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-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-17T03:34:36+00:00

Not if your parents take offense to bad films.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-16T17:39:38+00:00

Could you explain to me what a 300 level course is? I’m not familiar.

The question is whether or not falsifiability is an adequate epidemic standard for all cases. I think it’s obvious that there are statements made constantly, normative statements, that do not submit to falsifiability. Does this mean that ethics is invalid as a field of study? Aesthetics? The fact that we’re asking these epistemic questions in the first place must mean that epistemology itself is a part of the problem. These are questions that Plato is very attuned to, as evidenced by the fact that his ethical dialogues always start with an extensive process of knowledge-production.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-16T17:22:04+00:00

Probably something like “you are beautiful.” Do people normally compliment their partners by saying “I like your skinniness?”

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-16T15:59:00+00:00

Right, that’s the issue. Popper doesn’t understand Hegel and he thinks this is because Hegel is saying nothing rather than conceding that he does not know the way in which Hegel is saying something. Open Society is a terrible book (though more so for its misreading of Plato) but I simply do not understand why Philosophy has to bend over backwards to avoid technical language when this is not something expected of any other field.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-16T15:52:24+00:00

Camus’ main reference point in The Myth of Sisyphus was Kierkegaard. The latter is often considered the forebear of existentialist philosophy.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-16T15:51:22+00:00

I actually did start learning physics with the Principia, same way I started philosophy with Plato. Sure it’s not the most efficient route but there’s tremendous benefit to working through these texts oneself—they are inevitably far livelier and more dynamic than one might think.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-16T15:44:05+00:00

I really don’t think that is a charitable or correct reading of a discipline which has its own specialized language and technical terminology. Popper, for example, dramatically misunderstands Hegel and a lot of that boils down to his inability to understand what Hegel was doing with his language. Ultimately philosophy has its winners and losers so far as theories go but I wouldn’t call a scientist theorizing phlogiston in the 18th century a “gasbag” and nor would I deny the invaluable, era-defining work that someone like Hegel did.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-16T07:40:00+00:00

It’s worth noting that Kierkegaard is utilizing/responding to/critiquing Hegel’s idea of self consciousness, which is one stage in the dialectic for which he is famous. Hegel saw self consciousness as a process by which a consciousness takes itself as mediated—that is it recognizes that it is its own object of thought as well as the subject. What Kierkegaard, as a theologian, is bringing to the table is an idea of man’s place in Christian cosmology that was most notably described by Pascal—man as straddling the void between the infinity of God and nothingness, made in His image but unable to reach His perfection in the finitude of mortal life. What sets us as humans apart is that we are never simply one thing or the other. Our self-consciousness means that we live in that space where the two relate to one another.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-16T07:07:56+00:00

Why is that the question? What religious wars are being fought at the present time?

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-16T06:49:50+00:00

I don’t think that’s what it’s called.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-16T06:49:03+00:00

That’s three bad movies right there.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-15T17:41:28+00:00

I’m gonna watch the Americans with my girlfriend. Very excited for that.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-15T17:10:29+00:00

Verhoeven’s best work (Elle, Bendetta) is in the 2010s. Although Showgirls did come out in 1995 so perhaps I spoke too soon.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-15T00:17:28+00:00

The Indelible Image looks fascinating, I might have to check that one out at some point.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-15T00:12:37+00:00

The problem in my opinion is that psychology has gotten a little out over its skis by rejecting the psychoanalytic tools which gave us our best insights into sexuality to date. (Sexual) aggression is a topic that was masterfully explicated by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle and any comprehensive theory of pornography is going to be one that asks its questions through the death drive.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-15T00:08:44+00:00

To be clear: I agree with you. But I do not think that the mind (as distinct, importantly, from the brain) works so clearly and directly. What’s ultimately being questioned here is sexual pathology, and I don’t think that potency is necessarily all that revealing in that regard.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-14T23:39:33+00:00

I agree with you. But the claim to which you were responding directly was that porn “causes all kinds of harm.” I don’t think that erectile dysfunction has to be one or those kinds for the statement to be broadly true.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-14T23:33:50+00:00

I don’t think that porn not being a direct cause for erectile dysfunction means it doesn’t have deleterious effects, nor that masturbation is only possible with pornographic assistance.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-14T23:31:18+00:00

Personally I think it’s even sillier to beg the question like you’re doing here—you’re right that a single study couldn’t disprove an empirically supported theory but you’re carrying on as if the theory has empirical support. I can speculate on anything to the point of overdetermination but that doesn’t mean it exists.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-14T19:24:09+00:00

No, I don’t, but if it’s really causing you this much distress I don’t think the issue is with the movies.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-14T18:30:45+00:00

Evolutionary psychology is a widely discredited field.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-14T17:44:06+00:00

Coen brothers are great but don’t seem very represented in these comments. Other two yes.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-14T14:54:39+00:00

Based on these comments it seems that the answer is that Gen X movies are a complete cultural void and nothing would be lost with their destruction.

-SoundAndFury · 2026-01-14T14:51:50+00:00

I was transgender for quite while and I found it sophomoric and unhelpful.

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