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it seems to me that the ideas of the French postmodern philosophers have had a massive impact over the past 50 years on political thought, political c...

The point Heidegger is trying to make here is that in the classic understanding of perception, we experience raw stimuli, the data of sensation, and t...

There are many readings of Heidegger and I respect that yours is different than mine. I will not claim that one is correct and the other incorrect, on...

We need to dissect this a little. A person is performing an activity alone. Where does discourse, in your view, come into play here? Do other people h...

I agree with this. The languaged basis of non-verbal experience is a well-developed idea not only in post-structuralist philosophy but also within cog...

i disagree with this. Equi-primordiality means that all of them are equally primary, and all of them are implied in all experience. Experience is redu...

As I understand Heidegger, Dasein is always a doing, but doing for Heidegger means a meaningful involvement with others in the world.which is at the s...

I wonder. My sense is that , as equi-primoridial with temporality, understanding, Care and attunement, discourse is indeed a primordial pre-condition ...

When we are involved in any activity, such as what is described above in McCartney's lyric, we are involved in significations. These activities only e...

I would make the following modifications: Understanding is equi-primordial with being-in -the -world and thus with intelligibility. Interpetation of u...

Sounds psychoanalytic to me.

I find that true of all the major continental philosophers, which is why there are so many competing camps of interpretation for all of them. It's hel...

K Kaufmann is a good translator, but I prefer the poststructuralist readings of Nietzsche(Heidegger, Deleuze, Derrida) .I think they understood the ra...

I tend to side with post-structuralists and Heideggerian readings of Nietzsche. Deleuze, for instance, treats the overman as something very different ...

N Yes, as for Freud, the instinctual drives are unconscious. But the Will tp Power must imply forms of cognition, as Heidegger shows: "Nietzsche says ...

We may be saying the same thing. There are a priori metaphysical systems , which is a suprasensory value system. And there are post-metaphysical value...

I think the opposite is true. Trump is about as far removed as anyone i can imagine from realizing Will to Power.People say Trump is capricious and un...

Heidegger explains that for Nietzsche the replacement of old Christian values with new secular ones ones is an 'incomplete nihiism'. "The now-empty au...

First generation cognitive science used the metaphor of the computer to model mental processes, But since then there has been a movement away from com...

What's missing here is that that for Nietzsche the transvaluation of all values only begins as a rejection of the conventions that one received from o...

There is a word like “disineventcover” that indicates the mutual dependence of invention and discovery. It's called 'enaction'. To enact a world as a ...

Notice that when we point to the invariances of a language like Boolean logic, we are directing ourselves to an inscribed symbolism, something 'physic...

Sounds like the assertion that claiming there is no objective truth is itself making a truth claim. As I wrote in earlier posts, according to phenomen...

Beats the hell out of me. Seriously though, the primordial ground for Husselian phenomenology is time, More specifically time consciousness as the tri...

Levinas says we enjoy (or suffer) things for their own sake, not because they are means to an end. In this sense, they clearly matter to us. But as en...

Indeed, their usefulness cannot be ignored. Even Heidegger has a healthy dose of respect for the power of logic. All he's saying, really, is that he t...

It depends on how you read M&V. You could interpret it as saying that Heidegger is not a utilitarian means-ends kind of guy, but Levinas is forced to ...

These are approaoches to philosophy I can think of off the top of my head that have freed themselves from enslavement to logic:hermeneutics, phenomeno...

Its interesting that so far in this discussion of the relative worth of philosophers no complaint has been made of a similar difficulty in deciding th...

You overestimate the extent to which Husserl has been effectively understood . Zahavi, one of the foremost Husserl scholars, has found the 'colloquial...

You were trying to get TheGreatArcanum to elaborate on his angels and devils theme. My fear was that might lead in certain, shall we say, psychopathol...

These are good observations. One could add that in the mode of average everydayness of 'Das Man' (which is what I assume you're talking about), social...

Here's a more straighttforward critique of Levinas's reading of Heidegger from your favorite writer: According to Levinas. "the thought of the Being o...

What about schools of philosophy that no longer consider themselves metaphysical in the sense of going beyond the natural? From the article " One atte...

But first science (not all science, just those practitioners who make claims for the emancipation of science from philosophy) would need to know that ...

I just meant that Kant's transcendental categories of perception and understanding (space and time,quantity, quality, relation, and modality) are apri...

Heidegger defines truth as simply the unconcealing of beings (letting beings be), not whether that unconcealing is accurate with respect to some stand...

But can generalization ever really destroy context?(I think of Derrida's famous adage 'there is nothing outside context'). Even if a concept is experi...

Indeed, but according to Husserl , it does give us apodictic certainty and an absolute grounding.

To bad Guattari isn't around. I think he'd get off on the gig.

That was hilarious

oh dear

Wouldn't that higher dimension still be operative for a Kantian and neo-Kantian empiricism? The 'reign of quantity' needs its proper form to organize ...

it sounds like you're saying there is a real realm of physical nature and a real realm of human subjective experience, or what we colloquially call 'p...

So what is your definition of science that differentiates it from phenomenology? Here's my definition. Science is a name with changing meanings over t...

i I apologize for being lazy, but I've linked to an article I wrote in which I explain why I care about all this arcane stuff, and what relevance I th...

What do practical engagement . usefulness and achievement require? It used to be believed by most philosophers and scientists that the universe was a ...

In my view, there are lots of things Heidegger didn't make clear about the limits of science with regard to his notion of the present to hand. For one...

Let me flesh out what I mean by 'object in itself'. Forgive for quoting myself from an earlier comment on this thread. I wrote " I read Heidegger as s...

Gruelling and non-flowing, yes. But this paragraph is also an excellent example of contextually relevant ready-to-hand thinking. The ready to hand is ...