Answer that and you have answered 98% of the problem.
Foghorn
You are very smart. I bet you were the 'answerman' at the pub.
I started acting dumb.
And found a measure of peace.
My friends baited me. Come'on what the capital of Mongolia or who was Kant.?
[it does rub off]
I joined a group.. the Hegelian scum.
everything changed.
a rock is here because we have defined it as being here. but we are also just a product of our own perceived and defined existence.
I see life in terms of dreams. where do the characters and buildings in our dreams come from? they seem so real and yet they disappear as soon as we change our reference point from the dream to the perceived awakened state, nothing exists other tha the energy we perceive of as sub atomic particles yet we assume it is all a real physical presence even though our awareness of it takes place only in the small part of what we perceive of as our brain.
Answer that and you have answered 98% of the problem.
Foghorn
You are very smart. I bet you were the 'answerman' at the pub.
I started acting dumb.
And found a measure of peace.
My friends baited me. Come'on what the capital of Mongolia or who was Kant.?
[it does rub off]
I joined a group.. the Hegelian scum.
everything changed.
a rock is here because we have defined it as being here. but we are also just a product of our own perceived and defined existence. WRONG!! Any matter, by any other name, or conceptualization, predates mans ability to do so, as all matter is born of the universe. Man is the effect, not the causal. It would seem you love self fellation.
I see life in terms of dreams. where do the characters and buildings in our dreams come from? they seem so real and yet they disappear as soon as we change our reference point from the dream to the perceived awakened state, nothing exists other tha the energy we perceive of as sub atomic particles yet we assume it is all a real physical presence even though our awareness of it takes place only in the small part of what we perceive of as our brain. No, rather some have brains that are constipated, as they try and use human concepts, to disprove human concepts. Fortunately, their non sequitur logic, of viscous circle, illuminates their inabilities, all too clearly.
I prefer Husserl any day over Kant.
[As yosemite sam would say.. 'The Idjit' Who wrote Critique of pruned raisins]
Prill
Then sam is the eejit as I find no great conflict with Kant's ideas on Reason and Experience and Phenomenology(as I currently understand it), could be wrong tho'.
It may help your understanding and your time upon a philosophy forum if you tried picking up a philosophy book and reading it once in a while. Until then, if you have nothing to say, please stop posting pictures of your ignorance.
I prefer Husserl any day over Kant.
[As yosemite sam would say.. 'The Idjit' Who wrote Critique of pruned raisins]
Prill
Then sam is the eejit as I find no great conflict with Kant's ideas on Reason and Experience and Phenomenology(as I currently understand it), could be wrong tho'.
My complaint is that it is 3 times the size it needs to be for the ideas involved.
Then again im guilty of liking Nietzsche.
He was cool. As an aussie i'd love to crack a 'tinny' and gab with him.
'God would be better' but god drinks wine... what a tosser
somewhat.
my bad