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One of the most questionable presumptions of phenomenologists (and not just phenomenologists!) is that it must be the same for everyone.

The plain truth, beautifully stated. (Y)

But Leibniz does not say that we consist of more than one monad; one for the body and one for the mind. When you said that the monad of the body is no...

Dylan's greatness in his genre of one is more than merely a subjective opinion, just as the stature of Everest is; I agree with that. What I don't agr...

This is incorrect, it just a matter of clearing up category errors. If you say "I Iike Bob Dylan's music" that is not the same as to say "Bob Dylan' m...

What you are saying does not seem to be consonant with Leibniz: the body cannot be a monad because it is composite.

I'm not sure the hologram analogy works, though, because as you say each 'part' of the hologram embodies the same image as the whole, each part is ide...

Except they cannot be like the atoms we know, because they cannot be combined together in causal relations. That begs the question as to how they can ...

I think the very idea of substance is problematic. Substance cannot be material if the material is infinitely divisible. And if substance is not mater...

I don't think that saying it again gives it more justification: I think it was already amply justified. I just thought that saying it again might allo...

Seems irrelevant. I haven't said that something that works as a song thereby necessarily cannot work as poetry. I have said that I don't think Dylan's...

I don't understand why you apparently think the only alternative to God being a being is God being a thing. But I agree with Heidegger in rejecting th...

'Being' is a verb made into a noun; somewhat like the way in which you could refer to a seeing, or a doing. And just as a seeing must see and a doing ...

I think we're basically in agreement here; it's probably more of a terminological issue. :)

That's one way of looking at it I suppose. I agree that Morrison wasn't much of a poet. But Dylan wasn't a poet at all, he was just a song-writer.So i...

Kant is saying that if you understand yourself to be merely expressing your opinion about or response to a work of art or nature in the form of "I lik...

If you are claiming is that just for you it's not true that you think aesthetics "is (not?) merely a matter of taste" then sure that requires no argum...

There's not much point saying, on a philosphy forum, that you disagree with some philosopher on some issue, if you're not prepared to argue in support...

It seems that they have created a category tailor made for Dylan then. I mean under that criterion Dylan isn't merely the best, or doesn't merely stan...

Great, then you should be able to concisely summarize Kant's explanation of how and why we think aesthetic judgements are universal and say why and ho...

So you've read CofJ then?

Sure, but I thought this category of the Nobel Prize was for Literature, not for prophecy or songwriting. I'm not saying that Morrison should have bee...

Jim Morrison published at least one book of his poetry (as did Leonard Cohen), did Dylan? His poetry is far better than his song lyrics. Song lyrics g...

One line, out of one song, out of context? Really? There is plenty of his poetry online for you to read if you are interested. It's always going to be...

The issue is whether human narratives reflect a reality beyond the merely human, and if so, which ones. But we can't know for sure, and that's where f...

For me most of Dylan's poetry is lacking in depth and subtlety, it's mostly facile and forced. If you want compare him with other singer/ songwriters,...

There may be, per scientific theory, no force pushing us back. Nonetheless we feel pushed back.That feeling of being pushed back is the lived experien...

But the fact remains that we feel something pushing us back, and that is the experience we have; it is certainly not a scientific theory, fictitious o...

I agree with Heister's analysis. But people may respond very differently to such stressful situations, so it's best to avoid jumping to conclusions ba...

Well, he certainly wouldn't do it if it was as obvious as you seem to think it is that doing it means he is definitely guilty. No one but Bill Clinton...

The way I see it, the position is reduced to absurdity only by Socrates' use of a premise which is foreign to the position. I think that's a problem f...

The problem I have is that I am unable to see how anything more than an illusion of freedom could result from a semiotic process; if it is understood ...

I was just pointing out that the sophistic point made in the maxim "Of all things the measure is Man, of the things that are, that they are, and of th...

Now, that might be a "very pretty result" but it does seem somewhat strange, because it doesnot seem to follow from the idea that all opinions are tru...

In your second para here I think you've hit upon one of the most telling presumptions implicit in the much vaunted notion of finitude of some modernis...

Yes, I agree that following rules is important for some disciplines; but not for all. It is not important for poetry and painting for example; on the ...

Do you mean the critique that says it's a performative contradiction, Cavacava, or did you want to say something else? I don't expect consistency or c...

I think where we are going to disagree is in regard to the meaning of autonomy. For me autonomy consists in the possibility of self-determination in t...

The very same sophistic point was made over 2000 years ago by Protagoras: "Man is the measure of all things."

I haven't admitted what you say I have, except in the limited trivial sense I already described. You're wrong about Hegel; but I'm not going to bother...

The problem is that if people see themselves in terms of the world they will inevitably come to deny their own freedom and responsibility; their selfh...

I have not been offering any opinion about whether Hegel showed a necessary connection between the history of ideas and the history of events, and the...

I don't see any good reason to think that we need to be anything more than mindful of the Law; certainly not preoccupied with it; I don't think that's...

I don't think you saw the direction or relevance of what I said judging from your first couple sentences. It is only in the context of personhood that...

But you are making my original point for me very well, which is that there is a disjunct between the phenomenological, 'lived' experience of feeling y...

There is another angle from which to think of "speciesism" which is to say that thinking about an individual in terms of being a member of a species i...

That's true. But you're speaking about what has been historically prior, and I am speaking about what is now spiritually prior. Thanks to the advent o...

The very difference between Hegel and Marx is that Hegel understood the material exigencies of history to be a reflection of the history of spirit (or...

Sure they generally do, but the case of the lioness and the antelope is an exception. Also, thoug, animals do not have codified laws that needs to be ...

For Hegel, history is the evolution of spirit; all the shapes and details of history reflect the overarching moments of spirit. I'm not going to bothe...