"ian buick" <ibuick@b...> wrote: One of your statements could be interpreted as portraying Marxism as a form of determinism....but this was what Sartre wrote...
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decker150
Dec 16, 2004 5:28 am
Being, pure existence, the world, others; these are not merely 'out there', but have an affect 'in our heads'. Enframing occurs through the use of language...
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decker150
Dec 16, 2004 2:55 am
Wittgenstien said the root of language is 'naming'. In our naming, we define, specify and limit the meaning of a thing. Defining meaning is a human act, but...
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Elaine
lizral@...
Dec 16, 2004 1:10 am
From a Deleuzian standpoint becoming precedes being. Deleuze refers to the Cosmos as the body without organs, all within the Cosmos constitutive of the same...
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ian buick
ibuick
Dec 15, 2004 10:56 pm
Hi Steve, Thanks for your interesting contribution. I just want to clarify and develop some of the points you make. The first issue is your interpretation of...
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Elaine
lizral@...
Dec 14, 2004 10:58 pm
(((((((((((((((Everyone))))))))))))), Given the trials and tribulations of day to day life, i have been silent for too long. However, i once again feel my...
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scarey1917
Dec 14, 2004 7:40 pm
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<But they still had to 'be here' as existing beings for this to happen. Even if I exist one second before the propoganda begins, I first exist,...
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tinkerbells3189@...
Dec 14, 2004 5:14 pm
Hi, I was wondering if everyone could help me out with a research paper I'm doing. I am currently reading Dirty Hands, The Flies, and The condemned of Altona...
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decker150
Dec 14, 2004 4:50 pm
Steve, do you suppose that 'existence' precedes 'social relations'. I understand that the moment we are born into the world, we are delivered unto a handfull...
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scarey1917
Dec 14, 2004 2:32 pm
<<<<<<One might wonder how human essence is formed in the first place. The short answer is...through the individual's own free will choices,until this time,...
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decker150
Dec 13, 2004 4:52 pm
Existential thinking is a speculation, not entirely factual and cannot say 'for sure' that the cosmos is absurd for this simple reason; they cannot make...
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riva nathans
rivanathans
Dec 12, 2004 9:49 pm
... Along similar lines, there's an anthology compiled by Walter Kaufmann called "Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre" that seems pretty ubiquitous in...
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scarey1917
Dec 12, 2004 4:43 pm
<<<<What would you start out with reading as a beginner in existential philosophy? Nausea? Being and Nothingness? Maybe some Camus?>>>> Hackett Publishing Co....
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decker150
Dec 12, 2004 3:43 pm
I agree with Monte's statement. One might wonder how human essence is formed in the first place. The short answer is...through the individual's own free will...
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Monte Morris
monteamorris
Dec 12, 2004 1:15 pm
Hello, existence precedes essence is an interesting idea. It basically boils down to the idea that humans, at any time, are free to become what they want to...
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decker150
Dec 12, 2004 5:58 am
Hi Chaya, welcome. Sartre's view is that there is no divine presence in the cosmos. But one must bear in mind that philosophy in general is a universal ...
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cg_3217
Dec 12, 2004 3:08 am
Hi. I am very much a beginner, as my only reading of Satre consists of an excerpt from "Existenstialism". I will be taking a course entitled 'existentialism...
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Mr ezra melakie
gm_lenin
Dec 10, 2004 12:56 pm
Hard to say what Camus was... not existentialist?? ...hmmmmmm ok. Read "Nausea"... then you will know how painful the "analyzed life" really is. ...
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rimbaudboyo
Dec 9, 2004 9:21 pm
... Nausea. good luck...
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mckgbird@...
Dec 8, 2004 10:17 pm
I would definitely start out with THE STRANGER by Camus....
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Austin Swenson
knutehuso
Dec 8, 2004 4:02 pm
What would you start out with reading as a beginner in existential philosophy? Nausea? Being and Nothingness? Maybe some Camus? kh ... Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!...
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Carol Knowles
carol_knowle...
Dec 7, 2004 1:16 am
Does anyone know what Sartres take on this would be? Carol ... From: <Sartre@yahoogroups.com> To: <Sartre@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004...
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decker150
Dec 6, 2004 8:24 pm
Hi Tommy, As it seems to me, we look for a rationality for what is essentially beyond the scope of our rational capacity, at least for now. I have no...
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Tommy Beavitt
tbeavitt
Dec 6, 2004 11:35 am
Hi Joe, Thanks for your long post, which managed to work itself around back to the stated subject matter beautifully... When I homed in on your use of the word...
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decker150
Dec 6, 2004 5:21 am
Ariel wrote: "A question for the group: If one is to look at the world that we live in, we see a horrifically unbalanced state: one where some exist in...
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decker150
Dec 2, 2004 10:25 pm
For Carl Jung, the impossible odds occured when he was counciling a female patient, who proceeded to tell him about her dreams. She had this recurrent dream...
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Tommy Beavitt
tbeavitt
Dec 2, 2004 11:40 am
Hi Joe, ... I think you are on to something here. But I suspect that your yearning for the miraculous has resulted in a slip of the keyboard here. Surely it is...
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olivia_sloan
Dec 2, 2004 12:25 am
Hi Tommy, The incorporation of eastern mystisim into Sartre's "Being and Nothingness" philosophy works to complement Sartre's philosophy a great deal the way...
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decker150
Dec 1, 2004 4:47 pm
Tommy, Wonderfully expressed. This inspires a number of related thoughts. Where to begin? Tommy wrote: It's especially interesting that Sartre and Skinner...
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Tommy Beavitt
tbeavitt
Dec 1, 2004 1:43 pm
Joe, It's interesting that you should have brought up Skinner at this point. I read his Beyond Freedom and Dignity a few years ago and was quite impressed by...
