More like Carnap than Dewey, I would think. But I'll acknowledge "the nothing" and the fascination "it" has for some baffles and intrigues me. For example, I would pose the question as "Why is there something?" There is no "instead of" alternative. This nonentity is seemingly profound and fearsome, and I wonder how and why it can be that. — Ciceronianus the White
Anyway, if there was no alternative, like you say, the question wouldn't make sense, even as you rephrased it. But it does make sense. — csalisbury
If what you're worried about is the spookiness of the language — csalisbury
Maybe, but not in this essay. Pay attention to his references to Hegel. This essay is not complete gibberish. It seems like you're suggesting that it is. — frank
Maybe, but not in this essay. Pay attention to his references to Hegel. This essay is not complete gibberish. It seems like you're suggesting that it is. — frank
This dread of unknown etiology is just the case where the nothing is revealed to consciousness. — frank
Why is something like birth trauma possible? I think the question - why does anything exist - reaches beyond the personal, even though the personal is our way in. — csalisbury
Being reaches beyond the personal, not-being does not. The dreadful is the closing in. That is why the question is a reawakening of the trauma and not of the reaching beyond of birth. — unenlightened
Since he seemed to lack interest in clarity, I say every person's interpretation is equal. — frank
Since he seemed to lack interest in clarity, I say every person's interpretation is equal. — frank — Arne
Since H consciously walks on past the sign that says "End of Logic, Only Phenomenology Ahead" — frank
Certainly there are aspects of Heidegger to which all serious Heidegger scholars would concur? — Arne
After 500 years of Descartes, the Cartesian's believe they can explain the interaction of subject and object by calling it transcendence and then pretending that they are not using the word as if it were a synonym for magic. — Arne
No. Is it good? The "walk on past logic" thing wasnt an insult btw. He explicitly stated that he was leaving logic behind in WIM.Have you read Heidegger's Metaphysical Foundations of Logic? — Arne
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