tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post773908707905431045..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Only Conservatives are FreeGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25392337589985730192022-05-09T16:17:37.847-07:002022-05-09T16:17:37.847-07:00The doctrines that explain the higher by means of ...The doctrines that explain the higher by means of the lower are appendices of a magician’s rule book.<br />Nicolásnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11876742740492209762022-05-09T16:16:02.989-07:002022-05-09T16:16:02.989-07:00The rhetoric that is in the worst taste is that wh...The rhetoric that is in the worst taste is that which renounces transcendence without renouncing its vocabulary.Nicolásnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20270049011222206902022-05-09T16:10:37.916-07:002022-05-09T16:10:37.916-07:00Lots of reasons, but for one, existentialism can n...Lots of reasons, but for one, existentialism can never account for the transcendent self-consciousness that is free to posit existentialism. It's an artificially narrow philosophy that never even bothers to ask how the miracle of intellection is possible, let alone how it can know the the Real.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69393128050593471962022-05-09T15:38:52.455-07:002022-05-09T15:38:52.455-07:00“…postulates a definition of the world that is imp...“…postulates a definition of the world that is impossible if existentialism itself is possible.” Can you please expand on this refutation? I just need it to be unpacked a little - thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80068494925061242182022-05-09T13:21:04.974-07:002022-05-09T13:21:04.974-07:00A quintessential example is Marxism and its retard...<i>A quintessential example is Marxism and its retarded postmodern progeny (e.g., identity politics, feminism, critical race theory), each of which claiming that who you are is a consequence of class, race, gender, etc. You yourself have no say in the matter.</i><br /><br />I'd say that the example of two of Socrates most famous pupils nullifies that particular line of reasoning, no matter how you phrase it. Both Plato and Alcibiades sat at Socrates' feet, under his tutelage in the same environment. Plato rose and flowered, while Alcibiades lived like a profligate and betrayed Athens. John Venlethttps://freemenfreeminds.usnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1035181645924933662022-05-09T12:56:27.516-07:002022-05-09T12:56:27.516-07:00Among the young people I know, even those who have...Among the young people I know, even those who have some sense of meaning struggle instead with hopelessness, feeling that all the things that would make life both meaningful and fulfilling are beyond their reach, or if reachable then likely to be snatched from their grasp at any moment. Over time, of course, the hopelessness leads to meaninglessness, and a vicious cycle is born. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14329608220066910532022-05-09T11:41:26.504-07:002022-05-09T11:41:26.504-07:00The crisis of meaning.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DffqK6j-y1U&t=3s" rel="nofollow">The crisis of meaning</a>. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48596492808539829102022-05-09T11:38:47.943-07:002022-05-09T11:38:47.943-07:00Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity, or why the progr...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6nrHtO2r78&t=116s" rel="nofollow">Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity</a>, or why the progressive left offers a free indoctrination to every child.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79363561756324203672022-05-09T11:07:04.026-07:002022-05-09T11:07:04.026-07:00Only God and the central point of my consciousness...Only God and the central point of my consciousness are not adventitious to me.<br />Nicolásnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27868450267547376332022-05-09T11:02:04.477-07:002022-05-09T11:02:04.477-07:00I myself dabbled in existentialism in the 1980s, b...I myself dabbled in existentialism in the 1980s, but quickly discovered that it redounded to nihilism. Which is no ethos at all.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10181219819188639062022-05-09T10:57:02.028-07:002022-05-09T10:57:02.028-07:00Which is to say, no meaning.Which is to say, no meaning.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70555431546194228992022-05-09T10:54:03.115-07:002022-05-09T10:54:03.115-07:00I thought existentialism was that there is no mean...I thought existentialism was that there is no meaning in life except what you make.joenoreply@blogger.com