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I feel the same about you. I realized you were using it colloquially, but I have great respect for the depths of these ordinary words. They are the tr...

I think we are mostly on the same page, that it's a matter of language. I recognize that you are also a "cool" guy, and I really like this word "cool....

I can relate to what you're saying. There's a sense of humor or humility that's to be embraced. There is so much genius and beauty and achievement out...

Perhaps you could quote some highlights. I'm not a subscriber, and I'd prefer to respond to a particular point.

I found it interesting, somewhat convincing, but not conclusive or exhaustive. That one dies one's own death seems at least as central. The "they" can...

I'm questioning the strength of the distinction between the aesthetic and the rational, emphasizing that thinking is purpose driven. Roughly speaking,...

I have to disagree. We can turn the crank of the machine of formal logic. We can work within the norms of normalized discourse and make slow, steady p...

Indeed. In some moments we enjoy ourselves as important and worthy. In other moments we may suspect otherwise. But then creatively adjust our perspect...

I'm glad your with us.

But surely we are creatures of desire and hope, attaining goals and then always setting new goals? I do understand that a certain spiritual serenity o...

That's a fair question. I think that "world" or logical space is a dimly perceived background or frame. Someone could argue, perhaps, that the corresp...

Found some stuff in Kojeve that may help illuminate this issue. The last part is what I especially had in mind. https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-xPoejl...

I wish you had omitted me from the general censure. I acknowledge the darkness, while denying that it is the "truth" about life. It's one face or mode...

Thanks. I definitely read Dasein as a more holistic notion of human being. But still man. I don't mind, though. I really don't see how anthropocentris...

I'm not sure that anyone denies the basic structure of hope, desire, or purpose. I'm trying to figure out why you find the hope-cycle so disagreeable....

My pleasure. I didn't understand that last post. Care to clarify?

Kojeve, blending Hegel and Heidegger, had it : Man is the Concept is Time.

That's from the lecture (not the book) The Concept of Time. Someone (can't remember who) called it the Ur-B&T, just as the ~100 page book of the same ...

I was referring to "what are you on about?" I suppose that was your second post in the thread. Here's Dreyfus' quote of Carman, since I'm such a nice ...

Not sure how you intended your entry into the conversation in terms of tone, but I'll assume and hope it was friendly. That said, I googled and found ...

What are you on about?

But presumably you see, yes? I can't wait for the "we," or depend on the "we." What I largely mean by transcendence is getting beyond a political noti...

Oh how much we differ here. To me it's almost the very point of "religion" to provide transcendence, and I put that word in quotes because transcenden...

It was Innwood or Carmen or both that I got this idea from: Death is the closing down of possibilities as other possibilities are chosen. Death is als...

But do you not speak here as if "logic" had a fixed meaning? What you or anyone offers metaphysically is not formal logic, a mechanically checkable ta...

I understand that. But how is this vagueness itself not your brute fact? I like it. I didn't start with it, but thinking about explanation led me to m...

Very much agree. Kojeve's Hegel uses "satisfaction" as the criterion for wisdom. The wise-man can give a satisfying account of himself. The dialectic ...

Yes, I agree with this.

Will-to-power, right? Yes, but "power" is ambiguous. Will-to-glory, will-to-beauty, will-to-the-sublime,.....will-to-virtue. For me this image of virt...

Interesting. I view my "transcendence" in the same way. I try not to be seduced into evangelizing a fixed-idea or incarnating an alien Cause. My image...

Just to be clear, I don't think there is an answer to this "why." I think it's a pseudo-question, however lyrical. My argument is centered around my n...

To be clear, pain is not good. But this not-good of pain is potentially (in some lives) balanced out by the indeed-good of pleasure. I suppose I am tr...

But why this logic of symmetries? Why is existence such that it would be absurd if the actual world didn't conform to symmetry based principles?

I don't think the light burns. Or it doesn't burn everyone. Some will be offended by a vision of futility and repetition. I'll grant you that. But oth...

Eternal recurrence is a good mention. At this point, I'd say yes. That would mean going through hell again, but it would also mean going through inten...

If I may put this in more vulgar terms, we are fucking to fuck, as well. We are eating to eat. We are sleeping to sleep. Entertaining, by the way, is ...

That rhetoric doesn't deflate me. I know that game backwards and forwards. I've played it. I've been the "dark truth" guy for decades. I note that you...

I agree completely. I don't even see it as a tangent. We are always already our pasts. We come to language with an inherited "interpretation of Dasein...

I just mean that the world as we value and know it as humans is only here while we are. If an asteroid wipes us out, the substratum will still be here...

It's your business, but maybe your lifestyle isn't what it should be. My physical/economic lifestyle changed while my "metaphysics" stayed the same an...

Yes, I agree with the basic structure. But "seeing it for what it is" is also part of the structure. This vision of instrumentality is itself instrume...

Well said. Reminds me of a great scene in Dead Poet's Society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS1esgRV4Rc

But "trapped" implies an unpleasant situation. I don't think your description is incorrect. I just think you are adding a value judgment to an otherwi...

Yes, that makes sense to me. I think we do well to question the question and the questioner. I think in terms of motive. Why do we want to know? What ...

Yes. Yes, indeed. As you may recall, I suggested before that it's really all about the positioning of the sacred (of "God"). My thesis is that everyon...

It is despair is the opium of the pessimist. Isn't this just as fair? There's lots of truth up there, but I'd have to stress that the instrumental the...

I read the review. It was pretty great. His position is roughly my own. He notes that either explanation is not really an explanation. It points back ...

Really? Lots of atheistic materialist are quite moral. I think of Karl Marx and Ludwig Feuerbach. I can see them, however, from Stirner's perspective....

I agree. I think views are generally dogmatic and self-sealing. I don't relate to materialism myself. To me it's too theoretical, too abstract. It's n...

I can relate. I think that's what we all do. We have certain "investments," and we argue with ourselves about "live" options, options that we can tole...