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I really like that Stove idea, and agree that it works well with approaching Kant. But the Humean doesn't say "I don't know" really, does he? He expla...

I'm going to give you a 'bad' answer, because I gotta finish a paper (on the goddamn Iraq War) before midnight, and have to tear myself away from the ...

I think you may have meant to respond to @"Moliere" (though I agree with his post) Edit: Or maybe not. The word "tension" stuck out.

ha i get that. Deleuze got fired up about Opum, I think in What is Philosophy, but was reallly vague, and didn't say much besides connecting it to Tur...

man, I'd be interested in reading COJ again, some day. I'm also very curious about his final work, Opum Postumum, but its suuper expensive.

@"The Great Whatever"That's fair, and I've been defending Kant a little more fiercly than my own beliefs warrant - I think there's a lot to take issue...

I agree. I probably should have been clearer, but I was trying to say that the picture people seem to have of Kant is way off.

Would you say that Hume makes the same error when discussing necessary, demonstrable truths stemming from the 'relations of ideas'?

oh whoa, I forgot all about the teleological judgment section. I remember it being weird, and there was a bunch about 'the organism' but not much else...

What I vaguely remember is that certain objects introduce either discord or increased harmony between reason/understanding/sensibility. (one species o...

Yeah, and also it's Konigsberg, not Leipzig. I botched that one, and your general point about biography is good.

I'm sympathetic to a psychological reading of Kant's system, and it definitely gibes with the biographical info we have about the guy - how he never l...

What I'm trying to convey is that, in my understanding, CPR is dealing very specifically with the cognition of objects (and their relations.) It's abo...

Sure, people of all stripes and creeds selectively quote anyone with perceived cachet to support their viewpoints. That's what people do! In any case,...

I wouldn't put it that strongly, but, yeah, I think a lot of context is lost.

Another way to put is that Kant may not have futzed around with something like, say, Heideggerean being-in, because being-in was already taken for gra...

I know I already mentioned it, kinda, but I think Kant's position makes perfect sense as a response to British Empiricism and Newtonian physics taken ...

I'm sometimes tempted to see philosophy as a kind of restricted form of metaphor/myth building, or imaginative play, that kind of forgets what it's do...

@"The Great Whatever" It's been a while since I read the critiques, but my two cents is that Kant was right enough, but that the domain of experience ...

His sister recalled playing piano in the big rich Wittgenstein household, and her brother (the man in question) being in another room, and her playing...

I'm a dick too tho, and I'm sorry to hijack this thread.

Yeah, I think the well being of others, who are real, even if theyre on a forum, does matter and i think its sad you don't. But hey, no one else would...

obv you realize the harshness. The harshness is the role youre playing. All that stuff about missing dads may be true, idk, its the thesis of fight cl...

But it's not 'it's fine to stay home' v 'you gotta get in gear' - its ' here are some real tips to help you' v 'let me play my no-nonsense realist rol...

Ya wrong, Hegel's great.

Maybe you have some sense of yourself as a no-nonsense straight-shooter, with an ironic wit, and an endearing faux-narcissism (which im sure you would...

All that being said, I think this quote from The Gay Science is worth a hundred moral treatises.

I agree with your criticism of Camus. I never really got into him though, to be honest. I did read The Stranger, in high school, and I can't remember ...

I'd have to say Derrida, and I know he's an easy target, an obvious one, but I actually like continental philosophy. Quite a bit. I feel like I'm exac...

You ever know anyone in high school who was too smart for their own good, submitted a perfect paper that mocked the assignment itself, but still got a...

My extremely underinformed, biased, i've-never-read-the-whole-thing take is that the tractatus was at least half tongue-in-cheek, a smarter-than-you-s...

Same for me, almost exactly. I've never heard anyone else talk about the 'push' thing, but that's a good way to put it.

That's true. Maybe they only base your 'label' on your top foundation.

Like I said, the first test really measures one's own idea of one's moral foundation. You spend a lot of time consciously grooming your moral self-ima...

That moral foundations test is terribly designed. Almost all of the questions are super abstract. It doesn't test how you think about things; it tests...

I'd do one on universals & nominalism. I'm a total amateur on the subject, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately.

I really like the concept. I'm not sure how well it would work on the forum tho. I suppose it'd have to be an agreement between two members to post wi...

It's a good practical rule of thumb, but, then, has any philosophical discussion that's reached for atoms gone astray? How about any that reaches for ...

Also: the stuff apo and street are always talking about: 'the epistemic cut', the ability to make distinctions. And the ability to hone in one thing, ...

So, right, as Rich says, the bridge is 'matter.' & my guess is that the intuition the physicalist is trying to express is that both that foot and the ...

thx for that, nice to have a sincere, personal, earned defense of philosophy. Needed that, for real.

But how does this cash out concretely? You get some extra, tailored political ads on your facebook if your data points show you undecided? It just doe...

Men who like makeup likely gay, trump supporters more likely to prefer US-made cars. This is some sophisticated stuff. Amazing that they discovered th...

So I'm 28 &, so far, I've experienced at least 2 distinct waves of 'aha' w/ other thinkers validating, expanding, and contextualizing that 'aha.' That...

That last sentence especially. For whatever reason Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason really had that effect on me (though, like so many other bo...

I don't want you to to change your approach, really, I like things to stay at least a little the same, and you're a fixture. It's just that anyone wit...

lol, I don't mean this as a dig ( liked the post) but if you wanted to capture apo in two quotes, couldn't do better than this

Non-hedonic is too strong for me, but I see your point. But we're not satisfied, leaving it at Leopardi's quote, are we? (I know I'm not)

No, but so I actually like - & somewhat agree with - the Leopardi quote. But there's a hint of self-pity that rubs me the wrong way. And not just self...

Not a quote by a philosopher, but I've always loved this (used to be in my signature on the old pf.) I offer it as a counterpoint to Leopardi. All you...