Not at all; it just means his theory is mistaken. I mean, it's not as if it follows logically that, if empirical studies are reliable, any theoretical...
If Hoffman has arrived at his theory that reality is nothing like what we perceive, then upon what does he base this theory? It cannot be based on stu...
Yes, I've also read it, and I think it's an important book. You and I may not agree on the details; but I think we would agree that much (or even most...
See, here I think you are dropping into the other half of the abstract dichotomy. Mystical experience is dichotomously thought as either wholly contai...
In view of Wayfarers comment about a point I didn't pick up in the OP, I want to add that I think the idea of mysticism as "just" "emotions and concep...
This is a passage from Hegel which I think is particularly relevant, quoted in the book I am reading, Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition. Magee thinks H...
There are some interesting takes here Willow, due, I would say, to some creative misreading. I have underlined the bits that I feel like addressing. I...
Yes, I would even say that we are God's flesh and blood, and that the Eucharist and the Incarnation and Resurrection are all symbolic of that Holy Uni...
That's an interesting question; I have pondered that a fair bit myself. I think that when it comes to understanding the empirical notion of truth as t...
I like what you wrote below this, but I just want to comment on these lines. We do reason about death, but we have no determinate concepts about it, j...
This relates in an interesting way to Hegel's discussion of sense perception in the PoS. He exposes the presumptions of critical philosophy that under...
Yes, but isn't death the (elephant's arse)hole in the room of the concept system? ( Phew!!! talk about mixed metaphors!!!) I confess I heartily dislik...
I wish I was a nocturnal thief of reptile eggs; it sounds exciting! I should have said (to make the meaning clearer) "and my blood ran cold with recog...
OK, I think I get it a bit more now. I tend to think of metaphor in terms of poetry; although I am also mindful that everyday language, and even scien...
If the meaning of empirical propositions lies in,or depends on, knowing what would make them true or false; then perhaps the truth or falsity of non-e...
I haven't read The White Mythology. I'm not sure what it could mean to say metaphysics is metaphorical or the converse. I have long thought of metaphy...
I think there's some text got lost here. :) Yes, the notion of misunderstanding or misreading, whether creative or otherwise, does seem to presuppose ...
I really shouldn't still be here responding but I'm sucked in! I do, but I don't think the concepts we need to speak about them are the same as the co...
I've been meaning to give Difference and Repetition another go (my previous attempt was half-hearted at best) because, according to some accounts I ha...
G A Magee ( in Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition) writes that scholars generally agree that Hegel was exposed to the kind of mysticism inherent in Swab...
I haven't read the Stambaugh translation, but the Macquarie/Robinson instead. I found it to be fine, very lucid in fact, once you get used to the neol...
I don't have much time Hoo, but I'll just say that I don't think cherry-picking is necessary, and certainly is not sufficient, for creative misreading...
I think what you are really talking about is intensity of feeling. For sure people may die for their convictions, that is they may be feel ready to di...
I think I can see where you're going with this, but I can't see how it relates to my silly comment and in any case, I cannot wholeheartedly agree. Fir...
I don't know what philosophy has to say about this, and as a would-be consolation prize I can only offer what little I might be able to say, and maybe...
On one hand, I would certainly agree that Hegel didn't "reject Kant's critical philosophy outright", if by "outright rejection" you meant that he cons...
Blake, in his radical Christianity, referred, as Heidegger seems in a very different way to allude to with his notion that only a God can save us from...
Yes, but this comes from his later philosophy, not from Being and Time. In any case, looking at today's fashionably oppressive and repressive scientis...
No, I think philosophers do not always practice what they preach. My impression of Schopenhauer is that he was a vain, if not spoiled and insincere, a...
I's a complex issue, but for me Hegel is a kind of spiritual monist. The Phenomenology of Spirit had earlier been called The Phenomenology of Mind whi...
Of course, tragedy is and must be, when we are tired, in a sense the funniest thing; I won't deny that. But the profundity of tragedy does not lie in ...
The fact that Heidegger was, for at least a brief moment, a Nazi, cannot be relevant to the philosophy of Being and Time, as I see it. Whether it is r...
For me, that passage presents a gross misunderstanding of Hegel. (Where does it come from?). If what it says were true then Hegel would just be anothe...
The history of philosophy may be seen as a series of attempts to orient to the world, to the actuality of existence. I think it's natural that the pre...
I certainly don't think Heidegger would agree at all with this interpretation. For him cognition is a secondary mode of being, parasitic upon dasein's...
That's fine; I am not wanting to deny that there can be more or less philosophical literature. But it was csalisbury's original statement that Beckett...
I'll try explain what my thoughts were and see if that helps to clarify whether what I wrote is invalid. "I don't know what it could mean to say that ...
I'd say the most interesting aspect of philosophy is its historical relationship to modes of personal transformation; philosophy as practice in other ...
In regard to Heidegger; I think any apparent disagreement from him or from those whose philosophies are famed in his terms, about the conceptually for...
Now there's a difficult question; by all accounts he was a very private man, not wishing to expose his sexuality to public view and all. It appears I ...
I hadn't meant to use terminology in a psychological mode there. What I was trying to get at it is that since the mind-conceived 'mind-independent wor...
Right, but the "thoughtless world", although it doesn't 'possess thoughts' is always already in the form of thought. To put it another way, 'anything'...
Is "I find liquorice tastes good", given that is true, an objective or a subjective truth? Would it be publicly verifiable? Edit: subsequently reading...
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