Mary, Sorry, obviously the previous post was the result of accidental send, consequence of a desk piled high with bits of paper, interfering with elbow-room....
Hi Mary, Sorry for the delay. But I think it is not bad to get some clarity in my thinking, which I hope the delay has facilitated. ... I've become vague on...
Hi all, This post could have been tacked on to many recent posts. For many recent posts have triggered these thoughts. I thought'd I'd avoid the injustice of...
I think the context of these sayings is important. In the first Jesus is sending the apostles out as "sheep among wolves," not an agape situation. Describing a...
Herman, I agree with this, and tack on a reply to your other post. I'm having difficulty understanding how organized action is less harmful than personal...
Hi all, I'm a graduate student in psychology, and I'm doing a study on "existential thinking". I define it as the tendency to engage in the existential...
Louise, Thanks again for your participation. I am thinking and trying to organize my thoughts for this thread. I wonder if once we all agree upon some basic...
Mary, Louise, Jim, Will etc I believe in discussing both charity as well as ethnic identity, it might be useful to consider the concept of balancing of...
Tom , three strikes and you are out I didnt call them I just recorded them. I mean what can we do of bills aggression and violence. The Ceo wacked the...
Herman, I have been following your discussion with Mary with interest, and I agree with you both that these issues of becoming an individual and/or belonging...
Hi Tom, I often wonder whether it is appropriate to quote Orwell when discussing history or politics. The guy wrote fiction. Whether he was a prophet or not ...
Hi Mary, ... The action that necessarily precedes all actions is to constitute events / phenomena as being caused by agency, free-willing no less. Whether that...
Herman, I recall you once noted that with Sartre's THE WORDS, he turned from plays and novels. But then he strictly committed to political writing and...
Herman, I am pleased to see you have returned to Existlist. You have a distinct perspective and your recent posts have got us talking about philosophy again,...
Corrections: "you won't find it in the CDR..." Also, I inadvertently omitted SK and FN as the 'solitaries' And, "we don't find non-involvement with Sartre..."...
Mary, Jim, Herman etc. I suppose whither in existensialism or Buddhism, there are potential introverted and extraverted expressions of them. In Buddhism, the...
Sartre speaks of existence preceding essence, in order to postulate a radical or free-wheeling freedom, but ultimately falls back on the concept of an...
Irvhal I certainly believe human behavior, abilities etc. are the result of the interaction of genes and environment. To what extent it is one or the other is...
"There are among the people murderers who have never committed murder, thieves who have never stolen and liars who have spoken nothing but the truth." -Kahlil...
Hi Jim, It is good to be corresponding again. ... Sartre delivered no ethics, and certainly in Being and Nothingness considered such to be impossible given...
Hi Jim, ... I very much liked your turn of phrase here. But what, then, if anything, is it that confers "virtuehood" on one irrational thing and not an...
Hi Mary, ... The limit of the correspondence I see is that life / becoming for both parties is necessarily unsatisfactory, and for the same structural reasons....
Hi Herman, Following Aristotle, a virtue is a character trait which contributes to, or is an element of, the good life. And the good life is the environment...
Hi Jim, Thank you sincerely for your kind words. ... I think that the intention of changing the world always already includes a prior and unspoken belief that...
Brandon I recall reading that Sartre posited that all possible impulses exist within all humans; and our freedom lies in which ones we choose to actualize. ...
Hi Jim, Forgive my quick response :-). I was finishing another post, when I caught this post. ... virtues demand an entire system of appropriation. There is...
Herman, If I recall we had this conversation about two years ago. I agree Aristotle had a moral blind spot when it came to slaves (and women), and this blind...
Herman, Thank you for your detailed response which has helped me to understand your position. Let me comment on these aspects of your reply: << Sartre...
