He's not bringing the soul idea in, or at least, he doesn't need to yet.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2024 6:00 amThat is the problem with narrow, shallow and dogmatic-ideological* thinking.Why are, from my perspective, the empirical selves of other humans, not things-in-themselves too?
* ideology philosophical realism with very strong fangs.
Point is the empirical selves of other humans must be dealt on a specific basis, the particular and not the general e.g. to understand apples we deal with what-is-an-apple.
"Things-in-themselves" are the plural of "thing-in-itself" or [thing-in-itself]s.
So, things[10]-in-themselves are 10 x [a thing-in-itself].
The empirical self of an individual is not the thing-in-itself.
The empirical self [the I-THINK] is not the self-in-itself [the I AM] which is the independent soul that can survives physical death.
He's wondering if, like the Moon, other people don't stop existing when they are not perceived by others?
And then I'll add my question - why do you, if you do, consider the subjective self - not the body that but experiencing of other other people - to be real? For you what is not observable is False/Illusory, iow not real.
We cannot observe the experiencing other others. We can observe behaviors and physical reactions. But I cannot, even if we were in the same room observe your inner life, your qualia, the felt emotions.
Do you consider the felt experience of other people to be real or False/illusory?
If you consider them real, why do you consider it real, given that it is not observable?