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who enforces these "laws" and what are the penalties for breaking them?

-Imp

thanks for the lecture links...

-Imp

OK, this is a quick and probably incoherent reply - I'm tired. Nothing new. 1st - your comment : '....philosophers generally are familiar with philosophers that went before and are arguing against them....' stuck right in the middle of my Either/Or - my attempt to work out if K's main audience cons...

Yes, Impenitent, it's a starting point...and one that had the effect of stopping me in my tracks. Thanks for some guidance and the link. A useful but tricky overview. My immediate thought had been one of despair ! Don't tell me I'm gonna have to read Hegel before I even get started...and then that ...

Guidance'n'Pleasure'n'Choice sounds good to me. I don't have time to read K today. However, next in my book is The Preface to Part 1 - pp 27 - 37. It opens with : ' Perhaps it has sometimes occurred to you, dear reader, to doubt the correctness of the familiar philosophical proposition that the out...

yes, he raises arguments for each but leaves the choice to the reader... something is missed if it is not observed... and as far as K's intent, that can never be completely known... but nothing is missed if it is noticed or discussed one may read for guidance one may read for pleasure either/or ... ...

So I look up Suggs and he is far from the madness crowd...in Italy. Right back where I started from. Ain't this fun ? Another man's journey...in a mini. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/italy/article4980524.ece you know I could question whether my madness is my own madness and n...

Thanks Impenitent and duszek for your replies - is this the either/or that kierkegaard talks of ? Hardness v softness of character ? and the destination...one step beyond madness ? Into unknown territory...in the attempt to impose order on the universe....?? You've lost me. I'm not seeing the conne...

Impenitent You intrigue me with your : ' consistency... momentary flashes of existence strung together by an apparently persisting self with no guarantee or rational reason to believe another moment shall come into existence... (yes, I am a fan of Hume) and as Pink Floyd paraphrased Nietzsche, Shin...

the Aesthete beats the Ethicist it's rock and roll -Imp No! No! No! They are not necessarily in opposition and as you probably know, the development possibly from child to adult is, by Kierkegaard, always Aesthetics below Ethics below Religious that should make a fine, consistent line of thinking! ...

Thanks, Impenitent, for the broad sweep. Of course, the first question which springs to mind is why one life ( aesthete ) or the other ( ethicist ), why not both ? And why or how does the Aesthete beat the Ethicist ? I guess if I really, really want to know, I have to read on.... I am tempted to tr...

it's a huge comparison of the type of life one could live

either - the aesthetic life - hedonistic
or - the ethical life - law and order

it's worth reading, both parts, but it will take you a while...

I'd suggest reading fear and trembling first

-Imp

the Aesthete beats the Ethicist

it's rock and roll

-Imp

think about the test again...

it doesn't prove that the machine thinks or has intelligence

it is all a question of what you believe and how you react to that belief...

If you don't think that box of switches has sentience, why are you conversing with it?

-Imp

the boat people

-Imp