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Well said. As you probably know, Kojeve's Hegel was more influential in a certain context than Hegel's Hegel might have been. Often the great names ar...

Heidegger is one of those valuable philosophers who destabilize our complacent sense that we know what we are talking about when we babble on about be...

Personally, I'm OK with that. I think it's too restrictive (possibly completely paralyzing, so that we couldn't honestly use the word) to require perf...

It's been argued that existence is not a predicate. I'm not so sure what to make of the meaning of being myself (or of the meaning of meaning.) I thin...

But the life of Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures it and main...

For better or worse, I take Darwinian evolution seriously. I don't see us as blank slates. For me there's an animal foundation. A person might suggest...

True. But what I was getting at (and it's not so easy) is what is meant by saying that something is ? I mean what is that person trying to say ?

It's blurry, but I read him to mean especially our own experience as mortals of the looming possibility of this nothingness. Each of us has our own de...

What does it mean to say that something exists ? that something is ?

I agree that it's important to go to the original texts. The main thing I'd add to what you've written is that philosophy is (it seems to me) most ess...

I agree, but why ? What drives us this way ? Is it connected to the causi sui project ? the "thus-I-willed-it" project ? the nobody's fool project ? t...

I think you are misunderstanding me ? I love Derrida. OK. Here is where maybe we clash. Your quote above seems to speak about something fundamental, t...

Thank you! Also, @"Joshs", you might like this. Here's a very Heideggerian moment in Hegel's famous preface, which I postulate was influential. What i...

Thank you for the clarification. I still think you ought to just come out with concrete objections. Respectfully, it's hard to see how you are not jus...

I just want to point out that you are criticizing my theory that theory is directed toward greater and greater coherence in terms of its supposed inco...

Perhaps, but maybe philosophy is the generalization or update of theology. Atheism makes a god of humanity. I guess I'm a structuralist of some variet...

I'm suspicious of your deep suspicion, at least in its abstract form. We figure out how well we understand philosophers in the first place by discussi...

This is where Heidegger's thinking of death becomes applicable to itself. Folks do of course have all kinds of biases and preferences. We all enter th...

Big picture, we can understand the sequence of philosophers as spirit/'software' becoming more and more aware of itself, making its nature more explic...

This might be one way to interpret 'existence is time.'

:up: Perhaps philosophy is essentially a leap out of the circle in order to gaze on it from above -- to see it as the gods see it. Like the generation...

Oh, but I include 'opinionated and stubborn' under 'wicked.' (My point is that sometimes we just like to play with thoughts, while at other times it's...

You might want to google 'existence is not a predicate' for the argument toward that conclusion. I do not mean to imply that the story stops there or ...

I'm not sure we should trust Heidegger when it comes to Kierkegaard. I'm reading K's journals at the moment and the strong influence is clear. As I me...

Thanks ! I haven't got around to reading Dilthey himself. This sounds correct. As far as I can tell, this is also a description of zeitgeist or 'the s...

Right. Amplifying: I say that Sally knows P if (1) Sally believes P (2) Sally can justify her belief in P (according to current norms) (3) I also beli...

Good points ! We are like wicked children, who question what they are told, because it feels good. But we are also anguished adults, truly troubled ab...

:up: This makes sense, because it costs to doubt. Smooth operation is paused. I have to stop and make sure, 'waste time' questioning this or that, whe...

Is knowledge playing the role of an abstract hero here ? I think (?) you are looking into what kind of claims should be respected and trusted. As you ...

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Thanks for the detailed reply. Having the quotes on idle talk around is useful. Now I respond (all can be prefaced with the tedious 'in my view.') Quo...

I'd say it's both sediment and transformative disclosure. See page 270, for instance, of the lecture version of The Concept of Time, which can be summ...

What I'm gesturing toward is our culture (centered here on language, but applicable to physical technology also) as a Neurathian vessel which can only...

Is it not also plausible that philosophy seeks rhetorical leverage ? In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define...

If we are thrown into a language with a history and a baked-in interpretation of life that can only be questioned within that unchosen language, then ...

Perhaps Heidegger was influenced by Kierkegaard in this. In his journal (I paraphrase), he criticizes the fantasy of presuppositionless philosophy by ...

I think that's what someone might mean by it. But I don't think dualism stands up very well to criticism. My own concern is along these lines: The har...

The 'Dilthey review' version of The Concept of Time is exceptionally readable 100 pages. It's excellent on how existence is primordially enworlded, bo...

As I understood Bach, consciousness is nonmaterial...a 'dream' created by the brain (or somehow thrown up by a non-dream deeper-than-dream stuff-in-co...

I agree with your point on education.

I tend to find death-facing machismo a significant ingredient in the early Heidegger. 'Comforting' philosophy, including a safe/technical/theoretical ...

Right. I think Becker's book is brilliant on the whole, but it lacks a sense of humor. I do think that humans tend to seek contact with some form of i...

I think most of us don't feel this terror very often. I do find it plausible though that 'growing up' is, among other things, a taming of this terror....

You are welcome. I don't know if Bach discusses emergence explicitly. On a philosophical level, he seems to be doing something similar to Kant or Hege...

Have you by chance looked into Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death ? Its core is an 'existentialized' psychoanalysis (Rank and Kierkegaard most explic...

:up: It seems to me that both systems are stupid the more one zooms in. Do you know Dennett's termite mound as a memetic host metaphor ? Anyway, there...

:up: Good point ! I say that in the context of not seeing why it's impossible in principle for engineers to eventually achieve a more human-style inte...

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I don't see how to avoid some kind of emergence in a plausible story. Have you seen Stuart Kauffman ? Does complexity tend to beget complexity ? Is em...

Hello, friend ! I've watched those interviews with pleasure. In my opinion, you understand the gist. Bach is great, but I do not think he has quite sl...