For what its worth, Wittgenstein wasn't a system builder like most of the other greats in the history of philosophy. He simply had a personality and c...
For what its worth, Wittgenstein was a complex philosopher. His methodology was methodological nominalism, and when you apply methodological nominalis...
Well, Freud, who was heavily influenced by Schopenhauer, alluded to the ID as the wellspring of desire and arousal. Boredom isn't such a negative thin...
Yes, I would like to elaborate on why I find it unacceptable. How is one to deny the will to live? Doesn't this imbue a persons life or deny their ada...
What was Schopenhauer known for? In my mind he was a bona fide person, more authentic and genuine about his philosophy and its import towards life lik...
It's fairly easy to empathize with another. I don't think sympathy arises out of nowhere. First, based on experience one gathers the raw datum of what...
Sorry if 'm not directly addressing anyone who referenced my OP, as impolite; but, took a break for a while and had some questions about Schopenhauer....
I don't think an emotion or rather passion, which was once called apathia, which is nowadays called 'apathy', really could have changed all that much....
I'll just leave this here as a pretty profound quote by Schopenhauer. " the Stoical philosophy is the most complete development of practical reason in...
It would be awesome if we had a ChatGPT bot responding to questions presented in new forum posts. It might be a way of grounding a discussion in what ...
I think valence of value is confounded by many factors, such as, whether one 'likes' or 'dislikes' something to be valued. Otherwise, it may also depe...
Yes, well I don't have all the answers to your question; but, I can attempt to say that the study of value would lead a person to believe that what th...
In the same manner as the bodybuilder trains his or her body to become more muscular, so too the layman or moreso the philosopher can profess the stud...
So, I take this as a analogy that was provided of the nutritionist. Yet, I find it hard to believe that without knowledge of valence of value, how wou...
Hello Gary, Some questions have varying answers. In the ascription of value towards one's life, why would anyone let someone else ascribe it to you? U...
Upon further thought, what I mean by axiology not being exclusive to the philosopher, is meant in not all philosophers being the disciples of Plato th...
I suppose the study of value, or axiology, would lead one to appreciate what to value as good. That's why, I am led to believe that axiology must be o...
Well, is it something that, in your mind, has to be true universally? Because I only know of a few goods that, I assume, have the highest or very high...
:up: I believe you are correct about this way of stating the interrelationship between incontinence and axiology. Yet, the hierarchy of values is, wha...
Just pointing this out, after looking into axiology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiological_ethics I don't want to interject anything of my own unl...
Yes, I shortened the thesis too much. So, I think the study of value is of the highest good to the philosopher. Yes, well, what a impoverished world t...
But, doesn't the situation that you are framing require us to have a way of qualifying what is good by appreciating it? Hence, the presupposition, to ...
It seems like a deep question, rather very deep. According to relativists and postmodernists, to the best of my knowledge, there are very few absolute...
According to Harry Frankfurter and Hume (the respectable late philosopher), the highest good seems to be 'love'. Well, I think the confusion can be mi...
It would be a performative error to conclude that life doesn't have the potential to be anything beyond suffering. Yet, when one engages in such black...
Yes, I agree with you Alkis Piskas. In that, good, is beneficial. But, I wouldn't know how to outline good as beneficial in different circumstances, b...
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