Philosophical Speculations

It occurs to me that this is a time for recognizing how I have changed in the past year rather than making resolutions that I would likely not stick to for long. Recognitions of this sort are more akin to what Georg Kuhlewind calls the "gentle will" as distinct from the "hard will&quo...

It's very interesting how this works. Try to visualize what Nagel is speaking of. Do you see many bubbles of consciousness which are expanding their bubble-consciousness to "take in the world more fully"? Many 'cameras' which are each 'pulling back' to observe more and more of the world c...

The useful distinction between the personal and the "general" (transpersonal, eternal, etc.) is precisely that ideation moves us towards the latter by discerning the core inner meaning of differentiated outer forms. We can speak of personal perceptions, feelings, and desires to some exten...

So if they are received in an unreflected state, then they arrive to us subconsciously, right? One could say the intuition is to Thinking what the bare perceptual structure is to vision. It is meaning immediately given in perception (or even in absence of perception), but we also know the total mea...

Ashvin, when you say "intuitions, in the sense you use it above, are the most subconscious of all ideations" I don't quite get that, because what I mean by "given to the intuition" refers to meanings, whether sensible or intelligible, that are received in an unreflected state, pe...

It's very interesting how this works. Try to visualize what Nagel is speaking of. Do you see many bubbles of consciousness which are expanding their bubble-consciousness to "take in the world more fully"? Many 'cameras' which are each 'pulling back' to observe more and more of the world c...

If thinking could mean exactly what I 'wanted' it to mean it would mean something like, "precisely letting go of everything I 'know' so that this particular mystery right now can speak within me in order to be brokenly spoken from me." Too long! it would mean 'a listening that speaks from...

The useful distinction between the personal and the "general" (transpersonal, eternal, etc.) is precisely that ideation moves us towards the latter by discerning the core inner meaning of differentiated outer forms. We can speak of personal perceptions, feelings, and desires to some exten...

dkp ... Then I suppose you must be equally critical of BK, who has no qualms about calling out academic philosophers/scholars who have written volumes on their interpretation of Schopenhauer, or Jung, which BK has emphatically and severely dismissed as gross misinterpretations, calling them irrespo...

The comments you quoted above are so minimally aggressive and condescending as far as online commentary goes. I have to agree if we're talking about responses to articles, they are often quite lacking in emotional intelligence. It all depends on what you're going for, and with JMG, well he is an Ar...