Yes, you seem to be making that point quite well with the move to religious terrorism, just gun violence in Sweden (also an outlier, and at any rate m...
I think Bob is pointing to moral decay, which might itself exist along other elements of positive growth. For example, in A Brave New World we see a p...
Exactly. Certainly, Nietzsche has been influential. He seems to sell better than any other philosopher today (which is pretty ironic given his elitism...
At least in terms of the US I know that the Baby Boomers, on average, lost their virginity earlier than any other generation before or since, had more...
Well this is the big counterpoint to any thesis about modern "moral decay," e.g. MacIntyre's After Virtue. Violent crime is way down in Europe and the...
It seems to me that the is-ought gap comes from the modern move to try to collapse practical (and aesthetic) reason into theoretical reason. Arguably,...
Yes, but the explanation is partly "why do some things experience and not others?" So is the dual aspect supposed to hold for everything? For instance...
If I have not made the difficulties clear, I fortuitously has an article in my feed that brings up most of the same problems: https://www.scientificam...
I don't think I have. I start to feel like a broken record here with how often I advocate for a metaphysics or phenomenology of process. I have long b...
That All Shall Be Saved by David Bentley Hart. It's a book on Christian universalism, although it is more focused on rebutting infernalism (belief in ...
How does this work with billionaires sitting on their fortunes like Smaug and trying to tax them so you can provide for the common good? You're clearl...
Yes, I see. And as you can see, I wasn't at all hostile to the approach, but I still don't think it answers a single one of the points I brought up. I...
Anyhow, to circle back, when it comes to skeptical or ironic interpretations of Plato, I think one problem is the work of Aristotle. Here, you have a ...
Sort of unrelated, but maybe there is a case for technology "objectifying natural philosophy," in the same way Hegel supposes that institutions "objec...
I think you're absolutely right about the significance of the myths existing as such, and the import of the warnings against accepting them dogmatical...
One of my favorite explanations of Socrates' reticence to speak or to claim special knowledge for himself, particularly in the Republic. From D.C. Sch...
Reminds me of all of Kierkegaard's language re subjectivities attraction to the infinite (good). There is something to the idea that desires never com...
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/02/biden-campaign-debate-inner-circle-00166160 Sounds like the sort of dynamic that often leads to autocracies' ...
I'm 100% willing to grant that experience and thought are processual. I don't see how the really changes anything though. I am referring to the proces...
I did say I didn't understand what he was talking about. I still don't lol, this may be on me. I was throwing out what I see as wrong in most theories...
I may have been unclear here. The language of values makes sense for those who chose to use it: Weber, Nozik, Rawls, etc. I was thinking particularly ...
Color me skeptical, but this new view of thermodynamics has now settled: -the origin of the universe, -the ultimate fate of the universe, -how mind em...
It happens sometimes. The cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman gets around to arguing for a sort of vaguely Hegelian objective idealism. The Fine Tuning...
I can't really tell if it makes good metaphysical sense, that's why I asked all those questions. For example, if such a grounding of intentionality re...
Returning to the original topic, I do wonder how much of the success of anti-realism has to do with how people have learned to think of alternatives t...
Yes, I agree 100%. And this sort of gets at why Hegel thinks he can focus on freedom instead of Aristotle's eudaimonia (flourishing). Freedom implies ...
Personally, I think Huxley's point would have been better served by not having John Savage commit suicide, but simply having him return home. The fact...
I don't see it that way. For one, I don't see how "the human good is filtered through context and normative measure," implies anything along the lines...
I would agree to that, with the large caveat that "ideals," (inclusive of the accidental properties of particulars) are generated by the physical prop...
And if your nature includes being self-determining to some extent? That would seem to entail that Emerson must choose who he is a child of. Of course,...
Like I said, I don't think this is the wrong direction. How can you possibly demarcate where some object ends without any idea at all of what it is yo...
No disagreement here, and I agree it's a side issue. Practically speaking, the sum total of all natural language that has ever or will ever be spoken/...
I really find it hard to believe that Biden, Harris, or other party elites/their inner circles actually believe their own dire warnings about what a s...
I can get behind that. I think objectivity is a red herring, particularly if it's taken as a Lockean property that "inheres in an object as it relates...
I mean, we'd have to unpack what "objective" means. Round these parts, far too often it seems "objective" is taken to mean something like "noumenal," ...
To be sure. But I didn't write an argument against anti-realism, but rather against those who claim that "pragmatism" is a panacea for it. If people t...
A diffuse term indeed, but generally it refers to deciding things based on "practical considerations" or through a consideration of "usefulness." Prag...
I shared them and bolded the most relevant parts earlier. There is a reason "skeptical Plato" theorists, from what I have seen, almost always deny the...
:up: Agree 100%, those are the points I've been arguing for. Dontcha think this might have to do with the standards all being magical devices? Harry P...
Sure, but the two don't collapse into one thing. There is still a worthwhile distinction to make between etymology and looking through a microscope. T...
What's interesting is that the bolded is true in two senses. First, there is etymological analysis, looking at old texts to determine how some term ca...
Just to return to this, you have not answered why Plato, in his letter, when he clearly has an opportunity to present himself as a skeptic, instead ch...
It depends. If person A is a child and person B is an infant, and C could very easily have stopped the act? I don't think you can get a free pass on a...
This reminds me of the opening of G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy, where he talks about how "no one is more rational than the mad man." Everything is expl...
I'll have to get around to reading that some day. It sounds like a good one. Isn't there a middle ground between there being "one canonical border," a...
Well, I've been a bit busy so Chapter II might be a bit. I wanted to have at least some brief intro to the Transcedentals since the book simply assume...
If freedom is defined in terms of potency, as "the potential to do anything," then determinism is a grave threat to freedom. Such definitions often de...
Yes, which is determined by the way the world is and the nature of the animal. No tiger becomes a vegetarian. Any tiger stuck in the desert likely die...
That should read "countably infinite." We can think of endless permutations of language, but we could also spend and infinite amount of time saying th...
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