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Yes, I can see how the gap between evaluations involves the experience of being lost. I brought up the gap, however, in order to address this challeng...

In Heidegger's Letter on Humanism, he puts the matter this way: The above would seem to place us on the verge of a kind of quietism but this is shown ...

Christianity has come to be different things at different times to different people. Placing Feuerbach in a more specific context was a thought I had ...

Or a beginning of a new one required more work than originally anticipated. Project Management is born.

Paul expected the world to change forever and the sooner the better. By the time of Augustine, waiting for the change required an adjustment of expect...

One does not have to decide about the limits of the law (in regard to Paul's view) to see how Augustine made the issue about a personal choice. And th...

Okay. I see we are at the boundaries of the other's perspective. Yes, another thread. I will read your selected essays if you read The Concept of Anxi...

Kierkegaard was pretty clear about what conditions he laid out required of an individual. You will have to enlighten me how and where Heidegger 'gener...

It did. Handy, that bit.

Whatever else one might think of Kierkegaard, he saw the demand from a person to follow Christ as a direct requirement even if the metaphors were uncl...

I remember Putin's shrug. The rhetoric at the time was to emphasize that Finland was an independent country that could join clubs as they wish while U...

This is an interesting approach since I have problems with classification. I agree with Deleuze when he treats some concepts as created things. When o...

Well said. The focus on Naess is appreciated. I would add the perspective of Gregory Bateson as one who saw a 'humanism' integral to the conditions of...

Bunge points to a problem with specialization and then ends up tossing a lateral pass to a certain group of specialists. Others have made that move a ...

Bunge's observation about constructive criticism, as a lack in philosophical discourse, does bring into question his dismissal of so many thinkers on ...

What do you take as examples of 'previous groundings'?

I get the map versus terrain distinction. Where we disagree is if the efforts of thinkers are properly understood as: "previous groundings of signifie...

There is always the question of what the author was/is trying to say. I am not sure what the 'fluidity' you mention refers to. Is it the way academics...

I did not mean to imply struggle had an intrinsic value in this context. Trying to read important thinkers is not easy because they are the ones handi...

I hope I did not imply as much.

I did say that the method has value. Maybe saying "too easy" sends the wrong message. I find a value in struggling and becoming familiar with a thinke...

I hear many of the differences between philosophers as a problem of translation. The encyclopedic method of putting views into a common language where...

I am disinclined to take "ego" as a given, either as an experience commonly agreed to have happened or as a necessary supposition that means what it m...

I think a lot about how memory changes its role as it becomes harder to do. If I am a ball thrown, describing a parabola through space and time, it se...

I think Nietzsche is saying that the problem with recounting cultural history is entangled with the problem of accepting 'natural' science as proceedi...

This brings into question what the 'historical' view provides against the background of what does not change (or not at the same rate or for unrelated...

Heidegger specifically claimed that Nietzsche "closed the circle of Western metaphysics but did not think beyond it. What is at issue is to what degre...

Nietzsche directly addresses what science is when he asks these questions in The Gay Science: This brings a fundamental tension into the investigation...

I can but it would help if you gave a point of departure from the argument I put forward making the proposition. Are you saying that what I said is no...

This description of the 'world' does fit better with later thinkers of 'cosmology' concerned with stating the conditions of our existence. How that se...

That was a contemptuous reply. I sense an underlying animus is underway. Perhaps you were thinking of the following: Note that the end of the quoted p...

Heidegger says something similar in his Lectures on Nietzsche. Both readings are difficult to square with the specificity of Nietzsche's actual words:

Is there not a limit to that idea in so far that it could not be expressed without a shared language.? If I was convinced of existence as a solipsist,...

It seems that the questioning in that direction is over for Heidegger. Has a scholar who did much to pull apart the veil of Scholastic interpretation ...

By not understanding, I mean specifically the questioning that Heidegger says is most difficult. In the passage I quoted above: The limit of metaphysi...

I don't understand what Heidegger means by going beyond Metaphysics but the following is how he describes its beginning and Nietzsche as the end:

That is a different slant for me; Will have to ponder. It does seem different than Heidegger saying we posit persistence rather than find it.

Heidegger seems to put Heraclitus in this role. Cycles of Becoming repeating without beginning or end.

Heidgger put it this way:

That is a much more helpful response than mine.

Not at all. My strong preferences are not the same as impartial justice.

I am not sure if I have presented two possible propositions where one can be confirmed and the other denied.

Your two questions are excellent. I will take a stab at the first one. One way to look at it is that Nietzsche saw himself as past metaphysics, abando...

Please don't take my word for it. I see that you have encountered some measure of the matter in your reading.

Regarding ethics, it is interesting that Heidegger started out as a Catholic theology scholar. The anti-modern ethos he espoused in various fashions t...

As my previous behavior might have suggested, I am more interested in ancient texts than recent ones. I cannot explain why exactly but that is the cas...

I don't look at it that way. It is not about finding "naziism" in everything he wrote or not. I agree with many things he points to in the Lecture I l...

I look at it as a unity of authorship. If an author says x,y, and z are connected, then they are asking me, the reader, to connect them. The 'disguisi...

I am curious about you putting it that way. Isn't the cat already out of the bag? Different thinkers made what they will of the text. Grouping them or...

At least to the extent it brings about the underlined portion of the quote: Your references are well in line with what is put forward in the Lectures....