Phileo-Musings
For those interested in Heidegger: “on” (Greek) – particle gerundive sense (to-be-in-being: sein) and a substantive sense (that which-is-in-being: das Seiende). “non” (Greek) – trans. presence, “now...
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 ArticleIn Response to a Blog on Tautology…
“Raw significance is sent to the mind through the senses, through apperception (and what Husserl called ‘the play of fancy’), and also through introspective reflection and contemplation . It is a call...
View ArticleAnother Start? (Updated 3/28/11, comments)
Why must Hegel’s Logic start with freedom? Freedom is not presupposition-less. Freedom means free. Free assumes a move away, a compulsion for dunamis; not dunamis for the sake of dunamis but dunamis as...
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 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...
View ArticlePhilosophy, Evolution, Chris Hayes and Punk Rock
Last night on the MSNBC program “All In with Chris Hayes” he had an interesting discussion with Gregg Graffin, punk rocker of Bad Religion and PhD in Zoology.1 He thinks of himself as a naturalist. He...
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