I agree with , there is an actuality which is independent of any and all minds. It could be argued that actuality is not independent of mind as such, ...
What you write shows so little understanding of what mystics in general speak about that it leads me to doubt that you ever read any mystical texts, o...
As Punshhh said, Nietzsche has a "nice turn of phrase"; it's good literature. However, I think wisdom should be expressible in simple terms that the a...
Where you go wrong is in thinking that any alternative to an objective or empirical reality or order could be nothing more than a fiction. Apparently ...
"Mistaken impressions" just means "mistaken ideas" not "mistaken perceptions"; when we see the bent stick, our seeing of it is exactly what you would ...
Yes, I agree. Our entire worldview, including the scientific paradigm, has grown out of the Judeo-Christian (and Greek) worldview. The death of God wo...
It is surmised that the 'raw', absent Real is becoming. The only real that is present is being, and yet that being is never static; it is alive with t...
You might be right. It's a long time since I read Zarathustra. If God is for Nietzsche a product of the human psyche, then the historical event would ...
When we dream, remember and so on we don't see anything, we imagine things. If the indirect realist believes that then their position is no different ...
In this passage we can see a truth claim about the the real: that it is not an order but a chaos. This is as much the kind of mistaken objectivist cla...
What Nietzsche fails to understand is that the world is necessarily anthropomorphic or human-shaped. Those who claim there is an objective order also ...
There is no "purpose of life" that can be "proved"; that is precisely where your confusion lies; your confusion consists in asking that inappropriate ...
So you don't believe a more fulfilling life is better than a less fulfilling life? Living a purposeful life may or may not be enriching depending on t...
What I meant was not that he did not see himself as ruling out such ideas, but that such ideas are definitely not ruled out by the logic of his philos...
On the contrary, you're missing the very important point; that is if we do not have direct (meaning undistorted) access to the physical world via perc...
Re Nietzsche's attitude to science and truth, consider this (from Gay Science): "To make it possible for this discipline to begin, must there not be s...
I work as a self-employed landscape consultant/designer/contractor. Elements of it I like; the plants and natural materials (I have always loved the n...
No, I understand all the arguments for indirect/representational realism, and I find them inadequate and even self-defeating . Firstly if all we know ...
You write too much here to respond to in any detail. I would find it much easier if you would just focus on a couple of points, and succinctly state y...
You are not reading me literally enough; I didn't say that people should live for pleasure, but that they should live with, and, I want to emphasize, ...
A life without any feeling is a dead life, no? I don't know how many people continue to live with their spouses despite feeling zero love for them. I ...
For me the point is to live a life "with heart"; meaning to live in ways that cultivate those things which are the most important to you. What is most...
I certainly agree that truth is not analyzable, and in that sense, and that sense alone, we do not know what it is. But I also think most people intui...
I don't know what you mean by "an image projected on the surface". My understanding is that, according to the physical understanding of seeing ( which...
I think it's great that you have found it works for you. That's the most important thing in life; to find things that actually work; whether it be rel...
It makes little sense to say that "we are harmed by being exposed to existence". We are not exposed to existence; we either exist or we do not. And as...
I think Nietzsche admired Jesus Christ, but he considered Christianity to be a slave morality because it is dispensed 'from above'. Someone above sugg...
You're misunderstanding if you think I have said that life is all positive, just a bed of roses with no thorns. Living fully, though, is not a matter ...
I am puzzled as to how you could know what truth does, if you don't know what it is. Perhaps you (and Nietzsche) are really talking, not about truth, ...
I have tried for nearly forty years, admittedly somewhat sporadically (although I did meditate daily for about 15 years at my longest stretch) to see ...
They can be a source of meaning, or better, they are the meaning. The purpose is to learn to see more and more in them, appreciate them more and work ...
Yes, that would be bad. :-$ For myself, I can't see an overburden of negatives that come with posting on these forums as long as it doesn't take up to...
What puzzles me is why you are taking it to be, or else insisting on making it, a question of cold analysis. Ask yourself whether there is anything or...
It generated a remarkable number of replies for what wasn't much more than a 'drive-by' OP! I would have felt more satisfied if Colin had engaged some...
True, 'ego' is an equivocal term, as is 'personality'. We can speak about the personal ego, meaning the social personality and sense of self within an...
It seems there's already a boundary inherent in the notion of a soul entering a world. I suppose I would have to say the soul enters at the moment of ...
Must it be memory that circumscribes or is it not the thought of 'self and other"? The circumscription, though, the very thought of self and other mus...
There is memory (as faculty) which is not experienced but thought, and there are memories which are experienced, or rather, are experiences. There is ...
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