No, you weren't clear. Notice he doesn't once mention "intuition," which is a loaded term. If by "intuition" you're referring to the "pre-ontological ...
You really do live in your own world, don't you? I haven't come across someone so delusional on this forum yet, so thank you for providing that experi...
The "right way." It's almost laughable to put it like this. Your thesis: Parmenides and Heraclitus had it "right" (though we're not sure what the "it"...
It's a stupid decision, yes. Completely ignorant choice. But that doesn't make them stupid and dull people -- it means they're making a mistake. I say...
The limits I set is that this thread is about Martin Heidegger's philosophy. That's not arbitrary, it's the topic I chose. Are we free to talk about l...
No, he offers no interpretation period. As for "attributing to being a number of powers that go beyond the natural," what are you referring to? There'...
"Everyone who has studied Heidegger." First of all, I've studied Heidegger. I care about my own reading of him, yes. More so than secondary sources. I...
Why do you consider it a failure? According to what standard? Your own or others? If your own, why do you hold those standards and not others? Some mi...
I never once mentioned agency. I never once mentioned "love." "Vagueness and ambiguity is what 'being' is" is more nonsense, so I assume one of your "...
This, along with every other substantive comment I've made, naturally gets ignored in favor of: So now you've apparently been reduced to appeals to au...
I don't understand what "better" signifies here, nor what you mean by "being" and "nothing." So there's no way to talk about it. It's clear you're not...
"Standard interpretation" to claim that Heidegger believes all of Western philosophy, excluding the preSocratic Greeks, are "wrong"? What can I say --...
"Falling" has nothing to do with the question of being. This is out of context. Yes, the question has "deteriorated" and become reduced to something s...
I hear you. It looks like Biden is pretty malleable, and so hopefully we can push him on progressive policies once he's in office. But one thing has b...
I said I've been reading Heidegger (carefully) for a 1 and a half. Philosophy generally has been a lifelong interest on mine. Try reading more careful...
Not arbitrary at all -- ordinary usage. "There is ongoing disagreement (and no general consensus) as to whether animism is merely a singular, broadly ...
That's hardly "religion." Again, maybe a kind of "primitive" religion, meaning a system of beliefs, but that's not at all the same as later, codified ...
A bit of both. It seems almost like a truism to me. "Good" and "bad" aren't magic words, we use them all the time in everyday activity as a shorthand ...
Are both desirable ends? Yes. Thus, actions which lead towards these ends are therefore good or bad, right or wrong -- within that context. The meanin...
To associate happiness with "good"? Because by doing so you can have a "science" of morality, which has been rejected for a long time. To determine wh...
"Being" belongs to any entity whatsoever, including humans. It's the "is-ness" of anything that exists, or that is. So which one of us is "us" doesn't...
This is much better, in my view, than what you've said before. But I wonder why you say "perverted the question" -- I think they've simply overlooked ...
"Good" as something valuable or desirable, a positive outcome of some kind. As opposed to bad, which is something undesirable, which one should like t...
With trial and error, intuition, know-how, etc. We can call that "primitive science" if we want to, but that's so far from what is meant by "science" ...
I don't really understand what you mean. I'm not equating behavior with morality. Morality as judgment of "good" and "bad," or "right" and "wrong" app...
"My own original take on the same ideas." First you have to know what those ideas are, and you haven't shown the slightest degree of understanding any...
By "it" I was there referring to morality. The argument is that there is no fact/value or is/ought distinction, and that morality can be based in scie...
Sounds like Aristotle, in many ways. Eudaimonia gets translated as "happiness," but flourishing is better. In that sense, human beings should strive f...
Parmenides also interpreted being as presence, as did Heraclitus. This was the inception. They thought and questioned being, but they did so from the ...
This thread is about Heidegger. As I said from the very beginning, a pre-requisite should be at least a reading of Being and Time. If you want to give...
No, it isn't. Looking under a rock is not science. If we define that as "science," then apes do science as well. It's an absurd definition. No, this i...
Nietzsche saw nihilism in the West as the result of the "death" of God and a decadent culture. We've lost our instincts and haven't created a "single ...
Remembrance of the question of being, yes. That's what he's trying to do: re-awaken that question, the question that's been forgotten. To say Heidegge...
This is excellent. Because "wrong," in this case, is meaningless if you mean in terms of accuracy or correctness. What would be "right"? The Greeks? W...
I'll say it a thousand times: his is in reference to translations (which he says at one point always includes intepretation). Heidegger is talking the...
Good question. I don't just watch and vote. I try organizing people. Right now we have a 180 members in a local group here in New Hampshire, "Seacoast...
Trump's getting desperate. Pretty interesting to watch this tinpot dictator try to turn our country into a police state just so he doesn't lose an ele...
Referring to translations of the Greeks. He's claiming their original way of seeing the world -- as phusis -- gets mistranslated and thus the original...
No. He never once says anything about "inaccurate metaphysics" or that concealment is "wrong." That's your projection, and it's not in Heidegger. Not ...
The analogy to Newton and Einstein was to demonstrate only that because A becomes the dominant theory does not always necessitate that B is "wrong." T...
No, I was just quoting my entire paragraph. It's not Heidegger, it's me. Hence why no references. You're the one that was making that claim, not me --...
True, which is why I give plenty of textual evidence. This is what the thread is about. If I'm mistaken, I'm not seeing it. Maybe it's just me being d...
Your way of phrasing things is misleading. Read the whole paragraph: Also, "theory of Being" should be "interpretation of Being" in the above context....
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