Philosophical Speculations

Exactly. I believe Gare is writing about Schelling's work after his "about face" when he tried to accomodate Kant for whatever reason and tried to reduce the essential "I" (ideational activity) to processes of "Nature". Ultimately, it's not really important whether one...

I thin this comes down to whether dialectical methodology prioritizes thought over being, and contemplation over practice, or visa versa. Hegel prioritized thought but, after Hegel, others such as Italian philosophers Labriola, Gramsci, Croce and Gentile reversed this prioritization. Croce and Gent...

I thin this comes down to whether dialectical methodology prioritizes thought over being, and contemplation over practice, or visa versa. Hegel prioritized thought but, after Hegel, others such as Italian philosophers Labriola, Gramsci, Croce and Gentile reversed this prioritization. Croce and Genti...

I know this is a common method in the modern age, but I am just saying that I don't think it is a useful, and is actually counter-productive, for the reasons stated before. Whether or not it is useful, IMO many discussions on this forum end up going around in circles until they reach a dead end bec...

To me the above sounds like starting with one given of experience ( becoming from nothing to being to nothing) and reasoning from there. Perhaps we could say the above contains at least one assumption somewhere, and one assumption must always be made to proceed in any thoughtful inquiry, but that i...

Comrades,

Let the Great Seepage begin
Let us seep out, diffuse and tentaculate

Into the threads of the Enemy
Into the heart of darkness

They will not know us from their friends
They will not know their left from right

Let the Revolution begin
Not with a bang, but a simper

Rejoice! Rejoice!

Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty I am freed at last

Ashvin, The use of assumptions provisionally is part of dialectical methodology, which works by way of immanent or implicit critique. Using Hegelianism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic ) as an example: In the Logic , for instance, Hegel describes a dialectic of existence...

There are the decades of operant conditioning research on learning and positive and negative reinforcements. Our disagreements may boil down to whether there is or isn't a hard problem of consciousness, in which case they are probably irresolvable (as philosophers and scientists have been arguing o...