What I'm saying is that an assumption is being made about things being internal and external based on the way they appear, and that it is possible tha...
It depends on what you mean by mind. If you limit mind to intelligent behavior and abstract thinking, then it is clear that panpsychism is an untenabl...
You are correct. Heidegger did not identify Being with our current understanding of consciousness, he considers Being to be more basic. He provides ju...
I would add that we can't know things in themselves apart from the manner in which they appear to us, according to Kant, but we can infer that certain...
What if meaning isn't what life is really all about? Life does not have to be dependent upon meaning. Living a meaningful life is an activity we engag...
Awareness of the object is distinguished from noumena, which is the thing in itself, according to Kant. Kant was very concerned with questions regardi...
I believe Heidegger is concerned with something more basic than the physicist is concerned with, and phenomenologically demonstrating that that is the...
He treats pain in his account as well. He is not arguing that subjectivity and objectivity do not exist. They exist, but are grounded upon a more basi...
In your normal experience, the hammering shows up in a referential totality, in terms of why you are hammering something. You experience the hammering...
Good question! There is something very different about thinking in comparison to our perception of the world. For one, thinking involves contemplating...
It seems possible to make a distinction between various states of awareness, such as our thoughts, feeling, perception and emotions, and consciousness...
Meaning is that which is typically thought of, for example, when we talk about the essential underlying nature of things, which distinguish one thing ...
In response, I would say that purpose at its core involves meaning, and meaning in general presupposes beliefs and assumptions. Assumptions and belief...
I think that it is important to recognize, as the nihilist does, that there is a conflict between freedom and purpose. However, they are not necessari...
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