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I don't think "Lets Pretend" is the same as "it could be."

Being half right also seems better than being half wrong. So there is that.

yes.

I find it useful from time to time to remind myself that Dasein is the term Heidegger attaches to that being whose mode of being is existence. It save...

I have read it dozens of times. I have been reading ten pages a day of Being and Time every day for almost twenty years. I find Mulholland's study gui...

But that is of little help. If I am confident I can reveal to you the meaning of baseball if I can explain to you hitting, pitching, fielding, and bas...

I agree. As I clearly stated earlier, "average everydayness" is the context Heidegger uses to explicate the basic structure of Dasein, i.e., the struc...

I agree. As I clearly stated earlier, "average everydayness" is the context Heidegger uses to explicate the basic structure of Dasein, i.e., the struc...

and therefore? When it comes to Das Man, Heidegger is getting at the forces that create the ego in its average everydayness. And those forces work pow...

As true as that may be, it is true for all Daseins regardless of their state of "authenticity." "Even in the mode of inauthenticity" is not the same a...

That is incorrect.

We can know how we are and we can recognize a description of how we are. Heidegger also maintains that we are the being who questions being and we hav...

Isn't the answer always going to be tied to the example used? If the left side of the room negated the opposite side of the room, then there would be ...

Objectivity is a theoretically adoptable disposition that leads many to mistakenly believe that pretending to be on the outside looking in somehow cle...

I agree. We have a habit of attaching labels to what we can not explain and then proceeding as if the label explains all. The subconscious of course, ...

Heidegger was not a good person.

Heidegger does not equate average everydayness with inauthentic existence. Average everydayness is the context that allows Heidegger to explicate the ...

I have not come across Heidegger ever saying that humans are the only beings with Dasein. And if it turned out that other beings had a Dasein, it woul...

You can count on it. I only hope you will do the same.

No. He does not have a general theory about caring. The German care does not have the same emotional and moral connotations as the English care. Again...

I disagree.

I don't think that is an accurate interpretation of Heidegger. His concept of care has little to do with morality (perhaps like Heidegger himself?). I...

I like Nietzsche. But he too is no slouch when it comes to offering up obscurity. Much of his reputation is built upon the notion that he must be prof...

I have no answer to that question. I am generally confused by Division II of Being and Time.

I am not a big fan of Heidegger's writings per se. But I am a huge fan of Being and Time. And I also find interesting The Origin of the Work of Art. A...

Heidegger was a despicable man in many ways and his political views and behavior are surely at the top of the list. That having been said, any serious...

I agree. However and so as not to be misquoted or taken out of context, the words you selected to put in quotation marks do not represent my views. In...

interesting. In some respects, Heidegger made a living by maintaining that all of Western Philosophy went off the rails by misinterpreting the early G...

I suggest Socrates would consider wisdom to be rooted in being aware of the limits of your knowledge rather than its extent.

I agree.

Dasein is the label Heidegger appropriates and attaches to that being whose mode of being is existence.

The Tao of Pooh.

I interpret Cartesian dualism as rooted in extended substance and thinking substance. And as always and given the absolute self sufficiency of the dis...

I agree. You and I could not even talk about truth (let alone define it) without having at least a vague and average understanding of truth.

depends upon who is doing the seeing. I suspect there are many Muslims (and some of them women) who believe their attire is the epitome of virtue. Sim...

and what if you don't see it because it doesn't fit your definition? there is a wide range between having an idea of what you are in search of and hav...

I question whether Nietzsche thought of "happiness" as a guiding determinant of action. I think righteousness would fit better with Nietzsche than hap...

so we can argue about stuff

You misunderstand. I am simply pointing out that logic itself is premised upon what is known as the "law of non-contradiction", i.e., the law of non-c...

Searching for truth is not the same as defining truth. And defining truth is not the same as defining philosophy. My point remains the same. I suspect...

ok

and that is called the law of non-contradiction. And it is necessary to your entire argument. So you have refuted your own argument.

and that is called the law of non-contradiction. And it is necessary to your entire argument. So you have refuted your own argument.

why

yes

a thousand variations on the ghost in the machine

Excellent. :-)

your whole argument is premised upon the necessity of the law of non-contradiction. Interesting idea though.

if you must first define philosophy before you can simulate philosophy, then you will define philosophy in such way that you can simulate philosophy. ...