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.] ...
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borderealis
Dec 14, 2004 4:54 pm
WilBRO, Gratuitous remarks below. ;) ... said something we can start with. Let me give you my thinking on this.<<< ... essentially not equipped to, include...
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John Anngeister
reader606
Dec 15, 2004 5:32 pm
Jim, "Een Enkelte" has been concerned to expose the inherent self- contradiction of dogmatic naturalism since #238 "A First Contribution," see the "Foreword."...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Dec 17, 2004 6:44 pm
... From: John Anngeister To: kierkegaardians@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 5:32 PM Subject: [Kierkegaardian] Re: Ill-equipped World Views...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Dec 17, 2004 6:48 pm
Dear John, Thank you for your response to my posting on "Ill-equipped world-views". It is good to hear from you again. I have missed your clear and forthright...
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John Anngeister
reader606
Dec 17, 2004 8:06 pm
(a late postscript) Jim, months ago you wrote: "Suppose that atheism is true... (and etc.)" If philosophy -and religion- were not in need of rehabilitation, I...
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John Anngeister
reader606
Dec 18, 2004 9:16 pm
Jim, WHATever It is obvious to me that I could not possibly make you understand or care about the frustrating gaps I find in our philosophical understandings....
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j15300
jim15300
Dec 20, 2004 6:18 am
... of the pairs of opposing concepts must be true. (It's like I'm saying ... naturalism such that you would agree with it. I don't mean to define my concept...
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John Anngeister
reader606
Dec 20, 2004 10:17 pm
Jim2 Greetings, Thanks for your thoughts. Except I was not seeking advice for new or old angles to pursue with Jim1. I offered only to pick up the argument ...
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Will Brown
wilbro99
Dec 21, 2004 9:01 pm
The term 'religious consciousness' has been raised. Een has also requested that I say what I see SK meaning when he said that 'religiousness in reflection' was...
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j15300
jim15300
Dec 21, 2004 10:23 pm
John, am agreeing with your points, to wit: the Eternal precedes universe; Kierkegaard does, in my opinion, attempt to uphold the banner of such Being, as...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Dec 22, 2004 10:06 pm
Just a short response to the various posting of the last week or so. Jim, thank you very much for your posting of 20th December which has given me much to...
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John Anngeister
reader606
Dec 23, 2004 12:30 am
Will, For starters, I think the table very thoughtfully set ... (your quote of SK in CUP) "The direction of unreflectiveness is always oriented outward, in...
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John Anngeister
reader606
Dec 24, 2004 10:19 am
Thinking it over, I recommend that the phrase "religious self-consciousness" be used here rather than "religious consciousness." The former, while more bulky,...
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Will Brown
wilbro99
Dec 24, 2004 8:23 pm
JS: <What you say emphasises to me the degree to which SK was concerned predominantly (exclusively?) with subjectivity, and not at all (or, perhaps, hardly at...
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Will Brown
wilbro99
Dec 25, 2004 12:03 am
As I think about your thinking about, I think I need to set up my response to your suggestion about the change of title. I will address the rest of your post...
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Will Brown
wilbro99
Dec 26, 2004 7:42 pm
Hi John, you and I have some differences to clear up. You led off your thoughts with the following: "In what follows I have tried to stay as close as possible...
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John Anngeister
reader606
Dec 27, 2004 5:53 am
Willy, I am glad to take you as my master in this (really). I am "all ears," but it is more difficult to undertake to report your view back to you when I feel...
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Jim Stuart
jimstuart46
Dec 27, 2004 8:13 pm
Hi Willy, Thanks for your further elaboration of the theme of inwardness in Kierkegaard. You also write: "If I may, to change the direction of our dialogue,...
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John Anngeister
reader606
Dec 29, 2004 5:12 pm
Willy, Your response makes it plain I was mistaken to believe I had recognized in your writing an idea I could own as self- consistent. With that now out of...
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John Anngeister
reader606
Dec 30, 2004 5:55 pm
Dear Jim2, It is clearly the case, at least from the historical record, that the power of healing is a prerogative of the Eternal when manifest in time (as in...
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Will Brown
wilbro99
Dec 30, 2004 11:41 pm
JimS, A short side note on my background in philosophy: none. When I got my engineering degree, back in the dark ages it seems, the Humanities was not a...
