Janus

Al those things you listed are the activities of the human organism. The organism regulates its activities, but it is not a "single entity" if by that...

At a certain moment you made a choice. Where did that choice come from? Did you choose to make that choice? Did you choose to choose to choose, or did...

I came back to give you one last chance to come up with something other than shit.

I haven't suggested it is profound. Grammar reflects our thinking, which is dualistic; and that is basic. But it is simplistic to suggest that it is m...

You're full of shit, Banno. Sometimes I think you are just a troll.

Brilliant rebuttal as usual! :roll:

I don't have a lot of time for academic philosophers; too much peer pressure at work. I doubt that many "sophisticated" philosophers (outside the 'ana...

It seems I missed this response of yours previously. I'm not sure about "innatism", but enactivism and Kant's a priori intuition (if you mean space an...

You may think that you have moved on (not sure who you think the "we" are), but many would disagree with you; some may say we have moved backwards rat...

Right, we have no reason to think that it is or is not how it appears, or even that it might be one or the other. Precisely Kant's point; and nothing ...

It's not just about you; we all have our presuppositions, preferences and prejudices. As I see it Kant doesn't offer the thing-in-itself as an explana...

Which is exactly the point of Kant's antinomies as I understand it; to indicate the aporias that inevitably attend upon dualistic thinking. Kant refer...

I'm not seeing the relevance to the question as to whether the cosmos is infinitely large or finite in extent. None of our imaginative speculations te...

"Limited" as I read it just means something like "of finite extent". That is probably what Kant meant. Can you propose an alternate usage?

I agree it is. like most philosophical discussion, of little use; it's just a way to pass the time.

I think we are misled mostly by reification; the "fallacies of misplaced concreteness". I think we are misled when we think that our dualistic abs tra...

Metaphysical ideas can be negated; Kant's antinomies are based on metaphysical speculations. It's not merely a grammatical matter; the grammar reflect...

Of course. Such would be the dogmatic ideas. Could not any of those be negated? Do you think it is possible that any idea exists which could not be ne...

I wasn't concerned whether progress is a "fact". I was merely pointing out that there is a distinction between the defeatist attitude that it is impos...

The "myth of progress" is that progress is inevitable. It's not the myth of progress which is methodically efficacious, but the attitude of openness t...

Yes, as per Hegel, every idea contains the seeds of its own negation, which is just what you would expect, given the dualistic nature of human thought...

That sounds about right to me. Even if we can't know that science gives a true representation of a mind-independent reality, we have nothing else remo...

Thanks, there's a lot there and I don't have much time today, so just one clarifying question: Do you take 'transcendental' to mean beyond experience,...

I'm not an adherent, so not what I had in mind. #1: "The world (reality) is the totality of facts..." what is a fact if not a collective representatio...

I'll try to "dig it out": If "the schema of reality is existence in a determined time" then that is referring to a reality for us; a collective repres...

If you want the most radical thesis on time check out The End of Time by Julian Barbour. I've been reading, and trying to understand, it, and it's doi...

Neutral monism seems to have something in common with Spinoza's metaphysics. For Spinoza extensa and cogitans were just two of the infinite attributes...

I am getting to this a tad tardily, but anyhow... It's an interesting question whether Kant's "in itself" denotes a reality. I think it must since it ...

I think what you say is clearly an absurd suggestion is precisely what Jung means. Without consciousness to disclose it, being would be "blind", hidde...

I'm only repeating what are uncontroversial facts in the history of ideas, so my saying so has little to do with it.

The Great Chain of Being and Jacob's Ladder are analogous (although the former is reputedly of Greek origin (Plato and Aristotle), while the latter is...

Liberating caged beings in order to eliminate their suffering is not the same as extinguishing sentience altogether which would be the ultimate elimin...

On searching I found that most sources equate the meaning of 'being' with 'existence'. To be is to exist. So, whatever the historical common or philos...

They are different words, obviously. But in common usage the basic concepts to be and to exist seem to be more or less synonymous. 'To exist' does see...

I am not familiar with the Black Notebooks or the "Rector's Address. If Heidegger did, and continued to, identify his project with antisemitism then I...

I think his Nazism was a mistake that he soon recognized and he may have been too proud to acknowledge that it was a mistake. That said, his philosoph...

Not so much an etymology as the origin of the concepts of being inside or outside. If the idea was first expressed in Proto-Indo-European that still w...

That seems overly esoteric and philosophically sophisticated to me. I think the notions of external and internal would have likely had a much more ped...

What does not look right?

The "analogy" was not meant to indicate that internal always refers to things as being inside bodies, but as being inside some "container" or other, h...

How odd that you should think I was saying that. Perhaps if you read more closely you would have noticed the " analogously used", which I have now und...

:ok: Fair enough, although that would not seem to be a likely view of the modern materialist.

Yes, astronomy may have begun as astrology, and chemistry as alchemy. But that would not seem to be surprising or anything to feel uncomfortable about...

Yes the liver is internal to the body. How else do you think the notions of internal and exteranl originated, and continue to be analogously used, if ...

He also differentiated notions of existence. Existentiell and existential are key terms in Martin Heidegger's early philosophy. Existentiell refers to...

It seems that the notion of external and internal derives form the idea of things being internal or external to the body. Our bodies are experienced a...

I'm no Kant scholar,180, but I've got a little time this morning, so I'll give it a go. As far as I know the idea that we have access only to appearan...

In accordance with general usage I see no reason to think that 'being' is not synonymous with 'existence' and 'beings' is not synonymous with 'existen...

I think you've laid out the distinction between DR and IR nicely. My only objection is to the terms "inside" and "outside". So, I would say DR posits ...

You added the reference to the Emily Dickinson poem after my initial response and your reference to it reminds me of a point I've made many times in c...