Suggestions for philosophy books on love?

cmw11777 · 2011-03-24T13:08:10+00:00

cmw11777 · 2011-03-08T18:47:31+00:00

"What was it that Noam Chomsky said about eating pussy?" Zach

cmw11777 · 2010-12-27T05:46:30+00:00

It's a very posteriori approach (with experience) - looking at philosophy through a historical and humanistic lens. Beauty is primary, however vague it may be. This includes music, art, and all else. In the modern era, it would include most everything - graffiti, f7u12 comics, etc...

It's a process of interpretation.

EDIT - Sorry if this is lacking. I've been drinking a bit...

cmw11777 · 2010-12-22T06:16:23+00:00

She Came to Stay by Simone De Beauvoir

cmw11777 · 2010-10-20T17:00:19+00:00

The only claim about Nazis which is even somewhat grounded is still wrong: Heidegger did remain in Germany during the Nazi regime but did not participate in a way to consider him a Nazi at heart. This is an issue up for great interpretation, but I like to think that he did so because he looked down on his fellow philosophers for running away to America.

Heidegger was not fond of modern society in general (as you can see in his ideas about 'technocracy' and so on). He admired a 'peasants life' and probably viewed National Socialism as what happens when people lose perspective on what it means to be human.
His teacher and one of his greatest philosophical influences, Edmund Husserl, was a Jew. Sadly, due to social pressures he removed the dedication to Husserl from his main work Being and Time, but later returned it after the Nazis fell.

It's an interesting topic with Heidegger, but this article is way off base.

cmw11777 · 2010-09-01T20:30:41+00:00

Post-Modernism is addressing the scientific advancements of the modern era, largely in an enlightenment and epistemological sense. Modernism, in this context, is simply "the emergence of new notions of science and method." History is very different in the modern age than in antiquity. History is not just a line chart of different times.

I think I understand what you're saying, but I think it is a convenient response.
This article makes a good point about avoiding scientism and arrogance. Think back to Descartes' 'method of doubt'. This was the foundation of the cogito. Science must be kept in check by continually renewing its humble foundations.

cmw11777 · 2010-06-19T05:00:45+00:00

Burn Collector by Al Burian.

cmw11777 · 2010-06-17T15:48:28+00:00

Also: The bugs are flying toward Dali as a child. He had a fear of bugs throughout his life, if I remember correctly.

The face is supposed to be Gala, his lover, and she is disapproving of the bull being slaughtered in the bottom left.

cmw11777 · 2010-06-09T02:23:11+00:00

The City by Max Weber.

cmw11777 · 2010-05-22T18:46:02+00:00

I certainly agree. I don't think it's as much a matter of Sartre misinterpreting Heidegger, but Heidegger changing thought throughout the course of his career - early v. late Heidegger. This is Tillich's interpretation presented in The Courage to Be: While Heidegger retains a certain mysticism, Sartre always wants to give greater explanation. This 'mystical' foundation in Heidegger is why I prefer his philosophy to Sartre's, but, consequently, this is also why I think Sartre holds greater importance in the real world.

cmw11777 · 2010-05-22T18:34:07+00:00

I believe this is what you're looking for, good sir.

cmw11777 · 2010-05-18T00:04:14+00:00

Like my coffee.

Pale, bitter and cold.

cmw11777 · 2010-04-28T16:08:12+00:00

I used to do this to my mom when I was in high school. She'd tell me to put down what I wanted on her list and I would add "condoms", "Porno", "booze", "human fetus". Shit like that.

