What does faith have to do with it? Are you saying that most atheists accept that love without reciprocity, works and deeds is a true love whereas mos...
You'd be surprised at how varied the philosophical understanding of concepts like change, time and difference has been . Take the idea of motion. "Ari...
I wrote a short article where I define center in Derridean (and Heideggerian) terms as the thinking of a structure, state, form, pattern as a simultan...
You can love someone who has the capacity or potential to love. You can love someone who despises you , because you know he doesn't understand you. Yo...
Is religious the same as metaphysical? If Heidegger claimed to overcome metaphysics, could there be a post-metaphysical meaning of religion? Perhaps o...
You're basing your understanding of change on motion. But where do we get our idea of motion from? There is a long history in the West, starting with ...
Good question. I like to think that his notion of Being as temporality is a kind of logic.More specifically, he would contrast the present to hand pro...
Being is change, yes, but change understood via a certain structurality. Being is change that anticipates. And it anticipates via the directing impetu...
Yes, the famous Heidegerrian phrase ' the essence of technology is nothing technological" is an attempt to distinguish our primordial relationality wi...
How bout "all statements that I have ever encountered that make a claim for objective truth change their sense from one instantiation to the next, inc...
I may be nitpicking, but Derrida never said that deconstruction was indeterminate. "I do not believe I have ever spoken of "indeterminacy," whether in...
On the other hand, Derrida hated interviews, always insisting that his thought could not possibly be properly understood in a few sentences, and that ...
It may be that it is thinking Being explicity that is not a given for the later Heidegger. He recounts the various ways that Being has been inadequate...
Nothing, yes, or absencing. I prefer the 'in-between', since it is not as if there are things first , with the nothingness of Dasein added on it them ...
No, I think what you're arguing is rather close to my view. I would only add that when looking at the two temporal ends of the actual act, I follow He...
Hmm. What would tell us this? I suppose only the actual phrase in the actual context given. But there's a difference between how we actually make our ...
From Husserl's vantage, this is precisely what Heidegger did, and this is why Heidegger was so disappointing to him. Huseerl's great achievement from ...
StreetlightX just used the rubric of changed foreground against a stable background world , an approach consonant with Merleau-Ponty, to illustrate th...
Uh oh. Now the burden is on me not to disappoint.. That may not be easy. It may be a good idea for me to avoid Derrida's terminology as much as possib...
You are a thoughful and well-read philosopher. I'm absolutely certain that some sort of temporal 'glue' has a place in your analysis of language and n...
Husserl carried forward Kant's transcendental thinking but abandoned his categories for the intentional activity of a transcendental ego. Heidegger re...
The hell with Heideger. I' m making the argument that you're going to misinterpret any attempt to claim that your distinction between a normative regi...
Would you make the same argument about Heidegger? What is the actual for Heidegger? What would he do with your 'Houses are turning into flowers' examp...
If you think Heidegger was a hack ,then I wouldn't bother to read any more Derrida. Or Rorty. Or Dreyfus. Or Gendlin. Or Gallagher. Or Merleau-Ponty. ...
I dislike his writing style, but believe that he, along with Heidegger, offers the most radical rethinking of Western philosophy today. I know I'm in ...
I don't think it's that unreasonable to speculate that a level of brain activity below that of an NDE would still be a conscious sort of awareness. Ha...
Do you read Derrida as offering a “generalized logic of singular perturbation“ and ‘conceptual distinction? Is that how you’re understanding deconstru...
NDE survivors didn't die, did they? So their brain activity never deteriorated below a certain threshold. Dead people's brains activity, by definition...
I write and mean something right now, right this moment. Except that now that I refer back to it , it has changed. No center. Yet there is a way of be...
. Let's talk about these epigones. I find the vast majority of readings of Derrida and Heidegger to be utterly conventional, or worse, semi-coherent i...
You sound lie a reformed alcoholic,You're bored by Derrida. I'm bored by the now standard and ubiquitous celebrating of the normative underpinnings of...
What I should have said was that difference in kind and difference in degree are complicit and inseparable both within supposed normative structures a...
Do you mean a felt, intuitive difference between inhabiting and making one's way through a normative sphere vs making the transition from one normativ...
Heidegger, Nietzsche and various post structuralist thinkers point to the approach to nothingness within the history of Western metaphysics as being d...
What does winding down mean? Look at it this way. When someone is in what Ehlmann calls a blissful end of life experience, you can be sure that state ...
I read your article after I posted my last comment and saw that you discussed.negative near death experiences and brain deterioration. So let's talk a...
Was thinking about this. What was your original point? "Facts are given against a background of meaning and significance by which they count as facts ...
For a former prof, you give up way too easy. I'd like to think our dialog has just gotten started. IF we were to agree for the sake of argument that '...
The meaning of time as finite is that it is internally structured as retention, presencing and protention. There is no 'now' without these three featu...
Because the very reason you're posing the question about consciousness comes from an illusion born of the fact that we forget that a few hundred years...
I'm not sure what self-awareness is. If it is self-identicality, tthe ability to turn back towards the 'self' that I was a second ago without my expos...
Yes, and by the same token, just as Heidegger's broken hammer makes visible but does not violate the overaching pragmatic sense of the situation it in...
It seems to me that Heidegger and Derrida would argue that metaphoricity and world-embeddedness are inseparably implied in all meanings, In your examp...
We call such states 'timeless' or instantaneous or simultaneous, but that's just an abstract theoretical contrivance that we use for logical convenien...
Yes, I think Heidegger's distinguishing between an authentic and an inauthentic mode of Dasein made it necessary for him to identify an inauthentic mo...
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