I seem to remember that in Aristotle's' understanding phronesis or 'practical wisdom' acquired by artisans in their practices could assist them in und...
Apologies, I somehow missed both of your replies. I'm not sure what you are referring to. Perhaps I didn't articulate my thoughts well there?I meant t...
That leaves me wondering what target you think you might have hit. Sure it can?it can be moralizing and holier and thou in terms of attitude, while be...
I think Heidegger is referring to his distinction between between vorhanden "present at hand" knowledge and zuhanden "ready to hand" wisdom. I see tha...
I have no criticism of anyone finding anything funny (barring cruelty or real misfortune). Perhaps the funniest thing is that the diatribe was meant t...
Ignores the simple fact that Plato and Socrates belong to a very different time. On a different note...the burgeoning partisanship on this site is bec...
Yes really, apart from the "entertaining" part...at least as it strikes me, but clever yes...like a monkey. As Wittgenstein said " It's more important...
True, if the individually powerless could manage to coordinate and agree to act to secure their interests, the powerful would have no chance. It's jus...
Only a fool such as yourself would think that I was serious. (Don't imagine for a moment that I am being serious here or that I imagined you were bein...
The inability of the powerless to coordinate in order to restrain the powerful just might be a candidate for the major source of human misery?the cent...
Perhaps we are talking about different things. If someone believes something to be the case based on false information and what they believe to be the...
What lies behind the traditional philosophical denial of common sense would seem to be the assumption that this world, not being perfect, cannot be th...
Why change the subject to consciousness. Consciousness is obviously amply demonstrated. Are you suggesting that noesis has been accepted as a hinge pr...
If the actuality is undetermined then the truth or falsity of the belief will also be undetermined. If someone believes something for reasons based on...
You are presupposing that it is a mere presupposition. How about thinking that in the absence of any possibility of demonstrating that a faculty of no...
It's true that there are quite a few people here who are well-read in specific areas. I see that as a good thing provided their erudition has not beco...
It was @"Banno" who requested that it be buried after the sophists (mostly you and @"Leontiskis") had already killed it. As @"Srap Tasmaner" said "you...
What could have been an interesting thread was killed by the resident sophists who can be relied upon to prefer participating in culture wars over phi...
Expertise is demonstrable within the sciences and practical matters in general. How could expertise of a purported religious authority be demonstrated...
I've been following along even though I haven't much time to engage in depth right now. Is not the 'argument from authority' generally (and rightly) c...
A nice corrective to 'all or nothing' authoritarian thinking! A rather facile response! As with the arts, where quality, although it is recognizable t...
Right, for me the great philosophers' ideas and systems have aesthetic value. They present us with novel ways to think about things?and they are admir...
Yes, I was mixing up the jargon there. I did mean to say that I think intellectus or intellectual intuition is just creative imagination, at least whe...
Yes, the terms 'analytic' and 'synthetic' of course do carry philosophical baggage. That said I would say "dissection" is synonymous with 'analysis' a...
A well thought through piece Banno. I have long thought of the two broadly different ways of philosophizing as the analytic and the synthetic. I see t...
The default is not to do it, obviously. The logic of living in community precludes treating others merely as means. There might be practical justifica...
Authority is justifiable (when it is) for practical reasons in my view. The important point in relation to the conversation at hand is that there are ...
They may have indulged in metaphysics. Heidegger accused Husserl of just that and then could arguably be said to have done the same. The original poin...
They are obviously not demonstrable to the unbiased, not matter how much the biased might beleive them to be. Your reading skills are truly woeful if ...
I take you to be saying that if things are real we observe them, we don't merely believe in them. If things we believe in are such that we can't know ...
You're remarkably good at either failing to see the point or at deliberately changing the subject to avoid dealing with what is problematic for your p...
They all have their different interpretations, which rather supports my point?the interpretation is not the experience. I take mystical experiences ve...
What reason would we have to believe in a deity if not believing in revelation? Sure, first cause and all that but that doesn't necessarily entail div...
You are misunderstanding what I said apparently. I said that an unknowable divinity offers no solace or salvation. A personal divinity who reveals its...
A well-constructed, nicely written essay, which for me, however, only showed that older concepts of reason incorporated what we would today class as t...
It's not that the experience is all about "one truth for all", but that the interpretation of it may be, indeed usually are. The interpretations are g...
I have no objection to compassionate sharing. The experience may feel like an encounter with truth, but intellectual honesty should disabuse one of th...
Right, I haven't been saying that I see a problem with people interpreting their mystical experiences, and entertaining whatever personal beliefs they...
I don't know what you are referring to in saying "cracking a nut with a sledgehammer". Perhaps you could clarify. Also it's not clear just what are th...
That's not really what I've been saying. Firstly I was saying that phenomenological investigation is carried out via reflection on human experience. G...
I'd say the study of mystical experience as one aspect of human experience is as much a part of phenomenology as the study of any other aspect of huma...
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