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Friday, August 2, 2013

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Either Or

Marry, and you will regret it. Do not marry, and you will also regret it. Marry or do not marry, you will regret it either way. Whether you ...

Kierkegaard on Friendship

Christ’s love for Peter was boundless in this way: in loving Peter he accomplished loving the person one sees. He did not say, “Peter must f...

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Sketch of running Dog

Example of sketch - what H interprets as a Kantian schema http://hatemeallyouwant.deviantart.com/art/AGIF-Sketch-Running-Dog-1-114032153

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Being for Heidegger in the context of Kant's Transcendental Imagination

Reviewing Richardson on H's interpretation of Kant, Being is the functioning of the transcendental imagination so that duality arises as...

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Ethical Question from Faber Mar 2013 letter

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused tra...

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

To do: Study how corruption of the philosophic message happens

Authenticity per Heidegger

Authenticity for H means something like authentic gold, that is, real gold as opposed to fools gold. For a Dasein to realize their potential...

Wei Wu Wei

3 � Inconceivable THE SPACE-TIME, subject-object phenomenal universe is a manifestation of mind, of which day and sleep dreaming are example...

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Gossip of the everyone

Caterwauling 

Uncanny

uncanny (adj.)   1590s, "mischievous;" 1773 in the sense of "associated with the supernatural," originally Scottish and ...

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Seeming for illusory 

Rather than "illusory body", "seeming body". -- It seems to be one thing, but it is another. Seems captures both seeming...

Frege on 'to be'

"If you want to assign a content to the verb 'to be', so that the sentence 'A is' is not pleonastic and self-evident, y...

Searle's Aporia

Well, what, then, is the method of logical analysis which gets at these conditions, if it is not just describing the structure of experience...

Searles on Current condition in Philosophy 2004

I. The current situation in philosophy Before beginning my discussion of phenomenology, I want to say a little bit about how I see the conte...

Synonym for Ereignis?

Happenstance: stance before happening, happenstantiality

Friday, April 12, 2013

Dzogchen on existence

Pure experience is the only Reality.

Nishida writes: “I would like to try to clarify everything in the light of the claim that pure experience is th...

Meaning of Being = Meaning of "to exist"?

"Being" = "God" ontotheologically, so that would mean "Being" = "Ground of "to be" or "to ...

Eldred on Science

In a word, what's wrong with modern science is its totalizing character. Blinded by its own success in establishing power over movement ...

Thursday, April 11, 2013

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The Physics arXiv Blog October 10, 2012 The Measurement That Would Reveal The Universe As A Computer Simulation If the cosmos is a numerical...

Eldred on the Gods and Grund of H

With regard to the divine pole of Heidegger's casting of world as fourfold, the divine messengers and the god must be seen as a cover-up...

Eldred on H

If the meaning of being itself is expanded from the presence of what is sensuously present to presencing and absencing within the clearing o...

Monday, April 8, 2013

Science itself is otherworldly...

A thorough going nihilism must see that the hard sciences presuppose an otherworldly really real world. Follow the spaces. The really real s...

Anxiety in Nietzche

For Nietzche, anxiety arises because of meaningless apprehended. With Heidegger, death provokes anxiety. The two may be related since death ...

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Nietzche - Forms of Nihilism

Translation: why is there something rather than nothing (nihilism)? : Why is the world of becoming, thought to be nothing, something? That i...

Parsons on Seeking and Enlightenment

Dialogue from "Nothing Being Everything": Q: Yes, but awakening is beyond cause and effect... P: Sorry? Q: If awakening is beyond ...

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Great work as interpretation of spirit

The term  Great Work  ( magnum opus ) is a term used in  Hermeticism  and in certain occult traditions and religions such as  Thelema . [1] ...

Decline of the Spirit

Buddhism, in successful practice, may be the only philosophy left, as understood by Heidegger. The key here is the puzzling analysis of the ...

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Questions to ask Heidegger

1. What is his phenomenology of Spirit? 2. What is the phenomenology of the Gods, of God? (Presuming God is one of the Gods) See Eldred late...

Friday, February 22, 2013

Samsara as a fictional world

Samsara, from the point of view of the enlightened, is compared to a dream, a work of the shade of night.  On the one hand it is more than a...

Derrida on spirit in Heidegger

Because this suspicion appears absurd, because it carries in it something intolerable, and perhaps too because it moves towards the most wor...

Words

Words don't stand for something, they stand in for something (that's not present) Derrida? Now you may have noticed there is no hors...

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Hegel on Spirit

  Summary of Hegel's Philosophy of Mind Paul Trejo, August 1993 For over 180 years students have complained that Hegel's best-...