It takes at least 100 years for the schools of philosophy to be formally understood and accepted as the true philosophy.From the pimple of wealth that grew from the Apollonian sprang Dionysian post modernism. — Vaskane
The pain is conclusive proof that the fist exists.
— PL Olcott
Pain can be caused by things other than fists. — Michael
If there are any examples of (b) then this proves that the world exists
even if the world is mere a projection from one's own mind. — PL Olcott
It seems to me that you are asserting that your "I" is coming from "It", and it is not from your "thought", but from the "certain blind faith."Philosophy is the shaping and creation of human all too human concepts, in which we have a certain blind faith. For example that "I" comes from "It" specifically that a thought comes when it wishes and not when "I" wish, so that it's a falsification of the facts to say that the subject "I" is the condition of the predicate "think." It is merely an assumption, an assertion, in no way an "immediate certainty." — Vaskane
If I were a blind, then I would try to see the light. Blind sounds boring, bland and pointless, and blind. According to Plato, maybe we are all blind, but that is the whole point of philosophy - to see the light.You have Blind Faith in yourself, perhaps one of the most dangerous errors Nietzsche talks about in that "Will to Truth," which shall still lead us to many daring exploits. — Vaskane
That's not the kind of world that the OP is asking about. It's clearly talking about something like a world of mind-independent material objects. — Michael
She forgot to tell him that the binman has taken away the rusty barbecue rack?"You know nothing Jon Snow." And that thought came to me without even trying to think about it. It just popped into my head. The wilder woman whose name is lost to me, came out of the abyss and whispered it to me.
Why does she say that to a man who knows much? — Vaskane
I never said it was hard to understand. I meant that it read like Literature (like a Shakespear or Stephen King), rather than Hume or Kant.That something is hard for you to understand and thus you shunt it to literature, or blustering, or something else is literally a sort of weakness that is akin to the powerless (as in humans with no power) projecting hate and resentment because they're not significant enough themselves. — Vaskane
The sour grapes needs some logic and reason to tell the world that it tastes nice and worthwhile eaten.It's the fox and the sour grapes. — Vaskane
In case of sour grapes, it doesn't take long to tell the sourness suppose :)Even you yourself claimed philosophy takes a long while to digest. And yet you wrote off one of the greatest minds to ever exist from Pindar to Present, simply because you didnt spend enough time to digest him. — Vaskane
What does Nietzsche say about "the world"? What are his concepts for "the world", and "existence"? Any definitions or comments from him on that? Or interpretations?Nietzsche makes several arguments, if you need help transforming written text into arguments I suggest the book "Mind Your Logic," by Donald Gregory. — Vaskane
15. To study physiology with a clear conscience, one must insist on the fact that the sense-organs are not phenomena in the sense of the idealistic philosophy; as such they certainly could not be causes! Sensualism, therefore, at least as regulative hypothesis, if not as heuristic principle. What? And others say even that the external world is the work of our organs? But then our body, as a part of this external world, would be the work of our organs! But then our organs themselves would be the work of our organs! It seems to me that this is a complete REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM, if the conception CAUSA SUI is something fundamentally absurd. Consequently, the external world is NOT the work of our organs—? — Vaskane
All of these are from Beyond Good and Evil, and he has many more Aphorisms about the world and existence. — Vaskane
Have you ever wondered why it is so intractable?It is quite the recurrent question in the history of philosophy. — Lionino
What grounds do you have to doubt that you are now reading this post? How could such a doubt make any sense?
In what way can you doubt that you are reading this question? — Banno
You are under no obligation to participate.I would be more interested in this conversation if you actually stated a clear argument rather than smirkly saying "I am getting it" by my obviously comedic statement of throwing out philosophy. — Lionino
Good. So, contrary to what you said before, there are things that it makes no sense to doubt.I cannot doubt that it appears to me that I am reading the question. — Lionino
Good. So, contrary to what you said before, there are things that it makes no sense to doubt. — Banno
You are under no obligation to participate. — Banno
Is there not in all philosophy and science an intention of truth, of objectivity, of universality of discourse? Therefore, isn't the skeptic's doubt a gesture in a certain sense that is anti-philosophical and anti-scientific? Doesn't it necessarily fall into the liar's paradox? Doubting the world would be like cutting the branch on which I am sitting, waiting for the tree to fall and not the branch. — JuanZu
"All As are Bs, all Bs are Cs, therefore all As are Cs" is a valid argument.
The above statement is objectively true and does not depend on the existence of an external world. — Michael
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