What is the hook into existentialism? Perhaps it is the position on existence and essence. I have heard this mentioned here a few times, but it has not...
Sorry, this may be "off topic", but I am just responding to Joe's question to me. Joe writes: << Descartes' claim is that proceeding from 'I experience' to 'I...
A couple comments. The film seems more about choice and the quality of a survivor's life. Arthur Edens very carefully considered the risks for himself and...
So I probably missed the beginning of the thread on this one but I just joined up so thems the breaks. I was having trouble understanding where the talk was...
" Do you really want to get into that"? How many times have you said that after some seeker wants to pick your mind. I usually end up in a connundrum...
... in an earlier post you referred me to sections 12 and 13 or BaT. in these sections Heidegger talks a lot about dasein as 'Being-in-the-world'. now,...
Louise said it, an athiest does not take on the guise of a crypto religous. Wil does not think Heidgger was scared of Nazi so why did he adopt these opposing...
Yhe incomprehensible verbage of recent posts seem to have overwhelmed Jim`s ability to control whatever point he was trying to make. As our moderator...
I finished the mega posts by Trinidad and Jaimie, to reply point by point would require the rest of Indepandance day but they were fine posts and deserve...
Until there is proven truth, everything we think we're perceiving, feeling and doing is unreal. Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream Merrily,...
Another line of thought on a point we have been considering. ... Subject: Re: Heidegger vs Descartes: The Case Against The Cogito Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008...
Joe, You write in your post 43777: << would you post a brief extract of those passages in BaT where Heidegger addresses these questions concerning the...
... you are solving the wrong problem. if Heidegger is going to critique Descartes' philosophy; then, we'd *expect* a paraphrase ... that was *accurate*. ... ...
... Descartes would claim that the 'therefore' in 'I experience; therefore, I am' is justified by a thought process other than the hypothetical syllogism....
... in an earlier post you referred me to sections 12 and 13 or BaT. in these sections Heidegger talks a lot about dasein as 'Being-in-the-world'. now,...
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE UNDEAD is life a perpetually festering wound or soft flesh and hope unwinding fresh eyes dim and count the scars with pride or shame ...
Descartes could not have "started" from a more uncertain intellectual point. Ape, ape man, man all have some intelligence but to point to the individual who...
Having already been labeled a postmodern, I've trepidation about acquiring the racist, agist, and sexist labels. I have only one comment. If the overwhelming...
From early accounts in the NYT the navy hit the broken spy satallite. Our secrets are safe again. I have seen differing velocities as to the speed of the two...
It seems necessary we compete, without competition we lose the will to do things well. We do not work for any common good, we may even become brigands,...
Mary , I think the article on postmoderniusm deals with modernism, but not necessarily with existentialism. She sees the evolution of modernism as a...
An Evaluation of Heidegger's Case ... Husserl's work may well be relevant to our evaluation of Heidegger's case against the cogito; but, since it is Heidegger...
Jim believes in the absolute certainty of a great number of things yet he does not believe in god. I find that a huge contradiction. Bookdoc thinks the cosmos...
Last year we were thinking of SF and it was so great. But I got friends all over hell and this rough creation. I got gigged for what was common news, Yahoo...
All, Myself, I think philosophy and practicality may hardly endure productive life in the same household, and most certainly I need a rest from misplaced forms...
Our recent conversations regarding truth have been little suprise to me. I think Jim Stuart was much more put on point and involved than he had expected. He...
Bill, At the risk of being called a Smarty Pants or Vulgar or an Upstart, I'll share a little bit about that controversial and mysterious group called the...
In his post #43602 Jim has made out a succinct case for the notion of absolute truth, that is, for its coherence and usefulness. By rational method reliant...
