Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy -- Realism and Idealism

2018-11-26 Thread Stephen Curtiss Rose
I meant Nietzsche went mad hugging the horse. amazon.com/author/stephenrose On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 12:51 PM Stephen Curtiss Rose wrote: > I am very glad you are bringing this down to earth. You are right to flag > evil and injustice. Neither is the strong suit of academic philosophy. > Sadly

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy -- Realism and Idealism

2018-11-26 Thread Stephen Curtiss Rose
I am very glad you are bringing this down to earth. You are right to flag evil and injustice. Neither is the strong suit of academic philosophy. Sadly I could "out" Peirce and Wittgenstein, neither of whom were without filmclips that would make them worse than Nietzsche who after all went man

Aw: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy -- Realism and Idealism

2018-11-26 Thread Helmut Raulien
I agree, but before everybody can pursue beauty, truth, and enlightenment, everybody should be granted to have a life. Some days ago, a participant of the education outfit I work in has been expelled with her family from Germany to Montenegro. She neither has a german, nor a montenegronian

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy -- Realism and Idealism

2018-11-25 Thread Stephen Curtiss Rose
I am gratified at this understanding which indicates to me the relevance of the triadic approach. I am still a babe in the woods regarding this thinking though I know how it started. At this point if I had a large pedestal I would make room on it for Peirce, Berkeley, Wittgenstein and Nietzsche

Aw: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy -- Realism and Idealism

2018-11-25 Thread Helmut Raulien
I see. In your post you also spoke of information as the basic stuff of the universe. So perhaps "spirit (or mind) - matter - information" might be seen as a triad? To see matter-mind as a dyad brings a bout the hen-and-egg-problem, as realists see matter as primordinal, and mind as its

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy -- Realism and Idealism

2018-11-22 Thread Stephen Curtiss Rose
Realism appears to me to the basis of dominant science -- deriving truth from material. Idealism rejects that. If opposition is conceded they form a binary that triadic thinking questions (perhaps as you do). But my conclusion would be to try to see what unifies them and what if anything would