A Brief Introduction to Being and Time
Heidegger (H.) tells us we all have a pre-cognitive understanding of “being” already at work in our “everydayness”. There are different ways that we relate to being. For example, when we use a hammer...
View ArticleHeidegger and Buddhism
Check out this article: http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-MISC/91932.htm The title is “What’s Wrong with Being and Time: A Buddhist Critique” By David Loy Not only does it elucidate Heidegger but it...
View ArticleAristotle and Modernity: The Eternal and Science (updated 9/3/10)
Aristotle argues that being (ousia; feminine present participle) is simultaneously matter and form (eidos, idea) governed by change (metabole).(1) The form shown in a being’s figure or shape (morphe)...
View ArticleReadings from David Loy –“Nonduality” (updated 9/14/10)
This is a running log of my readings of David Loy’s, “Nonduality”. The most recent comments are at the top of the post. I am merely jotting down impressions, thoughts and questions as I read Professor...
View ArticleThe Problem of Logic
Foundationalism is always at work in conjunction with logic. By foundationalism I mean philosophical necessity. For example, in Heidegger’s view, Aristotle’s ontology is derived from phenomenological...
View ArticleThoughts while reading Derrida’s work, “The Gift Of Death”
Disclosure is a showing. In Husserl and Heidegger phenomena is what shows itself without imputing theoria, specific ways of seeing, in an extraneous manner, in a way that changes, covers over or hides...
View ArticleThe gift of death or the face of the other… (Updated 11/5/10)
11/5/10 – Addition of paragraphs 3 and 4 —————————————————————————– Jemeinigkeit, Heidegger’s notion of being-toward-death, is Dasein’s (the ‘there’ of human being) utmost possibility. The possibility...
View ArticleThoughts Concerning Being and Other
The Other is radical only if the desire for it is not the possibility for anticipating it as the desirable or of thinking it out beforehand but if it comes aimlessly as an absolute alterity, like...
View ArticleThoughts on Heidegger and Levinas
A few comments from this thread… “The Other is not constituted by the self, as Levinas haves it, but the inverse.” There is no ‘constitution’ of the self from the Other in Levinas. The self is a...
View ArticleGreek Mythos (updated 2/16/12)
First of all Chaos came-to-be; but then afterwards Broad-breasted earth, a secure dwelling place forever for all (the immortals who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and misty Tartara in the depths...
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