OK, but isn't it also just for the love of it? I misunderstood then; it had seemed you were defending Schopenhauer's thinking about the relation betwe...
The way I see it, self-cultivation, provided it is not done for self-aggrandisement, is an end in itself, practiced out of love. Why do you want to be...
That's true, but it is only Schopenhauer who advocates negation of the will. If this negation of self-will is not replaced by affirmation of a greater...
Contrary to Schopenhauer's assertion, boredom does not ensue upon the satisfaction of desire, but exists where there simply is no desire, no interest,...
There's certainly nothing wrong in dispelling mysteries when it comes to empirical enquiry. And I'm not "attacking authoritarianism" or pretending to ...
I would say we cannot form any adequate notion of divine purposiveness, because any such attempt will result in an anthropomorphic model of purposiven...
Yes, but I would say an adequate notion of the Father just is a notion of "pure unformed potential" and certainly not any "sky daddy". The latter is a...
The notion of a triadic relation of "interindependence" (Pannikar) makes the most sense to me. It can be (and has been) conceptualized in so many ways...
But wouldn't a holistic physicalist want to say that the top down causality is really nothing more than an emergent manifestation of the interactions ...
But does the true irreductionist deny that all out experiences (and for that matter all our explanations) could be the result of interactions of parti...
You're misunderstanding: I'm not arguing that we know, or are conscious of, what gives rise to experience; I'm arguing against the idea that we have a...
You seem to be saying contradictory, or at least unfounded, things here: that "consciousness integrates all of the momentary impressions..." and that ...
It's philosophobabble. It almost makes sense, or rather alludes to the possibility of its making sense, and therein lies the humour. Allen's interlocu...
I think self-awareness understood in the ordinary 'human' sense requires symbolic language. If you want to say that animals are, or might be, self-awa...
Robots don't feel pain. Animals feel pain, but are not self-aware they are feeling it. Humans feel pain and are (sometimes at least) self-aware they a...
Yes, Heidegger is more against dualistic metaphysics than monistic metaphysics. There are profound problems with monism too, though. Perhaps Spinoza c...
You seem to be conflating the primordial experience with its representation. Being in the world is an experience, the essential human experience, and ...
Well, I would say that's just one way of interpreting the situation. We don't "know" the subject as an object at all. "The subject" is really nothing ...
Well, I would say the subject is as much of an objective reality as the object is, but science does not concern itself with subjects since they are no...
What do you mean, though, in saying that it is 'underpinned by the human cognitive faculties" ? Are you talking about the brain? The idea that the bra...
This seems to embody an elementary contradiction and confusion, though, insofar as Greer is saying that it is an objective fact that the whole story i...
One of my best friends reads him too, I won't say "religiously", but with much enthusiasm. Personally, I find his writings on philosophy (which my fri...
I've never worked for anyone else for any length of time. I was hopeless at school because of a total lack of interest, so when I finished year 12 I h...
The lines are somewhat blurred sometimes between egregious exploitation where workers, including children, are paid a pittance for inhumanly long work...
To be enslaved by force is more than merely a matter of "equity". If our slaves are on the other side of the world then no amount of "labor laws, publ...
Everyone is a slave in the sense that they have to somehow earn or otherwise acquire a living or die, BC. Life itself makes 'slaves' of us all in that...
Yes, I am certainly not arguing that no one benefits from the smart phone industry, but the fact that many are helped does not justify the inhuman exp...
I think there is a big difference between being a more or less oppressed and stressed out worker who can leave their job if they really are determined...
OK, I haven't read those two and nor do I intend to. If what you say exemplifies their view, then I would say that it seems like a myopic, or one-dime...
I'm not clear on what you're asking here. Are you offering these: "a moral life" and 'philosophy-as-methodology' as alternative ways of living an exam...
No, he has a normal head. McGregor has an abnormally massive head. In any case a small head is a smaller target, and says nothing about skull thicknes...
Sure, there are many cases like this, but the point is that we in the prosperous west enjoy lifestyles that, in their levels of comfort, and health ca...
The middle classes and even the upper echelons of the working classes live unprecedentedly comfortable and 'material goods rich' lives. Many are lever...
"The unexamined life is not worth living" It seems fair to say that both Plato and Aristotle, in their perhaps different ways, recommended the pursuit...
I don't understand your objection since I wasn't talking about physical laws in the context of morality, but rather moral laws. The contention, as I u...
Our unprecedented prosperity is predicated upon, utterly dependent upon, consumerism and growth economy. So, the [profiteers will by no means be the o...
If it is "the nature of humanity to pursue eudamonia" (and this is taken in a positive sense as 'flourishing'), and the "route to this is the good" th...
We do not require that physical laws "came into existence" prior to the phenomena they govern in order to qualify as being "objective"; so why should ...
The point of the OP seems to be that in order for there to be moral responsibility there must be moral autonomy, and in order for there to be moral au...
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