Is existence a being? Only beings exist. Being is not a being however so being cannot exist. In other words only entities exist and because being is n...
Did you know that Heidegger thought the exact opposite? His Being and Time argues for the thesis that being is finite. He uses 'existence' to articula...
Do you think everyone poor and bourgeois is free? How about people with serious illnesses, mental retardation, mental illness, inbreeding, slaves, etc...
Well in his early philosophy he doesn't explicitly discuss morality. Rightly or wrongly I think he thinks morality is basically inauthentic conformism...
For me it's been a long time since I read Sartre, but I recall something about the Kantian categorical imperative... From memory he is basically rippi...
No Heidegger was simply saying something different, something that couldn't be reduced to Kantian/Husserlian "present-at-hand" ontology. Heidegger doe...
I take you to mean by "an object's specific state of being" to be referring to an ontology of some kind. Being in the world has its ontology also, but...
FYI here's a quote from intro 2 that you might find interesting regarding hermeneutics: The phenomenology of Dasein is a hermeneutic in the primordial...
What would qualify as a concise definition on your arbitrary standards and why do you feel he needs give one? Your second sentence is half correct, it...
For me "formal indication" really stood out in reading this passage. Do you know of anywhere that Heidegger explicitly discusses his methodology of fo...
Interesting comment as always! I tried reading that book a while ago but found at the time that I didn't feel comfortable with his reduction of being ...
Why are either the mind or the body substances? Im no genius but to me "substance" seems to belong to scientific language games. Surely substance has ...
Does meaning involve anything like a correlation or an attribution. Me don't think so. Meaning is not attributed, rather we are there and in the thick...
I think I would qualify as a nihilist. I don't think it's necessary to use words like objective/subjective though. I'm never quite sure what people me...
We don't shape meaning rather we are shaped by meaning. Meaning is not something anyone ever subjectively decides. This is delusional statement that c...
But you have not defined what you mean by space nor time. If you are using the scientific concept of each of these terms then how is this philosophy r...
could we interpret Heidegger's Being and Time as process philosophy? Dasein is after all not a thing but rather an event of sense making. I guess if p...
Why is me I? What is the I? A philosophical fiction or a convenient designator? After thinking about it I think the I is both a metaphysical fiction a...
I think this sums up the fundamental difference between Heidegger and Sartre. You're on the side of Sartre and radical freedom, and I don't think it's...
Because fathering does not matter to them. They are what we call bad fathers. Also, it's not merely a role, but a self-understanding, which is differe...
I think it's right to say that goals must be chosen. But i think it's wrong to suggest that goals accurately characterise the majority of human behavi...
I don't think that your position as a nihilist is inconsistent with the idea that life is meaningful, that we dwell in the meaning and make life meani...
What is meaning? If there were no humans, would there be no meaning? Is it meaningful that life is meaningless? Is it meaningless that life is meaning...
interesting discussion. Just wondering how it is possible to choose preferences? I feel it is more accurate to articulate preferences as something we ...
I think morality is like language. Is language subjective? Is language objective? It is neither. You don't get to decide what words mean, yet you part...
This is completely wrong, commodities don't have value by definition, but through the labour expended to produce them. Commodities have exchange-value...
Are paper bills ultimately a commodity, albeit a special commodity? If so, then rather than asking what makes paper bills valuable, perhaps we should ...
Yes Daniel Quinn's Ishmael is where I read about natural selection and (totalitarian) agriculture. I'm no scientist but Daniel Quinn's arguments seeme...
But humans stopped evolving with the agricultural revolution. As a natural process there are certain natural conditions a species must be constrained ...
I think that for Heidegger, emotions (broardly construed as affectivity or attunement) are really important. I'm not sure if we can include Heidegger ...
I think you need to make some distinctions. Values are not the same as emotions, values underlie emotions, and thoughts. For example, I can only be fr...
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