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A New Ground of Being... - 05-17-2006, 11:23 PM

Guille, I think the dialectical world of thought needs to be centered toward a new ground of being___or really the first really true ground___period! I was searching around for analogy ideas when I stumbled across David Chalmers, dealing with much in this area. He's questioning the relationships of consciousness to materialism___he's a Ph.D. philosopher from Australia and one of Hofstadter's students, of years past. You may want to check him out, as he offers some of the best comparative philosophy I've recently come across. Link: http://consc.net/papers/moving.html

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I agree. In fact, one of the main changes in philosophy has been that we've stoped talking about the things in themselves and started to talk them in relation to each other. The problem with the first is that we fall into the ideology road, which expects always a thought which is final, total, perfect, and those are always both false and wrong (the terms don't mean to the theoretical world the same, even though in practice we use them as synonyms). The problem with the second is that it takes us to talking about nothing, it takes us to fatal theories, to negation and limitation, to pessimism, pasivism and nihilism. Before, philosophers talked about space and about time, now we talk about space-time, the space of time and the time of space. How to escape that dialectical world of thought? Who answers that question will be the Nietzsche of the 21st century.


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