The Philosophy Discussion Forum

You asked if there is value in the owner of experience, or in the experience itself. And you said that without an owner, there is nothing to value. I sat with this for a long time. Here is where I landed. When I try to find this "owner" – not in theory, but right now, in the actual feeling...

I apologize for drifting so far into the abstract. I found myself circling back to that youwho.one link from the first post, and the specific structural logic in that text is really what sparked this whole line of thinking for me. It forced me to look at loneliness as a formal property of being, rat...

That is a compelling shift, especially regarding the idea of fellowship as a way to drain the distance of its alienating character. But I find myself wondering if we are still just looking for more sophisticated ways to decorate the walls of the prison. If we accept that loneliness is a structural h...

the egocentric predicament affects us all it, like every other sensed experience, depends on how you react to it -Imp That’s exactly where I’m stuck. If we take Ralph Barton Perry’s 'egocentric predicament' seriously, we admit that we are trapped within the circle of our own perceptions. We can't '...

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and I’m not sure if I’m framing it correctly, so I’d be curious how others see it. We usually talk about loneliness as a feeling - like sadness or anxiety - something that appears under certain conditions (lack of connection, isolation, etc.) and can, at l...