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    I have tremendous admiration for Advaita Vedanta....

    I have tremendous admiration for Advaita Vedanta. But, shouldn't you just post a pdf of your book rather than just listing it section by section? I'd love to engage in dialogue, but I don't see how...
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    Little-Self, Ancient Indian thought is some of...

    Little-Self,

    Ancient Indian thought is some of the finest thought available to humans, however, you are going the wrong way about introducing the readers of this blog to such thought. Your...
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    YesNo, Consciousness is something humans can...

    YesNo,

    Consciousness is something humans can hardly understand, so there can no way possible for it to be recreated. Like the old Hermit simply puts it in "Blood Meridian": "A man's at odds to...
  4. Not a "classic" yet, but Philip Roth's "Sabbath's...

    Not a "classic" yet, but Philip Roth's "Sabbath's Theater". C'mon any story that involves a man using the writings of Kant to get laid has humor!
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    "Esoteric"? You want to read German Idealists,...

    "Esoteric"? You want to read German Idealists, especially Schelling's firs few pages of his "Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom".
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    YesNo, I'll definitely look into Jonathan...

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    I'll definitely look into Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind". This is another reason why I am for "public forums" as homesteads for Philosophy: recommendations and things to consider. ...
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    YesNo, Well phrased. This is why I think all...

    YesNo,

    Well phrased. This is why I think all the A.I. debates are a bunch of mularkey. Your post speaks the same goes for "values"(now Ideology")...

    Mike
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    I tend to see this line as Kertz's response to...

    I tend to see this line as Kertz's response to living a life of unreflection, greed, and going along with the ideology of the day. I would argue that no reasonable person, nor does Marlowe, see life...
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    Intellectuals always have their place in society,...

    Intellectuals always have their place in society, however, Plato and Marcus Aurelius would probably have argued that any society that is not founded on or led by the example of a philosopher doesn't...
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    YesNo, The difficulty I see with "Philosophy"...

    YesNo,

    The difficulty I see with "Philosophy" taking place "where it should", academia&communal places, is that "the objective" has become "the subjective". Now that morality is done away with in...
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    I wouldn't say the many ever truly had access to...

    I wouldn't say the many ever truly had access to philosophy, maybe "opinion" or "belief", but not philosophy. Now, with the availability of Amazon and the internet, if one desires too, one can read...
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    "As the progress of mathematical and experimental...

    "As the progress of mathematical and experimental sciences accelerates, so too does the decay of subjectivity, the dissolution of the self, the disappearance of consciousness into the unconscious,...
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    EmptySearch, "Lebensphilosophie" is definitely...

    EmptySearch,

    "Lebensphilosophie" is definitely what interests you. It is a 19th Century Post-Kantian movement that was driven by the over saturation of overly hypothetical, Scientific Positivism...
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    EmptySeraph, "Lebensphilosophie" is...

    EmptySeraph,

    "Lebensphilosophie" is intoxicating and finds many a new mind everyday, but you'll never learn or discuss them in an undergrad setting or in a current Philosophy department that does...
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    The most important of all topics these days....

    The most important of all topics these days. Seneca in his letters and Ernst Cassirier have answered these questions better than anyone I've read this far. I can not go on as long as some have here....
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    Ah, Francis Bacon. Brilliant! I have always...

    Ah, Francis Bacon. Brilliant! I have always considered him either the finest of "con men" or the most brutal of all realists. I haven't decided which just yet. I've dabbled in him for about ten years.
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