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You seem to be going in the same circle. If existence is a real predicate that applies to all actual objects, then it is by definition a universal pre...

Excellent. Heidegger is definitely a bit murky on the issue. And limiting oneself to just Being and Time is no help. But his failure to be more precis...

he is obviously talking about existence as a universal property of all objects. Because one property may have to be a property of all objects does not...

are you sure you are talking to me? I made no request for "plain language." As for Heidegger and neologisms, are you really going to claim that words ...

When I turn the oven to 425 degrees in order to bake a potato, I have just expressed my understanding of the appropriate temperature at which to bake ...

I disagree. And I am particularly puzzled about Wittgenstein's and your notion of futility regarding "some" or "many" "so called" discussions. Doesn't...

1. There is being-in-the-world. 2. There is the intelligibility of being-in-the-world. 3. There is an understanding rooted in the intelligibility of b...

I agree that language plays a pivotal role in reflection and I suspect Heidegger would also agree. However, he would maintain that the role of reflect...

!! I do not disagree with that. Partly because I have not read enough of Nietzsche or those who have. But again, my primary appreciation of Kaufmann i...

I agree. and the notion that Shakespeare's plays are "contrived" (I believe that was the word) is in and of itself relative. They may well be contrive...

oh well

as true as the starting point may be, many seem to argue that there is nothing wrong with opinion being the basis of what constitutes art, but only ob...

that toward which we are drawn. thoughts are useful to rendering explicit that to which we are drawn. they are not the cause.

existence is not a real predicate (Kant)

interesting. I agree.

high school science should be sufficient. I majored in philosophy and geology was the only college level science course I had. You will be fine.

then it would not be rule by the people, it would be rule by some of the people. which pretty much describes every form of government other than democ...

which only reinforces my primary message. it is difficult to understand Nietzsche directly.

except Kaufmann does far more than translate. He provides historical perspective.

the argument over free will is nothing more than philosophy as industry. if there is free will and you live as if there is not, that is tragic. If the...

Nietzsche will always be difficult to understand first hand. I found it extremely useful to read Walter Kaufman's seminal assessment of Nietzsche.

only a being in a world could question whether there was world.

Objectivity is an adopted disposition useful for purposes of assessment. It is not our natural state of being. You cannot be more on the inside than w...

1.13 The facts in logical space are the world. What is logical space? and if the facts in logical are the world, then there can be no other space with...

is the difference between "states of affairs" and "atomic facts" reconcilable? It is my understanding that they are not synonymous? It is also my unde...

ok

I like that. And I agree.

That is an extremely long sentence that I like even though I do not care for long sentences because they contain multiple ideas and I am not so good a...

ok. I think. :smile:

I like puppies more and people less each and every day.

shouldn't the question be whether the universe was created? why do you presume it was created? Perhaps it has always been or is a eternal recurring pr...

is there an agreed upon text?

And now I am saddened.

so my biggest fears have in fact been realized. Is there a separate thread? What am I expected to have already read? Is there a reading schedule? What...

No. I am not unhappy. Certain posts lead me to mistakenly believe the collective reading has begun and someone forgot to tell me or I did not notice. ...

It would be good if all of the comments on this thread were made within the context of a reading group that is off the ground. Just saying.

In talking with Frank yesterday regarding the concept of "dread", he referred a couple of times to Heidegger's essay What is Metaphysics?. Not have re...

good book.

Each of us is an understanding of being. We are driven towards and drawn to (1) that which is consistent with our understanding of being, (2) that whi...

the entire post rests upon a distinction between preference and reason and I suspect that if there is any such distinction, it is chimerical at best. ...

you seem to be expressing a preference for the reasoned position? and why would preferences not be a reasoned position? don't most people have reasons...

I agree. The invitation to psychologize is built in.

Strikes me as consistent with the nature of reality in general and with the concept of dread in particular.

You could be right. But two technical points and both reflect failures on my part. First, only Dasein is "in" the world. All entities not having the c...

Left that sinking ship thirty years ago. Waved goodbye to Chalmers as I went.

he can describe anyone he wishes. But the notion of self identification can only go so far. It walks like a Cartesian and quacks like a Cartesian. . .

You can't shed the Cartesian baggage by changing the name of the school.

And he lacks clarity from sentence one. "The basic task of ontology is 'What exists?'" That is the basic task of metaphysics. The basic task of ontolo...

Searle. And the rest of us. We are all Cartesian. There are some philosophical paradigms that permeate culture from top to bottom. Cartesianism is the...

Have you read Heidegger's Metaphysical Foundations of Logic? I actually had a hard time tracking down a copy of that one. Barnes and Noble had it list...