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I think it's clear that Schopenhauer 'didn't believe in' such revelation. He talked of metempsychoses, for instance, in terms of an analogy fit for th...

Nietzsche is no sacred cow. He's too easy to criticize, cherry pick. The man kept writing as he lost his mind from some kind of brain disease. If I di...

If the sceptic acts like he doesn't see the book and we know that he's just being a metaphysical jackass, then we might brew some coffee and play the ...

This Schop quote gets at something like the essence of 'atheistic' worldview. Note that 'strange allegories' are not exclude and even 'the wise' are f...

I actually agree that 'both sides' have some vision of the way things are, with one side believing there's a god and the other side disagreeing. That'...

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That helps. I'm with you on the 'ideological crisis' inspired by misfortune that becomes its own second-layer on that misfortune. I'm also with you on...

It ain't ! It's crazy. And yet somehow barrels and barrels of such kool-aid were guzzled down. For me it's been so much easier to let it all go as mad...

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I also feel that 'a man should be firmly grounded in something.' What is this drive toward to some kind of distance from the moment? I like Epictetus ...

I think might just makes 'I can get away with this for now.' After all, if you really thought might = right, you'd have to acknowledge the virtue of y...

I agree. I'm not at all in the 'if only we could get rid of religion camp.' Conspirituality and Tucker-talk can just as easily fill in the void, not t...

That truly sucks. I don't know if it's feasible to abandon ship and rent somewhere, but I'd be afraid that something like that would drive me to viole...

I found a quote that seems like a link between Jung and Peterson. IMO, this is a cartoon Nietzsche, but then there are quotes when taken out of contex...

Your neighbors sound like assholes. If it is at all possible, even if it's a pain in the ass, you might want to move.

I guess none of fit all that cleanly in such a simple grid, so maybe the issue is the integrative/systematic as opposed to the piecemeal/improvisation...

Whow, that's a shot of espresso. Dense. :up:

FWIW, I think you manifest a 'will-to-system' that's always going to annoy the opposite anti-systematic temperament. This is something like William Ja...

It occurred to me that I imagine a fairly radical Wittgenstein, a 'semantic nihilist' or 'semantic pessimist.' Philosophy goes up in smoke with him. h...

:up: What comes to my mind is the slow drift of an entire 'framework' or 'form of life.' The 'meaning' of gestures and sentences 'inheres' in or is di...

I think such rights are fragile, and it's easy to imagine our rational civic religion melting away. If you watched the Trump disaster, you can see how...

I'd even go further, with a kind of Feyerbendian 'anything goes.' I don't mind if citizens recontextualize bronze-age tropes to push with their indivi...

This is pretty much how I see things. A related thought: whatever I thought or felt about God (what I could know of God) was 'in' my 'mind' or 'experi...

I gave up that impossible project many years ago. I'm something like a soft determinist. I'm simply not troubled by religious issues (which is not to ...

I had the impression that Australia was more secular. (I respect your nation's resistance to Starbucks and your coffee shop culture. I think I'd like ...

I think you know that we completely agree on this.

Thanks for taking my criticism in such a friendly spirit. On the absurdity of the usual theology, you mention one of many issues. Even if the afterlif...

We have ideas like individual rights, the common good, democracy, etc. I'm not saying this is perfect, but I don't think humans need God or gods to ha...

I trust in your sincerity. To be honest, though, your style is a bit all over the place. IMO, you might want to quote more.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19322/19322-h/19322-h.htm This point is also in Feuerbach. Personal immortality is something like the most intense exp...

This is just what is impossible, unless we want to consider screaming madness. The point is something like: to express doubts in an intelligible langu...

IMO, you shouldn't miss the humor in this joke about ordinary misery. In some ways, your position is embattled like Freud's. I'm sure that you recogni...

I think 'part' is not intended in the sense of role. It's more like the human mind is part of the universe, of the territory which science can and sho...

Yes, and I've read quite a few suspicious minds.

I think you are ignoring the difference between an explicit thesis ('a certain kind of philosophy is trapped in a picture') and unquestioned backgroun...

:up: :up: :up: Nice, thanks!

I hope you like it as much as I expect you will!

There are two books. Not sure which you'd like better. The short one is Groundless Grounds, which focuses on Heidegger and Wittgenstein. The big one i...

As I understand it from the Peter Gay bio, he embraced that role more as he aged. As a student he was somewhat anti-philosophical or anti-metaphysical...

You do make me wonder how I'd experience it now. It's been about 20 years since my Jung phase. On the other hand, I had a second Freud phase a few mon...

Yeah, I think he and Heidegger are often saying the same thing in very different styles. Lee Braver's work is largely about their intersection. His bo...

I agree. Freud was careful not to read too much philosophy as a young student, as I found from his bio. But he did credit Nietzsche with exceptional s...

I read Answer to Job a long time ago and remember being quite impressed by it. I already liked Job, but Jung gave me new perspectives on that ancient ...

Nice way of putting it. It took me a moment to see the analogy, but yeah, that makes sense. As I read him, he's discovering or at least modifying a vi...

I think it would be fascinating to talk with a pro, but my default position is that we can't help doing self-analysis after reading psychoanalysts (an...

As you may know, Schopenhauer talks about seeing through the veil of the principle of individuality. Now that I'm on the lookout, I find versions of t...

The 'laborious to read' caught my eye. Bad philosophy and maybe even mediocre philosophy is worse than no philosophy. I mean that it's actively annoyi...

Thank you! Amatya Sen is a new name for me. I've been curious about Cassirer (I like Gadamer, and they are connected rightly or wrong in my mind.) I'm...

Sure. For context, I went to school as an older student than most, not because I was a dunce but rather because I was an alienated autodidact, and I w...