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But doesn't that just beg the question? Ours is a world of words where we insist upon definitions to all things including those which are not necessar...

Objectivity strikes me as a subjectively adopted disposition that enables us to pretend we are on the outside looking in when we are the inside. The d...

infinitely so. . . :-)

The underlying and always already existing pattern is to postulate the Devine as the final answer to what we are currently unable to answer. So even i...

There is no clock that measures the passing of time that is not itself dependent upon and relative to change. Whether the change be the rotation of th...

The number 1 is not the cause of the number 2. Instead, the possibility of more than 1 is the cause of 2. If only 1 were possible, there would be no 2...

What could be the cause of the passing of time other than motion? Things moving is what causes time to pass. Time is the measure of change/motion. Tim...

What do we experience? and How do we experience what we experience? Are different questions.

And a good Saturday morning to you. Good stuff.

I prefer to be alone and always have. I care about politics and the arts. I write. I have a doctorate. I suspect most people want the world to change....

I approach philosophy as an "ongoing" debate/discussion over the nature of reality. The notion that there are final answers to some central issues is ...

Will to power as the driving force to overcoming the fundamental chaos of existence.

And therefore?

Emphasis added. The words "alone" and "necessarily" create an ambiguity between the first clause and the last clause. Eliminating both adds clarity.

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exactly

Irregardless, pre-determined and determined are the same.

I believe that reality does not exist independently of our observation, or else nothing makes sense.

I read more and more books each and every year. Yet it has been at least 15 years since I have read a non-digital book. I do not miss them.

Meister Eckhardt and the Jewish Tradition Albert H. Friedlander European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe Vol. 27, No. 2 (Autumn 94), pp. 78-90 (...

in contemporary philosophy, to be included in the book of the real requires that an entity be able to manifest in some way to consciousness. And there...

All fake things are real but not all real things are fake. That certainly suggests some sort of "meaningful" difference, does it not?

I primarily use my phone to blue-tooth music to my stereo. I never answer it and make about 1 call a month. I do return texts from friends but even th...

Interesting and I agree. However, it seems to me that science is more deeply rooted in and more focused upon the "res extensa" than is religion. But o...

before and after is an idea and the separable is an idea. ideas and minds are inseparable.

Heidegger is not describing the "nature" of the stone. Instead, Heidegger is describing how the stone shows up for Dasein as ready-to-hand or present-...

Heidegger would have no issue with that. Heidegger is big on hermeneutics. But then interpretations, like descriptions, are judged by accuracy rather ...

This morning I went for a walk with my dog and being. Neither my dog nor I could have went for a walk without it. :smile:

No doubt. All of Being and Time is articulated within the context of the being of being.

Yes. 1. Existence is the mode of being of Dasein. It is my mode of being. It is your mode of being. 2. Ready-to-Hand is the mode of being of such enti...

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I agree. But that is something that many (including me) have to continually remind ourselves. Next to understanding, agreeing/disagreeing is trivial. ...

but I am the only one who can bind me to my word. if you bind me to my word, you still do not know what is going to come out of my mouth.

I think it odd to expect evidence "in life" regarding any state of being "after life." What would be the basis upon which to expect any such evidence?...

Presumably with "No Exit."

Existence is constitutive of Dasein much as roundness is constitutive of a circle. You cannot add existence to Dasein any more than you can add roundn...

Even if that were true. . . I understand the value in finding some way to better ensure "responsibility" for those engaged in the process. But the arg...

I suspect we no longer have a choice, it we ever had one to begin with.

Well said.

You go from externalizing ethical behaviour via rules as a desire historically to "we want the rules to tell us what will be right". That is a huge le...

Exactly. And that is why Heidegger went to great lengths to give existence a precise meaning within the context of his philosophy. And so long as Heid...

No. Existence is a mode of being always belonging to and only belonging to Dasein. Applying any predicate to any entity not having the characteristics...

I agree. And it may be something he would rather not have said. It neither adds to nor detracts from his fundamental argument. But it does distract.

Heidegger was well aware of Kant. However, Heidegger defines existence in a non-traditional manner. For Heidegger, "existence" is one of three modes o...

And some are determined to accept it while some are determined to not accept it.

I know it to be the truth of me. Its truth value beyond that matters not to me.

That is correct. I was being hyperbolic with the "pop psychology" and should have said to the effect "the notion that existence precedes essence is no...

The idea that existence precedes essence stands on its own as does Sartre's philosophy insofar is it relies upon the idea that existence precedes esse...

I agree that all misinterpret. But Heidegger's interpretation of Aletheia is irrelevant to whether "existence precedes essence" is a fundamental tenet...

The notion that existence precedes essence is pop-psychology. Heidegger says our existence is our essence and Sartre misinterprets Heidegger as saying...