Tom Storm

I've heard people make this and similar arguments for decades - I can't imagine anyone but a modern person, who is bathed in sentimental understanding...

Sure. Hence my initial question, can it be a slight - a reference to a superseded and rigid epistemologically constrained ontology?

Just getting back to this - would you mind providing an example of 'epistemology-constrained ontology' and a deductively proposed solution in search o...

I'm not sure I understand what your argument is. Do you mean that humans with specific skills that are evidence based will have the capacity to resolv...

Got ya. Thanks.

I tried this for a week but I ended up caught and sealed in a tin only to be released and eaten on pumpernickel by an old Trotskyite. I wouldn't advoc...

Thanks Joshs. Not sure I recognise the significance of these two ideas. Are you able to briefly describe how this Kantian stage actually plays out in ...

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Wow... thanks for this rich response. I am particularly intrigued by this: If you don't mind me asking, how does that play out in ordinary life?

Cool, so it's rigidity and method.

Indeed, but some may not use such overt language, right? We then have to infer it from the critical perspective they bring, which is? (You've already ...

Thanks.

What are the attributes of a Kantian art critic?

I understand those arguments and you put them well.

Sure, but no one has said this is a matter for society. The question is, what are an individual's philosophical beliefs. It is unlikely there will eve...

How would this work? Does Netflix count? :groan:

How do you think Nietzsche intended this?

Yes, you don't know why, but people don't share value systems and often construct totally different worlds from each other. Well, antinatalism is a si...

So? You make that sound like a bad thing. Extinction sounds perfectly reasonable to many folk. I hate to tell you this but entire philosophies have be...

I think there is merit in what you say about the more liberal traditions and I have sometimes argued this point myself, particularly after reading Epi...

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Well, that's not all, is it? It's not so much about some details being lost in translation - its entire mythologies being recorded that did not happen...

Interested to see where this goes in terms of cooperation, our shared obligations and putative moral systems. But maybe I'm jumping the gun?

will do. Thanks. That's a good collection by the way...

How do you account for those, like me, who do not see/experience the sacred? Are we insensitive, blind to it, suppressing it, immune to it, not lookin...

I have never experienced it. So it is not clear. Only clear to those who make such claims, eh?

I have a half-baked worldview, not sure that counts. Ok. This is a different perspective to mine but I like it.

By extension then man made fibers are natural too. Cheers for nylon! Can you name an example of anything we know of which is non-natural?

I use the word all the time and I am an atheist. It's useful to have a term to describe that which is sacrosanct and inviolable.

Definitionally yes, usage... who knows?

Forget 'the holy', according to Nietzsche, if you believe in grammar, you're a theist. Is intelligibility a matter of transcendence? If it is, we are ...

I've recorded this in my philosophical notebook next to the section on Heidegger.

An aside - is the idea of a will to power an example of foundational thinking which FN purports to blow up?

Indeed. Do you know have a view why it is that Jewish fundamentalism hasn't gone down this path, given that Islamic fundamentalism (by contrast) seems...

I already said this: But none of this is very far from saying that making a sandwich is a philosophical enterprise...

I have no belief in an afterlife and I find the idea incoherent. Death holds no fascination for me and the idea of eternity is meaningless. I consider...

Of course.

Ok, thanks for that response. I understand that people do sometimes ruminate over basic life decisions. But I don't consider that kind of quotidian de...

Cool. We disagree. I've never found such decisions hard at all. From what I can see it mostly is. But I am not a philosopher. Maybe you could take one...

He's a pioneering anti-foundationalist - the question of god/s or not has no intrinsic meaning/value, it is but one of infinite possible perspectives ...

My understanding of FN is that he 'blew up' all totalising meta-narratives, which meant that for him the god question was not even wrong.

Is there any merit in distinguishing between what we call knowledge in the quotidian world and what we call knowledge when we seek to make a claim abo...

That is the salient question.

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I don't disagree but I still can't really see how any of these perspectives are useful.

That's not what I was saying. I was saying - we don't know why they did what they did. We don't have access to other people's situations or inner life...

I think we always have to take care not to base our understanding of others and their actions (such as suicide) via books or other people's stories/cl...

Indeed. Why is this important to him?

I am not saying this is wrong but none of that makes any sense to me.

When I was at university back in the 1980's Nietzsche was described as a romantic and so were the post-modernists who were raging against foundational...