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As Friedman said, the corporation's only objective is to maximize profit. Our current age of a handful of multinational corporations owning nearly eve...
September 12, 2020 at 01:49
I think it's important to be rational when we can, despite most of our lives living fairly "irrationally." Rational planning out our lives and time, i...
September 12, 2020 at 00:45
This wouldn't be surprising, I suppose. If this is correct, I don't see why he calls common notions of time "inauthentic temporality" -- why not just ...
September 11, 2020 at 18:29
I've gone through his description of temporality, and I think it's quite accurate and, if you get into his terminology, quite elegant. His valid reaso...
September 11, 2020 at 18:26
Most of division II of Being and Time is dedicated to giving multiple "valid reasons," in fact. So you stick with Aristotle. Nothing wrong with that. ...
September 11, 2020 at 01:40
I'm not sure what postmodernism says, to be honest. I suspect, from my little reading, that it says very little. Well if he covers relativity somewher...
September 09, 2020 at 22:08
He's making a distinction between the present-at-hand, "objectively present" mode of being, the being of "objects" in our environment, and ourselves (...
September 09, 2020 at 18:47
No, because "inauthentic/authentic time" is meaningless. Heidegger rarely spoke about relativity. You'll have to provide some quotations, because I se...
September 09, 2020 at 16:23
Because the "terms" are based on no understanding of Heidegger's concepts, hence why I have to go back over and over to them. If you understood them, ...
September 09, 2020 at 15:33
Not really. Notice he doesn't mention temporality here. Being-towards-death is a separate, but related, issue. It's true that it deals with the future...
September 08, 2020 at 19:46
This "beholding" and "discovering" is related to aletheia, to unconcealedness, to "disclosure" or "open-ness" of the world. Remember this is what Heid...
September 07, 2020 at 23:00
I'm not sure what this means exactly, but perhaps it's true.
September 07, 2020 at 22:49
Very true, but I was referring to: Whether Parmenides is part of the tradition of mistaking being for a being, or focusing entirely on "beings" (the o...
September 06, 2020 at 15:20
Begging the question. Dreams are real, in my view. They're just as much part of the world as anything else -- different than waking life, but certainl...
September 05, 2020 at 22:04
Says who? Why should we start with the assumption that "reality" means anything that "exists" independently of our "minds"?
September 05, 2020 at 21:50
I didn't say mathematics is based on visualization or imagination. On the other hand, there are formal principles involved in vision as well -- yet wi...
September 05, 2020 at 20:13
Before continuing, I have to same I'm a little disappointed -- you seem to have avoided a large part of my post, which was aiming at understanding you...
September 03, 2020 at 00:39
This was back in January. I wonder if "epidemics" would receive at least one vote now? My how things change.
September 01, 2020 at 23:19
Well what can I say? I'm glad you find this person a better communicator. I agree with the above wholeheartedly. No "vision" perhaps, but certainly th...
September 01, 2020 at 22:10
There's two claims here. 1) I agree time is not only present -- but I never claimed that. 2) I noticed you mentioned "does not pass" and "eternal immo...
September 01, 2020 at 18:32
No, it's the fact that you're deluded in your partisanship, hence why the selective outrage.
August 31, 2020 at 22:58
Indeed.
August 31, 2020 at 22:56
I'm sure it appears that way. The reason it appears this way is that you don't understand what "presencing" means, in Heideggerian terminology. Presen...
August 31, 2020 at 15:12
In terms of?
August 30, 2020 at 22:22
That's not what was said. What you said: Parmenides thought that being is timeless. He "produced" this thought "outside of time." That's what you said...
August 30, 2020 at 17:09
Heidegger talks about the present-at-hand all over Being and Time. You have to read it to understand it. If you're looking for a place where he "defin...
August 30, 2020 at 02:09
I did; you haven't understood it. You accuse me and Heidegger of being "in the clouds," then go on to offer an analysis of these "clouds" which you ad...
August 28, 2020 at 17:59
I said it was due to time constraints. You asked what "presence-at-hand" means, which I've talked about before and which, had you read Heidegger, you'...
August 27, 2020 at 21:19
Says many other people who haven't read a word of Heidegger. I'll save intelligent people more time: before forming an opinion about a thinker, best t...
August 26, 2020 at 22:28
Presence-at-hand (Vorhandenheit) means the theoretical attitude we take when viewing the world, detached from everyday involvement and engagement. It'...
August 26, 2020 at 19:14
He does indeed interpret being in temporal terms -- not in the common understanding of "time," but in "presencing" (as Heidegger mentions) in terms of...
August 26, 2020 at 01:38
Got it.
August 23, 2020 at 21:58
Peterson has no model of anything. It'll change as the wind blows. Total pseudo-intellectualism and charlatanism. Has many strident followers, I'm sur...
August 23, 2020 at 15:56
How do I determine that time is better spent doing something other than "debating" people on an Internet forum? Because I'm an adult. Take your Socrat...
August 23, 2020 at 14:15
Noam Chomsky -- superior in almost every way. A true intellectual. I love Sam, but he only approaches Chomsky's level.
August 23, 2020 at 00:41
:yawn: If you want to spend your time arguing with people about Jordan Peterson on an Internet forum, you're welcome to. Maybe little things like that...
August 23, 2020 at 00:30
You'll know when you see it. If you're not able to tell, then you're the one who can't think. There are no recipes or algorithms or equations to figur...
August 22, 2020 at 23:15
When he's talking to those who can think and hear. Also, it's a relative thing -- it may not be a complete waste to teach someone something for 10 yea...
August 22, 2020 at 20:00
Yes, as long as we don't make that the full time job. If we chase every crazy claim, "debating" and "refuting," etc., we go nowhere. It's best to have...
August 22, 2020 at 19:43
Maybe. But you could say the same about many other issues as well -- Creationism, QAnon conspiracies, 9/11 truthers, Anti-vaxxers, climate change deni...
August 22, 2020 at 01:49
Bravo. Exactly right. But still not worth your time writing it.
August 22, 2020 at 01:43
My advice: don't waste any time on Jordan Peterson, whether as criticism or not. Better off digging a ditch and filling it back up.
August 21, 2020 at 19:10
Yes? I really don't see what you're driving at anymore. I think you can, yes. One may speak of an "understanding" of driving or hammering. To claim th...
August 17, 2020 at 19:35
Most people voted "don't care." You really should. The science is pretty clear about what humanity is facing, and it will effect all of us and all of ...
August 16, 2020 at 22:56
Thankfully, because I have read Being and Time multiple times, especially part 1, it's very easy for me to see -- without even looking at it -- that t...
August 16, 2020 at 21:30
Okay, I'll make it simple for you: No one is talking about "uniqueness." Absolutely no one. It wasn't mentioned here, it's not mentioned in Heidegger,...
August 15, 2020 at 20:54
Says the person who doesn't understand. How exactly you misinterpret this as going against what I was quoted saying above shows you really don't know ...
August 15, 2020 at 20:50
That's funny. I really wish I could read it all in German!
August 14, 2020 at 22:46
No, he doesn't. Nor does he interpret or define being. The "destiny of being" is meaningless until the context is provided. To believe Heidegger is tr...
August 14, 2020 at 22:17
Where does he "attribute to being" powers "beyond the natural" here? That's not what this passage says at all. It's hard to attribute anything to Bein...
August 13, 2020 at 17:04