PLATONIC MOMENTS IN THE LIFE OF NATHAN COPPEDGE

https://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-strange-lost-dialogue-of-plato.html

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What we have conceived of resembles Plato's system...

Yes, there is a class of immortals, a class of tacticals, and a class appeased by passion.

Now, surely we will try to integrate these parts, if we are to find harmony.

How, for example, could I integrate 'immortality' with 'tactics'?

We have already described the immortals as being more thoughtful than the others.

At least, they are concerned with something less transient.

For example, I said that 'tactics' is required because of neediness.

If we ignore long-term tactics, that seems to be the case...

Now, if I am eternity, I certainly have a weak enemy, whom I try to agree with.

Obviously.

And this 'enemy' would be called 'modularity' I suppose.

Modularity is an enemy you could duel with, to try to establish harmony.

The end result would surely be more dimensional!

For sure!

And if I am not a god, then surely I would wish to be more dimensional!

I am in agreement.

What people want appears to be a dimensional world, as I suspected!

That is what you have suggested, but what are our options for a dimensional world?

Of course, what we mean by a dimensional world is a world that is easier and more interesting!

Wouldn't everyone inevitably migrate towards such a world?

Except for those unfortunates who do not conceive of a life of peace!

I suppose soldiers would seem unfortunate, because they expect war.

War is obviously not what we mean by this form of evolution.

Then what are the weaknesses?

The weakness of reality appears to be fantastic 'unreality'.

How so?

Well, death and everything that brings death is ideally unreal.

How could we oppose desire?

We might define a world as a place for appreciating both.

What if unreality is the gentlest concept that can be applied to our reality?

That seems obvious, now that I think of it!

What if unreality is the most meaningful concept that can be applied to our reality?

Then we would inevitably migrate to somewhere more interesting!


----Nathan Coppedge, "The Telos".

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"We find causation meaningless, so objects are real! Of course! Even if they participate with our minds, that doesn't mean that the objects or the mind have to be absolute! Nor does it guarantee that we don't have a mind. To prove a mind does not require proving a complete mind, for according to relativity, any kind of mind is, in some way, a mind. Therefore, whatever has an opinion that it is a mind, is in some way, officially, a mind. For any sort of mind is capable of meaningful translation, even if the perspective that translates is not the original mind. The mind itself is a kind of object, even if there is no standard to objectify it. The absence of standards is never reason enough to prove that something is without reality."
---Nathan Coppedge, June 2015.

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*It may be noted that the implication here is that all experiences are perfect which are not conceptualisms, which is perhaps a crutch, but a good one, particularly when it is noticed that perfect pain is distinguished from perfect pleasure, and some terms may be lightened by critical evaluation. E.g. if experience is ‘best defined’ to be perfect, perfect pain now means something absurd or paradoxical, like all evil things. Pleasure, on the other hand, must become complex to realize its potential, or must be treated as something universal or inherent. If pain must be present and cannot be evaluated, this is simply the occurrence of a metaphysical paradox which says that pain is paradoxical in spite of the fact that the perfect world has not been achieved. Small critical details (‘errata’) remain with the least solvable problems. The most obvious solutions to those problems, on the other hand, announce themselves via their importance in language, or as happenstantial virtues----things that only have ‘ultimate’  importance in the perfect world. ---Nathan Coppedge, The Dimensional Phenomenology Toolkit (italics mine).

I've attracted a quasi-follower, good news I think!

From a comment on my blog:

I couldn't sleep. I wrote something about circles. This quote of yours drove me to write somehow...I think...but I could be wrong...I am tired. Take a look if you want.

"The amelioration of jagged potencies is really the second center" ---Nathan Coppedge

http://ourforgetfulness.blogspot.com/2015/07/55-circle.html

----James R.

July 19, 2015 at 11:11 PM

 

I responded to his circle idea at his blog, where I said:

There is one way where you might be wrong, in that there is no definite relation between the person and the circle. I think the human may be more specific than the circle, and in that way you may be right. The question I think is really 'how to find relevance for the circle?' And I think in this respect it is useless to commit to specific traditions, and more appropriate to find a personal meaning for the circle. Otherwise the result is a trope. 

On the other hand, if what you are looking for is a rational system, then the circle may or may not be rationalized, and rationalizations can be interpreted as literal or else formally irrational. And the result is to accept or reject the meaning of the circle.

In my own sense of significance, I often return to the idea of the 'sublime' to explain the meaning of symbols. To some extent, what something means is its aesthetic role in the environment. If the symbol is not a sensory experience in some way, then we must define what it means for ourselves. The symbol will not always choose its meaning for us...

---Nathan Coppedge

At the same time 'follower' may be the wrong word to use, since his writing style is in some ways more compelling than my own...

Avant-Garde Philosophy and My Potential Influences

* = some possible influence ('radical thinker')
(*) = some potential influence (sophomoric level)
[blank] = no potential influence (disputed relevance)

Consider that some of this is just-emergent.


Vast Contingency (*)

Quadratic Deduction *

Metaphysics of Morals

Logical Positivism (*)

Irrational Formalism *

Relative Absoluteness *

Virtual Reality 'Applicationism' *

Hyper Criticism *


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I was so inspired by a question on Yahoo! Answers that I am re-posting my answer here

Q: Looking for quote "I exist now"? 

I might be wrong but something along those lines, I heard someone in my class say it but wasn't able to ask from where it came. Not referring to the Cogito Ergo Sum.

[This seems exactly like someone who was in my philosophy class years ago...]

A: Nietzsche has a number of quotes like this, referring to his concept of the eternal return: 

"If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence". See Wikipedia on Nietzschean Affirmation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzschean... . 

I also have my own quotes (Nathan Larkin Coppedge: philosopher, artist, inventor, poet, still a student): 

1. "How to count a step along the path, if the path is one?" 
2. "To cause harm to living things is to accept and revel in the imperfections of the world" 
3. "Existence is the zone of neutrals" 

There is also the phenomenological reference to the concept of 'das ding ann sich' --- the thing in itself. This mirrors Greek concepts of Haecceity ("thisness") and Eudaemonia ("Happiness for the common good"). 

There is also the traditional phrase "existence precedes essence", which has been re-used so much as to lose almost all meaning of attribution. A similar phrase is "existence is intentionality". 

In some other cases, Sartre would be a good bet, for example, his concept of Despair. 

There are some quotes by Sartre that may have been brought up: 

"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating." ---J.P. Sartre 

"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life." ---J.P. Sartre 

Again, Nathan Coppedge: "While I die I am dead," meaning immortality.

Cover for the DPT

This is probably how the cover for the Dimensional Philosopher's Toolkit will appear, for those that plan on purchasing the book. It will be available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon sometime around February or March of next year.