Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · gutenberg0.728

   And though they have sometimes carried the matter too far, by their passion for some one general principle; it must, however, be confessed, that they are excusable in expecting to find some general principles, into which all the vices and virtues were justly to be resolved. The like has been the endeavour of critics, logicians, and even politicians: Nor have their attempts been wholly unsuccessful; though perhaps longer time, greater accuracy, and more ardent application may bring these sciences still nearer their perfection. To throw up at once all pretensions of this kind may justly be deeme…

   gutenberg/PG-9662-an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding/PG-9662.txt

2. 02 · yt0.716

   They could see clearly being connected to to something that that is sacred that they want to exist and make a difference to irrespective of their own egocentric desires. Um and collectively right now as you're about to go into there is a crisis of that meaning. So please Yeah. So I mean Chris and I did uh uh whenever I say Chris I mean Christopher Master Petro um after Sara and my kids Chris is the person I love most in the world. Um I aspire to be Socrates. He's my Plato. Um and so uh Plato was you know a friend and disciple of Socrates and he Plato was the beautiful lyrical writer. Socrates …

   yt/NOwnb6CkFlQ-humanity-s-meaning-crisis-what-ancient-wisdom-modern-psychol/transcript.txt

3. 03 · gutenberg0.711

   It might even be possible that WHAT constitutes the value of those good and respected things, consists precisely in their being insidiously related, knotted, and crocheted to these evil and apparently opposed things--perhaps even in being essentially identical with them. Perhaps! But who wishes to concern himself with such dangerous "Perhapses"! For that investigation one must await the advent of a new order of philosophers, such as will have other tastes and inclinations, the reverse of those hitherto prevalent--philosophers of the dangerous "Perhaps" in every sense of the term. And to speak …

   gutenberg/PG-4363-beyond-good-and-evil/PG-4363.txt

4. 04 · yt0.710

   But then on the top you have as Hegel says with full irony we have somebody whose determination is purely contingent biological and whose function is not to really decide, but to just formally decide signing documents prepared by proper specialists. I think that even politically there is a deep insight here, which is there must be a gap between the top of political power and manager specialists, those who qualify for their special knowledge and so on and so on. And so, as my friend Frank Ruda pointed out here, the final moment of a long process of aufheben is always what he calls in German auf…

   yt/3deVNo03awg-slavoj-zizek-vs-terry-pinkard-how-to-read-hegel/transcript.txt

5. 05 · archive0.703

   “How could we still be content with the man of the present day after such outlooks, and with such a craving in our conscience and conscious- ness? Sad enough; but it is unavoidable that we should look on the worthiest aims and hopes of the man of the present day with ill-concealed amusement, and perhaps should no longer look at them. Another ideal runs on before us, a strange, tempting ideal full of danger, to which we should not like to persuade any one, because we do not so readily acknowl- edge any one’s right thereto: the ideal of a spirit who plays naively (that is to say involuntarily an…

   archive/thus-spoke-zarathustra/Thus spoke Zarathustra_djvu.txt

6. 06 · blog0.703

   There is no definitive upper limit to the sophistication of the deceiving speaker’s calculations. In addition, the speaker may simply be stonewalling, reiterating an assertion without any hope of convincing the addressee of anything. A more neutral way of trying to capture the relation between assertion and believing was suggested both by Max Black (1952) and by Davidson (1984: 268): in asserting that p the speaker represents herself as believing that p . This suggestion appears to avoid the difficulties with the appeal to hearer-directed intentions. A somewhat related approach is taken by Mit…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/assertion.md

7. 07 · blog0.702

   [ 3 ] Possibilists claim that we can: we must simply broaden our understanding of reality, of what there is in the broadest sense, beyond the actual , beyond what actually exists , so that it also includes the merely possible . In particular, says the possibilist, there are merely possible people, things that are not, in fact, people but which could have been . So, for the possibilist, (4) is true after all so long as we acknowledge that reality also includes possibilia , things that are not in fact actual but which could have been ; things that do not in fact exist alongside us in the concret…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/the-possibilism-actualism-debate.md

8. 08 · yt0.697

   I think he equates real with because there's the tripart cosmos, right? And I take it that all those levels are real. So I I'm not doing that. I'm not saying that real equals corporeal, but I am saying the reverse. I I'm saying what he's calling the corporeal has to be real, or we fall into all of these performative contradictions, and we also we lose conformity to reality. Right? And and that And And we've tried We've tried all kinds of representational strategies to try and get back from, you know, being locked inside the inner cabinet that's locked out of us, right? And getting postcards fr…

   yt/QvLSkzes_II-convergence-to-neoplatonism-w-wolfgang-smith/transcript.txt

9. 09 · yt0.697

   uh Hegel used this image also as and I'm a great believer in call myself heal exactly but particularly in the master in his embassy I do rely on on Hegel quite a bit but I think what he saw for the first time was that um things and their apparent opposites uh have the same nature and require one another. I had a very interesting conversation just the other day with uh a a Chinese scholar and she was saying well of course in the west you talk about paradoxes but we don't see any paradoxes because for us there is nothing unruly or to be explained away in the idea that a thing and its opposite co…

   yt/LZ5C11mlTH4-your-brain-has-2-masters-and-one-is-leading-us-astray-dr-iai/transcript.txt

10. 10 · gutenberg0.696

    Such an argument, in my opinion, is fallacious; and of course those who advance it do not put it so shortly or so crudely. But whether valid or not, the argument has been very widely advanced in one form or another; and very many philosophers, perhaps a majority, have held that there is nothing real except minds and their ideas. Such philosophers are called 'idealists'. When they come to explaining matter, they either say, like Berkeley, that matter is really nothing but a collection of ideas, or they say, like Leibniz (1646-1716), that what appears as matter is really a collection of more or …

    gutenberg/PG-5827-the-problems-of-philosophy/PG-5827.txt