Philosophical Speculations

I would like to add another thing, Rodriel. It's an invitation. As it seems to me, you have grown disinterested in foundational phenomenological work. It would be great if I'm mistaken, please correct me if appropriate, but when it comes to this forum, you have shown clear disinterest in the ...

I actually agree very much with JVH's critique. I see the pattern she describes often. From what I can tell it's two-pronged. On the one hand, people allow themselves to fall into the pernicious postmodern tendency of viewing history's actors through the lens of personal, biographical minutiae at ...

I wrote down a thought today and figured it might be pertinent to this thread: At its core, Christianity is concerned with the manner in which eternity relates to time and what this means for the fact of embodiment. In traditional Christianity, the way to salvation is framed as a "closing-of-the ...

Thanks for adding this inverted pyramid image to help us feel what we are doing when engaging with the essay concepts, Federica. I experienced it as very helpful in that respect. I would only add what may already be implicit in what you described - that there is a distinction between thinking about ...

https://i.ibb.co/My7fLdFt/chess-stack.gif Obviously, we do not see such stacking of mental images in our imagination. The animation only aims to symbolize a fact of our inner experience. It is like a first-person version of the cathode-ray tube analogy – mental images light up at maximum intensity a ...

Very well stated, Federica. It's interesting to note that yesterday was the anniversary of the death of GK in 2006. I didn't realize this until after we started discussing him again here. I am now reviewing his book, "Stages of Consciousness," which contains some very insightful passages on this ...

Previously, we saw that by trying to pin down the way in which we interact with the game flow, we were led to the elusive ‘event horizon’, where it feels as if our instinctive, yet intuitively oriented, willful pushing toward a future state (input) seems tightly correlated with the lighting up men ...

PS: about your wrist, sorry about that. I've just heard great comments about this app, in case you want to try it: https://wisprflow.ai/ Thanks! Funnily enough, most of my above comment (and this one) was written with exactly that app :) I do highly recommend it as well, as it is the best one I ...

Bernardo is trying...
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He should read this essay series.

Yes, I read the book and appreciated it. Yet, getting what HHU - or sound common sense - really means in Steiner is not so easy. It's a thin line. For example, in this lecture (1922) it appears clearly that sound common sense refers to someone who has not developed clairvoyance. And so the question ...