http://philosophyandpsychology.comMusings from a Heideggerian EvangelistenSat, 07 Nov 2009 13:29:59 PSTnoMusings from a Heideggerian Evangelisthttp://philosophyandpsychology.com/?p=515A "God" who can die harbors already, even when he is not dying, such a weakness that from the outset he falls short of the idea that we cannot not form of a "God." And is it not the least of courtesies that he should satisfy a propaedeutic concept, even ...http://philosophyandpsychology.com/?p=511http://philosophyandpsychology.com/?p=492It always surprises me when animal activists or biologists attempt to downplay the differences between human and nonhuman animals. They inevitably point towards recent discoveries in animal behavior and claim that there is nothing separating humans from nonhumans. They say that Homo sapiens was originally the rational animal until we ...http://philosophyandpsychology.com/?p=494For Heidegger, Dasein is an entity with a special mode of being. A human being is this entity and it is human beings in general who enjoy this singular kind of being, which can be referred to as Existenz, or existence. It is a general motif for Heidegger that human ...http://philosophyandpsychology.com/?p=488From here "For my whole life there had been this giant eyeball looking at me, this god, this holy spirit, this church history, and this Bible. And not only everything I did but everything I thought was being judged: Was God pleased? I realized that that wasn't there anymore. It occurred ...http://philosophyandpsychology.com/?p=482Dasein is always its possibility. -Heidegger, Being and Timehttp://philosophyandpsychology.com/?p=480The Boston Globe has a cool article on the embodied mind and metaphorical cognition.http://philosophyandpsychology.com/?p=474In this neat little paper (warning pdf), Quentin Meillassoux raises the problem of how continental philosophy can account for scientific statements concerning events which happened before the dawn of humanity. For example, if Heidegger really claims that being and time is dependent on humanity, how can we account for scientific ...http://philosophyandpsychology.com/?p=447Graham Harman recently posted on a topic near and dear to my heart: Just now I entered that Bains book into my catalog, and saw that I own a total 1,614 books. It’s a large number, though certainly not in the big leagues of book collections of people in my age ...http://philosophyandpsychology.com/?p=163The world today is divided into smokers and non-smokers. It is true that the smokers cause some nuisance to the non-smokers, but this nuisance is physical, while the nuisance that the non-smokers cause the smokers is spiritual. There are, of course, a lot of non-smokers who don't try to interfere ...nonadult