Tom Storm

I don’t think words like innocence or wisdom are particularly useful, My point about dissatisfaction being the launching pad of much philosophy doesn’...

Sorry I can’t follow most of your response.

Maybe you're asking the wrong guy. I don't watch or participate in any form of sport. And I'm not sure about the merit of philosophy more generally. B...

If you are asking about the impulse to philosophy, I would think it often seems to be connected to unhappiness or dissatisfaction. People who are cont...

I wasn't referring to metaphysics. I was referring to the human urge to anthropomorphise such things as nature, animals and objects. I think this tend...

Really? Perhaps you formed this view because I was discussing 'faith' in god (as per Hebrews 11) and not belief more generally. Say some more so I und...

Ok. I'll mull over this.

Does anyone practice liberalism from some manual? Isn't liberalism like most belief systems, something one partly assimilates from culture and partly ...

For the purposes of this OP I'm trying to promote a more precise use of the word. Whether you or anyone else don't care to use it my preferred way doe...

Yes, and as I have said on this site many times, I consider it a bad use of the word. I will always be happy to point this out in my conversations wit...

Yes, this was my reaction. Maybe this is intended as a conversation about the ethics of Western capitalism. What do you mean by unethical behaviour? I...

I don't think this is a mischievous view, more of a conventional one. I suspect most people would be in agreement with you that philosophers are not a...

My question came about because of the use of the word 'confidence', which I had laid out in a different context earlier, as an alternative to faith. I...

How did you arrive at that? Isn't faith certainty?

I fail to see how it has ever been anything but this. We may dress up our individual egos in drag with Islam or liberalism or existentialism, but in t...

I think anthropomorphising is lazy and onanistic. And worse, it is often wrong. But it's too minor a problem to debate. :wink:

I enjoy such flights of ideas. No, I guess my point is that people tend to tie nihilism to a lack of belief in gods or transcendental entities (antifo...

Not sure why we arrived at nihilism in this discussion and I never agued that humans don't find order useful - we are meaning making creatures, from o...

Sure, but I haven’t decided that. Exactly. Not sure about that. There are certainly regularities we are able to ride like surfers riding waves, but ‘n...

If you are asking is it possible to know a place well and thereby understand its flaws? Then yes. There's a reason they say absence makes the heart gr...

Interesting, possibly a romantic view. From an Australian perspective, everyone I know who wants to emigrate, wants to go to Canada - England being re...

Why do you think we should regard the cosmos as knowable, let alone rational in any sense? I don't know how anyone can determine whether the universe ...

Just watched Season 2 of Succession. I was largely indifferent to Season 1, so revisited this show late. Two is much better. It's a fairly unpleasant ...

Why?

No idea. Outside of religion the word is used metaphorically and IMO wrongly. I've heard it said that faith is the excuse people give for believing so...

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But my argument isn't that any particular figures be considered primarily as artists, or that we should reclassify their oeuvre. My point is that what...

I think the good reason is the one I already gave. Perhaps you have a slightly implacable, fixed notion of what counts as art. It doesn't have to be a...

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I tend to intuit my way through, almost entirely by feeling and with a fair amount of imitation. Which might help explain why I have never taken an in...

Not sure I can say the same. I wouldn’t even know how to assess this. I don’t think I feel or do things much differently. I am more competent in a ran...

:up: Thank you, Javi.

Interesting information about axioms. I don't have enough maths knowledge to drill down into this, but no doubt axioms or presuppositions (and their j...

Which is why I wrote 'creative imagination.' Personal taste will account for much of this. For instance, I don't find Nietzsche appealing, but I think...

Saw the rest of Tár, and it picked up in the second half. It turns out to be something of a gothic/psychological thriller and feels a little like a la...

There's a lot of pretty bad art out there and it kind of sullies itself IMO. That said, depending upon one's definition of art, i would think that som...

Yes, I've sometimes said this myself, mainly as a provocation. I think inventing a magic man as a way to fill gaps in our knowledge is irresistible.

Don't forget paragraphs. Text slabs are hard to read.

:up: This is a tough one to answer. As I said earlier, I would probably need a god to show up and make its presence known or visible in a way that I c...

Couldn’t say. But if this magical creature exists, no doubt it would know. I need god to show up in person and settle the matter. There are some probl...

Do we know if time exists outside of human cognition?

How do we determine what is incoherent rambling and what might be the limitations of our capacity to follow complex ideas?

I'm not talking 'ancient' I am thinking more along the lines of embodied cognition studies - thinkers like Evan Thompson and Dan Zahavi - as one avenu...

Indeed. I've found Braver accessible. He is also an excellent communicator in lectures and interviews. I'm afraid I find philosophy very difficult and...

Not being a philosopher or scientist, I have no commitments either way. But I think the quesion what are the presuppositions which allow science to be...

Perhaps that's the way you read it.

You left out the key part. Perhaps Kant can help us? Or phenomenology? What methodology do you think you have access to that can answer the above and ...

I've never much liked the word 'laws' in this context. Apart from the metaphysical implications, it also implies a law giver or other mysterious entit...

As already discussed. That example was not philosophy and you're missing the point of the allegory. It's teaching about patience, not karate, using ir...

Just tried to get through Tár, the Cate Blanchett vehicle. Lasted an hour. I found it dull, theatrical and self-aware. Blanchett's mannered performanc...