Hi Willy, Your post has helped me to clarify the differences between us. However I think there is more distinguishing to be done. In particular, there are two...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Oct 14, 2004 6:53 pm
Hi Jim, You put forward a strong defence of SK's account of the ethical, and make out a case for us to be lenient with him with regard to his weakness on the...
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j15300
jim15300
Oct 17, 2004 2:34 am
Not unlike Saints Augustine and Francis of Assisi, Soren Kierkegaard was known for womanizing, during his years as a theology student, and before he enjoyed a...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Oct 17, 2004 11:28 am
Hi Willy, Thanks for your last post. You make a strong case for your claim that the foundation stone of the ethical sphere for SK is...
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Will Brown
wilbro99
Oct 18, 2004 4:04 pm
Hi JimS, let me say where I see us in respect to our present discourse. There are two views here of what SK is saying. Your view is that he was speaking about...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Oct 20, 2004 9:19 pm
Hi Willy, I think our thread on SK's account of the ethical has just about run its course and is drawing to a close. I agree with most of what you say in your...
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Will Brown
wilbro99
Oct 21, 2004 8:36 pm
Three brief answers to your three brief points, then I will agree that we have reached a good place to let this particular subject rest. First point: As I see...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Oct 23, 2004 9:56 am
Hi Willy, I have read Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death, and I am currently reading Concluding Unscientific Postscript. I don't think I'll...
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Will Brown
wilbro99
Oct 31, 2004 5:26 pm
Hi Een, I will post a response to the heart of what you have said, the issue of SK's use of the 2nd Power term, after I respond to your personal note. Some 30+...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Nov 2, 2004 7:11 pm
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)...
