A very important discussion currently, so thank you for the post. What sparked my curiosity was the idea of duty and whether there is any compulsion. ...
Well, I understand the part about the sublime delight in art's transcendence, but the Sublime does not negate the Beautiful. The Beautiful is still a ...
I think you might be thinking of the pleasant, not the beautiful. The "concept" of beauty is not determined (not an "object" in Kant's terms), and it ...
I would agree with @"Thorongil" that Kant's description of our judgment of what he terms the Beautiful allows for rational discussion (apart from just...
Straying a little from this OP, and given we do have philosophy of science (Kuhn, etc.), there has been a slow chipping away of the subjects of philos...
There's a story of how Raven released the People from a cockle shell, stole the light, and brought it out to light up the world (the trickster?); anot...
I see that @"unenlightened" and@"Banno" have already made the observations I would have based on Ordinary Language Philosophy (Austin, Wiggenstein, et...
I agree here (though still not sure where this Heidegger is from--I assume Being and Time), though I don't see why our ordinary means aren't sufficien...
Your summation of Wittgenstein reverses his objective: he is trying to do away with the "private", the "self" (not to say, the personal). Yes, we are ...
In reviewing all the other responses, I don't believe this will be very popular, but perhaps, after Kant and after Wittgenstein, we can let go of the ...
Well this is a refreshing attitude I must say. And, as well, I propose, not without philosophical relevance. (I take some liberty in the exact wording...
This extrapolation of the evolution of our scientific paradigms is somewhat analogous to the extension/adaptation/change that does happen with our con...
Reading this from the perspective and terminology of Wittgenstein: There is a context, but it is not a fixed thing, nor "shared", nor the "same". The ...
This is a misunderstanding. When I said "facts do exist apart from us", I meant: apart from us personally--our feelings about them--not, as apart from...
quote="TheMadFool;483467"]The mystery in all this is whether the distinction subjective and objective significance is real or just a figment of my ima...
Part of this confusion ("must" 'always") is the idea that everything that is said is connected to a thought (or feeling) or to some intention. Our rea...
I'm not sure it matters here. If we say that emotions are like hunger, anger, love, etc. and that "feelings" are our emotions about situations, statem...
Is duty an emotion? Is fairness a feeling? I might agree that part of what is important to us, what matters, is "what we want to do and what we don't"...
If you are beating your wife and she kills herself, you are responsible; but not morally responsible; you're just a &!$! who beats women and who every...
I could argue that "mental content" (consciousness, thought, meaning, belief, etc.) is a construct, i.,e., does not "exist", if you like, in all anima...
Well here I partly beg off. I don't believe philosophy is served by the modern vogue of creating contextless, pre-defined situations (trains and peopl...
I would suggest Emerson's Self-Reliance and American Scholar as examples of his rallying-cry in the face of skepticism, though they take some work to ...
Well, if we are allowing for "multiple first causes", then it opens the field to say that there are infinite chains. We can say the movement to pick u...
And this is to only use a particular ("philosophical") sense of the concept of belief, that is specific but absent any ordinary context, which leads t...
The "profundity" of philosophy was a serious nemesis for J.L. Austin, who is actually very funny at times. He was trying to show the difference betwee...
"Not All Belief Can Be Put Into Statement Form" Not sure if I'm just the schlub who's taking the bait on a gag, but I would think we'd have to investi...
My passive-aggression? or what it is about "inner ineffable confidence" that to express it properly includes something other than words? (actual confi...
To attempt a serious reply, take a look at how the pre-chosen criteria for an answer (allowable with unexamined terms) dictates what is acceptable to ...
What do you mean - then nothing is happening? Other than a joke, it is also a play on the idea that the words 'nothing' and 'always' and 'happening' h...
I think the forefront of modern analytic philosophy (not discussing social topics) is Ordinary Language Philisophy, which was reacting to Positivism (...
I hate to say this--it is merely meant for humor and not to be flippant (blasphemous?)--but it needs to be said in light of the question implied by th...
I understand this as an underlying, necessary occurrence, and maybe you are aligning this with Descartes' desire for something to connect us (to).** B...
This is a description of "the picture", not as a theory proposed by Witt (or me). It is also not referring to 'pictures' as, say, mental images; it is...
Emerson in Self Reliance says "Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage...
No, he/the sentence does not demonstrate it, but, Yes!! Witt is asking you to take/accept/imagine it as a fact. Whew. Again, got it. You go on to assu...
This is a legit question for this post, as I skip over the picture to just make a case that the same desire (for the picture) comes from the entire hu...
Clarification: since Witt's focus on "use" seems to be a stumbling block, I wanted to point out that it is not the idea that someone makes a decision ...
I'll leave you to it; only to say: my whole point is that Witt is not here "making a claim". That is not why this sentence is here. It is used in a di...
As I said in my first post: he is using it as a fact in comparison to the choice (the conviction) in the sentence before, to show that we are in a pos...
Again, this should (will I am thinking more and more) be a separate thread about Grammar, and intention, action, etc., but I do see some profit here (...
This extrapolates from the consequences of what I am proposing Witt is uncovering in a way that shows you understand where I was coming from, so, agai...
I hate to police, but you might notice (I try to point out many times) that this thread is about the difference between: taking something (a statement...
Yours is a thoughtful response, taking into consideration my effort here; I appreciate it. I will say a bit of clarification for me in another reply, ...
I have attempted to re-write the OP to address the problems we're having/what I eventually get to (ya only know what you're saying at the end of a pap...
I'd rather not here (see the edit above)--maybe another post; his path from TLP to the PI and the "rationality" (rigorousness? ability to be subject t...
Weeeeeeell, I'll grant you that. But (though this is said provisionally, i.e., I don't want to argue it here) he did skirt it and was left with nothin...
The SEP article you quote is Wittgenstein as a positivist. In the PI, the positivist is the Interlocutor--he is wondering how he got himself into the ...
Well, this is very-much appreciated (someone's been reading--maaaaybe not my post, but it's something). I agree with you that he begins with guessing ...
507. " 'I am not merely saying this, I mean something by it.' -- When we consider what is going on in us when we MEAN (and don't merely say) words, it...
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