Subject: Re: Being and Time-section one
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:21:08 +0100


does anyone know where I might pursue further studies on Heidegger?  I've
already written a book on TS Eliot/Jacques Lacan....
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From: "Paul Murphy" <Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Being and Time-section one


> well, I read page 1 last night and Heidegger is saying that the notion of
> being is something taken for granted since the time of the great Greek
> philosophers, and that he wants to re-investigate it.  He then begins to
> link being with time.
> outline what you mean by traditional logic?
> if 2 +2 = 4?
> but being is not something we can quantify under a microscope, even the
> genetic, biologistic origins of consciousness are not understood, even
> today.  Might we conflate being with consciousness?  What can we
> counterpoint or contrast being with, essentialism, genetic accounts of the
> origins of consciousness, or biblical accounts, creation myths of African
> nations, Celtic legends, Wagnerian opera, folk songs, fairy tales, dreams?
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> From: "Malcolm Riddoch" <riddoch-AT-central.murdoch.edu.au>
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> Subject: Re: Being and Time-section one
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> >
> > On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 11:05  PM, Paul Murphy wrote:
> >
> > > okay when will we start?
> >
> > I thought we already had? Something about time as the horizon of
> > being...
> >
> > As to the question of being, according to Heidegger it lacks an answer
> > in traditional philosophy because the question itself was never
> > rigorously formulated. What do you think of being as 'thisness' or the
> > 'indeterminate immediate' that is at once already obviously meaningful
> > and purely self-evident, yet at the same time an indefinable concept in
> > terms of traditional logic?
> >
> > Malcolm
> >
> >
> >
> >
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