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I had this problem as well. Thompson kind of - kind of - addresses this: "The opposition of individual organism and life form is, as we might say, a m...

Regarding the language metaphor: It's basically the old langue/parole distinction so dear to the structuralists. To understand any particular utteranc...

that sounds unpleasant, yeah

Ok, yeah, I hear you, but I think I'm with jamalrob on this one. The natural, casual thing is a function of being in a safe space where there's no pre...

Concretely, which contemporary novels are you referring to here? Sounds like you've read a lot like this! (cf 'anymore') sorry, jk, but seriously I do...

things change

ugh, there's a certain type of person who needs others to understand how brimming they are with joie de vivre. The most vibrant prof at the seminar! "...

I always thought this one was funny "I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when one's opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.” ? Sø...

Yeah, so this is exactly the kind of response I'm talking about.

Yeah, idk man, one can only take so many 'language itself is metaphorical' type responses before it stops seeming worth it.

I think, to be honest, I'm happy to just leave Schopenhauer altogether. An atemporal, unified, will doesn't make any sense at all. What is will-like a...

eh, sure - think we lost the plot for tepid niceties but this thread's toast anyway

Then why did you claim it's incorrect to say the will clashes with itself?

Even if the doxa blows where it pleases, it does so in a strange way. The type of movement you'd be itching to draw diagrams of, if you were a kabbali...

Well, the convenience store was Amato's, whose deal is convenience store + authentic deli! I don't think Amato's exists outside of Northern New Englan...

It seems very strange to me to say that its not the will that clashes with itself; that, instead, it's the manifestations which clash. Is the will not...

Good article about this.

Ivory Tower seems v scary if that's the case.

Yeah the dumb dad is a common mainstream-media trope, sure. (Modern Family would be the perfect example. The dad in Beethoven. Clark Griswold) The dit...

Again, though, I'm not a fan of the man bad woman good thing. I'm not sure if I'm getting through. let me try it in italics. Women are as shitty as me...

Yeah, but that's exactly what I'm saying, I don't think it's idiosyncratic at all, & I don't see myself as idiosyncratic for saying it. I def like to ...

Yeah, I mean, nothing that I've said on this thread strikes me as particularly idiosyncratic (though it was nice what I did with that raise/raze thing...

@"darthbarracuda" There's no simple answer to the questionin the OP. Feminism today is hyper-splintered and you're never going to satisfy everyone. Bu...

I believe that you believe that I'm doing nothing but rehearsing ingratiating rhetoric. You might believe that it's become so engrained, for me, that ...

I also cited 'getting groceries' which is perhaps even more stupid. I intentionally included both trivial and non-trivial things in that list, because...

Is it really so self-evident to you that all women hate all men, that you think, by asking someone if women act like they value men, you've backed the...

All the time.

looks like the leaves have it, you guys

I guess strictly speaking that's true. As men, I guess we can never know for sure. Similarly, as a white person, I can never know whether any black pe...

Sex;Getting Groceries;Talking with;Songwriting;Vacationing with;Raising children;Playing Sports;Banking;Grabbing drinks with;Cooking;Camping with;Film...

There's a whole big blooming bundle of things. It's clearly not the case that all women want all men dead or in prison. Are you trolling?

Well, the claim that all women want all men dead or in prison is a bit histrionic (I'm still not sure if you're serious) so, to suggest the absurdity ...

So 'all women want all men dead or in prison' actually means women, in general, labor to maintain a institutional status quo which kills and imprisons...

yeah, I was just having a laugh. TGW's last post seemed pretty ridiculous to me, though maybe he was joking too.

So the will is never at variance with itself, it's only the manifestations of the will that are at variance with one another? Is that right?

I've noticed the same thing about those saps who actually believe that there exists a single woman who doesn't want all men dead or in prison - they'r...

The love-making in Nantucket thing kills me. & this sentence in particular: "He extended his legs and began to take his shoes off, edging the heel wit...

(P.S. Even having not read O'Connor, I know enough about literary criticism to know that comparisons to her tend to be lazy throwaways,usually meaning...

That's the spirit! I'm ashamed to admit it, but I've never read O'Connor, not a single story. I've been meaning to get around to it for the past decad...

FWIW here's what happens next: dude takes off his shoes ("He extended his legs and began to take his shoes off, edging the heel with the back of the o...

That's my feeling too, more or less. One of my favorites, Laszlo Krazsnahorkai, routinely writes sentences which stretch over ten pages. It's the effe...

Truth be told, everytime Schopenhauer starts talking about the indivisible unity of the will, outside the principium individuationis, I get the sense ...

Yeah, I tried to read Dennett's Consciousness Explained (recon to know the enemy better, I guess) but, even though I expected to disagree, I was legit...

My experience is very similar. To my therapist, I've likened that moment, where an image is immediately made of authentic expression, to those scenes ...

ok. My point is only that book II presents itself as the true account of the will's adventure and it does so in terms of a striving that grows in comp...

Then Book II is essentially one long nonsensical metaphor.

I wasn't suggesting the 'Platonic Ideas' change. What I'm saying is that book II presents a narrative about a pre-representative will striving, expres...

The account Schopenhauer gives, of the will objectifying in different grades, is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a mere 'empirical' account, d...

Oops, phrased that poorly. Not a difference between objectifications and affirmations. A difference between this or that objectification. Between this...

If there is a difference between objectifications or affirmations, then there is change (note that this doesn't require the introduction of change int...