It is part of what I wish to discuss, but I am also wishing to consider the nature of language in this. However, I may have rushed in and probably sho...
I am also aware that some kind of basic definition of idealism may be necessary. To keep it as simple as possible, I will offer one taken from 'The Pe...
Of course, it does depend whether one sees philosophy all about clear 'black and white' positions. However, I do believe there is some underlying deba...
I have to confess that I changed my title after @"Manuel"s first post querying my use of the word 'real'. I changed my title from 'How 'Real' Are Idea...
Quantum physics challenges the perspective of both Newton and Descartes.I am certainly not a physicist but from my reading of it, in connection with p...
I do see naive realism as being a problem. Also, the conjoined experience of outer and inner aspects of human experience can make it extremely difficu...
I am wondering if we are speaking at cross purposes somehow. It is not that I fear ideas are being dismissed. They are certainly taken seriously on th...
I am not completely critical of Dennett as I found some of his writing to be readable and useful for thinking about. His ideas on the origins of langu...
Pattern recognition is useful for thinking about ideas and creativity, especially the generation of original ideas. It may be an evolutionary process....
The article on 'metaphysical imagination' was interesting and I have seen the phrase in a few different contexts. My own working conception of it is a...
It is hard to know how ideas are constructed, in brains and beyond. There is inner and outer aspects of experience and the interface between this is i...
Sorry, I am late getting round to replying to you because I started at the bottom of replies. However, your question is important. It does seem that m...
Unicorns exist as a fantastical idea and, who knows, in a previous universe or a future one, they may exist. They may not exist physically at all othe...
The view that ideas 'a product of the mind' is open to question, as it is hard to where they come from exactly. That is where, even though Plato's the...
Yes, thinking involves maps and models. One way in which I came across this was in the sociology of knowledge. In particular, Berger and Luckmann, in,...
Your argument for the existence of ideas as they are thought and expressed is an interesting one. It reminds me of what a tutor once said in a class '...
What I mean by the idea of 'mere partial perspectives' are viewpoints which differ from one another and are relative. It may be that each human being'...
It's possible that any confusion in my posts is on account of stress, because it can lead to muddled thinking. However, it would probably be going too...
Your further clarification of Berkley's consideration of the tree in the forest is useful. It would be a human fallacy to think that it is only a pers...
To go beyond one's 'awareness' would be like becoming some -kind-of-all-knowing- mind-of-'God' state of consciousness. So much of everyday awareness i...
I do plan to reply to the other responses. However, I am just changing my title question from 'real' to 'surreal' because I am thinking that may be mo...
I am aware that 'real' is a human construct. This is the case whether one adheres to a philosophy of idealism or realism, or materialism. The concept ...
I am not sure that using the term 'thing' introduces any further clarity than the word 'reality'. When you say that the topic is verbal, I would argue...
I definitely don't wish to derail my own thread by discussion of rioting. But, yes I fear what will follow. This is another 'What happens next...?' in...
I can tell you how pleasure as an antidote to suffering works for me. It was during and after a period in which 3 friends of mine committed suicide th...
Thanks for your reply because I have almost abandoned my thread in the last few days. That is because I am so stressed out as I found out this week th...
Yes, poor Freud has been ignored here a bit. I see his thought as vital, especially as the art therapy course I did was based so much on his psychodyn...
I am sure that Shakespeare( or whoever he was) was a great psychologist, as were the Greek playwrights. Of course, this was before philosophy and psyc...
Nuttall does discuss Shakespeare, mainly focusing on 'King Lear', which was the Shakespeare play which I studied in most depth in English literature. ...
I have discovered that Nuttall does draw refer to George Steiner's ideas, saying that Steiner suggested that the 'starkest suffering was 'hallowed" in...
The moral aspect of bed bugs is connected to assumptions about dirt. In a similar way, I understand moral panic as being involved in the example of Ai...
It is very likely true that people don't want 'deep' entertainment all of the time. Generally, I want depth in general. For example, I do care what ly...
The idea of 'restful, contemplative art' is so different from what is considered as entertainment; which may be more about distraction. So much of con...
The dramas of news affect us as spectators but also impact on us so much. It as if the news tells us 'what is next' in many respects. In the time of t...
The idea of partaking in performance is important and that may be the appeal of so many shows, including live music. A lot of this may be becoming los...
Thanks for your detailed response. The most striking aspect of what your post raises is how do the tragic in art and the art of living interact. What ...
The Dionysian aspects of catharsis show how tragedy and ecstasy may be interconnected. I see this as being about the process of transmuting the darkne...
Of course, times have changed and what art satisfies is so variable. So much has changed with postmodern values and aesthetics. Also, there is so much...
My understanding of the argument that Aristotle's picture of catharsis as being different from physicalism is that he came from a different worldview....
Your understanding, based on Artaud, of drama as involving the some expression of savage aspects of life is consistent with Freud. It goes back to the...
The books which you speak of sound interesting. It does seem that it is harder to get a glimpse of the nature of trajedy in the commercialised West. S...
What I find really useful about your post is that it looks not simply at the audience experience of art and trajedy but the process of art making and ...
I have just seen your post and others, which I will look at properly tomorrow. However, what I do wish to say immediately is that the reference to Ful...
As I am aware that my summary of Nuttall's discussion may not have been full enough for critical discussion, I will add this quote on why the weakness...
Part of the problem which I see with the idea of karma is when it is thought of as 'punishment' or 'reward'. This was a basis for justifying the caste...
The division between matter and spirit is an interesting one. It may involve the visible and invisible and it may not be completely distinct, with qua...
I wonder how different the atheism of substance dualism is from theism. I know that there have been threads on substance dualism and that I have engag...
I guess it is very different when one is reading books, such as ones on non-dualism in the pursuit of philosophy as opposed to under the guidance of a...
I have gone back to reading Spinoza(not sure which translation on my Kindle), although I am finding it 'heavy weather). It may be that Spinoza was cha...
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