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Where and How Rorty in his Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature misinterpreted Kant; I have never assimilated the writings of Descartes or Locke with sufficient care to assess Rorty's competence to discuss, much less dismiss, them. I have, however, done so with respect to those of Kant and can affirm...

Rorty’s Ambivalent Relationship With Kant James Tartaglia Abstract I argue that Kant is a key figure in understanding Rorty’s work, by drawing attention to the fact that although he is ostensibly the principal villain of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, at the end of that book Kant provides the...

Why. I thought you were interested in objective morality Definitely I am interested in objective morality. It is that inbreeding avoidance is scientific objective and morally objective, that humans are nudging slowly to comply and align with this moral standard [objectivity]. In this modern era, mo...

He is doing me a favor in his burning down of Analytical Philosophy and its linguistic turn, however I reject his claim that he had burned my [& the Kantian] philosophical stance. Whatever is of Rorty in his 'Mirror of Nature,' it has no significant counter to Kantian-philosophy-proper. Eeeeeh,...

Example already given of European Royal families. Also Pharoahs of Egypt, and anthropologically look up endogamy. But in animal breeding the examples are legion. My point was with reference to the modern era in relation to humans-in-general who has the full knowledge of the negative consequences of...

My point is that you haven't actually read chapter 1. He doesn't merely attack mind-independence. He attacks the either-or mindset too. He attacks the problem; as well as the solution to the problem; and even the approach to preventing the problem which causes its own set of problems. Rorty is an a...

Do you have reference to support humans-in-genera l has been using 'incest' as a tool for something positive or progress? Example already given of European Royal families. Also Pharoahs of Egypt, and anthropologically look up endogamy. But in animal breeding the examples are legion. My point was wi...

What you are proposing is driven by evil impulses which are grounded in immutable religious doctrines. There is no problem in the world that the government won't make worse. After 250 000 C14 years of staying out of private family matters, the ruling mafia in the West decided that they would hencef...

The first chapter of the book is literally called "The invention of the mind". And you continue to speak about mind-dependence and mind-independence. You continue to speak of the internal/external world distinction using different words but exactly the same conception. Tell me you didn't ...

Your religion [relative to others] as I have shown is inherently evil and barbaric and should be weaned off in the future. Not before barbarizing the ruling mafia first! I want barbaric reprisals against any ruling mafia that stick their noses into private family matters. Barbarism is not a bug in ...

I raised this thread on the same book by Rorty Rorty - No Mind-Independent Reality https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32188 What I am interested with Rorty is his condemnation of the very proud, arrogant but ignorant, Analytic Philosophers [PH, FDP, etc.] who insist upon and ar...

You are very ignorant of your own self and own human nature but rather focus on religious beliefs which are not true of reality and human nature. Before the French Revolution, the goal was to obliterate the Catholic Church and its class-based privileges, and the tool was atheism. As I have pointed ...

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What Game Theory Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScpHTIi-kM Veritasium Theme: What are the most optimal strategies in life interactions within reality with others. Based on the most famous problem in Game Theory, the Prisoner’s Dilemma, Axelrod [inv...

There is a big difference between acknowledging that an outlier set of rules exist and personally agreeing with that set of rules. I agree if one is merely discussing and giving their view on the difference stances of morality then they are not adopting any particular moral stance. But in the conte...