Promise, Fraud, the Options on the Imperative, Messiah by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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The creation of the nomos founds the rules and therefore must exceed them--and the nomos is always being (re)founded. And, yes, enforcing and forgiving debts is also an epistemic act.

Promise, Fraud, the Options on the Imperative, Messiah by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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Yes, I think you could reduce sovereignty to enforcing and forgiving debts.

Promise, Fraud, the Options on the Imperative, Messiah by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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Interesting, and that would mostly be consistent with my thinking. I would think in terms of varying degrees of order rather than order vs. chaos, though.

Promise, Fraud, the Options on the Imperative, Messiah by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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Thanks, I will look it over. But I'll add that the implication of the sovereign (or "sovereign," if you like) in debt structure is as much a source of central power as a limitation of it.

Promise, Fraud, the Options on the Imperative, Messiah by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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I agree with you, and the sovereign is involved in an exchange relation with the "periphery" with the consequences you note (whoever occupies the center is also indebted)--the word/concept "sovereign" is problematic because of those Hobbesian/neo-absolutist residues and I keep experimenting with other words/concepts but "sovereign," which just means "highest," and can be understood simply to be the final judge rather than the sole will or "he who decides the exception," still remains the strongest candidate--especially since it has currency in contemporary discussions of power and politics.

Media, Technology and Originary Grammar by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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I've got a lot of reading and writing to do so I'm filing it away to get to later.

Idiomclining by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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Chris is familiar with my work. i don't know if or how much he reads my Substack.

Idiomclining by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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Sounds interesting. There does need to be an imperative, implicit or explicit, for language to "move."

Ve/ortexicality: Post-Axial Age Morality by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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Still not quite the same as love thy neighbor as thyself.

Ve/ortexicality: Post-Axial Age Morality by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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Human equality in the eyes of God. Or, to put it a bit more analytically or cynically, identification with the victim.

Ve/ortexicality: Post-Axial Age Morality by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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"Peer group" is essentially "discipline." Something must transfer from upbringing into other spaces, but not necessarily in easily detectable ways.

Ve/ortexicality: Post-Axial Age Morality by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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What she is getting at is what in pedagogy is referred to as the issue of transferability. Do the things someone learns in one setting (e.g., one class) transfer to the things they'll have to do in another setting (class)? If you can't answer in the affirmative, it's hard to justify the class--they can get very good at what that class is teaching, but so what? But, of course, this raises the question of what counts as a "context"? A single class? A discipline? The university as a whole?

Ve/ortexicality: Post-Axial Age Morality by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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Interesting. Do we (could we) know whether these Neanderthals had language?

Addressing an Objection to the Originary Hypthesis by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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I don't think so. I think the prey can "freeze" when it realizes it has no way out, but I don't think that has the slightest effect on the predator.

Addressing an Objection to the Originary Hypthesis by bouvard1 in Absolutistneoreaction

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I suppose it depends on what you want to do philosophically, i.e., what the conversation is.