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No, can you provide a direct quote or citation? I have tried to disabuse you of this erroneous reading several times but it's not sinking in. Once aga...

Certainly, nothing of much interest to you, it would seem. And yet you have 'participated' in the vacuity nonetheless.

The threefold division reminds me of the Christian ideas of the fallen world, beatitude and heaven. The idea of the Buddha as 'incarnation' could also...

Yes, I don't see that either. Rosa Parks is a heroic spirit. But, I don't see much, if any, relevance to what I've been saying in the rest of the post...

Yes, for me freedom is a mystery, it points beyond both the mechanical and the organic and is like a finger pointing at an unknown moon. Not everythin...

If you're willing to carry on the discussion in a spirit of charitability and good faith instead of narrow caricature, tendentious distortion and egre...

Yes, I would say that one can certainly increase one's sense of freedom by changing one's thoughts about it. At least, I think that is what you are re...

The kind of belief I am speaking about is not one that is analogous with belief in unicorns or UFOs. There are beliefs you would (or should) be willin...

No, you're misunderstanding. Freedom is not dependent on anything, but your personal sense and understanding of freedom is. The latter is dependent on...

It's a much simpler thing I'm talking about; which is that if people do not believe they are free they will not experience freedom nor will they act f...

I think it is undeniable that people may be either freed or enslaved by their beliefs. People are inherently free but may certainly enslave themselves...

I can't speak for others, but I am not talking about any 'freedom' that can be granted by the state, or any freedom from emotions (in the sense that t...

But the problem with what you say is that even if the true spiritual nature of persons is freedom, this cannot entail that there is any rational guara...

It is not a matter of freedom being guaranteed by anything. Freedom cannot be guaranteed. That is the erroneous conceptual trap you seem to keep falli...

I would still say that Foucault thinks that pre-reflective subjects are constructed by various technologies of power and discourse. Those technologies...

OK, I'm equating the subject with the self and distinguishing it from the individual. This is not exactly Henry's terminology perhaps. Perhaps he woul...

I don't know who this is aimed at, but I have read quite a lot of "pomo" literature and even more proto-pomo (Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger). I have ...

Perhaps, but there is something for the self to be transcendent of and that is really the point of Henry's polemic against any scientific understandin...

Yes, but I would say the issue is also with the notions of 'genealogy' and 'archeology' in relation to subjects.

I'm not familiar with late Foucault. Why do you say he would not be classed as a postmodernist? Also re your comment about Marx, note that if the cond...

I've been reading Henry lately and I just want to note that Henry's notion of immanence, which is referred to the subject, is so radical that it precl...

Yes, on one hand I'm very suspicious of the taken-for-granted dichotomy that seems so transparently exclusive to our discursive minds: 'just panned ou...

Does it matter? (L)

I would say that you fail to understand love.

Yes, the child's moods are like fast-moving clouds over the face of the sun, she is angry then she runs over and hides behind mommy's legs, and then s...

I think right at the end, after Daddy says "I don't think I like your tone" Mom says "Go hard". Perhaps a combination of inherited character and nurtu...

Yeah, I think you're probably right. Maybe mommy is argumentative and Daddy is passive aggressive (" I don't think I like your tone")?

I'll have to listen again, more closely.

On another thread, I participated in a discussion about anger, jealousy and envy, where someone claimed that envy was a always a source of evil, where...

The young one seems to be rehearsing the form of an argument rather than delivering content. Imitation within an argumentative family perhaps?

OK, so the love is in the person. If the person really loves then their acts will be moral, no? So where does duty come into it? If you do something y...

Wos is right; it is that which gives life. That"s what we award great artists for (or should) their gifts of life.

If you know then there's no need to tell you, and if you don' t then there's no point.

Depends whether 'serious philosophy' denotes something which takes itself seriously merely on account of itself, or someting which is serious on accou...

O:)

The God-bothering, Gobsmacking Guru of Generalization gains another glorious goal. :-d

Not if it's SERIOUS PHILOSOPHY.

True it is; and I think it is often forgotten that philosophical beliefs are mostly as much a matter of evidentially unsupported faith as religious be...

Yeah, to me, in other photos I've seen he always seems to look like a character out of Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Yeah, but he's honest cos he don't 'really' ( ;).) pretend to be anything but a liar? :s

Although there is no absolutely clear division between them it may generally be said that philosphical judgements are not subject, in principle, to em...

This is hilarious; I don't believe Terrapin ever said that; I think you actually claimed that and asked Terrapin to concur, unless I misremember. But ...

LOL your capacity for self-awareness is simply astounding Agustino! :-}

What I said is based on watching you in this thread and others, ad nauseum, promoting an authoritarian model of morality, it's based on nothing more n...

Agustino seems to think that things are moral or immoral on the basis of some authority, religion, the Bible or whatever. The truth is that causal sex...

Of course, the thing about claims is we believe they must be true or false. The understanding of the nature of aesthetic judgements falls into seeing ...

I don't know, Punshhh; I think the universe is an incredibly complex objectivication that will never be completely understood. But what I was referrin...

To me it is just bizzarely funny that anyone would think that the reality of freedom could ever be refuted (or established) by an argument. There is n...

And that's it in a nutshell, right there, for me . No self-respecting post-modernist would ever subscribe to anything so unfashionable as that.

I agree with this, the only variance I have with it is that I would add to this: does not think they immanent "within the person". I think PM sees spi...