Tom Storm

I think this is right. Yes So if we have no fundamental guarantor of realism, what does this say about our ability to communicate successfully about m...

So the initial OP stated the following problem: Yes, it was Hilary Lawson writing this, but Lawson is incidental, it's the point I'm curious about. I ...

I don't think so. We seem to employ language to communicate fairly well on many matters - that's as deep as I'm going.

Thank you that's a very succinct and informative summary of the position you've been articulating.

Yes.

? Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit

Yes, this I get. I've made the same point many times. :up:

Ok. Thanks for clarifying. I'm unclear how this would work in practice (how would one become both sides of a conflict?) but I kind of see the argument...

Understand. This is a tendentious subject. I just like having a sense of the scope of enquiry. :wink:

Interesting. Thank you. That's generally been my game plan. I think I'll try to find a thread on the Forms to see what's been said here.

For me it's the things we should fix but can't see that matter most - biases, values, patterns of thinking and behavior that seem normal to us but are...

Not really for this thread, but I understand Plato's notion of the Forms evolved throughout his writings and that he was sometimes 'self-critical' - t...

Yes, this is where I was heading. Reason as pathway to higher awareness - very different. It does strike me that the notion of a reawakening of the wi...

A digression via some questions. Plato seems to regard nous as the highest form of understanding - the ability to contemplate the ultimate nature of r...

A good point. I think of them as untheorized hedonists - they are more likely to be using the term in an undifferentiated fashion to describe 'pleasur...

No question about that.

I don't really have answers to your questions. I do have a comment on labels. Where I work, we've assisted many sex workers (street sex to brothel sex...

That's really interesting. What things feel like on the inside has never captured my imagination. I'm not even sure what that would mean experientiall...

Probably for somewhere else on this site but I don't think a person's religious leanings help us understand anything about them. For the simple proble...

Who knows? :wink:

I went to one of the 'better' clubs like this in my city about 15 years ago. I was writing a feature article for a major city newspaper on the women a...

Interesting. If intuition is thinking it is thinking without reasoning or analysis. I guess that's why it is also called a gut feeling. What is the pa...

Ok. Maybe this place will help you think through this. I can't help you, I am an atheist. :wink:

Welcome. What does this mean? My understand of Greek orthodox Christianity is it considers the Catholic Church to be anathema. Or did you mean an orth...

I think I agree. Can you clarify something? What does an awareness of how one's thinking process look like? Do you have an example? In other words, ar...

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Cool thanks. I'll continue to mull over this.

Thats useful, thanks.

Food for thought. Ha! I can only agree with Fichte and have had similar thoughts, as I am sure many do. More recently I feel time is like being trappe...

Are you essentially saying that we have constructed little conceptual 'prisons' for ourselves out of theory and intellectual models? Can you clarify t...

I've been pondering the same thing on and off for much of this year - the present moment may be all which exists, but how are we to understand looking...

Quick question: I can see merit in this and have a modest interest in phenomenology, but could it not be argued that this account is just words used a...

Well, I prefer your account as it implies hope.

I guess as a presupposition I have generally subscribed to something similar - but the devil is in the detail. I have ususally held (something close t...

Interesting. I generally see political conversations as amongst the most tribal and intractable, so I haven't often had the experience of common groun...

Agree.

I haven't noticed this. I've mostly noticed discussions about epistemology and metaphysics mostly. We seem to keep coming back to what it is we can sa...

I meant aggressive in the sense of super assertive and unassailably confident, not hostile. Probably right. He's definitely a very smart man but I fin...

Interesting. There seems to be a similar performative contradiction in Donald Hoffman's idealist philosophy - if evolution is only about survival and ...

Thanks.

I hear you. I agree that some Christians are good at reason. And often they feel they need to be in a world that privileges reason and evidence over f...

Interesting point. In the finite amount of time and brief attention span of my life, I've never considered pursuing an intellectual or cultural projec...

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Sometimes I find myself in a discussion with someone and I can't for the life of me remember the point we were explorin...

I wish I could understand this. If only I had spent my life doing some interesting reading instead of drinking in bars.. :wink:

Agree. I don't think reason counts much in the god debates. You either buy the idea or you don't. I personally have no sensus divinitatis (to borrow f...

No - that's not the point I am making. I'd say you're overlooking the obvious. This is not just death and suffering exist; this is creation as a orgia...

We'll never know until we try and it looks very much like we have to try. :wink: But my would-be minimalism isn't motivated by the environment, it is ...

I think it seems incoherent. Maybe you could start by defining power. What does power look like as the limits are removed?

I wouldn't take the ascetic versions of 'hard' minimalism as its only expression. I think the world can easily manage a radical drop in consumerism. M...

I'm not sure this is correct - for evil to exist, this seems to require free choice. How can something be evil if it is the necessary requirement for ...