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That is one view on the spectrum you mention. One that I do not agree with.

Thanks Tom. Plato begins to look very different once we separate Plato and Platonism. A couple of quick points: in the Phaedo the Forms are identified...

There was no place in the cosmos staked out by Plato or Aristotle. In Plato's Timaeus there is something he calls the "chora". It is said to be the th...

More often on one's education and opinions. Most of us are not wise but we may be fortunate enough to have teachers who are wiser than us.

Beauty is often treated as the starting point. I would suggest that it is the end point aimed for. The question of the beautiful stands beside the que...

I can tell myself or someone else that the self is a myth but the myth may be that the self is a myth. Who or what is it tells me this and who or what...

Do you mean this: Apparently you believe this individual, but why should we? People make all kinds of claims. Alien intelligence is a recurring theme....

Yes. It is not either/or. The careful use of language does not result in a language free of connotations.

Too late. Claims about Heaven are part of our cultural history. It is not simply a matter of fact but of belief, or how people both in the past and pr...

It is not clear whether you are interested in discussion Hegel or just looking to reconcile differences. With regard to Hegel, he is very critical of ...

I am aware of your penchant and fondness for tangent, but try not to mistake your tangential excursions for something that has anything to do with the...

In my opinion philosophy is a practice. "Philosophies" are opinions. My practice is informed by Socratic skepticism, knowledge of my ignorance and how...

Two additional reasons why I think it important to put things in my own words. First it is not always clear that we understand the terminology in the ...

Given his claim that philosophy is occidental then not dao. Or at least not until he cloaked it in a chiton. Das Heilige Geist via Hegel and Holderlin...

As with the question of Being, he strives to keep the questioning going. I suspect that if asked what he believes he would deflect and say that what i...

It has been a long time since I read Heidegger. I am probably also be in need of a refresher.

I don't either. It was meant to be suggestive. It is not something I have looked into. I am not convinced. In fact when I wrote it I considered adding...

Temporality is the unfolding of Being, of what is present and what remains concealed in and through the space or openness of time. It is not simply th...

Helpful. Thanks. I will be posting my explanation soon.

If I explain the statement to someone and as a result they can now make sense of it, that is not circular.

This is what I was referring to as "layers of meaning". He can't use the term without the association with some concept and meaning being attached to ...

Josh quotes Heidegger and was asked to explain the quote: In response he said: Now the first statement can and should be explained simply and clearly....

Not something you are likely to see Heidegger fans here doing. I don't think he ever is honest enough to come out and say it. Being is God. The proble...

It is helpful to keep track of the argument. What does any of this have to do with the Josh's statement and my response about simplicity and clarity? ...

Name dropping does not answer the question. None of this has anything to do with what I have said or with what or how I think. That's nice, but I am a...

How does this relate to the social? The political? The ethical? Is there a recognition of responsibility to and for others?

It was unstated and not argued because that is not my position. I have read Heidegger. I have used his work when teaching. I think he should be read i...

I agree. I don't know if he was just unable to admit he was wrong and take responsibility or if he thought he did nothing wrong either because he thou...

I give Heidegger a pass. He has earned it. I am talking about the unwillingness or inability of some members here to attempt to clarify and explain th...

Isn't that the problem? Heidegger's 'care' does not answer the question raised: Is care about being a good Nazi compatible with caring about human bei...

The problem is hiding behind jargon and frictive words that produce heat without light. The background can be sketched, as simply and clearly as possi...

And one might assume the former without the latter. Why reduce the concern for human things to a nostrum? I make no grandiose claims about Being. What...

A ponderous way of saying he's lost. Waiting for Begot.

One might assume that with the term 'care' (Sorge) Heidegger has human well being first and foremost in mind. That is not the case. The analytic of Da...

I try to avoid definitions of philosophy. Rather than a requirement, a practice that aims at being good and living well. I am not sure I understand th...

Is there a concern for the human things in this more originary thinking? Where do we see it?

Would someone with little or no background in Heidegger understand this? What does the truth have to do with this?

Why? What does it mean for time to be the preliminary name for the truth of Being?

That depends on what you take the practice of philosophy to be about. We need to look not only as what is said but at what isn't said, that is, what i...

When I taught Introduction to Philosophy I would sometimes use Time and Being. What did not change from semester to semester was the use of primary te...

It was not made here. Let's put aside the problem of Nazism for a moment. The issue is his treatment of history, of es gibt, of an uncritical acceptan...

And that is fortunate. If it did it would not outlast us. A critical reading of Heidegger is not a rejection of Heidegger. It is not an argument to no...

@"plaque flag" Earlier I asked for an explanation. I followed up with some questions intended to focus on what is at issue and what is not. Heidegger ...

An evasive response. All this was discussed earlier. I won't repeat it. Heidegger sings a siren song, the dark side of Doris Day, Que sera, sera, what...

Yes, I just noticed that. Before discussing the lecture let's back up a little. The question arose as to whether he was using temporal terms metaphori...

Yes, of course he said Dasein is time? Where? Yes, I would ask for a reference so I could read it in context? Guilty as charged!

Is there a connection between temporality and the Nazisms? Is it not what the future brought forth? Is it not something es gibt?

Does he say that? Why not Being and Dasein? I would have to read it in context before saying more.

I have read some things, but I don't recall reading anything that would make me think he was talking metaphorically.

I don't see how a deliberate misreading can make anything clear. Does he use temporal terms metaphorically? How does this fit with the past governing ...