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No point at all. I think it's better not to think of following God as following a tradition or a dogma at all, but as following the spirit. A dogma or...

Thanks Wayfarer, I'll check that out.

Well, that would certainly be a different matter, I would say. It is not the sheer physical nature of the activity itself that determines spiritual va...

I haven't anyway said anything to the contrary, I couldn't possibly disagree with you more. As I said before there is high culture and low culture and...

It's true that the universe can be made sense of; insofar as rational, discursive accounts and explanations can be given of it. But there remain aspec...

OK, there are only three Post Moderns in the diagram there and two of them, Deleuze and Foucault, are classed as thinkers of immanence. The other, Der...

Cool cartoons Punshhh, and I agree that one is better Cavacava (Y)

Ah, but there are indeed grounding myths; truths of the spirit that have been handed down to us in the traditions. Meaning doesn't come from outside a...

The size of Everest (it's stature or status as the tallest mountain) is not merely a matter of subjective opinion.

The greatness of anything is never objectively determinable and that is what leads you to think mistakenly that it is merely a matter of subjective op...

To say that you like something is not an aesthetic judgement, it is a statement about your feelings. To say that something is beautiful or great or a ...

In itself I agree with some of what I think you are saying here, but I don't agree that is what the PMs argue, or at least if they do argue that, it i...

I'm coming to think that philosophy should be more to do with the spirit, with life as freely lived, and less to do with endless endeavours to discurs...

I do see what you are saying. I think a common characteristic of PM ( and of most other strains of modern philosophy) consists in the denial of transc...

I added more while you were replying. But in any case I would agree with you that PM is not a school in the strict sense that Marxism is; but I would ...

I can't see any reason to think that the fact that an anthology of Postmodernism that includes an essay agreeing with my characterization of Postmoder...

I can't see any reason to think that the fact that an anthology of Postmodernism that includes an essay agreeing with my characterization of Postmoder...

But, I'm not saying that there is no such man; I'm saying I have good reason to believe that there is no such man. Can you not see the difference betw...

No, you see you are misrepresenting my position. I don't say that tigers are necessarily stronger than humans, but that they generally are. Every matu...

Any man or woman. I am not saying it is impossible there could be a man stronger than an elephant; I am saying that I have every reason to believe the...

Yes, there is a general trend to think in 'modern' and 'postmodern' ways about those issues; and a rejection of much that is traditional in philosophy...

But I'm not. I can't believe that you don't agree that any healthy and mature tiger, silverback gorilla, rhinoceros or elephant would be stronger by f...

Well, if I asserted that transcendence is real, or that there are truths which are such independent of humanity or even just independent of discourse,...

Well, no I was speaking only generally and in terms of probability. I mean if I asked you whether a gorilla, a tiger, a rhinoceros or an elephant is s...

It is not so easy to come up with non-examples of significant differences. It should be far easier to come up with examples, specially for those more ...

Well, it will be more likely that any randomly selected male will be stronger than a randomly selected female; but of course that can tell you definit...

Questions of metaphysics, ontology, meaning, transcendence, truth, the nature of dialectic, religion, spirituality, ethics, aesthetics, universals, es...

Look, I am no expert on these philosophers, but I have formed an opinion, rightly or wrongly, about them, that there are not significant differences b...

I freely admit that I have not really extensively read them. My experience had been that they generally are convoluted and that they don't rigorously ...

OK, but isn't their rejection of "grounding myths" a significant defining characteristic of PM?

So some of them remain structuralists? Which ones?

LOL, no. I am interested to know if anyone can come up with a really significant difference or two between any postmodernist thinkers when it comes to...

Would you say it is true that Deleuze, Foucault and Derrida among other postmodernist thinkers all reject structuralist principles of meaning?

Is it true that male humans are, on average, physically stronger than females? I seem to remember that they disagreed about Foucault's treatment of Ca...

What's the difference between a "general consensus" and "defining commonalities" in your book? I don't see any inconsistency in asserting that it is d...

Since this discussion is probably out of context in this thread it might be better to re-post this in the thread I have just started.

So, you claim that there is no commonality between the attitudes of say Foucault, Deleuze and Derrida when it comes to truth, dialectic, universality ...

True that! But tbh, I don't see anything much wrong with hope; provided you can justify it to yourself without self-deception.

You know nothing at all about what I've read, what I know or what I understand. It's a fact that there is general consensus among the postmoderns when...

X-) Good ol' Diogenes; he was an honest man; so honest, in fact, that apparently he used to masturbate in public. Don't cynics believe their cynical t...

I don't know quite what to make of what you say here, Wosret. Are you "speaking in parables to the blind"?

I don't know why, but I am reminded of Every Which Way but Loose. :s

But this is precisely what people have not done from time immemorial.There have been shared understandings of universal truth to ground discourse righ...

I don't think "throw away the raft" is a Christian notion; more Buddhist. Perhaps the Christian would say "allow the raft to be supercharged".

Enigmatic! ;)

I agree that,for me, she does capture something of the character of the internal dialogue. And yet others might not find it so; what then?

But this does not seem to be something we need to, or even ever could, explain. We already know we can communicate with others and even commune with a...

That's a good question; whether his monadology is consistent. I can't answer that. It's true that our bodies are made of the things you mention; or at...

Thanks for these unfamiliar perspectives. I agree with you that conversion has nothing at all to do with "joining a cause or a party". So many do seem...

So when Denise Riley gives her account of 'thinking with herself' does she believe its character applies to everyone else, or even anyone else? (She d...