Heidegger

Joseph Polanik wrote: as I recall, I’ve already mentioned on more than one occasion that
Heidegger has reversed the usual meanings of existent and being. by
itself, that reversal would not be a problem; after all, not everyone
chooses the same root predicate. Heidegger’s absurdity comes from
dwelling on the category that we share with chairs, toe […]

Kant: A Being is Not Necessarily an Existent
Michael Eldred wrote:
>Joseph Polanik schrieb
>>JP: a while back you made a concerted effort to claim that ‘x is’
>>prepredicated ‘being’ so that ‘x is’ -> ‘x is a being’. now you appear
>>to be claiming that ‘x is’ -> ‘x is an existent’.
>>doesn’t that […]

Cologne 22-Jan-2008
Joseph Polanik schrieb Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:55:24 -0500:
> Kant vs Heidegger on Existential Predicates
>
> Michael Eldred wrote:
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> >Joseph Polanik schrieb
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> >>>ME: Kant himself provides an example of a sentence in which ‘is’
> >>>alone is a predicate,
>
> >>JP: Would you provide a cite to the passage in which Kant […]

Kant vs Heidegger on Existential Predicates
Michael Eldred wrote:
>Joseph Polanik schrieb
>>>ME: Kant himself provides an example of a sentence in which ‘is’
>>>alone is a predicate,
>>JP: Would you provide a cite to the passage in which Kant says that
>>’is’ alone is a predicate?
>ME: “Gott ist.” in the context of being […]

Michael Eldred wrote:
>> AC: For Aristotle and Plato, though, the gods are in *no* sense there in
>> cleaning the latrine or peeling potatoes, or any such productive
>> activity. Aristotle quite explicitly states that there is only one human
>> activity that has any kinship to the activity of the gods -
>> contemplative wisdom:
>
> ME: I […]

Cologne 21-Jan-2008
michaelP schrieb Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:31:45 +0000:
> > michaelP schrieb Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:42:32 +0000:
> >
> >>
> >> MP: Thanks for this elucidation. A couple of questions linger: as with
> >> Heidegger’s showing of the abyssal gulf between the Greek
> >> _aletheia_/_pseudos_ and the Latin _veritas_/_falsum_ (please excuse the
> >> quickly […]

Cologne 21-Jan-2008
Anthony Crifasi schrieb Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:13:50 -0600:
> Michael Eldred wrote:
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> > ME: It’s not my distinction between knowing and faith, but one in a quotation
> > from Heidegger GA55.
>
> AC: Sorry - I thought you were using it to represent your own reply?
>
> > ME: You make the usual objection: […]

Kant on Predicates
Michael Eldred wrote:
>Joseph Polanik schrieb
>>Michael Eldred wrote:
>>>Joseph Polanik schrieb
>>>>JP: 2: when we say ‘God is’ we do “not put a new predicate to the
>>>>concept of God”.
>>>ME: Correct: ‘Is’ is not a “real predicate” belonging to God’s
>>>”reality”, i.e. God’s “concept”, i.e. WHAT God is as a […]

Michael Eldred wrote:
> ME: It’s not my distinction between knowing and faith, but one in a quotation
> from Heidegger GA55.
Sorry - I thought you were using it to represent your own reply?
> You make the usual objection: Most people are not
> philosophers, which is true enough, but, conversely, what ‘people think’ can
> […]

In a message dated 1/20/2008 7:32:23 AM Eastern Standard Time,
artefact at t-online.de writes:
ME: The connection between giving signs and knowing seems of the pith
for the Greeks’ canny-uncanny dwelling with their gods. Here’s another
quote from GA55:
“Wenn der Denker sagt: _kai entautha_ — ‘auch da’, _en tooi hipnooi_ —
‘im Backofen’, west das Ungeheuere an, dann will […]