There is practical life (in the sense of earning a living) and then there is contemplation and study and creative pursuits. Not always easy to balance...
Hegel also gives a Science of Logic among numerous other works. I haven't begun to penetrate it yet, and i don't know if i ever will, but the Phenomen...
Well then you didn't read my post on this subject, that you originally responded to properly; we are obviously not talking about the same kinds of soc...
The insight I am referring to is personal insight of a kind which cannot be inter-subjectively corroborated. It's just like the insight of the artist,...
What are you reading of Hegel? If this interpretation comes from reading the Phenomenology, can you cite some passages in support of it or at least pr...
There'd be a paucity of philosophical literature; and if you found yourself capable metaphysical speculation you would either have to keep it to yours...
I don't think it's right to say that Hegel "brings down" the distinction between phenomenon and noumenon if by that you mean abolishes it. I think it ...
Would you rather live in a world like that, or a world in which a politically enforced predominant view is mandated, and competing views are at the ve...
I do think it is true that Hegel and Schelling reintroduced elements of Spinozism. But of those two Hegel's concerns at least (I don't know much about...
You agree with Hegel now, against Schopenhauer? Actually Hegel's philosophy was arguably very influenced by the mystical tradition, so it is by no mea...
You have entirely misunderstood what I said. I have not suggested that metaphysics is "just what anybody thinks". Many rigorous metaphysical systems c...
Scholastic metaphysics is something I have not studied much. But I am familiar enough with it to know that there were major disagreements between phil...
I can't see how time is relevant to the reality of something. You and I are modulations and we might be here for eighty or ninety years, or even more....
So, are you claiming that God is real in some sense beyond being an apophatically derived abstract notion? This is where you never give a straight ans...
That is a meaningless contradiction. There is no general "act of becoming" as Agustino suggests there is; rather there are infinitely many acts of bec...
If the phenomenal and the logical are all that we can know; the former as experience and the latter as thought, then what more could the noumenal be, ...
No this is a misunderstanding; the moving object does not have to 'account for and check off' every point it moves through, not least because it does ...
My objection to Agustino's analogy was nothing like what you say it was, so I'm not going to bother responding to that. What exactly is the "truth of ...
It's obvious that substance is not a "state of the world". What do you mean by "presence of a transcendent realm"? How could a transcendent realm be p...
What exactly do you think it is in Descartes' own notion of substance that makes his substance dualism inconsistent? Can you site a passage from Spino...
The problem is that there cannot be any precise formulations of metaphysical categories and definitions of metaphysical terms that everyone will agree...
Apart from one other passage, I am only going to address what I have quoted here because the rest of your post consists in just making the same assert...
The only reason we cannot do it is because we could never count infinitely fast which is what we would need to be able to do to complete the series. W...
I'd say that there are (at least) two senses of 'knowing'. There is the everyday sense of the knowledge involved in perception, where we can talk abou...
You are still not getting the difference. Counting each half-division of a segment takes the same time as it does to count any other. Not so with trav...
The idea of the infinite divisibility of a line necessarily involves number; and the notion of traversing it necessarily involves time and the measure...
OK, but I wasn't referring at all to "accepting dogmatic truths of faith". If we "call into question what is real" and come to know something other th...
However the paradox is framed precisely as a purported paradox of the infinite divisibility of a line. I agree with Banno; the realization that the fi...
But what is being said by Hegel here is not as clear as taking it out of context in this way makes it appear to be. "With Parmenides that which is kno...
I don't see it that way. Physics reflects the logical structure which inheres in our understanding of the "said empirical reality", and metaphysics is...
Right, so you think of animals as Descartes did; as machines? When I refer to "direct knowing" I am not thinking primarily of what is known by the sen...
No worries, but if you think I have contradicted myself then evidently you don't allow for the possibility of any kind of direct knowing. Presumably t...
Yes, knowledge in the sense Sellar's means is always already in "conceptual shape". This doesn't change the fact that 'things' are known non-conceptua...
If, for Spinoza, everything is an expression of the nature of God, and God is in everything and everything is in God; then Spinoza is either a panthei...
Yes, I agree that it doesn't make sense to speak of the noumenal thing as the Earth, because the Earth is knowable and the nounemon is, by definition,...
Maybe all this belongs in a 'Spinoza' thread, or a 'Differences between Kant and Spinoza' thread, since I don't think it is arguable that either are o...
What do you think the distinction between metaphysics and physics besides the obvious distinction between the infinite and the finite, would consist i...
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