But what is a socratic conversation? Isn't it basically just one person stating one's understanding of something while an ironic interlocutor asks pro...
The two smokescreens philosophers tend to use today are clear-headed devotion to truth for truth's sake (analytic) and political engagement (continten...
I agree with tgw (& hoo over on another thread) that the will-to-philosophize stems ultimately from dimly understood pains, desires, and anxieties. Mo...
You're poisoning the well! No one will want to participate! The way I see the book, so far, is a super close reading of the first logical investigatio...
I think the ultimate target is presence, not mundanity (the introduction locks onto retention/protention and the alter-ego which renders possible inte...
Just read chapter two this afternoon & I gotta say I agree. It's fine when he's analyzing the text itself, but the sudden sweeping proclamations about...
https://s15.postimg.org/4wfnwoj2j/pics.jpg Got my order today (went overboard, b/c I got nothing else to waste money on rn) but, hey, I somehow fucked...
Mmm, well it seems like it comes down to likeability in that case. It's interesting you mention not only their quirks but their virtues, though I'm no...
I have some sympathy with what you're saying. If the salutary effect of encountering Cyrenaic thought is not derived from realizing it through action ...
& finally I think that, if you follow the faultlines, it would be easy to show that being a consistent Cyrenaic is practically equivalent to not being...
Let me be a bit polemical and ask: have you ever heard an addict philosophize/justify himself while high on his drug of choice? He may hit up Dionysus...
The planning paradox you mention seems quite damning. Tbh, it seems to derail the whole thing. I think its interesting that you say 'the Cyrenaic must...
I've ordered the Lawlor translation as well. I agree, @"moliere" that too much anxiety over the translation could just stall things entirely, so I'll ...
The difference between the two translations is a bit worrisome to me. I've already found a few passages in the introduction which say entirely differe...
I browsed the introduction to Speech & Phenomena at work today. It seems much less pose-y than most of his stuff and really dovetails nicely with some...
I agree with the thrust of the OP. I think it's interesting, though, that the two hidden motives you've identified in the quest for absolute truths ar...
I'd be interested - I don't know how much insight I'd be able to offer, but I think I'd benefit from it. I'd read whatever others are most interested ...
This isn't strictly on point, but I think most people who have even the tiniest little smidgeon of philosophical curiosity are naturally drawn to the ...
If analog processes are susceptible to 'digital' understanding (and they are, even if this understanding is necessarily limited), there must be someth...
I have a guilty habit of strolling incredibly crime-ridden and/or impoverished neighborhoods (esp in ex-ssr countries) It feels like a terrible thing ...
Yeah, idk, I could go to Paris too and talk to people. For sure, a change of capitals would be a social fact, but I don't see how that changes things....
@"John" I may disagreee with you, but more importanly I don't have any sense of what you think is at stake or what roads your distinction opens. What ...
Well yeah, I think it's the pegasus thing. I don't disagree that this is a confused way of looking at things. But I can understand a frail and tidy ar...
Well I'd have to go to that location and check for rays. In the latter case, I'd have to check the news to see if something crazy happened (and someti...
I'm familiar with the debate (and I think it's clear why Russell thought it was a good idea, even if it isn't) But, so that's just it, with that way o...
That's interesting. That way of thinking, though I don't know how I feel about it, actually slightly inclines me to John's position. Precisely because...
When qualifiers come into play, one ought be wary. "basic" here. Even if one accepts this characterization, this would mean that there can be non-basi...
But doesn't x being the capital in a the-capital-is-that-which-we-call-the-capital scenario remain empirical since one must still observe people calli...
Washington DC was not always the capital of the US. Was the US not the US when philadelphia was the capital? Or is it no longer the US now that DC is?...
I agree with you, but wouldn't it remain empirical even if capitolhood were nothing more than an agreed upon designation? Say people nominated cities ...
Sure. The crux of Thompson's argument is that, in addition to possessing an a priori ( & universal) concept 'life-form,' we are also able to form an a...
@"Pierre-Normand" I'm curious as to whether you think Thompson's argument works. It feels to me like, if you drop the slightly confused transcendental...
i think it's also worth mentioning that, for Kant, a priori knowledge is always characterized by both necessity and universality. Thompson does not ap...
The only way I can parse this concern is to read into it a fear of ethical dictates being merely contingent. Except (1) Thompson has already jettisone...
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