Well, I'm probably not the best person to ask this question, because I'm certainly no Nietzsche expert, and your characterization of him is simply not...
The title refers to a Walter Kauffman lecture on Nietzsche, and I believe that Kauffman is referring to his own views and time period when he uses the...
:up: I don't think that's a superficial reason at all! Actually, I think you raise at least one interesting question not addressed in this thread, whi...
Wouldn't that be in reference to Heidegger's technical use of ontic/ontology? Or is the chart original to Dreyfus's work on skillful coping? If you ar...
This post got me pretty curious. Why Twilight of the Idols over other works from that period? I'd love to hear the rationale, because I think it tends...
I don't mean to be a pain, but I guess my problem is that I just don't understand what kind of work a philosophical concept -- namely, "ontology" -- i...
I read this post through four or five times, hoping to give you a good response, but I am having a lot of trouble understanding what a "preontological...
Schopenhauer is definitely a great reference. Dreyfus stole an analogy from World as Will Vol. 1 which he seems to use quite a lot, about perception b...
Do you think you could expand on this? Hard to answer, because I don't think that there is any such thing as Dasein outside of Heidegger's philosophy....
This jumps out at me, and I definitely think that I disagree with this, although I am not exactly sure what you mean. We as human beings can encounter...
Sort of. I think that you could benefit from more time with Kierkegaard in order to clarify your thoughts and especially clean up your reading of him,...
One fails to recognize the full gamut of motives, intentions, needs, desires, etc. that feed the practice of philosophy. How about we start with: phil...
I'm with Nietzsche on this, in that I doubt philosophical motives are ever that straight-forward and noble. Sure, I understand. But this is also a typ...
Well then, let me be as trivial as possible. If you’re good enough at philosophy then you can likely convince a university to pay for your clothes, yo...
So, on your view, how is it explicable? His knowledge can be made conceptually explicit? So, for example, do you think Michael Jordan can bring all of...
Given the fellow-traveler nature of this thread please allow me to nit-pick a little. I think Heidegger's big idea is that the order of intelligibilit...
I know that Dawkins has become a bit of a parody of himself, but don't let that dissuade you from reading early Dawkins if you have not already. The S...
I will start that thread if no one actually competent volunteers! Best would probably be to have a formal debate between people who can do a good job ...
I've always been pretty bad with philosophy shorthand, so this just leads me to further questions, such as: Why does this imply conflicting ontologies...
Sorry, I don't think I wrote very well. I'm going to take another (short) crack at it, and if I'm still being ambiguous, I'll go back and take a thoro...
I think what's key here, from Dreyfus' vantage point, is how you mean to interpret the transition from "pre-reflective" to "explicit". If you mean to ...
That's quite the assertion to start your line of thought with -- If we grant you that, haven't we already given you all the rest? That is, thrown away...
I'd say that Frege, Heidegger, and Carl Schmitt covers just about all the bases. It's downright scary that it took you less than twenty words to descr...
Edit: This was meant as a sarcastic quip in line with the nature of the thread (flaunting all of my pet peeves in the form of my pet peeves...), but I...
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