No, it assumes that, for constraints to constrain, the truth of their reality cannot be dependent on current belief and practice affirming that they t...
Right, but Fukuyama's Hegel is very much Kojeve's deflated, liberal Hegel. Actually, I'd argue that Fukuyama fundamentally misunderstands Hegel in see...
I agree. To be sure, a lot of liberals get away from his particularly dire anthropology, but even if they pivot to a more Kantian, abstract "choosing ...
Thank you; I really, really like that idea. I have read some of Nguyen's stuff before and liked it; thanks for reminding me about him. If anyone is in...
I didn't say he did though. I said the appeal to constraints points outside current beliefs and practices. It seems to me that it has to, because it i...
Sorry, I must have missed that. Sure, you can't reduce his theory down to his slogan: "truth is what our peers let us get away with," without losing a...
Ok, but I pointed out that Rorty's theory is self-refuting in a quite specific way directly related to the very thing it is trying to explain. I am no...
This reminds me of Byung Chul Han's theory of autoexploitation in the "achievement society." I wrote about this before: As Han himself describes part ...
I think that identifies a very common thread in modern culture, but I think it oversells its reach. Surely, plenty of people do think they have reache...
So, does Bertrand Russell's famous turkey, who knows from a whole lifetime of experience that every morning—without fail—the nice man comes to feed hi...
Yes, this is a point Reiff makes in The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud. I have found that book to be extremely prescient and we...
Sure, I have no real disagreement there. But liberalism says questions of the human good are, for the most part, private matters. Public ethics must b...
Re the understanding of ideas, there is this prescient part of C.S. Lewis' lectures in medieval and renaissance literature where he sort of summarizes...
I find it more bizarre to see an Italian who doesn't include Virgil and the Commedia. It's like leaving out Shakespeare and Milton in English. Well, t...
I don't see how that follows. Presumably, it is bad for a bear to have its leg mangled in a trap, yet I'm not sure how this would be "socially constru...
Also, while the issues identified might stem from elements of liberalism, I should probably do a better job precisely identifying which elements. A pr...
I think this is probably true to some degree, particularly in some specific areas of the self-help space (the Manosphere being a hyperbolic example). ...
The world "spiritual" is not in the original quote. Aristotle, Plato, the Stoics, and their successors broadly orient their ethics and grounding of th...
That's the fundamental question of ethics, no? @"apokrisis" is essentially advancing his own answer to that question here and in the recent thread on ...
Ok, so then it wasn't supposed to be relevant to what I wrote? I didn't write anything about "esoteric knowledge," nor any necessary preference for th...
I'm sorry, but I don't see how your post addresses the dilemma I pointed out. I am aware of how these thinkers frame truth. I pointed out why I think ...
Wellness retreats, access to outdoor education, etc. all skew towards the high end of the income distribution, so I'm not really sure what you're talk...
There is a Taoist monastic tradition; the lifestyle is similar to Buddhist monks in broad outline, obviously with a different set of traditions. They ...
Some are like that, although the "life-hacking" stuff tends to lean more "cutting edge." Then there was the Human Potential Movement too, and things o...
That's an interesting article. I had been reading Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche's book on Lojong practice, and I recall thinking that the key "preliminaries...
I would say the irony is more that the right to bear arms only secures liberty if those bearing arms are (at least somewhat) virtuous and capable of s...
As noted above, I think Rorty's view is self-refuting (in multiple ways). It also would seem to make "usefulness" into a sort of volanturist metaphysi...
Sure, let me lay out the three main objections here: 1. You say the theory doesn't allow that "anything goes," and this is because: "constraints" dete...
:meh: Compassion is value-laden, it comes from judging a person against what is truly good for them. If there is no better or worse way for a person t...
IDK, terms like "aggressive," "weak," "afraid," "pain," "toxic," "grief," "rage," "powerful," etc. all seem to be value-laden in a way that would make...
Sure, that would seem to be one consequence of the idea that truth only exists (is created by/dependent upon) human practices and language. How could ...
If truth only exists inside the context of human practices—is indeed dependent on them—what truths could we possibly be missing such that we are not o...
Hey, I didn't say it wasn't absurd, insane even. But his argument that it follows from some commonly held positions is not bad. I think the idea is th...
According to Alex Rosenberg down at Duke, this is simply true of all of us. The reason paradoxes emerge is because the "self" and "intentionality" are...
Only on a particularly deflationary view of "science." At any rate, those who embrace such a view, and who stick to a "hard" empiricism and naturalism...
I won't deny that some people use "inter-subjective" to mean essentially the same thing as "objective" once meant. This seems to me to be an unwilling...
Well, it's also common for anti-realists, even professional analytic philosophers, to assume that the realist must be committed to the idea that "most...
Wouldn't B exist potentially before it is actual? So A doesn't need to contain B, it just must contain what brings B from potentially into actuality. ...
The Gnostics called NPCs "hylics" (the spiritual seed of Cain). Those who were conscious but dragged down into worldly concerns and their own bodies w...
It strikes me as a sop thrown to common moral sentiment in the context of his broader philosophy. Of course Hume doesn't deny the appearance of evalua...
Are you familiar with any of the physicists who suggest that information is ontologically basic and that matter and energy emerge from it? Sometimes i...
Well, liberalism has had its evangelical moments. Revolutionary France initially began by setting up "sister republics" everywhere it could. In the ea...
Well, the core of Fukuyama's thesis isn't that every country will soon become a liberal democracy, nor that no liberal democracies will cease to be so...
I'll respond to the rest later but I wanted to point out a potential miscommunication: Right, I am aware of the distinction. But it isn't a "logical d...
Yes, although "physical" retains its original meaning here in that it is "being qua changing" or "mobile being." This would contain the subject matter...
I also thought David Bentley Hart's "All Things Are Full of Gods" was pretty good on this topic too, if not particularly original. But it covers a ver...
Right. Plato attributes this open endedness to reason itself, and in a way, G.E. Moore seems to have merely it on this vis-á-vis practical reason with...
Indeed. But wouldn't this be because the mirror reflects any light, and not just red? Likewise, we call certain things "magnetic" but it isn't that el...
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