There is another discussion of Nietszche's book The Antichrist that touches on this. In that discussion with @"frank" I try to make the case that Niet...
Well J.L. Austin talks about how to decide if a bird is a goldfinch or not, and he uses the example to draw out the criteria we use in making that dec...
Well this is a necessary demand for clarification, so thank you; these are the questions. If we do not give in to the weakness of abdicating our desir...
My point was, similar to when you say that "nothing can reside outside time and history", that we can not reside outside institutions, rules, words (o...
I enjoy the irony of a comment about vagueness being unspecific. I wanted to point towards how and why the preoccupation here is philosophically impor...
We die by our own hand. Our desire for the ideal, kills us. We set aside the thing-in-itself because we can not have it on our terms. In our weakness ...
We could simply take away, 'there is no truth', but then why are 'we concerned'? maybe this is not a dismissal, but an observation and critique. If ou...
But this is philosophy, just maybe not a form (of argument?) we are used to seeing. Why must it take the form it does? If we can agree that he is anal...
I'll grant you that Neitszche gets a little one note as he progresses, but It is easy to take from him simply a critique of morality and a description...
I'm not sure this is such a black-n-white fight. I don't think my descriptions of Nietzsche's critiques of deontology "still makes the idea of god coh...
But what I was saying is that he uncovered the desire for them, our weakness for an answer that doesn't involve us, our failings. But also, if you rea...
Nietszche talks of needing strength, courage, indifference, and, at least elsewhere, joy. If there is a desire in us for certainty and universality an...
This sounds like Emerson and Thoreau. Whitman talked of having the right person to tell his secrets to. Could Nietszche be asking us to become somethi...
This is the killer though. @"Banno" waves this off as a problem with a philosopher's psychology, but it is so tied to how we think I take the resoluti...
I meant those as examples, not as alternative explanation. The specific type of answer is not the problem, it is the desire for a particular, certain,...
It seems here it doesn't matter the way we conduct ourselves (or the ways there are to conduct ourselves) as long as we are aware (present). But I thi...
I do think you would find some specifics in "What is Called Thinking?" and "Language, Poetry, and Thought", particularly as to what thought is and sho...
I don't know enough about Being in Time to comment on the reading, but, if this accurate, I think in his later work he moves away from a focus on an (...
When I said that for Hedeigger philosophy is not fundamental, what I was trying to say is that it is not trying to be support or make certain or remov...
So... a theory (as opposed to a plea), just special? An explanation of our human experience that assumes our ethical posture? (takes it for granted?) ...
I agree with the sentiment, but I wouldn't want it thought of as an argument ("primary" "must"). One way to look at it, on the grounds of this OP, is ...
I read "What is called thinking?", which is a 1951lecture of an example of how to investigate deeply into a subject and the pitfalls of our initial as...
I think it's important to unpack the idea of "utiliz meaning as use"; which here I take comes from monitoring how language is used to understand what ...
I'm with @"Banno" in bringing in Austin in this case. His epiphany of sense from pointing out our ordinary lives makes philosophy feel fresh and worka...
This is to say perhaps that science, with its method that uncovers (and creates) reproducibility, predictability, constancy, universality, has led to ...
There is an interest here, I believe (@"Banno"), for analytical philosophy. I hope I make a fair assessment. This is a vision of a moral world; it tak...
I think there may be two things going on. First, you are assuming a fixed version/goal of "truth" through substantiation (perhaps it is fair to say, p...
An object has certain ways in which it can be used, discussed, identified, etc. And each object has its own. There are different senses in which "tree...
A context is, among other things, the circumstances of an event, a moment, so not "our visualization". How the object "is thought about" is part of wh...
I have to infer, as you only imply a political principal(?) in the negative, by how people object, but I sense a fundamental struggle for the ability ...
I applaud the suggestion. I tried to make a version of it myself in my post Virtue in Philosophy. Many philosophers have advocated for seeing things f...
Well done with this reading. I agree with the dynamic (though my K is limited), I only find it hard to bear up under the weight of this as a constant ...
Well we’ve started talking about existence as a quality, without any concept of existence. What makes existence what it is? What is the essence of exi...
I think there is a confusion between “experience” as in our personal encounter, “How was your experience at Disneyland?” and the process of learning a...
The knowledge of color could be empirical; we can match colors scientifically. But the concept of color is not an empirical matter; the use of the lan...
Wittgenstein will refer to "interest" roughly 40 times in the Philosophical Investigations (the joys of text search). He will say what interests "us" ...
These are well taken questions that can help to clarify. We can ask ourselves, what does the "ability to analyze" something amount to (what are its cr...
The implication here might be that we are better for having come closer to gaining absolute knowledge of the big questions (finding the best "answer" ...
Well it's not anything new (like, say, the "thing-in-itself"), it is just for referring to a grouping. And he didn't choose the word; it's translated ...
Touché; I guess in the zeal to get our point across, we can all be a bit narrow in our focus (thus, I will mention, proof of my point, however). I did...
And why isn't this an acceptable description of where we are in a moral moment? There are such things as actions: a slight, or betrayal, lies, recrimi...
Not to psychologize philosophy, but Cavell uses the term repression for the impact that the traditional search for certainty has on our ability to see...
Wittgenstein (and Socrates) view "knowing" as a kind of remembering (what you already know). Of course this is not an emperical investigation, it is b...
I have said this in another post about "ought", but any force of "normativity" does not come from OLP's claims to descriptions of our ordinary criteri...
I would say a part of all philosophy is about philosophy--in critique of its past aims or means or other philosophers. And "the search for the conditi...
By "method of inquiry" are we not taking OLP as such a thing? that we investigate to learn knowledge of ourselves that we had not realized before that...
Austin is entertaining in his ability to play with our concepts and yet in a way that resonates and satisfies the desire to actually get down to brass...
Witt will talk a lot about philosophy not being able to work, get traction, be anything but a house of cards, a fly in a bottle. Heiddeger and Emerson...
I appreciate taking a stab at understanding OLP and joining the conversation. I would only add that, yes, OLP is looking at what is said in philosophi...
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