bloodninja

from your description Parmenides is asking an ontological question and not an epistemological one. I was simply suggesting that our culture's concepti...

For me that question "what does it mean to exist?" only makes sense as an existential question. Humans and physical/mental objects are in entirely dif...

It seems you're not making much effort to come to terms with my position, only to disagree with it. I'm not saying that the hammer lacks any physical ...

Regarding your dog example. Here you seem to be making an implicitly metaphysical claim that the physical stuff the hammer is made out of is actually ...

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll keep that in mind when I go back to Deleuze.

What book do you most rate by Deleuze? I have tried to read Anti-oedipus but at the time, a few years back, I think it was too complicated for me to f...

It may be an intrinsic property of the object, but not of the hammer. The hammer is not an object, it is equipment. As such it belongs to a different ...

The material stuff the hammer is made out of would be unchanged, I don't disagree with that. However there would be no hammer. Because hammer-ness, as...

To give a simple example. A hammer is neither a physical phenomenon nor a mental phenomenon. Sure it is made from physical stuff but it's being as equ...

But ìt doesn't reside in the mental world. That is the point. I think you are being a little dogmatic here.

I would like to politely disagree with this claim. There is a third world. The world of significance, of involved coping activity, in a word, of circu...

Heidegger had a lot to say on this topic. Currently I am only really familiar with Being and Time and haven't yet read What is Metaphysics? where he e...

Why would nothing have properties? What kind of ontology are you situating nothing in?

Maybe you should try reading Heidegger. I think you might have a taste for it, it's a completely different way of thinking about things/the world.

I also think the democratic government's main function is to maintain the dominant capitalist power relations. Are there any anarchists on here? Can a...

That's cool sorry if I came across as attacking you...

Regarding the first quotation from the secondary literature I think William Connolly is right that Heidegger’s Being and Time presumes how else, for e...

If you're interested in reading a really good unpacking/discussion of Heidegger's above preliminary definition of being I would very highly recommend ...

The formal definition Heidegger uses as a starting point is that "being is that which determines entities as entities, that on the basis of which enti...

I think in really simple terms, For Heidegger, death relates closely to authenticity/mineness. What turns out to be authentic (or owned) are ways of e...

I think the pure genius of Wittgenstein and Heidegger in the early 20th century resulted in metaphysics and epistomology no longer being able to be ta...

I don't think I understand your distinction. The distinction between the real and the imaginary is not the same as the distinction between materialism...

Dear dukkha, Exist is an ontological term that has the very specific meaning in Being and Time of taking a stand on your being. Kettles don't take a s...