Tom Storm

Mainly because I keep seeing him classified this way (I also see the existentialist reading). But it seems to me that Nietzsche is so important to Ror...

Of course, amongst the important post-moderns are also Nietzsche, Heidegger and Rorty. It's not just the French. :gasp:

We differ. I disagree with each point, but let's not let a little thing like faith come between us. :wink: :death:

I am interested in philosophy as a way to understand and enhance our choices and actions. I'm not American - I raised this one, not because of Roe vs ...

Just changed it to 'unsafe' as in it feels unsafe to reassess the source of values and identity in this way.

I disagree, a stable category of self and conscience is not a pivotal source of value in postmodern thinking as far as I know. For me the idea of a pe...

Thank you. I will think through what you have said.

Yes, I think this is what I was hoping for when I knocked out the OP. I asked for some 'stepping stones' and this could well include how Deleuze or De...

Thank you for this considered response. I suspect that a lot of criticisms/views of postmodernism are not deeply engaged with the actual work. I know ...

Actually that's my take too. I'm saying that 'your own conscience' is not a good foundation as there is nothing one can't justify using such an approa...

Yes, some of our first interactions here helped me towards an awareness of this. Morality is in the doing, not in the vast edifices of theory and prin...

Do only redemptive figures live in you? How do you eliminate Pol Pot, Donald Trump, Mussolini, Genghis Khan, Adam Sandler?

? Jacques Derrida

Nice. Ok. And I am not trying to give offence here, Angelo, but why should anyone care? Are you saying that morality is simply a matter of personal pr...

Yep. Idea's inform and modify each other.

How is that more compelling than someone saying that their daily life is continuous evidence of Jesus working though them? I generally don't take peop...

Thanks for the clarification. Is this a useful approach ? It seems not to provide us with much. One could read later W as a potential ally of theism i...

That's a big claim. Can you demonstrate it? Isn't the act of making such a synthesis itself a reference point and value? A performative self-refutatio...

I generally agree. Personally I would never use the word faith to describe reasonable actions taken in the world. When I catch a plane or go travellin...

Supernatural is not a philosophical term. It's a perfectly reasonable word used in journalism and general conversation to provisionally describe pheno...

Not having erudition and insufficient interest in Plato, I can see why it's a tradition fading away. But the philistines always win, whether you're ta...

I wasn't aware that W had shown the way out of theism or matters connected with higher consciousness. Thoughts? Did he not just 'fly over' them?

7. Self-cleaning clothing. 8. Fully balanced, nutritious meal in pill form.

I'm a cold hearted guy, dude. :wink:

In my experience, working in the area of mental illness and addictions for 30 years, diagnosis is not undertaken in a hurry (countries and jurisdictio...

Dinner: six Kit Kat bars. My partner insists that I eat things like vegetables, bread and meat. I reminded her that this view is located in a value sy...

Ok, thanks. So you just mean public awareness of an issue/phenomenon. I thought you were using it in a more technical way.

Hmm... Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, Tony Judt and many others have been saying for decades that this did in fact happen and that the numerous client stat...

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No one can escape metaphysics; isn't it entirely a question of how 'fancy' you wish to make it? Even hard core physicalist scientists make a metaphysi...

:up: I don't quite understand what this means. Can these ideas be summarized in plain English?

And still do, as I would think most humans don't know anything about this subject and even those who do are dealing in speculative matters. I think I ...

I'm not sure I understand what you are referring to when you say 'this concept'. Can you explain? Can you provide an example from your popular culture...

Can you explain that? Isn't the very act of a starting point (even if self-reflexivity) a foundation or presupposition? I've not read the writers you ...

I didn't like the nascent fascistic subtext.

Indeed. And ironically (or not) even those committed to perspectivism and the notion of there being no correct viewpoint - no totalizing metanarrative...

That's cool. And thank you for answering all my rather blunt questions. I think that is significant (to me anyway).

Is there a reference? I haven't read any religious texts in three decades. Perhaps it is messianic then?

How many did you kill?

So it sounds as if part of your process is making an assessment that the artist or work in question has the right intentional underpinning. This is so...

So you're saying the prose inspires/encourages you. What is it about the prose that does this? Is it any different than me being swept away by the wri...

So this is where I fail to connect. This last sentence is especially intriguing. It sounds like you are describing an emotional reaction to the text r...

I find this particularly interesting. I like language but prose, not poetry. I have always found poetry to be like a foreign language. But I really li...

Is this symbolic language, or do you take it more literally? Is the old self 'destroyed' as such or is it superseded?

Appreciated. So the first part of the process is a recognition or identification that there is a issue needing to be dealt with (wording is difficult ...

No worries. I'm hoping for succinct dot points or accessible touch stones to help build a bridge in my understanding of this process. I'm not good wit...

The first part of this is intriguing. Knowing you are ignorant (in the Socratic sense) is more than just passive incomprehension. Is it not also knowi...

Do you mind if I continue with some questions? I'm a crass methodological naturalist, with no sensus divinitatis. I spent a year studying Campbell and...

This may sound like a flip and supercilious comment (and I don't mean it to be) but why bother? Why apply psychological readings to anything and to wh...

Course not. But it doesn't change what I said about Nietzsche. Nietzsche is more interesting because of his much broader appeal, much of it outside of...