"don't it make you sad to know that life, is more than who we are?" — TiredThinker

I would like to ask the question "what is the purpose of my life?" — Average

It isn't lost. The self is lost. Content is altered, but not consciousness. — bert1

I've got a word or two
To say about the things that you do
You're telling all those lies
About the good things that we can have
If we close our eyes

Do what you want to do
And go where you're going to
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you

I left you far behind
The ruins of the life that you had in mind
And though you still can't see
I know your mind's made up
You're gonna cause more misery

Do what you want to do
And go where you're going to
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you

Although your mind's opaque
Try thinking more if just for your own sake
The future still looks good
And you've got time to rectify
All the things that you should

Do what you want to do
And go where you're going to
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you

Do what you want to do
And go where you're going to
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you — Think For Yourself (1965)

Either our decisions are determined by some prior cause or they occur spontaneously, neither of which seem to satisfy libertarian free will. — Michael

BTW, the more egalitarian and inclusive the US becomes the less it would be a nation-state. A nation is usually a group of people who have ethnicity in common. — frank

@180 Proof@Jamal

I think both of you will most surely enjoy Novel Explosives — Manuel

:lol: "Compostmoderns" ...the incontinental tradition vs the anals; both have produced a lot of shit and fostered normative correctness in their different ways..." — Janus

Philosophy that is of no significance to everyman is nought but an elitist hobby.

Is communism realistic/feasible? — jorndoe

Be realistic, demand the impossible. — graffiti on buildings in Paris, May '68

Sure, but you're looking at the life in question from the outside. — Janus

We know that we have memories — Andrew4Handel

So, for me the real issue is an ethical one: how do I want to live and what kind of vision do I want to live by? — Janus

What phenomena are in the brain and if so how? — Andrew4Handel

And mirror neurons might give us that strong illusion of sharing platonic ideas and the same sensations ? — plaque flag

Attention is drawn to surprise, right? — plaque flag

How about the self as a social habit... — plaque flag

I suggest that we drop the ocular metaphor and talk about dancing. In other words, we perform 'universals' in the way we trade marks and noises. This 'seeing' of 'form' (this metaphorical interpretation of our situation) has its pros and cons. It's helped us trick ourselves into believing in ghosts. — plaque flag

Platonism sometimes seem to merely assume its own conclusion. — plaque flag

Selves also are almost logical absolutes. The tradition of a ghost in the machine of the body, which is held responsible for telling a coherent story, seems unavoidable. A culture without selves like this would be like a culture without wheels or fire. It's a technology so basic we think it came from god. — plaque flag

Neurath's boat. One part of us questions another part of us. We also make tacit norms explicit, draw out concepts. This is the hermeneutic circle. We 'know' what rationality and being are, but we aren't done knowing what they are. — plaque flag

The philosophy of stoicism was the religion of Marcus Aurelius. Philosophy was the religion of Boethius, who wrote “The Consolation of Philosophy.” Religion for the common people consisted largely of myths and gods.

I think science united with philosophy addressing ultimate questions might produce a religion ... — Art48

• make-believers (most)
• unbelievers (many)
• true believers (few)
• disbelievers (fewer)

Is it possible some philosophers when writing run out of ideas, but continue writing?
— jgill

For some, it seems to me, it is as if their words are in search of ideas. If they keep writing sooner or later they will stumble across something to say.

And there are some who just recycle the same idea. — Fooloso4

Insofar as "Hegel may have been trying to update Spinoza", I think he reconceptualizes one of Spinoza's infinite modes ("the world") as a 'meta-historicizing teleology' according to his own idealist dialectic ("Geist").
— 180 Proof

Could you elaborate on the bold part? — plaque flag

I first define the concept of ultimate ground of existence as that which underlies physical existence. [ ... ] At this point, it’s a philosophical concept, not unlike Kant's Thing-in-itself or Schopenhauer's Will. — Art48

Does the concept of ultimate ground of existence refer to something real? It may not. But mystics often describe their experience as experience of ultimate reality, which gives some support for the idea.

See my response to Banno ... — Art48

I think Hegel may have been trying to update Spinoza. — plaque flag

You're either a Spinozist, or not a philosopher at all. — GWF Hegel

The World is God, and We are God's eyes, God's spies, God's neurons. — plaque flag

Indeterminacy is as old as philosophy itself, but it seems as though some today think it is their job to create indeterminacy. As if trying to navigate a ship on stormy seas so as not to run ashore will be benefited by making the landmarks indistinguishable. — Fooloso4