It is absolute that free choice is absolutely without justification. The capacities to realize, to fail, are ontologically absolute, and cannot possib...
According to Sartre human freedom is an absolute capacity to intend a particular future, although, circumstances can and will obviate the realization ...
It is not my personal claim. What I am presenting here is J.P. Sartre's conception of how a human act originates by what he calls a "double nihilation...
The future is here with us as an absence. Consciousness, which is freedom, and which makes that absent future, cannot be forced to do anything, except...
Here we are speaking of freedom, which, ultimately, is consciousness. Consciousness imagines a future state of affairs which it desires to usher into ...
Excuse me for existing. You are pinning too much bull on me. I should actually transplant your brain into my cranium, then, everything will be just sw...
Thank you. It is what is known as the materialist illusion when persons name given, existing states of affairs as the reason/cause for their actions. ...
You are going off half cocked, when you rush to inhumanely name me delusional, for knowing that law does not, cannot, act causally upon human beings. ...
The judge convicts the defendant for the reason that the judge deems the defendant to have been under a social obligation to determine his actions in ...
No one at all has an a priori responsibility to understand my writing, but, if you engage that writing, and engage me here regarding that writing, it ...
This is a philosophy forum. Not all philosophy transpires in ordinary language. The ilk of philosophy I employ speaks its own idiosyncratic language, ...
No, I was not trying to say what you guessed I was saying. I was saying that human origination of an act is a wholly negative process, involving inten...
I sincerely appreciate your general acceptance of my reasoning, while so many others here are so absolutely unable to fathom the negative structure of...
Within that abstruse opening assertion I said law is NOT determinative. All cannot be explained in a first sentence. Therein I merely mention, not exp...
Yes. I have lately just remembered, a Baptist Minister who's daughter I was once dating, when he taught me that the instant at which Christ died on th...
Since, at present, you have not had any association with existential ontological notions of how nothingness underlies human action, you are mistakenly...
I do not see law as a cause or as capable of causing persons to act or not act; although everyone else does. Everyone thinks we humans are simply thin...
To precipitate something is to cause something. And, I am saying that law is not causal for human beings, i.e., my freedom cannot be caused by some ex...
A judge, when convicting/sentencing someone, states by what law he is bound and determined to do so. You deem the OP ridiculous while, all the while, ...
I am not at all saying that we will be able to govern society via being reflectively free. Yes, being reflectively free is attaining an understanding ...
I am referring to all law in my theoretical critique of law per se. Not doing something is what is known as a negative act. The U.S. Constitution is a...
I had courses in a Phil. Dept. where the lecture was about him and his work B&N. We read B&N. Definitely an atheist. He said consciousness arises as n...
"Apparently energy cannot not be created or destroyed so that also does not seem to fit into a nihilation picture." The nothings being referred to her...
"But one may know the law (the weather too) and assess its impact on potential action. I would say it's wise to do that, regardless of its ontological...
Persons fear possible, imagined harm, to their person. Imagination is nothing. Law means possible harm. Possibility is nothing. The fear is a human re...
Consciousness is nothing in the sense that it is an empty stage whereupon being appears. Consciousness is nothingness in the sense that it is continuo...
I am simply saying that no given state of affairs, e.g. law, determines persons to act; nor do persons, nor can persons, determine themselves to act d...
I am centrally addressing foibles of criminal law and punishment. Although no law is actually validly determinative of human behavior, constitutional/...
Ciceroianus, You, striving to validly designate something given as determinative of conduct, asked: "Is the weather determinative of human conduct? ''...
In so far as it is mistaken to claim to punish on the basis of law, which law is not in fact determinative of human conduct, it is unintentionally imm...
The position that consciousness is nothingness is constructed by Sartre in his "Being and Nothingness" 1943; built upon Spinoza's "determinatio negati...
Indeed we humans stand within the physis, unto the outermost extent thereof. We are integral with, not neccessarily "related" to the physis, for: Any ...
[reply="Ciceronianus;808373" Only individual human beings are determinative of individual human conduct. At this point in human history most humans ho...
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