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 death. John Heaton ‘The Other and Psychotherapy’ in Provocation of Levinas New research on the unconsciousness is reviving discussions [...]
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 repulsion or attraction. Hegel thinks freedom as immediacy, ‘isness’. Because of freedom, immediacy wants what ‘isness’ isn’t – mediation. Two terms have appeared: [...]
“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 to which consciousness of conscious individuals is *called* to (ostensibly) present a conceptually reciprocal and orderly answer to.” I appreciate the subtlety of [...]
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 the showing. Error is induced by not seeing what shows itself in the phenomena. Thus if science understands space as ether we [...]
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 observation. According to Heidegger, Aristotle is astutely observing what shows itself as it is without trying to bring a previous theory (theoria) of what shows itself in the observation. [...]
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 Loy’s book. There is absolutely no attempt to systematize a critique or even make assertions that are not hugely [...]
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) is given by limit or boundary (peras) and is the genesis of its being. Form is always with matter to make it what it is as [...]
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 also points out and contrasts Heidegger’s philosophy with Buddhism. Here are a few tidbits that occurred to me while reading it: As one gets older a certain [...]
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 moment” use; now “aon” (Greek) – trans. age, use; eon ti to on – What is being? “being” is temporal not a thing (semblance) but from arche (origin, [...]
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 to build something, we are relating to that hammer with a “pre-understanding” of its being. We are relating to it in the mode [...]
