Dear Een, I'm glad your postings to the Kierkegaardians have resumed. Your postings always give me plenty to think about, and they challenge me as an...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Nov 6, 2004 7:33 pm
Dear Een, Thank you for your powerful reply to my last posting. You express a number of profound ideas in a few short sentences. Let me step back a bit. Why am...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Nov 8, 2004 10:31 pm
Dear Een, Thank you for your latest posting, which, as always, gives me plenty to think about. However, I have to disagree with you about ontological...
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Médéric Laitier
hidepark21
Nov 9, 2004 5:44 pm
Dear Kierkegaardians, In an earlier writing, Jim Stuart wrote: "I feel I have identified the central strands of SK's thought, but nevertheless I don't feel I...
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Will Brown
wilbro99
Nov 12, 2004 4:41 am
Een, sorry it took so long to get back to you on your second power comment. I now have time to turn my attention to the internet again. As you are probably...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Nov 13, 2004 7:50 pm
Dear Een, Thank you for your considered response to my rather over-combative previous posting. You present a very strong case for your view, and I find myself...
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Médéric Laitier
hidepark21
Nov 14, 2004 4:25 pm
Dear Een, Dear Jim, I am probably not able to rival with any of you to in terms of ability to articulate philosophical concerns and scientifical consistency...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Nov 14, 2004 5:29 pm
Dear Mederic, The sort of laws I think of when I use the term 'natural laws' are the laws of physics, chemistry and biology. For example, Newton's Law that...
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Médéric Laitier
hidepark21
Nov 15, 2004 11:14 am
Dear Een, Thank you for your answer. The probably rather painful necessity for explicitation of the core element of this discussion to a kierkegaardian like...
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Médéric Laitier
hidepark21
Nov 15, 2004 11:14 am
Dear Will Brown, In an earlier posting, you proposed a distinction between religious works and pseudonymous ones in SK's work (last 13th october). I think I...
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Médéric Laitier
hidepark21
Nov 15, 2004 6:23 pm
Dear Jim, Thank you for your very matter of factly answer. The laws in question are most definitely a solid common ground on which we should be able to build. ...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Nov 15, 2004 11:20 pm
Dear Een, When I use the expression 'conceptual scheme', I am implying something looser than what you understand by the term. Further conceptual schemes are...
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Will Brown
wilbro99
Nov 16, 2004 6:47 am
Hi, Médéric. The distinction I proposed between the pseudonymous and non-pseudonymous was derived from my reading of both with an eye to discerning a...
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Médéric Laitier
hidepark21
Nov 16, 2004 2:43 pm
Hello Een, (Det är nâgot obehagligt att hälsa pâ nâgon utan vidare bestämdhet än att det är 'een'. men... men...) What a dialectician you make! To...
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Médéric Laitier
hidepark21
Nov 16, 2004 2:43 pm
Hello Will, Thanks for the reply and its consistency. I think I agree upon the difficulty involved there -- the purpose of my question was far more to...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Nov 16, 2004 6:52 pm
Dear Mederic, I don't know much biology, but I assume biological laws are not essentially different from the examples I gave from physics and chemistry. I...
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j15300
jim15300
Nov 17, 2004 6:52 am
Apropos recent thread on science and conceptual schemata, a post from another forum re Kant/Nietzsche. The quote prompting the post is at the end of the reply...
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Will Brown
wilbro99
Nov 17, 2004 8:47 pm
Dear Een, Since I saw your message #351 as the expression of a single thought, I will make my response just long enough to express my single thought in ...
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Will Brown
wilbro99
Nov 18, 2004 12:06 am
Hi Mederic, I have found a quote in which SK plays around with the C/Anti-C pair. What you have said echoes the impression I get of that pair of clowns. I get...
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Médéric Laitier
hidepark21
Nov 18, 2004 7:10 pm
Hi Willy, I managed to find your profile, homep. and list of quotes so the matter's all right for me. As for others, I couldn't say... Thanks for the material....
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Nov 18, 2004 8:17 pm
I'd like to retract the following sentence from my last posting: "I agree that as one moves up from basic physics to chemistry, then to biology, then (perhaps)...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Nov 18, 2004 8:25 pm
Dear Willy, I have to say I'm in agreement with Een in your discussion about understanding, consciousness, etc. 'raised to the second power'. While not wishing...
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j15300
jim15300
Nov 18, 2004 11:32 pm
"The supreme problem of culture is that of gaining possession of one's transcendental self, of being at one and the same time the self of oneself [self to the...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Nov 28, 2004 11:53 am
Dear Een, In your posting of 2nd November (message 340), you argued against my criticism of Kierkegaard's account of the ethical. Your response was divided...
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Médéric Laitier
hidepark21
Dec 1, 2004 8:55 pm
Dear Kierkegaardians, I don't know what other may feel but I claim I know what I feel and I feel that time has come for some distraction. I beseech all my...
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j15300
jim15300
Dec 6, 2004 2:26 am
"Know thyself as God"--complete motto of ancient Greek mystery schools. Http://www.near-death.com/jung.html has Carl Jung's account of conscious understanding...
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borderealis
Dec 7, 2004 5:53 am
Hey Will, Long time no read. I just stumbled on this. Hey, I agree with you. Seems like the writer is responsible only for deciding whether or not he knows...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Dec 8, 2004 10:32 pm
Dear Een, I find your "Further Contribution" a very significant contribution to the Kierkegaardians group - it is challenging to me as an individual, and it...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Dec 10, 2004 8:20 pm
"If a thinker is developing a world-view which cannot, is essentially not equipped to, include himself; then he is piling up confusion ahead of this...
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j15300
jim15300
Dec 11, 2004 9:13 pm
[A forward with some reference to Kierkegaardian discussions of self, mentation, and purity of willing, and why some world views tend toward malformation.] ...
