, rather that it is not even wrong is the fault they find with it. But note, I haven't said I think they are right or that the criticism is apt.

The most universal criteria for examining whether or not you are living your life is the question of whether or not you have the courage to own your f...

You would need to have some familiarity with the existentialists and phenomenologists to understand what it could mean to fail to live your life. You ...

I thought pOmO was thought by its AP detractors to be "not even wrong". :yikes:

If, as you say, the grand narratives have broken down and we are in a postmodern condition, then it could be that postmodernist philosophical. literar...

So are you asking whether we should have philosophy that rejects or eshews grand narratives? Or?

I want to know just which philosophers you count as being postmodernist and why you would count them as such before answering that question.

The question I was considering was whether the unlived life is worth examining. Of course animals live their lives; consider the question I asked earl...

And there I was thinking you were serious!

How would an animal or domesticated pig examine their unlived life? What could it even mean to say that an animal was not living its life?

I can't remember where this comes from (Alphonso Lingis?) but it would have it that "the unlived life is not worth examining". Is this true? If you we...

:up: Right, PM is just a passing moment in the self-reflective sub-processes of modernism, or better, modernity.

:up: There's some truth in that!

I like entertaining any and all of those positions to see where they logically lead, but if I was asked to say what I would definitely commit to, I th...

I agree; it's a matter of personal taste, just as it is with literature. I don't look at philosophy as a whole as one system or conceptual schema refu...

One significant effect in the arts was to open up the field to a new kind of eclecticism, once the modernist obsession with formal innovation had run ...

For me, obscurity in literature consists in writings that remain ambiguous no matter how much analysis is applied to them. But ambiguity is not withou...

When reading so-called "obscure" writers such as Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, Badiou, and so on, I don't think the point is "getting it right", but ra...

The relevance escapes me.

All of which are dependent for their existence on humanity. As to what exists independently of humans. humans and animals share an environment which i...

It's not the scope of conceivability, but the scope of determinate knowability which is limited. You don't want to admit that the scope of determinate...

It's true that people have lost trust in the medical industry. It is often seen as having become a puppet of so-called "big Pharma". This distrust has...

Do you really believe change of policy in the Liberal party can come from the bottom and work it's way up, or that any individual can work their way u...

I like to imagine what science and technology, and civilization itself, would have been like absent fossil fuels.I am not one who believes that our sa...

I'm really not sure about that one. I'd say anyone who is even passably science-literate and not given to perverse conspiracy theories would agree, bu...

Seems worth a look. Later... off to work now... Fully in terred, I hope! :wink:

Yes, you evaded a question with a question. I told you how I know the LNC is necessary for rational thought and discussion, and that I make no further...

Graham Priest's arguments (I have read a little of his work several years ago) do not contradict themselves as far as I remember, so he would seem to ...

Yes, and I already said earlier, a couple times if I am not mistaken, that I make no metaphysical claim beyond saying that the LNC is necessary for ra...

Haha, I just meant that according to dogma God gave us free will. So, although God is seen as a lawgiver, he is not understood to force us to do the "...

Well, I think most people place their hopes in improvements of human life due to medical science and science;based technology.

Although this is not directly addressed to me, it goes back to your last response to a post of mine which I did not in turn respond to. Recall that I ...

Yes, but even God allowed that; he gave us free will after all.

I don't see postmodernism as being all that pervasive in philosophy, actually. Insofar as much of contemporary philosophy is scientistic, I think it w...

How would you describe that?

That's a good point. "Everything is permitted" refers to humanity as a whole, freed from the constraints of a deity imposing moral law from above. But...

As I see it the meta-narratives only "fell" among a select group of academics. Outside of that "circle jerk" the meta-narrative of modernism is alive ...

I haven't said there isn't more to language and reason; obviously there is a semantic element too, which is encoded in the arrangement or patterned or...