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I may be responding at an angle to what you're getting at. It's a weird thing to talk about because so many categories get blurred. And I am still far...

Most of your points are less points, than jabs, expulsions of anger, sharp needles looking for soft bellies. The points nestled among the jabs are los...

I do understand the cartoon. It's an interesting cartoon in that, in responding to a line of argument, it makes the same move the argument was trying ...

What some people have a lot of trouble doing is distinguishing between Unite the Right types and other Trump voters. Everything gets smushed together....

Though we may have different guiding concerns, I think we both agree that the pragmatic approach doesn't exhaust truth. In my initial post I tried to ...

It may be true that certain that certain people are liable to believe a certain falsehood. That doesn't mean the falsehood is true. It means it's true...

I'm late to the thread, and apologize because I may be repeating some things that have already been said. I've read the OP and I've skimmed some of th...

Nadia just messaged me with similar tidings. She seems nice. I miss her.

You're really boring, is I guess I what I have left to say. I was trying to find a hook into your post.

Well - I think you have a laudable - laudable - appreciation for reason as demonstrated, clearly, by your deep appreciation for the fifteen thinkers c...

So the interesting question, in my mind, isn't the need for a universal ought. It's the pragmatic one - involving rhetoric, strategy, empathy, poetics...

In classical China, if we're talking about the same thing/era, the independent council was made of people recruited to serve an authoritarian state. T...

A few cheats, for sure. That's what happened to Martin Shkreli. I'm not going to defend him, because he's a 24k piece of shit, but! he defended himsel...

I'm picturing a west euro/russian version of the white teacher /inner city student dynamic so popular in movies over here. Down to handshakes. But, I ...

In many ways that dynamic reminds me of 'redneck' culture in Maine. My habit is to drink in dive bars in Portland, and that's usually the crowd there ...

Yeah, my apologies. That was a late-night too-many-beers post. I hastily read through the OP and, as you say, made 'bearing' out to be a sort of incli...

Yeah! It's like, do you even lift bro?? Are you capable of using cold hard reason? (not many are! you have to be tough!) Like, Have you read Descartes...

Hook me up! :wink:

Oh! Different meanings of 'hookup.' There's the romantic one - one night stand, etc. There's also the drug one. 'I know a guy who can hook us up.' The...

I like your tripartite schema. It makes sense to me, just empirically. It fits, it works. Before I go into about the potential problems I see looming,...

No worries. My last post was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, I'm not actually upset. Mostly, I just want to say 'I feel you.' It's hard to live with this...

Definitely wealth acquisition is an external end - its just not a moral one. It's relentlessly amoral, in fact, even avowedly so - Hayek says markets ...

Listen! I was HEARTBROKEN. Some lady walks into my life says she has a sheet of acid for a couple hundred.... only a saint could resist.

I relate to this. I sometimes have similar delusions too (they were exacerbated last fall when a break-up and meeting someone with a 'hookup' aligned ...

Love these. As someone who's had only the briefest nervous excursions outside his own cultural milieu (& I'm only talking about the American South ) t...

addendum - I mentioned Kant in a previous post, because I think his bending-back of the ethical telos (toward man as end in himself) leads directly to...

Breezing through submission - michel houellebecq Late to the game on this one, and I'm bummed I let my preconceptions get in the way of actually readi...

I actually do agree with you. It was very unclear, but what I'm objecting to with 'number-threeism' is the selection of number three as more or less t...

We live in extraordinary times. We find our universities awash in strange and mysterious theories, theories that threaten our very sense of reality. T...

I take @"frank" to be saying it's easy to identify as the type of person who chooses number 3, but it's a little empty. This is the kind of thing figu...

'Things could be better than they are' feels to me like a necessary horizon for any happy world of social responsibility. There are those idyllic mome...

For older societies, it often isthe case that 10 trout in a certain season is a sin, in other seasons virtuous. When everything is tightly woven toget...

Taking for granted a succesful attempt at invirtuating the masses. (Maybe a cabal of virtue ethicists slowly insinuates a noble lie/truth about the di...

rage & time - peter sloterdijk end of history & the last man - francis fukuyama reality is not what it seems - carlo rovelli the europeans - henry jam...

what a wonder stuff like zuccoti fails. Lets regroup and figure out why the fucking idiots didnt listen to us. Can't they see we see them as equals?

But is this not just 'consuming' the debate, to satisfy one's demand for examples of corporate consumerism to attack? Isn't this a shoring-up of ident...

What if we all talked about who we are and what our concerns are and concrete ways to address them? And interlaced the political theory with that? -bu...

Read my post back over. I don't care if you're authentic. You're draping something else over me. Identity can only see identity.

You're not trying to talk to anyone. That's the problem.

Let's try this: I'm thirty years old, I live in Maine, I work in a call center. Talk to me. Distribution, participation. What do you have to say?

I wouldn't say this about an ontologist or metaphysician or someone doing a dissertation on Wittgenstein. Or a dissertation on Rawls. I understand bei...

yep

Think of it like a mystery novel. all the clues are there. Why is the article confusing? Whats the weak link?

Hmmm. What was the plot?

hmmm. the plot thickens.

ha! thats it in a nutshell.

But all musicians do is just modulate air- vibrations. Whatever sports are, I guess their relevance is how they tap into emotion. I'm not big on sport...

Silence appeals to me, maybe just because I can't stop talking, but if we use stereoscopic in the way you mean, then 'all the way down' could also mea...

The article explains how Reagan made use of neoliberal thought. But, you say, neoliberalism is often characterized as essentially libertarian. Reagan ...

Chomsky is an exemplary air-conditioned modeler. Banksy is an aesthete, and made shrewd use of an anti-corporate aesthetic that gibed with the radiohe...