I am neither a follower of any religion nor an atheist. From my experience here and in other places, the parties most responsible for the poor quality of the discussions are the atheists. — T Clark
as pointless as asking why the world is such an iniquitous place. There's simply no non-trivial and satisfactory answer to that. — SophistiCat
I blame women. Eve and Pandora in particular. And that is non trivial and highly satisfactory to most men. — unenlightened
That happened for definite at the old forum at least once. I think we banned them for a mix of low quality and being broken records. It was a very silly sect though, to the extent that I cannot even remember what it was they espoused.I sometimes wonder if people in other forums--like say antinatalist forums, or particular apologetics forums, don't tell each other to head over here and start threads about their pet topics. — Terrapin Station
'tension' between 'chatter' on the one hand, and 'ineffability', — fresco
I'd need to study philosophy for at least 40 years before the term "continental philosophy" would start to gain any meaning. — god must be atheist
Emerson was a deist and only entertained the idea of the "small g". — Janus
have you actually read, and made any serious attempt to understand, them? — Janus
No-one's immune from bias, it seems. — Pattern-chaser
they make pronouncements that invite critique and then fail to respond in good faith when their reasoning is questioned. — Janus
i'm well aware of Emerson, I did thesis work on him and the transcendentalists. He saw through organised religion but he wasn't anti-religion; he was really a type of neoplatonist mystic. — Wayfarer
He probably has in mind the Sokal scandal or something similar. And a lot of continental academic philosophy is indubitably waffle. — Wayfarer
justification in the form of inter-subjectively corroborable evidence and reasoning amenable to rational critique is required lest the claims be empty. — Janus
Which continental philosophical works do you consider to be "indubitably waffle"? — Janus
And culturally, what lexicon do we have for even discussing that? — Wayfarer
You see, it has to matter to you. That is something I've picked up about Heidegger - that your concern has to be caring about or properly intending. — Wayfarer
Which continental philosophers do you count as being mere "wafflers", and have you actually read, and made any serious attempt to understand, them? — Janus
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