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January 19th, 2011, 6:54 pm
(quote not shown) Knowing the manner in which this is [genetically] an inherent component of human biology does little to ameliorate the fear. At least not in most of us. And the fear almost always ensnares us the older we get. That's just commonsense. The older we get the closer we get to oblivion....
January 16th, 2011, 3:10 pm
In my view, the fear of death revolves less around the fact "I" become nothing at all, and more around the irretrivable loss of all we have come know and love and and cherish. In this way a particular death becomes as meaningful and as meaningless as any other death. The paradox of death i...
January 5th, 2011, 5:21 pm
iambiguous wrote: Do you honestly believe that how You understand "love and duty", is the only truly authentic manner in which to understand them? Nothing could be further removed from my own sense of "self". (quote not shown) This is entirely tautological. You insist an understa...
January 4th, 2011, 7:21 pm
(quote not shown) (quote not shown) Also, it reinforces the extent to which our emotional and psychological reaction to the world around us can marble any supposed "rational" discourse. If someone we know and love is in danger it can easily prompt us to rationalize giving priority to her r...
January 4th, 2011, 3:51 pm
(quote not shown) Why is "existing" expressed parenthetically? I have no sense of Self. And yet I exist from day to day. And if I have no sense of Self, who is someone who claims this distinction to suggest that "i" cannot possibly be committed to things and people? That "i&...
January 4th, 2011, 1:42 pm
(quote not shown) What it suggests [at least to me] is the limitation of human language [philosophical or otherwise] in establishing with any degree of precise truth the nature of certain relationships. There are a number of paradoxes [antinomies] philosophers have been debating for centuries---infi...
January 3rd, 2011, 8:15 pm
(quote not shown) I'm not saying dasein is "correct", only that it seems a reasonable way in which understand human identity. I'll leave it to others to decide if it seems reasonable to them too. (quote not shown) Emil Cioran: When [people] read a book of aphorisms, they say, "oh, loo...
January 3rd, 2011, 2:19 pm
(quote not shown) Yes, this is clearly the case regarding the distinction made between the two interpretations of James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek TV series. But what has always fascinated me philosophically is not the distinction made between fact and fiction but the distinction made between...
January 2nd, 2011, 3:23 pm
It still seems to me that making things true or untrue, caused or uncaused with words is not the same thing as noting the correlation between worlds and words. Here it seems we are as befuddled now as we were when the first mind thought about these profoundly problematic and mysterious relationships...
January 2nd, 2011, 3:04 pm
(quote not shown) What agent? What idea? In what context? And how is your own idea of Self avoiding denial by avoiding the paradox? For example, my idea of dasein is embedded in an existential agent who recognizes that in any particular circumstantial context her point of view is always open to deni...
January 1st, 2011, 7:11 pm
(quote not shown) How in the world am I imposing my beliefs on others? I present arguments which I construe to be reasonable. Here and now. But I clearly recognize that tomorrow or next week or next year I might have an experience or meet someone or read something that changes how I view myself and ...
January 1st, 2011, 1:45 pm
Mark wrote:And since a dasein constantly changes, you will abandon that idea soon too, won't you!?
If I come upon an argument that prompts me to rethink dasein, sure, I will change [or abandon] it. "I" am always rooted in contingency, chance and change.
That's my point. My aim is merely to remind you that you are too.
January 1st, 2011, 1:41 pm
Mark wrote:Lamb, I haven't read it all. But it all goes in circles and reaches no end and never will. We'll have to agree to disagree here, and part on this issue with our own views of the world and ourSelvesSee you in other places!
No, yourSelf. My"self" is an entirely different critter.
January 1st, 2011, 1:37 pm
(quote not shown) Wikileaks is exposing the machinations of the Bilderberg world that is crony capitalism. It has the potential to far transcend the embarassment precipitated by folks like Daniel Ellsberg or Philip Agee. Or maybe the leakers will transcend Assange and become nearly impregnable. Then...
January 1st, 2011, 1:21 pm
(quote not shown) From wikipedia: Spiral Dynamics is a theory of human development introduced in the 1996 book Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck and Chris Cowan. The book was based on the theory of psychology professor Clare W. Graves Spiral Dynamics argues that human nature is not fixed: humans are able,...