Tom Storm

Yes. Why did you take this as a criticism of a philosophical position?

Yes, I only arrived at this in recent times.

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Great, thank you for the clarifications. Very useful. What's your view of Feyerabend's work?

Cool. I know little of science. I read around half of Against Method and found it hilarious and touching in a way. Philosophy goes around in circles (...

You may well be right. How do you think about certain scientific facts (especially in the context of fallibilistic understandings of science) as a com...

I like this line. :up:

Isn't one account of objectivity simply a 'shared subjectivity' or perhaps that of the intersubjective community of agreement. The view from nowhere i...

Indeed. I'm not someone who has reason to believe in the existence of Nirvana/enlightenment (except perhaps as metaphor), but what can we meaningfully...

I think for some people with mood issues and negative life experiences, it might make sense (in theory) never to have been born and to surmise that al...

:up: Yes I like Ravel - I'm very fond of Daphnis Et Chloé, Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte, and the G Major piano concerto. Yes, I agree with this too...

I think the essay I attached explains it. But it will take 10-15 minutes.

From one of Australia's great poets Les Murray "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow" The word goes round Repins, the murmur goes round Lorenzinis, at Tatte...

I've generally thought of life as a brief flickering of light in the infinite darkness. External factors aside, it's up to the individual how they wis...

I've been interested in epoche for some time. Since I was a child I have often found myself regarding the world around me as unfamiliar and strange an...

I think it means, as per Bernardo Kastrup's words, that Schopenhauer's Will is without metacognition; it is instinctive and striving. Brief essay. htt...

That's great, appreciated. I'll mull this over.

I'm no expert on this but I don't think we can move easily from what makes a good company man to what society values. There is some overlap, but I wou...

I guess then I would probably retain Larry on the basis that he is meeting the organization's priorities and its strategic plan, which is what a manag...

You bet. Ideas animate people. Ideas are dangerous. Ok - understand. Cynics tend to dismiss things other people don't. That's fine. Arguing this point...

It's a no win situation so the choices are 1) work with an arsehole, which in itself can take down an entire workplace or 2) tolerate someone who is l...

Sure, and then interpretation. And around we go. :razz:

You're almost there. Ideologies must have power to embed their ideology - getting money, resources, land and populations are critical key strategies i...

That's significant (a great quote) and as you suggest regularly overlooked. Thanks for underscoring it. Do people still look to Hume around the questi...

I know that reality is the real and the real is realty and the..... forget it.. Nice. This is a point I keep coming back to in my own thinking about t...

Yep. Yes, that's how I intended it. It's lofty by comparison with most current dominant worldviews. When you wrote "journey back to life" it sounded l...

I doubt this is true and it seems simplistic. How would you demonstrate this? In most cases turf, flags, resources, are all held on behalf of an ideol...

This is what I am addressing. 'Communicate something' means open ended interpretive possibilities from the author to us. Which is fine. It leads to a ...

Some of the assumptions here - 1) that authors always have a specific intention and can convey it; 2) that an author doesn't want a range of interpret...

Can you say some more on this? What is a 'revelatory, non discursive, radical, affective apprehension of the world'? Do you see this as a possibility ...

I don’t disagree with your definition but is it not somewhat limited? What does it give you – the realness of quotidian objects like apples, chairs an...

I would maintain that myths do not speak for themselves - they do not 'speak' until someone gives them a voice by deriving a meaning from them - wheth...

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And this is the entire point. The book itself is contradictory and messy, and it can't speak. There is no interpretation free account of the Bible, or...

Could be. I read two Holmes stories about 35 years ago. I guess I was referring to the perception of the character who Stephen Fry once described as a...

YouTube has some good recordings of people like Alec Guinness reading it out. For me it helped get into the rhythm of Eliot.

All this does depend on which Christian you speak too. I've met plenty of reverends, priests and nuns who do not believe in original sin and see this,...

Thanks Joshs

That seems to be the key point for me here. The application of words where they fail us, where they no longer have utility. And Midgley's notion of 'p...

Nicely put and intriguing. 'Journey back to life' is particularly juicy stuff. Those metaphors, by the way, are not how I generally see the world. The...

Sounds reasonable. It's been an interesting thread. Pretty sure I still subscribe to this version too.

That's interesting. Is 'delights' something FN would recognize? What would moving though endless value systems be like? Sounds exhausting.

It was just a cheap shot. It's what I have in the absence of original thought.

Well, we have uneducated and untheorized experts here on quantum mechanics, neuroscience, psychiatry, political theory and all sorts of other subjects...

Tell that to Heidegger...

Have you changed your thinking in any way about 'real' as a result of this thread?

It would be interesting to understand what people get from this book. I have tried to read it (Kaufmann translation) several times but find it histrio...

I suspect this is largely true. I spent a lot of time on the periphery of a Buddhist society in my city in the 1980's. I was surprised to find that it...

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This is true where god is fiction and just an enlargement of human tendencies, a wish fulfillment fantasy with all the sins of its creators, hence, ge...