... no, not really. I would describe a Near-Death Experience as an experience that seems to the experiencer to have occurred during a time when the...
43828
mary.jo11
Mar 1, 2008 3:08 pm
<that would be one avenue of speculation. to be more complete, you might need to explain how the brain can continue to generate lavishly detailed experiences...
43829
Joseph Polanik
jpolanik
Mar 1, 2008 4:34 pm
... the first line 'If I think then I am' would be the major premise, a general statement or universal principle that is known to be true. the second line is...
43830
Jonny Appleseed
fingerprintless
Mar 1, 2008 4:49 pm
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...
43831
mary.jo11
Mar 1, 2008 5:52 pm
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...
43832
jimstuart51
Mar 1, 2008 6:57 pm
Joe, Mary makes some good points against your latest arguments. Let me add some further considerations. Jim: I am not convinced by this argument ... Presumably...
43833
jimstuart51
Mar 2, 2008 11:38 am
Joe, You write: << seriously, Jim, what are you trying to accomplish here? let's say that you prove that you are correct to claim that the argument in the...
43834
Joseph Polanik
jpolanik
Mar 2, 2008 4:45 pm
... and, what 'existence/essence unity' would that be? -- Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the first person. --- H-N Castaneda...
43835
bhvwd
Mar 2, 2008 5:21 pm
... existential. I particularly agree with the concept of an ethical void. Crooked lawyer seems a contradiction in terms but every cop is a criminal as they...
43836
mary.jo11
Mar 2, 2008 5:34 pm
Joe, I realize that in a different conversation we might deconstruct the terms existence and essence. But seriously, in an existentialism forum, the burden is...
43837
Aija Veldre Beldavs
koneeo
Mar 2, 2008 5:40 pm
... i would think that should a strong reason arise to think these terms "entangled," in the spirit of scientific openness, there would be room even in a...
43838
bhvwd
Mar 2, 2008 6:03 pm
... the ... terms ... room ... that.:) ... fruit salad. Entanglement can be a scientific term of sub atomic origin. There is no reason to extend any of that...
43839
Joseph Polanik
jpolanik
Mar 2, 2008 7:06 pm
... if you speak of an existence/essence unity; then, the burden is on you to demonstrate the existence of an essence. Joe ... -- Philosophy is, after all,...
43840
eupraxis@...
wsindarius
Mar 2, 2008 7:49 pm
Joe, You wrote: "if you speak of an existence/essence unity; then, the burden is on you to demonstrate the existence of an essence." I know that the irony of...
43841
louise
circean_delay
Mar 2, 2008 7:59 pm
Wil, I like Joe's idea of a cooperative enterprise, in the effort to philosophise to some purpose. The irony of his statement, if such it was, also escaped...
43842
eupraxis@...
wsindarius
Mar 2, 2008 8:14 pm
Louise, I haven't looked at CS's lexicon, and I will leave aside any remarks that interpret Hegel as an otherworldly theorist for now (no, thank me later)....
43843
bhvwd
Mar 2, 2008 8:20 pm
... burden is ... that. The ... most famous ... Mary ... precedes essence, ... returning it to ... always assumed Sartre put up essence as a bogeyman and then...
43844
louise
circean_delay
Mar 2, 2008 8:39 pm
Wil, I am more sceptical than to take your statements for some kind of gospel truth, and it is no disrespect to your own learning. The fact is, that I...
43845
eupraxis@...
wsindarius
Mar 2, 2008 9:44 pm
Louise, You wrote: "I am more skeptical than to take your statements for some kind of gospel truth, and it is no disrespect to your own learning. The fact is,...
43846
louise
circean_delay
Mar 2, 2008 10:36 pm
... some kind of ... fact is, that ... decades, ... of this ... authors. It is an ... and its ... this planet." ... understanding of ... nihilism. [end] ... ...
43847
louise
circean_delay
Mar 2, 2008 10:55 pm
... of ... complex." ... seem to you ... that comes ... an essence, ... an act is ... playing the same ... I don't ... You're right. I did not make clear the...
43848
louise
circean_delay
Mar 2, 2008 11:06 pm
... contending ... under ... wording, 'existence of an ... statement in ... forum, the ... its ... course. [end] Let's see, first of all you say we were...
43849
eupraxis@...
wsindarius
Mar 2, 2008 11:21 pm
"Let's see, first of all you say we were discussing precisely Sartre, then you quote Mary's response to Joe which invokes existentialism in general. Am I ...
43850
louise
circean_delay
Mar 3, 2008 12:45 am
... Sartre, then ... general. Am I ... Sartre is the ... essence/existence? 'In ... referred to an ... far, sounds to ... really like to ... another ... ...
43851
eupraxis@...
wsindarius
Mar 3, 2008 1:30 am
Louise Most (all actually) of the religiously oriented existential literature that I know, from Kierkegaard through to Ricoeur, conspicuously avoids the ...
43852
louise
circean_delay
Mar 3, 2008 11:16 am
Wil, Thanks, Louise ... literature that I ... wit, some proof that ... and I am not ... during the ... (my Self) in ... all of ... eternal. If it ... always. ...
43853
Joseph Polanik
jpolanik
Mar 3, 2008 11:58 am
... no. as I indicated in my initial post, I am interested in discussing the common ground shared by both Heidegger and Descartes. I even mentioned two...
43854
jimstuart51
Mar 3, 2008 1:04 pm
Wil, I have enjoyed reading your exchange of posts with Louise. I think you both make some good points and you both write with decisiveness and passion. I am...
43855
eupraxis@...
wsindarius
Mar 3, 2008 1:48 pm
Jim, Thanks. No, I think it is clear, and not just from B&N, that Sartre denies any kind of transcendent reality, except for the Imaginary itself. This is...
43856
mary.jo11
Mar 3, 2008 3:24 pm
Although uncomfortable with notions of orthodoxy, I accept this one. The other is nothingness, since it also binds and liberates existential thought. Legal...
