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Solipsistic? This entire sentence is so vague it's baffling. How is he solipsistic? Because he focuses on human being? He emphasizes again and again t...

What he'd done -- meaning joining the Nazi party or his earlier work? Because neither is true. He infamously never apologized for being part of the Na...

I confess, pretty much. It caught my eye -- posts aren't normally so almost offensively silly to me. The fact that your mind automatically goes to lab...

My silence is because it's incredibly boring. God is a word, and an essentially meaningless one -- can mean anything you want it to. To say "he/she/it...

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HEADLINE: God's existence proven once and for all, on the PhilosophyForum.com, by a guy named "Devans". Good grief.

I have to look that up. I've never played Final Fantasy, but that's interesting he makes an appearance there. It intrigues many people. But I don't fu...

Sure. Heidegger will say, multiple times, that the question of what it means to "be" has been forgotten, essentially since the inception of philosophy...

That's exactly right. He also "approves" of this characterization in Introduction to Metaphysics. What he's clear about is that both our "understandin...

That's interesting.

You're neither, actually.

Do you really think Heidegger wasn't aware of time dilation -- that this managed to escape him somehow? Come on. I think it's far more likely you're m...

Can you give me the source of this please?

The sense of "reality" itself has a long, checkered history which he discusses in Being and Time. One thing Heidegger wants to get "beyond" is the sub...

From my point of view, you're suffering from a bought of nihilism. I've been there myself. But I have found more and more that those feelings about li...

Fair enough. Heidegger's views on death and anxiety were never very striking to me, nor do i pretend to understand them very well. So if that's where ...

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Yeah in retrospect that looks awful, of course. But does he ever explicitly advocate the killing of Jews, blacks, gays, the disabled, etc? Did he even...

You can still learn a great deal even if you don't know the language fluently. In Heidegger's case, there's maybe 20-30 important Greek terms that are...

Yes, his concern for the question of being is too "narrow." Spot on criticism; very substantial. Not too general (since it's literally about everythin...

I appreciate the sources, and both yourself, Path and 180 Proof have now provided me with a lot of reading material which I will check out, but the re...

I laughed at that one. There's a lot of truth to that, yes. Eh, I wouldn't say that myself. He never killed anyone or advocated for the holocaust. If ...

Oh that's a shame! I think this is exactly where Heidegger is most "useful" in a scholarly sense; the man certainly knew his Greek. I think he is stil...

"The present -- as soon as we have named it by itself, we are already thinking of the past and the future, the earlier and the later as distinct from ...

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I think Heidegger probably was thinking he would be the Third Reich's go-to philosopher, and so that was tempting. He was also apparently pretty naive...

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I think this is exactly right. "Backdrop sense" is well put, because it's not really a "definition" laying dormant somewhere in our heads.

The DNC made it quite clear, after consolidating around Biden, that they'd rather lose the election than lose their party to Sanders. I'm hoping for t...

I think they're intimately connected through "disclosure," through aletheia. Being is only vaguely understood in a pre-theoretical way and then interp...

Good- now you know how I feel. :up:

If we're all operating with an understanding of being, then this effects everything - our politics and our culture and our future. If Heidegger is rig...

Very interesting.

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I don't think that's true. Maybe "struggling" is too imprecise, but within the context of a Christian worldview- otherwise why mention "God" at all, e...

Yes Banno, because I love the Nazis. Run along.

That requires another thread, I think! But oddly enough, this is something Heidegger worried about. With the advancements in genetics, the only thing ...

And thus we come full circle, in a sense. Philosophy and politics in some ways seem like polar opposites, but are connected in very clear ways. The la...

Worth keeping in the back of our minds when making the decision in November: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/

Definitely truth in that. There's lots of interpretation, projection, and re-assessing whenever studying something hard. How we do so is also shaped b...

I love this. Exactly right. I know it gives me pause. In the same way that a good friend who knows your taste makes a recommendation for a place to tr...

From my reading I don't see him saying there is no "inside" or "outside," but that indeed there is an "inner" and that "inner concepts" can't be reall...

Exactly right. One should react against and criticize only something they understand, otherwise they're whacking at straw men. While no one has infini...

I think it's definitely related. Anything we engage with or "comport" ourselves to involves "care" and "concern," or "concernful circumspection." In t...

Not that I can tell. I know there's been a lot of backlash, and continues to be, for his being a member of the Nazi party. I'm no apologist for him in...

I can't read Latin very well unfortunately. But if you say Spinoza is clearer in Latin, I believe you. As for ontologist par excellence -- one of the ...

Is what that bad?

I think you touched on it: the analysis of capitalism. So probably Marx being an important read.

Yes of course -- everyone can think whatever they want. Hating him personally for being involved in the Nazis is a good reason to hate him, and his de...

Definitely. I think at the very least one of the most invaluable contributions of Heidegger is his etymological analysis of classic philosophical word...