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Diffident, jocular, amorous. Putting the rude back in erudition-credible threat of farce. 🎱🖤♠️♥️♣️♦️🏴‍☠️ N6MAA1081-2056
April 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
February 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"[Algernon] Sidney insisted, as Locke did, that the right to rebel is confined to the right to reinstitute lawful government; nothing justifies mere rebellion, certainly not the ambition of a would-be tyrant. Tyrannical government is the supreme evil against which we have to guard." (Ryan, 2012:516)
January 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"Each object, then, is the mirror of all the others. When I see the lamp on my table, I attribute to it not merely the qualities that are visible from my location, but also those that the fireplace, the walls and the table can ‘see'..." Merleau-Ponty
January 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We can expect a massive, terrifying leftist backslash against the elites before too long. Much needed and a fairly obvious development. I call it the
#ExtremeWeatherUnderground. Or #DeepStateFuneral. All the fury of the Haitian revolution, and on a global scale. The alternative is extinction. 🏁♠️🏴‍☠️💣☠️🖤
January 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
There's not one hard problem of #consciousness, but at least three. 1) There's a problem of how life emerges from material, 2) of how animal minds emerge from living matter, and 3) how human minds emerge from cultures. #PhilosophyOfMind #philosophy
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January 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"We can't get anywhere at all without movement towards hell...we ourselves must become demonic. We go into the darkness to find out what is true, to locate something hidden or to remember something forgotten. We go underground in order to know." Jean-Claude DeBris, "Beyond Based and Cringe" (1983)
December 20, 2024 at 12:03 PM
The numerical structure of metaphysics: monism implies duality, which in turn implies a third, mediating point by which the two poles of the dual system interact. This triplet implies a fourth point, containing both initial terms of the duality as well as the third point of mediation, all together.
December 11, 2024 at 8:53 PM
"Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts." Robespierre
December 11, 2024 at 8:13 PM
"When someone asked him, 'Who are the noblest of men?', he replied, 'Those who despise riches, reputation, pleasure, and excessive concern for life, and are thus able to overmaster their opposites, poverty, ill repute, suffering, and death.'" (Stoebaeus 4.29.19; G302)
December 5, 2024 at 10:02 PM
"...there is a middle path which I try to follow, which leads neither through rule nor through slavery, but through freedom; and this is the road that leads most surely to happiness." Aristippos of Cyrene (in Xenophon, "Memorabilia" 2.1.12-14)
November 27, 2024 at 8:32 PM
"This proliferation of kitsch, which is produced by industrial reproduction and vulgarization at the level of objects of distinctive signs taken from all registers...has its basis, like 'mass culture', in the sociological reality of the consumer society." (Baudrillard, 1970:110)
November 19, 2024 at 11:15 PM
May 1, 2024 at 6:11 PM
“...the indispensability of mathematics to empirical science gives us good reason to believe in the existence of mathematical entities” (Quine, 1976). But, is it true? And, in the context of Quine's commitment to naturalism, is it circular?
April 15, 2024 at 5:13 PM
"Scientific naturalism is a metaphysical doctrine, a view of what there is..It maintains that natural science should be our guide in matters metaphysical: the ontology we should accept turns out to be the ontology that's required by science." Huw Price, "Quining Naturalism"
April 13, 2024 at 3:58 PM
February 20, 2024 at 4:58 PM
"We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, cure the madness of the age, and a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell...We had a dim premonition that power-mad gangsters would one day use art itself as a way of deadening men’s mind.”
February 5, 2024 at 12:57 PM
January 28, 2024 at 3:17 PM
"Broadly speaking, dualist theories are of three sorts...first, classic ontological theories...second, semantic theories...and third, accounts that...find it impossible to confirm...the reduction of mental attributes to physical attributes." Margolis, 1978) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
January 27, 2024 at 12:53 PM
"I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of the time." James Baldwin
December 1, 2023 at 2:52 PM
"The first aim of a religious man must be surely to please the divinity who established the religion he professes. But the most certain way to achieve this end is without any doubt to observe the rules of society and the duties of humanity." Montesquieu
November 17, 2023 at 12:56 PM
The concept of representation has a dual structure, the represented and the one having the representation. So the epistemologies based on representation, from Galileo to Kant, all tend toward dualism, thereby incurring all of the most intractable sceptical problems.
November 4, 2023 at 3:14 PM
We know that in some ways Galileo was committed to a kind of Platonism. And yet he introduces one of the most important features of empiricist philosophy, the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, a distinction that generates skeptical problems. #philosophy #scepticism
October 18, 2023 at 9:47 AM
The concept of representation has a dual structure, the represented and the one having the representation. So the epistemologies based on representation, from Galileo to Kant, all tend toward dualism, thereby incurring all of the most intractable sceptical problems. #philosophy
October 18, 2023 at 9:40 AM
"...the academic skeptics, unlike the Pyrrhonians, formulated the theory of credible belief according to where some things are more probable than others and did not advocate a suspension of judgment on all things." Steinberg, fn. 19, Hume's "Enquiry" ( Hackett, 1993)
October 18, 2023 at 9:34 AM