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Thanks for the advice, but I am not looking for suggestions about something I have been doing for many years I am not going to press you on this. If y...

What I find disappointing is your unwillingness to discuss what you discovered.

I have been saying the same thing for years. I have said so on this forum long before you became a member three days ago. It is a general comment abou...

Sure, but discussing a philosopher and bringing in other philosophers is not the same. That may be how it seems to you, but it is quite far from what ...

I am deeply suspicious of the practice of appealing to other philosophers we may not understand in order to understand this or that philosopher.

I do not think it helpful to look at this in terms of sets and axioms. The question is: what does it mean to be? Being is not an common attribute of t...

What are his ideas about the nature of truth that makes this seem unlikely?

Interesting comparison. For Nietzsche eternity is not an opposing idea. Whether or not the eternal return is cosmology is an open question. A question...

The Riddle and the Vision restates the problem using the same imagery of the the spider and the moonlight. In both there is the moment, followed by ac...

The problem is we cannot find a single agreed upon definition of what metaphysics is.

Value exists because we value things.

Here we confront the problem I mentioned earlier, as to when Heidegger is representing the thoughts of someone else and when he is misrepresenting or ...

Beings are not members of a set "Being". I think it best to try and understand a philosopher on his own terms. See the chapter in in Nietzsche's Zarat...

Will to power is a force. It is not a being that resides in beings. Heidegger does not say the Being of the eternal return, he says: (20) Thinking Bei...

The question of Being first proceeds by way of beings - "the Being of beings". But even when the question is guided by a focus on a particular being, ...

Ousia does not mean presence, presence does not mean objective representation, and objective presentation does not mean ousia.

What would Trump say about protest and civil unrest when he is the one who calls for it, as he did with the Capital riot and is now doing with the Man...

Good question. Heidegger combines an insightful and penetrating commentary with a presentation of earlier thinkers that is as much a misrepresentation...

This is the real problem in a nutshell. If making voting more accessible had worked in Trump's favor there would be no objections. This is the same re...

Which changes to voting laws represent election interference? In what way did these changes prevent citizens from voting? Specifically, who has done t...

On whose own admission was there election interference on a mass scale? What did they say? Where can we find transcripts?

The accusations continue to appear, but the evidence has not.

Heidegger's influence on progressive theology is strong. Tillich and God as the ground of being is an obvious example. Hart's "surprise" seems contriv...

The desire for a savior is strong. Once found everything is formed and reformed in order to conform to that image. It is fueled by resentment and para...

Aristotle asks about "being qua being", what it means to be, if there is one thing that all things have in common. Some think he found a theological a...

Political theater and financial opportunism are not incompatible with being scared. I am sure he will get some mileage from playing the martyr.

For good reason, which I don't expect you would understand. But really you should if you would look at what I actually said compared to what you accus...

I think it would be more accurate if he said that this is how he thinks they thought that thought. But I think he would think that I am not thinking h...

I should ask you the same question about the weather in fabrication land. What evidence do you have of what accuse me of thinking?

Falsification of records seems likely, but as another article in the Times today discusses, there are questions about how they will handle it. Things ...

No. He says the grounding question: The guiding question is about beings, things that are. The grounding question is not about any particular being or...

How is the weather in conspiracy fantasy land? Do you have your umbrella? What do you think this misdemeanor is? There is a lot of speculation, but th...

A short question that requires a long answer. But I will try to keep it short. All quotes are from the text linked to by Paine, "The Eternal Recurrenc...

How do you see answering the question about what the future brings and how we are to respond, how we are to distinguish between what is to be accepted...

What does he say?

Their relationship raises many questions. What she might have known and whether she looked the other way is not something I will attempt to decide. I ...

Before the civil rights movement in the US I suspect that the prevalence of Nazism diminished mostly because Hitler and Germany became the enemy in WW...

That may be but some notable Jewish students he influenced,including Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, and Jacob Klein, turned against him, at least initially,...

Right, and so, we need to take our noses out of the book and consider what it means to be in the world with others on the level of our everyday experi...

It is not simply a matter of his character, or attitude, as if it just personal. It is not just a matter of how poorly Heidegger treated his Jewish st...

He was a Nazi. No need to insist on it. Why is it important? I think his address,The Self-Assertion of the German University, linked to earlier, makes...

If anyone else said this I would assume it was a joke. His ridiculous coiffure, his orange make-up, his years with speech coaches, he is the textbook ...

The Folk is for Heidegger not simply one group or community or people or another. It is a special people with a special historical destiny. The is cle...

Right, because "jews" are not included in Heidegger's 'they', 'those', and 'others'. These terms all mean 'us', those who are like Heidegger. It makes...

Right, he does not say. I filled in the blank. Heidegger is using the terms 'they', 'those', and 'others' as terms of inclusion rather than exclusion....

I am as reassured as I would be if I blind man told me what he did not see. One need not go back very far in order to see how you lump things together...

It is good that the case against Heidegger has been made persuasively, but his Nazi sympathies and antisemitism have been known for a long time. It is...

Have you repeated this enough to actually believe it? It is likely you do since you admit: Are you aware that when you bury your head in the sand the ...

Heidegger's discussion of others in BT reads differently once one is aware of Heidegger's antisemitism: Who are those from whom he does and does not d...

Basic to the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle is the desire for and pursuit of the good. This must be understood at the most ordinary level, not as a...