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Well well well. Recently there has been an increased use of the term 'dog-whistle'. Strange how these terms come up in one place and then spread to others. So, someone might include an innocuous word, or might inflect a word in a sentence written or spoken, that functions as a 'dog-whistle' function...

Should have written: There may not have been and there likely was not any similar handing-over of power in history as has occurred in the 20th Century. Men to women. I think that one of the problems of 'genius' is that the genius is in some way the ideal or idealized human for humanity. 'Genius' as ...

Welcome. You have asked a very good question. (I am breaking my own 'rule' by stepping off my current thread. Oh well.) Feminist theory recognised, pretty clearly and with an awareness of a certain 'tragedy', that women for all of human history have been burdened to an extreme degree with the whole ...

We hope you enjoyed the first part of the Show, folks. Get up, stretch, do the dishes. Oh and here is a humorous and slightly ironic commentary on recent events. A great deal of what is needed to understand an 'inner dynamic' in operation will be revealed. Enjoy! And then we'll be back soon with mor...

Thanks jupiviv. Again, you put some time into it and that is appreciated. My impression from a rather quick read is that you understood little of what I wrote, but isn't that to be expected? You didn't imagine a different result, did you? Thanks for the recommendation to form a Blog. I will take it ...

jupiviv : While you will see it as a Wall of Text I prefer to control the term and see it as a Chalcidicum of Text! Have fun if you possibly can ... Someone who used to post here, who left, and then came back and then engaged me (when I was still registered before) in PM conversations, shared his p...

Years ago, my sixth grade teacher told me an amusing anecdote. He was himself a rather intense fellow with a styled beard and waxed, curled moustaches. Quite an authoritarian and with a terrible temper. A potter in his spare time. He was often visited by a young boy who lived next door and on one oc...

The interesting thing about your 'style' is that there is no argument (or perspective, or idea) that you cannot defeat. You simply act as if you have defeated it, and pretend you have. That is all that is needed. I've noticed it enacted by people here, chiefly by Quinn who is the master of it. I thi...

If some aspect of reality is non-intelligible and non-communicable, then nothing whatsoever can be asserted about it - not even that it is non-intelligible. I think that there are limits to what is intelligible and that one can easily designate that area that is non-intelligible simply by referring...

I wrote out a (relatively) short response (my understanding of the word 'metaphysic') here . It must have gotten by you. The rest of what you have written is silliness and if you are satisfied with that, so be it. These are keepers: All I have to do is call you a pseudo-intellectual and the carefree...

Esteemed Bobo: It is true that we don't live under theocracies. It is not true that religion is no longer influential. Pentecostalism, possibly in its origin, picked up from Black/African culture some of its more physical or 'trance' states which it then encouraged and cultivated. But Pentecostals r...

I am using redutionistic thinking when talking about religion as you are using ludicrous thinking, for example that we lost one metaphysical truth that exists secretly within religion. When I associated religion with bigotry you could only say that it was a form of reductionism, sure religion is no...

Here is a Wiki definition of humanities that we can use as a reference. Here is the same for humanism . Do you 'reject' these fields and areas of interest? If so, why? When one doesn't use it to play "look, I'm culturally erudite" and one's writings about it cannot be shown to be glib and ...

He's not - well, as far as I can see. Both of them try to pretend they're part of some kind of intellectual tradition (some admixture of romanticism and classical liberalism?) by reading a wide variety of books on a wide variety of humanities-related subjects, but unfortunately only manage to come ...

If one were to try to find a basis for traditions one would end up only with a structure of superstitions, without the particularities that make them different the beast is revealed by itself. Some of the so-called traditionalists say that a given tradition (Sufism, Vedism, Catholicism, Judaism, Ze...

FYI, Gustav is distinct in numerous ways from Alex (TTA). All personas are said to be constructs, to one degree or other, and any forum personality I think always takes on a certain persona. Don't want to amp that up too much but suffice to say that Gustav Bjornstrand is only interested in ideas, an...

Etienne Gilson, in 'The Unity of Philosophical Experience':

And all of those descriptions are needlessly complex because the propounders don't want to clearly state what they mean. Many people have made an effort to define metaphysics or their own metaphysics. And you are saying that no one of them wanted to state clearly what they meant? Since you can't me...

But that would put you back in exactly the thing you are questioning: critical theory and some "productive" dialectic. You are using the phrase "making decisions" here but your usage of the word "productive" and earlier posts about health and improvement of lives would...

Oh they state what they mean but isn't it more accurate to say that you don't agree with what they mean? You mean something else. It would seem too that you desire your definition to become ascendent. You Fichtean you! To my view, the concept is complex because different schools of thought employ it...

A larval idea. Did you have help? Classical Marxism makes that claim. In a flexible 'Frankfurt School' dialectic one's 'progressive' religious sentiments and commitment could easily be revamped and reintegrated into a holistic praxis . Horkheimer et al are more fluid thinkers and their philosophical...

A couple of thoughts about the word 'metaphysic'. The more that one looks into the word, the more complex it becomes. But here is a twist: Marx spoke of the condition of 'alienation'. The cultural-commercial world, especially when we see it and describe and and feel it to be irrational and absurd if...

Oye, Bobito : There was no insinuation that Marxism is liberalism. (Do you use drugs?) The present conversation, allow me to make this more plain to you, touches on how Marxist critical theory was consciously modified between the 1920s and the 1960s (and certainly beyond) from its harder form into ...

I have gotten hold of Martin Jay's 1973 book The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950 and made it through the first chapter. Despite the temptation to see the work of the FS and the influence of these men in too broad terms, it is...

Note : Since you are limited by admin to posting in this thread... It is a self-limitation, self-imposed. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. R.L. Brett compares John Locke with William Blake, philosophers with seemingly polar ideas of ...