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It could indeed be. Or maybe death reveals or clarifies this unattainability?

I agree. I chose a bad metaphor. What I was thinking about is the tension between the "future" and "pastness" within a "present" structure. But now Ko...

What does it mean for God to make sense to us, though? He has to be (in that sense) "within" our human reason exactly to the degree that we understand...

To be fair to school, I must emphasize that I learned my specialized subject (math) in a way that I wouldn't have otherwise. First and foremost it was...

Really? I thought that Socrates knew that he didn't know? He didn't even write down the absolute truth. What a bum! We could have used that. As far as...

You speak of corruption. I will certainly agree that school has not been ideal from my perspective (I'm in grad school now). I can imagine a better wa...

That's just a bare assurance. As far as the famous names are concerned, clearly your own interpretation is involved. Indeed, if such a thing has been ...

I agree. From my point of view, you just described what I'd call an image of the virtue. Can one "rationally" demonstrate that such an image is "true"...

I did look into Voeglin, though not that paper. I like him. It's possible that you've mistaken me for a Kojevian of some stripe, but I'm far more apol...

I'm not sure why the formatting of the quotes below is off. I tried to fix it. Couldn't. But at least you have some samples of the paper I linked to. ...

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I was trying to figure out "pastness" also. I think your theory is plausible. Something I recently found illuminating is relevant here, I think. Attun...

On the "Being" versus "being" issue, I think I can clarify a little. I'm not against mysticism, but I like my mysticism to be mysticism and my "labor ...

This suggests to my that Dasein found its being in the world. It was alienated from its being, but this alienation is seductive in that it offers a se...

Ah. Very nice explanation.

Intelligence: is reality mind or matter or X or Y or what? Wisdom: why am I asking this? and is this question likely to lead to that goal? is it the o...

I thought you'd give wisdom the better role. Seems like intelligence is just faster wisdom in that scenario?

I relate. For me it's connected to letting go of some of what one felt one needed to control, needed to be true, needed to be.

If rationality is weighing evidence and the definition of rationality involves no weighing of evidence, then rationality is itself defined irrationall...

I agree. Even the "non-human" is a human thought that exists for human purposes.

Hadn't heard that. I've heard the rumor about womanizing. I never looked into the plausibly of the womanizing rumor.

As I said, away from particular "moral vanities," we all respond positively to health and happiness. On the other hand: This is what I have in mind, t...

Surely you read other threads on this forum. I think you're being disingenuous. Rather than picking on anyone present, I've tracked down some examples...

IMV, yes. Two manifestations that come to mind are the understanding of spirituality as essentially political and also pessimism. For politicized spir...

I do think "selfishness" is an abused word. If we use it in the ordinary pejorative sense, then clearly it's a vice. It's the name of a vice. But ther...

Isn't this an interpretation of Nature though? I agree that we are thrown into hazard and a certain amount of suffering. But "mistake" only makes sens...

Why frame it as an escape? The "transcendence of Being" is also just a mode of being, a way of being. Don't you "write off" the most positive possibil...

From my perspective, it generally feels good to love, though I see that there is vulnerability in this. We suffer when they do, to some degree. I supp...

For what it's worth, I'd call it the higher selfishness, the good selfishness. Isn't 'selfishness' usually employed to call out a sort of 'cheating' i...

Maybe it's virtuous to remain open about virtue. I think wrestling with this question is arguably philosophy itself. Perhaps we always already act on ...

As I see it, it's somewhat "aggressive" to say that "this isn't virtue." How does one not thereby project a non-obvious duty? This ordinary restraint ...

I agree that some truth is best described a 'person-independent.' The public world of physical objects is exactly the sort of thing that comes to mind...

I very much agree. I think "straightening out" has sufficient generality to include just about everyone. A person straightens himself or herself out a...

That's a reasonable answer, but I'll test that answer in a friendly spirit. What evidence did you weigh to determine that rationality is the "weighing...

From the book The Concept of Time. (Note how they don't capitalize 'being.' I think this is the right move. I shied away from Heidegger to some degree...

That sounds about right. But I'd leave open the possibility that he was trying to say something that wasn't easy to say. It's also possible that he di...

Having given poor Korzybski hell, I must say that I nevertheless learned something from "fringe" thinkers. Their books aren't empty. They just don't c...

Nice.

Of course we do modify our views. But we mostly act non-theoretically with the "trust" of know-how. I would also contend that we are always already in...

Here's some "melancholy" Nietzsche: He's esoteric and elitist. But what a poet! https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4363/4363-h/4363-h.htm

I agree, though maybe a dialectic is involved. I think the news makes some people "sick." It's an endless story about disaster, crime, suffering. Part...

Years ago (early 20s) I picked up Science and Sanity and Manhood of Humanity from the public library. All I could remember was liking the "time bindin...

As opposed to the eyes of others? That's a good can of worms. But let's say we don't trust our own eyes. Is this not a trust of our own distrust?

This is some good rock'n'roll along the same lines. The lyrics sure as hell aren't B&T, but the "feel" of authenticity and resoluteness is there. "The...

Yes, I agree with all of this. But I think we should be reasonably upfront about the intensity of selfhood in ordinary experience. Speculatively the s...

Thanks very much! I'm flattered & glad to be here.

I must confess that I haven't figured out what is meant by 'wholeness' in this context. Unless it means that seeing or revealing Dasein as a whole is ...

This is truth as an alien object. This truth is an asteroid in the dark of pre-human time. What can "faith" mean if religion is an obsession with this...

I don't want to and I don't need to. As I see it this waiting itself is the wrong move. This immersion and commitment to the We is a disavowed lust fo...

I don't think so. I know lots of mostly happy, mostly fulfilled people. I also know (but don't see much) others who are crashing and burning. Some mak...