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You can praise yourself, but I don't think what you say is very "interesting" because it doesn't go to the heart of the matter. The mistake that Heide...
July 21, 2020 at 06:49
The phrase you quote does not cause any confusion. It simply points out that there is a philosophical tradition which describes the specificity of the...
July 21, 2020 at 06:32
I don't know why you say this translation is "correct". From what I've read it's pretty controversial. Not to mention the fact that in the index of St...
July 21, 2020 at 06:19
Of course, he uses a dozen words that mean the same as "wrong".
July 21, 2020 at 04:47
Let us pass to a specific context. We can analyze this text of Heidegger and you would have the opportunity to explain that Heidegger doesn't say that...
July 20, 2020 at 06:42
Can you clarify some of what you're saying? Which translation changes the meaning of misinterpretation or concealment? Because the ones I have in Span...
July 20, 2020 at 05:13
As I said above, Heidegger also uses the distinction between essence and existence in a very similar way to Sartre. What differentiates his concepts o...
July 20, 2020 at 05:04
Almost all philosophy, except for the most dogmatic positivist, distinguishes between the mode of existence of beings in general and that of the human...
July 20, 2020 at 04:58
And all the examples I gave you? Have you read them? Deteriorated, dogmatic, concealment, misinterpretation, deformation, to destroy our genuine relat...
July 19, 2020 at 07:25
I'm afraid you still haven't explained what the terms existence and essence in Heidegger mean. You vaguely allude to the meanings in traditional metap...
July 19, 2020 at 07:09
It is not in Being and Time, but in Letter on Humanism (trans. Franck Capucci, online) I understand Sartre and Plato perfectly, but I do not understan...
July 19, 2020 at 06:56
Excuse me. Apart from the fact that I don't know what "indifference" means in your Heidegger quote, I also don't see what it has to do with the paragr...
July 18, 2020 at 14:08
Existentia/ essentia vs. existence/essence.
July 18, 2020 at 13:58
Where's the difference? In my opinion Heidegger realized that Sartre was drawing his own conclusions from existentialism, which he found unbearable. S...
July 18, 2020 at 05:06
At the beginning of section #9 of Being and Time, Heidegger makes a nice word game between essentia, existenze, existentia, being, being-present-hand ...
July 17, 2020 at 14:33
Audacity is an essential characteristic of knowledge. No Galileo, Newton, Einstein or Bohr would have been possible without it. But audacity should no...
July 17, 2020 at 06:20
This is a good comparison.
July 17, 2020 at 06:05
Put an end to the global corporations. Put an end to the armies (both imperialist and neo-colonial). Put an end the bureaucracy. Put an end to ignoran...
July 16, 2020 at 09:57
The answer is not simple. Sartre coined a seemingly paradoxical term that paradoxically sheds some light: conscience irreflexive . It can designate a ...
July 16, 2020 at 09:22
A figure is not the destiny of history, as the second Heidegger says. Apart from God or the Absolute Spirit, which he explicitly rejects, I don't know...
July 16, 2020 at 09:06
I document what I say with primary and secondary sources. You seem to ignore both. For example: What kind of question is this? Heidegger repeatedly ac...
July 16, 2020 at 07:02
Pleasure is a feeling and, as such, it is independent of metaphysical considerations about its object. If something gives you pleasure, it gives you p...
July 15, 2020 at 07:05
Newton was (and is) right within the scope of his theory. Newton was right against his Cartesian rivals. The Cartesians were wrong. Nevertheless, Heid...
July 15, 2020 at 06:40
This situation is not predictable neither a short or medium term. In our real world the evasive pleasure is counterbalanced by the reality principle. ...
July 14, 2020 at 06:29
There's an example up there. "It's either half empty or half full." Perfect hermeneutical relativism.To err in the wrong direction by degenerating the...
July 14, 2020 at 06:09
Almost off topic: The American philosophers' mania to summarize a long-debated topic in the history of philosophy in a scandalous way that perverts th...
July 13, 2020 at 09:24
From what little I know about Nozick, I think it's futile speculation. He imagines an extreme hedonist who does not correspond to any philosophical he...
July 13, 2020 at 09:14
What is the point of talking about science fiction instead of the real world? Does the imaginary assumption of the infinite pleasure machine clarify a...
July 13, 2020 at 06:49
I'm not sure what Nozick's point is. Is it a psychological issue? That is, what do men really do? Is it a moral issue? That is, what should people do?...
July 13, 2020 at 06:41
This is factually false. Many people control their pleasures. This is a fact. Why? This is the (first) question.
July 12, 2020 at 08:06
Perhaps the hedonist can prove that people who only want more intense pleasure are wrong. That's what Epicurus thought, at least. For example, an expe...
July 12, 2020 at 06:41
It is evident that we speak different languages. According to Heidegger there is an essential question: What is being? He dedicated several books and ...
July 11, 2020 at 06:14
Your first two paragraphs have a lot to talk about. You'll allow me to stand on them. You define the method of interpretation as going anywhere in any...
July 10, 2020 at 14:20
I will quote you one last text: If after this quotation you continue affirming that for Heidegger Heraclitus, Parmenides and the Greeks who were in th...
July 10, 2020 at 06:42
Nothing. I think I explained that. It's a dirty trick of the word processor program of auto-correction. It has a mania for change "Being" for "Self". ...
July 09, 2020 at 07:03
I also appreciate your efforts to answer my questions, even when I feel they are not correct or as inextricably confused as Heidegger himself. I also ...
July 08, 2020 at 09:44
By mixing two different concepts you've really made a nice mess. According to correspondence theory of truth, something is true when it matches the fa...
July 07, 2020 at 14:58
It's easier to talk about subjective-intersubjective than subjective-objective. A statement is intersubjective when it is shared by two or more people...
July 07, 2020 at 09:39
I look forward to it.
July 07, 2020 at 06:09
Not all sophists, I think. Gorgias: "Being is not; if it were it could not be known and if it were known it could not be expressed".(I quote from memo...
July 04, 2020 at 14:08
Camus liked to provoke. In the midst of a depressive phase, at the end of his life, he even said that the only two things that deserved him respect in...
July 04, 2020 at 09:06
It is obvious that the postulation of a special Being whose meaning does not depend on particular entities forces Heidegger to invent an extra rationa...
July 04, 2020 at 08:51
All his life Camus claimed he didn't believe in God and his opposition to Christianity was also permanent. He didn't believe in God because he thought...
July 02, 2020 at 14:59
"God is." "The earth is." "The lecture is in the auditorium." "This man is from Swabia." "The cup is of silver.'' "The peasant is in the fields." "The...
July 02, 2020 at 10:25
Can you pass me the reference? Thank you.
July 01, 2020 at 06:33
Of course they do. More delicately than I do, but they say that what Heidegger sees in the text is not in it. Or what you think "to violate a translat...
July 01, 2020 at 06:31
I think this short sentence summarizes Heidegger's position: What I say is not in the text, but the interpretation I make is the good one. Amazing her...
July 01, 2020 at 06:03
It's this kind of explanation that's misleading. Although it is true that Platonic terminology can be ambiguous in some cases, in its clearest formula...
June 30, 2020 at 14:26
La paciencia es la madre de la ciencia (Patience is the mother of science), Spanish proverb. But it's not just patience. I like to get into these batt...
June 30, 2020 at 14:04
I am sorry I cannot continue this interesting debate right now. But I'll be back, as Patton said. And I won't be as long as he was.
June 30, 2020 at 09:46