Philosophical Speculations

This post is about Gramsci and nature. Gramsci’s philosophy has been criticised for being overly anthropocentric and lacking in appreciation of the constraints imposed by the natural world. For instance, he talks of human progress in terms of ‘rationally dominating nature’ (SPN 358). Further, his co...

Unfortunately, his view seems eerily similar to Dan Dennett's Compatiblist notion of freewill (minus the materialist view of course). Yes, and I agree that compatiblism doesn't really seem like free will at all. This is an advantage of Whitehead's philosophy, in which there is genuine free will ( h...

Gramski's anthropocentric intersubjectivism can be expanded to intersubjectivism of new animism, ie. perspectival multinaturalism and planetary (etc.) ecology of their/our social relations. I kind of agree with that, but think animism can run into problems, at least in terms of thinking from a Euro...

In this post I am going to discuss some of the aspects of an interesting section of Gramsci’s notebooks titled ‘The So-Called “Reality of the External World” ’(SPN 440-448). Gramsci notes at the beginning of this section that the general public never questions that the external world objectively exi...

Returning to Gramsci’s statement which is the main focus of this thread, an obvious question that arises is how absolute idealism could potentially become ‘true’ in a future era. To recap, here is the statement again: ‘Absolute idealism, or at least certain aspects of it, would be a philosophical ut...

Seriously, Justin, I really hope you can get some serious discussion of praxis here. I'm personally pissed that we can't talk of covid and the way ideas fucked everything up in my beloved Brazil, which was positioned with a materialist allopathic health service capable of performing brilliantly. Ah...

Much of the writings of Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci) were concerned with political, social and cultural issues. However, he also wrote a lot on philosophy, including its connections with idealism. So, I am starting this thread to explore the relations b...

FYI, there's lots of videos re psychedelics on this site for the online conference: Psychedelics, Madness, & Awakening: Harm Reduction and Future Visions http://www.psychedelicsmadnessawakening.com/ Haven't seen any specifically on idealism but some of the panels include topics such as " Ch...

Of course BK endorses non-dualism. But he rarely talks about "mysticism" or makes any sort of philosophical arguments for it without making the topic much more precise. Which is the same thing JP does - he formulates the philosophical questions he is thinking through and attempting to ans...

Yes, 'systems within systems' also makes more sense in terms of the evolution of eukaryotic cells through the engulfment of prokaryotes by other prokaryotes.