This has come up in a few threads. I think the difficulty is that "substance" gets used in two different, but related ways in ancient and medieval log...
If philosophy is the love of wisdom, it is presumably the love of something in particular, and it would seem that not all philosophical positions are ...
Thank you for confirming my suspicion that my point was not impenetrable and too unclear to understand. I thought it was clear enough, at least clear ...
Because you have denied the priority of not only Beauty, but of Being itself to language. So, if I want to move on to Beauty, wouldn't it make sense t...
Wouldn't this represent an additional supposition along the lines of reductionism? I.e. that all wholes are just the sum and arrangement of their part...
Also, consider that all of the atoms in a man's body are replaced very many times in his lifetime. If something just is its parts, then in virtue of w...
Let me see if you accept this rephrasing. "We don't need 'real' potency because it is merely the ways in which something actual has the potential to b...
You might be interested in what Aquinas says about angelic beings and intelligences. These are said to be pure form. However, they are not pure actual...
The verbage of "grasping being" is yours Banno. You wrote that "being cannot be grasped outside language". Now it is "bad argument" and "merely rhetor...
Yes, but in some ways it is surprisingly similar. Also, if you consider that for Aristotle man is also "the political animal," the society part is def...
This article is presented quite well. I will point out three things: 1. Are they known as such? This is a topic of huge debate. The author might be in...
This goes along with the idea that you cannot change a rabbit into something like a frog. Being a frog is not a potential of rabbits. This is an act o...
Matter isn't conceived of as just prime matter. That's a key distinction. For example, man is made of flesh and bone. Each substrate has some form and...
This situation is an example of a problem, particularly acute in the US, but seemingly at issue across developed nations, of legislatures being unable...
BTW, let me try to break this down into premises: P1: One cannot use language to speak of anything without using language. C: Therefore, being isn't a...
We don't grasp being at all with the senses prior to language acquisition? So infants have no grasp of being? Animals as well? The disabled who cannot...
Showing that an argument terminates in absurdity is sort of a classic, hardly bad argument. You're hanging a lot on "default' here. There is no reason...
Is there any purely rational justification for not doing it? Or not raping? Based on your standards, I would think not. But there are. The Pope for in...
We cut that part out of the curriculum because it was variously "not going to get the kids jobs and make them money like STEM," or because we need to ...
So all government is the "tools of the biased"? And the authority of parents over their children? Or officers over their enlisted men, deans over thei...
Or perhaps not to the biased. Earlier you said non-demonstrable beliefs have absolutely no business in politics. So apparently anti-slavery beliefs sh...
Does it? There are differing interpretations vis-á-vis everything. This seems like an appeal to consensus as truth. But I think it's fairly obvious th...
I am familiar with this passage. It's in one of the earlier books of Confessions. That people used to often read aloud might also be a reason for the ...
So what of all the thinkers who took mysticism and/or God quite seriously? It's sort of a whose who list from East and West: Plato, Aristotle, Shankar...
Right, which is dependent on how they are. "Things as they are for us" is, you might say, a slice of how they are (perhaps mixed in with error, i.e. h...
Yes, this is a difficulty with the application of game theory. It must assume "benefit" and pay-offs in ways that sometimes do not conform to life. Ut...
It occurred to me that Cicero might be an example of an ethics grounded in an understanding of human nature and telos that is more "naturalistic." I'm...
This has "hence" so I assume the third claim follows from the other two. But does it? P1: Being is not contained in anything (including language). P2:...
Probably lol, I think you're right. Strictly empiricist starting positions seem to make for bizarre anthropology in general. "Understanding" seems pro...
I was going to present that standpoint. In this case, "understanding" just means producing appropriate behavioral outputs given certain behavioral inp...
Do you think we need transcendence to speak of the goal-directedness of life? Really? Certainly, I've responded to a lot of critique. I don't know wha...
Prior and posterior are "loaded terms" now? The bronze of a statue and the art of sculpting are prior, the finished statue is posterior. Parents are p...
I don't think it does. There is a difference, it's just that the ethical good is not sui generis, and it is desirable. But at any rate, I was speaking...
Right, and this is fairly obvious as regards statements that are straightforwardly self-undermining, if not fully self-refuting. However, the tricky p...
Sure. I would argue that such a view ultimately runs into many other problems, but such a view of man's telos does not seem prima facie unreasonable, ...
I agree to some extent with this sentiment, but I think identity can be an important, even essential element of particularity, as does situatedness in...
There is also nothing similar in regards to truth or goodness. But, at any rate, we're talking about dependence and priority, not agreement. If beauty...
Transcendent in what way? I am saying something about the things judged good/beautiful must be prior to the act of judging/thinking itself, else the o...
:up: And indeed, there is an issue with feedback between educated/elite opinion and majority opinion, in that the two shape each other. What gets taug...
I'm puzzled by this reply because the post says this follows from Hamlet's position, not from a lack of "transcendental or foundational basis." The qu...
I think this is a false dichotomy. I mentioned Rorty above to head of exactly this sort of false dichotomy, whereby the later empiricst trots out the ...
If beauty were created by man and his practices, I'd contend that there would be no proper orientation towards the world. And if there is no proper or...
Right, we are embedded in the world, its beauty, truth, etc.—the world is not embedded in our communities, practices, and "language games." One is pri...
And that's all? If one thing can come from nothing, why not anything more? Why just this one thing? Goodness, and to a lesser extent, Truth are often ...
Wouldn't a "simple statements of fact" also involve: "an interpretation within a context of belief, intention, tradition, form, and reception?" I'd ar...
My point was merely that disagreement is poor evidence for a lack of objective aesthetic value/criteria. People disagree about virtually everything. N...
I think this sort of disagreement only helps to support to the position that there is nothing objective to agree about if one has already presupposed ...
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