Jack Cummins

Actually, I think that I had probably edited my own post before it was criticised, or at least before I read the post you wrote, although it probably ...

I think that your understanding of evil is really worth thinking about because it does seem to me that in so much of life we identify evil and put bla...

I haven't read any writing by Hannah Arendt, but I think it I may have a downloaded book by her, so I will try to have a read of it.

I have only looked briefly at the responses on the phone since getting home , including yours, and will look at them more fully tomorrow. However, I j...

I am replying to you because you enquired about the meaning of my battery running out in Wimbledon and also know that my mother is ill. Apart from bei...

I think that my problem goes back to theology but I am trying to think outside of that. My own views are related to Jung's psychology of the shadow bu...

Interesting, and I am inclined to think that a disregard for life may incorporate the lives of others alongside our own, but I do think that this spli...

I definitely think that aspects of behaviour have a root in the psychology of a person, including sadism. However, I do believe that to think of evil ...

Okay, I will look at the link which you have provided to a thread previous to my time on the site, and anyone else can throw in any new ideas which th...

I like your art on physics and your images of so many ladies probably point to the importance of the feminine principle as an essential aspect of exis...

Thanks, and life can be so difficult at times, throwing us into all kinds of philosophy conundrums. I plan to have some interaction on this site, even...

Thanks for your entry, and I am just letting you and others know that I am really taking a bit of time out because my mum is in hospital. However, I c...

Thanks for all your fantastic contributions. I downloaded your documents and will read them properly today. I am still reading your own book on the Bi...

My own view of postmodernism is connected to sociology. In particular, I knew someone who thought of gender as being socially constructed. I thought h...

I can accept what you are saying and we are indeed so different. Obviously, our philosophies are connected to our basic sense of self, but it does pos...

I think that postmodernism definitely was important as a movement and it lead to a way of analysing meanings, especially in connection with the social...

It makes it sound as if the existentiali prospects of a disembodied fictitious self may make life in the real world seem so incredibly dull. I am actu...

I don't know if you have chosen the title of your link to an earlier aspect of this thread intentionally .' Be Here Now' is an album by Oasis.I think ...

One aspect which I wonder about this, is to what extent are people creating identities on social media because the scope for expressing in daily life ...

I know that you have queried engaging with me on my many threads, but I think that our differing angles are so interesting. You are an highly valued m...

I think that your point, 'Oneself is what each of us is, but yourself is not no one else can be,' is extremely important in our times. We have seen in...

I didn't realise just how many threads I had created, when the truth of the matter is I often struggle with writer's block. I probably need to slow do...

Your reply is very interesting, in tracing the way in which the idea of self has in itself gone through many identity changes in itself. Yes, the anci...

Unfortunately, I am not writing a book but I do love writing which is probably why I write so many threads. Perhaps, I will write one oneday. But, I t...

I think that your post is interesting because while we are talking about embodied selves in life, as we interact on this site we project ourselves in ...

I think that your post is interesting but I think that it ignores the historical development of thinking, especially as it ends with saying that we us...

I definitely don't hold a view an emphasis upon rationality or greater consciousness which ignores other aspects. I think that balance is of key impor...

I think that we have the capacity for rational and deliberate behaviour but it is just that many people don't get stretched enough. It is often only r...

I am still reading this thread and my other one, but not paying full attention because my mum had a fall and had to go into hospital. However, I am gl...

I think that it is interesting to compare Hume and Jung's understanding of self, because Jung certainly didn't think that we are just 'a bundle of exp...

I am not convinced that we are that unconscious and I think that we have the ability to develop as self conscious beings. In some ways, I think that t...

Thanks for your links on self concept and self esteem. I think what is interesting in these is the cultural aspects of thinking about the self because...

I think that it varies how people understand the concept of self, within different psychology models and within the various systems of meditation. Als...

I definitely agree that the self is a 'tricky notion.' It is experienced meaningfully through self awareness and in connections within interaction. Yo...

Even though I said that everything matters, I think that in many ways, the idea that nothing matters and everything matters is in many ways an essenti...

You have created further great poems. I particularly like your reflections on time, '..there is no time, then, externally And, internally everything h...

I do come from the angle of seeing outside of the various social roles which we play in life. I came across this idea in social psychology, especially...

Surely, it would be going too far to say that nothing can be known, but simply that many aspects of life are rather uncertain. But, we are not just in...

I am not sure how people rate it as being one of the best, but one of my own favourites is 'A History of Western Philosophy', by Bertrand Russell.

@"180 Proof" Okay, I will look at the older posts.I think.that Neil Young is great anyway. He and others such as Dylan and Cohen may be the great phil...

I am not wishing to dismiss the ideas which you proposed in the first page of this thread, but I think that there may be so much more to be elaborated...

I am not sure if I understand fully, but tensing of the self may be extremely important in our understanding. Perhaps, you could explain your own unde...

An interesting link, and I keep an open mind. I certainly don't wish to come to any premature conclusions. I come with a view to having any ideas whic...

I was just looking back at my thread and saw your idea of self delusion. I think that it is an important aspect of existence, and I am wondering how c...

Interesting, and I do like songs so much. So, do you see the idea of self as being a juxtaposition of past, present and even the future? I think that ...

I think that the question of whether an emotionless human being would still be human is an interesting question. It is interconnected with that of wha...

I agree that part of the problem is how we identify aspects of the self, including the fragile. But, so much comes down to how we identify and think a...

You say that, 'Nothing matters much and things don't matter at all'. I am in complete disagreement with you here, believing that everything matters so...

I think that the idea of the big bang makes sense and can probably be seen as the most coherent concept of how life in the universe took place, but, e...

I think that you raise an interesting question, but it does involve the underlying question of what we mean by 'society'? We exist as individuals with...