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I've posted quite a bit, but this is fascinating... http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/hermeneutical-heidegger/ Was Heidegger a belated left Hegelian? Last point...

I agree. Though I understand the practical and emotional reasons for seeking this mechanism. What is conceptual thinking is inherently 'mechanistic' ?...

Oh. Ok. But I agree with andrew that it's hard to imagine such a demonstration being the actual cause of belief. Not long ago I read After Finitude. I...

What comes to my mind is our ability to get absorbed in a task. We become the task. We forget that we are 'subjects.' This is admittedly complicated. ...

Ah, I think you misunderstand me. I don't mean atomism. I mean the tendency to understand the truly existent as that which is fully present as a clear...

It occurred to me to add the pointification or atomization of the object in a hypostatization of or within ontology. We tend to call real what stands ...

Is it, though? What 'nice' attributes of God are included in the package? Do we get a pleasant afterlife and cosmic justice? Do we get a loving Father...

Yes, I thought so. But I'm between your position and Janus's. I think Janus was just trying to point at the that-it-exists of experience. It's all too...

I like the Nagel quote quite a bit. I agree that there is a flattening, a pretty ghastly flattening. There is in my view a spiritual element here. Why...

I think that's the heart of this issue. Isn't what you really have in mind the idea of the non-physical? the idea of the idea? Does the OP ask (essent...

Yes indeed, Kant is involved here. Of course I am playfully serious. It's what we leave unquestioned and take for granted that leaves us trapped. That...

Thanks!

Absolutely. Science (for all its glory) is parasitic upon a basic ability to be in the ordinary world among others as a 'who.' Much of what we 'know' ...

I'd suggest (and I think you'll agree) that the usual conception of 'raw feels' is already too theoretical. That's because 'raw' experience is already...

I'm with you on this project. In my view, the subject-object paradigm does become destabilized as we look closely at what is going on. For the most pa...

I speculate that 'pastness' is not really about an endless succession of nows but just a fancy way of talking about the possibility death. If death is...

A theme that's starting to come into focus for me in the early Heidegger: The How tends to be concealed by the What. The medium, in other words, tends...

Yes, I agree. But I don't have in mind a minimum of physicist time. I mean a minimum of 'primordial' time (which makes physicist time possible.) Since...

What is left unmentioned is that this is just a philosopher's god. It might as well be a bishop and knight checkmate or a game of Sudoko.

For me, it's the paradigm of the 'right view' itself that deserves looking in to. Is there one right view? Does any view stay fixed? Should it stay fi...

It occurs to me that philosophers tend to the sense of themselves as possessing at least an approximation of the truth-for-all. They'll settle for hav...

Do you not see how meagre such a reply is? I sketched for you a theory of time (Heidegger's, roughly) and you balk at 'paradoxical' even though I was ...

Respectfully, I think this is a narrow conception of the atheist. Admittedly there is an assembly line scientistic atheist, and these may even be in t...

I generally agree with your (paradoxical) formulation of time as the 'change in now,' but I'd like to put a different spin on it. In my view we have t...

May I jump in here? It does seem that language reveals or shapes entities. On the other hand, the very notion of language apart from the language user...

I do understand your point, but do you not also see the humility implicit in this localization of truth? One might argue that the most intense ethnoce...

What's fascinating here is D's motive. In his quest for certainty, he interpreted his being as thinking. But what then of the motive itself? He felt t...

In my opinion, this supports my interpretation given above. This is the foreward of a 1923 course (Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity). Note that...

Here's a little more. First we need 'guilt.' So what do we have here? Somehow making the possibility of death vivid as possibility is also a choosing ...

May I cheat and quote from The History of the Concept of Time? I realize that this is a slightly earlier work, but I find that the lectures are (as mi...