It seems tautologous to me that something that objectifies itself in various ways is something that takes on different forms, so, regarding my 'query,...
Is, has, idk - It's strange to me that the essence thing made perfect sense to you in one context, but not in another. Anyway, feel like we're still b...
Fair. So maybe you think there's very little chance he or she will experience anything but an abundance of sorrow. Still, no advice one way or the oth...
Sure, and if you've continued to live, no one has any reason to listen to any claims you might make that life's not worth continuing to live, because ...
Oh, ok, I didn't think of that as a query but I can see how that's one way to look at it - a request for clarification. I guess I'd just I'd rephrase ...
Ok, that makes sense, you can't know enough about the life of the person seeking advice in order to sway him one way or the other. There's a good chan...
Well, I doubt he's taking a Schopenhaueran approach, but it seems to me that Un's "no-thing" means simply that consciousness is not a 'thing.' It's no...
I think Un's right to call it "no-thing." I mean, I know Schop calls will the 'thing-in-itself' but he's playing off Kant. There's no sense in which t...
Strange answer. One can only give advice about things pertaining to duty? A friend once gave me the advice that I shouldn't buy European cars, with my...
Strikes me as a cheap answer, tbh. Yeah, maybe the will in its essence doesn't change, but the way in which that essence manifests changes and evolves...
ok, frame it another way, less universal and less categorical. young person who Oh Shit! has realized the world is v fucked up and there's a whole bun...
'Silent' consciousness is something I experience very rarely - but it's happened to me a handful of times. Even that handful, though, is diverse. Ther...
It strikes me that there's a difference between the "I" that we might speak of as a transcendental condition, and the voice that one speaks in. Neithe...
Yeah, I agree with all of what you said. I think the monk's remaining still is proof itself of the effectiveness of whatever he was doing, but I don't...
What about that monk in Vietnam who did the thing of lighting himself on fire and staying stock-still til he died? Something was going on there, it's ...
I live in Portland, ME, so that probably has something to do with it. I guess I've always maintained a half-conscious metal separation of sprawl-y are...
I looked up pulse on google street view. I was struck by how nondescript it was, and how depressing the setting was - a dingy dunkin donuts next door,...
I do want to qualify my position a little, though. I'm a reluctant panpsychist, and not even really that. I'm as drawn to the idea of a Great Mystery,...
I don't know that there would be a distinct point x. I guess it's something of a sorites paradox. What's a heap? What's 'representation'? When do crea...
It's amazing how insightful-in-digestible-prose he can be, when he wants. The clarity of works like Kant and Critical Philosophy is exactly what makes...
Well, I'm down to help with the third option. Regarding the first option, I don't think an endorsement from me is going to affect TGW all that much th...
Well, I've already spoken my part about the illusion question, recently, and a while back. But I'm still not sure what you're looking for. For TGW to ...
Yeah, what I don't get is the idea of atemporal change, how the will changes, and evolves, into this or that, before representation, eventually coming...
Well, sure, I agree. True compassion can only occur through letting your guard down. The christian sentimental stuff keeps everyone at arms length - p...
Oh, I wasn't arguing that closeness generally is the cause of suffering. We were talking about why people, yourself included, are averse to hurting fa...
I know we went over this above, but, as long as you don't reify illusions, it's perfectly legitimate to ask why the will suddenly wills illusorily, si...
I'd be down for a reading group, just don't think I could do Kant this summer (Moliere and I and some others did the 3 critiques a couple years back o...
The will just swerves its way into representation, I guess. It does seem confusing to explain the 'arising' of representation in instrumental terms, s...
Oooh, you should start a thread around some select quotes from WIP. I think that could be fun. I'd do it myself, but I'm currently using my copy to pr...
Sorry to keep talking over you, it's just I don't know what else to say at this point. I sympathize with your frustrations, but you seem to want to fi...
Well there's some truth to that, but Dante's Inferno is heavily populated by people who wronged Dante. I agree that torture resolves nothing, solves n...
Yeah, I mean, again, this thread was occasioned by Agustino's claim, on another thread, that unrepentant adulterous women were no better than unrepent...
To play devil's advocate, just for a sec, is this true? Prometheus The victims of reprisal in ancient wars (victims of Assyria, Babylon, Persia and so...
What does a rationalization feel like? I'm saying that there'd be have to be some felt affinity that could only subsequently be rationalized. The gene...
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