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Elizabeth writes: I'm not sure that we can really say that we always find ourselves in an ambiguous condition . . . [et al].

Yet, here it is again, this ambiguity :)

Elizabeth Isabelle writes: It is wrong that those pieces of paper cost so much. They lead graduates into a life of debt slavery, so the living that you can make from that piece of paper is mitigated by the cost of the paper itself (unless you are lucky enough to get a full ride scholarship). Spot o...

Dan, this thread . . . . it's yours, you know, and placed there at face-value. You can't really blame the natives for over-thinking it :) but still it did something as jupiviv mentions. But it's yours. These things are on your mind, and you've got an audience at least appreciative to you of their op...

Obviously, one doesn't have to go to university to 'become' a philosopher, to make accomplishment with philosophy. You just [might] have to go if you want to 'make a living' at it. University degrees are about career , plain and simple. Career is about how one makes a living. For myself, getting wha...

Seeker muses: I wonder what would happen if you tried teaching like that for a day. [Since you comment, the above is the armature upon which one day's lecture and discussion hangs in an upper level philosophy course, further developed in subsequent meetings. Lots 'happens.' O but wait - nothing of ...

Seeker writes: Sure that was something.......where is it now? On to becoming something else . . . . As well, the ambiguity of clinging to a principle of non-clinging. The aforementioned (long-post) might tell you that I'm not concerned about the above 'math' (clinging to non-clinging) canceling its...

And perhaps here is where they can be brought together again vis-a-vis the discussion that dogged us on another thread: In a World that itself does not need fixing, there are plenty of things to fix. Not this (no-fix needed); not that (lots of fixing needing address). Neither one, nor the other excl...

Existentialism, as I know it, has its own way of expressing dependent origination: "There is no human nature, only human conditions." Conditions form us, we in complete exchange with them. We are ourselves a "condition" in this mutually exchanging of and within conditions. There ...

I give just one example of the happy mess I find myself in these days with the awesome influx of international students in recent years and their 'error-filled' ways in their struggle with english, much less philosophy. As much as I have to look for the clue-words of substance in the expressions of ...

Seeker, then it might be myself who has misunderstood the intent of Dan's question. An invitation to crow 'accomplishment'; take care of the 'unfinished business' of the self struck me as opportunity to hang out some ego to dry . . . so I hung out the whole kahuna . . . . Shardrol . . . geez it's go...

Seeker writes: Dan, just saying, if you plan on having your eyes open the whole time waiting around to die, don't. Such a thing will only perpetuate bodily attachment. Reside in a state of meditation and there will be no 'death' to meet. At least that's personally the way I see it and would go abou...

. . . where one would experience their solitude in life the most, meeting it in this one and only death

Well, yes, I suppose it can sound that way, Dan, but the thing is thusly: no one else will know what-all this "it" has been in that moment. Being with that - with oneself at the end of one's being-in-time - that's the "it" I mean; the only-you-have-known-it-this-way moment, and t...

If I were about to die, I'd be talking to myself. I'd be laying there, perhaps a fat tear or two of gratitude rolling back into my ears, saying to myself: "You did it. You lived. This was life, and you lived it. This is death, and you meet it. This is life; you did it; you saw it through . . . ...

The discussion has been fueled partly by Mr. McGinn’s own blog, where his use of the cryptic language of analytic philosophy in attempts to defend himself seems to have backfired. nyuck, nyuck . . . Elizabeth, thanks even moreso for the link buried in the link with ongoing discussion of these gende...

Diebert comments: . . . in yet another thread where the only eternal winner is "hat's off" Dennis! No intention to re-derail the promising turn of discussion, just permit me to get this said once and for last: I spend the near-entirety of my days looking for meaning in the multifarious sc...

(don't fret, Diebert; no worries. No one is going to knock you off your perch.
It's still the Age of Diebert, and it's been that way for a very long time.
Can't blame the natives when they get restless . . . . :)

Thanks for that last, Leyla. It's a breakthrough; an opening at least, whereas no one has been able to get near your immortal self lately, what with all that lashing out :) I have to vacate the seat, but it's with some fresh air and light, and renewed warmth toward your awesomely spirited self . . ....

Leyla writes: Sure, if you’re in the mood for giving a good ballet performance rather than constructing a solid framework on which to perform. What 'solid framework'? The two of you cannot even agree upon the definitions of the words and fallicies you are using. At least Diebert is asking for some ...

Thankyou for telling me what philosophy is! What would I do without you there to remind me . . . . :) Yes, logic as a tool of reason. One just doesn't want to mistake the tools as the ends-in-themselves. Reason, in my estimation, is always fluid, like becoming itself, if it seeks to say anything abo...

Leyla writes: Consider yourself sued, Pye OK, well good luck collecting on that one :) Arrested being: that's what ego is. That's why it struggles so, arrested into a state-of-being. Being-itself is never in a 'state.' It is always and ever becoming . Try arresting that , and suffer, we will . . . .

Some of us are beginning to sound like the very academic, the very analytic philosophers - the very thing thought of here as apposite to 'enlightenment.' This is what the professional language weenies do in their academic citadels. They restrict all being to only what can be said, and they restrict ...

Yes, the tragic-aesthetic. Faisal was quite taken with the tragic-aesthetic. Once studied, said he always wondered why comedies never won Oscars (pronounced "Owscars" in his english).

Faisal is going home soon to Kuwait. He wants to become a Fire Chief.

A Kuwaiti student presented this clip in class today in the context of philosophy of aesthetics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Fv98jttYA

The history of metaphysics is littered with addresses to pain/suffering as a problem -in-itself; as something wrong ; as defect; as humanity’s Fall , failing, error - and its thoroughgoing elimination as humanity’s greatest task. There’s your nihilism for you. Life needs to bend away from pain; addr...