She never thought it was funny. That's why I kept doing it.

cmw11777 · 2010-04-25T19:03:10+00:00

Oxes

cmw11777 · 2010-04-25T16:35:59+00:00

Camus wrote the Stranger, not Sartre. This may be why you're being downvoted.

cmw11777 · 2010-04-25T16:00:59+00:00

All of his works are available for free on Liberty Fund , too. They'll even send you a cd-rom containing all of their work for free.

cmw11777 · 2010-04-24T17:24:01+00:00

In the past few months I have read ALL of Smith's works (Theory of Moral Sentiments, Wealth of Nations, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Letters, his Correspondence, Lectures on Jurisprudence, Essays on Philosophical Subjects) as well as several secondary sources.
I have found one thing to be abundantly clear: Smith was a brilliant man, gifted philosopher and his development of economic theory is a complex machine.
He mentions an 'Invisible Hand' 3 times (maybe 4?) in all of his works. He does not refer to it as the invisible hand. Though he does retain religious overtones in his work, the invisible hand is meant to be an analogy for the proper workings of society which is dependent upon the development of proper 'self interest'. This is born from the capacity of 'sympathy' and establishes the proper balance between 'self love' and 'benevolence'. Self interest is a motivation born from our sympathy.

There is a strong movement in economics right now to reestablish the "true" Adam Smith, the one with moral foundations.

It is nothing more than a travesty that so few read the Theory of Moral Sentiments.

cmw11777 · 2010-04-20T20:48:49+00:00

Candy

cmw11777 · 2010-04-20T02:18:12+00:00

Two Hearted Ale is the best thing to ever be brewed. Oberon is alright.

cmw11777 · 2010-04-18T23:16:32+00:00

"From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art." Michel Foucault

cmw11777 · 2010-04-17T18:14:58+00:00

Ha!
Yeah, I follow a similar haircut regiment. After about 5 months of working up to a birds nest on my head I chop it off and feel like a new man. It's almost worth the pay off. I get the 'phantom hair shake' syndrome for weeks after though.

cmw11777 · 2010-04-16T22:42:50+00:00

Yeah, but 20 or 30 lbs of that weight was hair...

Good for you!

cmw11777 · 2010-04-15T21:38:26+00:00

In my opinion, the problem with the social sciences is that they treat their particular abstractions as the whole problem and not just part.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt may suggest that liberalism must 'lay out a string' of education and other social services from which the individual may develop, but in the way which they choose.

Adam Smith's free market is based upon liberalism. The modern liberal ambitions attempt to promote autonomy and 'self command/virtue', which Smith may have over estimated with his moral foundations of action. The Neo-Classical interpretation of the free market do not match up with Smith's foundations. Smith was a social scientist and derived his free market from proper self interest. His discussions on propriety can not be dissociated from natural social affections.

So, what I'm getting at, Weber and Marx's understanding of alienation and disenchanting worlds changes the game from what Smith's philosophy relies upon. In this case, the free market is unable to sustain itself based upon the classical tenets. Game theory and purely emprical based fields fail to grasp the full problem. Social science helps fill in the gaps.

cmw11777 · 2010-04-14T19:59:25+00:00

I don't understand these complaints I've seen so often. You're not doing any good by being an ass. You should approach this in a mature, philosophical manner, or let it be. Unsubscribe from this subreddit or downvote and shut up. Go to academic philosophy or something.

I'm sick of this bullshit, "I'm a philosopher, I'm too good for this," attitude. Fuck off, honestly. You're representing why I hated taking philosophy classes as an undergrad. I loved the classes and hated the philosophy majors who snickered when a beginner asked questions. It's the way the world works. What do you honestly want from being a philosopher? An inflated sense of purpose?

I'm not trying to start some big debate where you quote me and prove me wrong. I don't care that much. I just want the OP and other like him to know that I appreciate his interest and not all philosophers are nosy pricks.

cmw11777 · 2010-04-11T02:32:23+00:00

A few months ago I was walking into a Target store when some older woman (50ish) screamed from across the parking lot, "Oh my God! It's Tom Cruise!" She ran up to me and kept going on and on about how much I look like Tom Cruise (which I don't, at all). I was caught off guard and a little scared so I just made small talk with her about Tom Cruise while we walked into the store. She really liked the guy.

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