@fresco,
Fresco,
You wrote:
Quote:As I see it, your understanding of "self-integrity" involves an admission of "not knowing" or "guesswork". But you use the words “know” and "guess" as if you have complete jurisdiction as to their meaning, when in essence you are merely calling on "common-sense"notions rather than seeking philosophical analysis.
This position of yours on "what we do/don't know" underpins an image of yourself as “Frank the honest elder statesman of discussion”. It is maintained by accusations of “belief system” and “peddling” to all who might have had the ability to explore the vast literature on the concept of "knowledge" (epistemology) and report on some of its more controversial and interesting implications.
We also have a secondary self-image of a “respectful Frank” who apologizes for the petulant outbursts of his outspoken “co-self”. This second image perhaps switches in, in order to justify “new Frank”’s re-entry to a2k (it being the “old Frank “ who had made the resolution never to return.). We even have glimpses of a “Frank-Jesus” who “loves us”and forgives us our “peddling” (for we seeth not our folly).. Don’t get me wrong, all these “selves” are functionally “genuine” within their particular evocation.
This fragmentation of self happens to us all! Life in general and interpersonal communications in particular, evoke different “selves” or “aspects of self”, and “self integrity” at the philosophical level, is a palliative fiction for those with vested interests in maintaining it. Honesty involves recognizing this !
Being lectured on honesty by someone like you…is like being lectured on how to lose weight by Rush Limbaugh.
I am an honest person…a person of integrity.
If you have any problem with that…**** you!
You want to pretend that you are engaged in some sort of intellectual exercise, Fresco…when in fact, you are promoting this silly, obvious belief system of yours. You want to pretend that you KNOW what the nature of the Reality of existence is.
Pretend all you want…and if there are others who want to pretend along with you, fine. Whatever helps you past the graveyard, so to speak.
But if you are going to publish this rubbish in a public forum"which is to say, if you are going to ask the public to comment on it"I will do that.
Now, if you want to go back to pretending that language is the issue we really are discussing here…do it. I will continue to insist that your pretence is really the issue.
And if it makes you happy to asssert that such a tactic is inherently “dishonesty” on my part…great.
That means both of us will be happy instead of just me.
