Heidegger

In a message dated 25/02/2008 12:00:52 GMT Standard Time,
michael at sandwich-de-sign.co.uk writes:
And, Bernard, it never occurred to me to think Heidegger’s coupling with
Hannah Arendt as a reverse schicksal-shikseh. Cheers.
michaelP
Jud:
I doubt it was as *historically interesting* or *philosophically
significant* as that Michael - the man would shag anything in skirts […]

jimstuart51 wrote:
>jPolanik wrote:
>>so, how do I determine that I am a dasein instead of a mind, or
>>spirit or soul or a group of neurons or a quantum phenomenon?
>Heidegger gives reasons for thinking that I am a Dasein in B&T. He
>also gives reasons for thinking I am not an immaterial […]

mP:
>> A quote from Howard Jacobson’s excellent novel (about Jewishness, about
>> Jewing):
>>
>> “They sang songs in Buchenwald. Figure that. … True, they were ironic
>> songs about _Schicksal_, but a song’s still a song.
>>
>> “_Schicksal_ — meaning fate or destiny.
>>
>> “Shikse — meaning floozie. From which shikseh — meaning Gentile girl…
>>
>> “They used to say […]

In a message dated 2/24/2008 8:39:57 PM Eastern Standard Time,
janstr at mail.wirehub.nl writes:
_http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19726441.300-music-special-are
-animals-naturally-musical.html_
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No. Only those that cant think.
B.

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als-naturally-musical.html

In a message dated 2/24/2008 2:31:17 AM Eastern Standard Time,
michael at sandwich-de-sign.co.uk writes:
A quote from Howard Jacobson’s excellent novel (about Jewishness, about
Jewing):
“They sang songs in Buchenwald. Figure that. … True, they were ironic
songs about _Schicksal_, but a song’s still a song.
“_Schicksal_ — meaning fate or destiny.
“Shikse — meaning floozie. From which shikseh — meaning […]

In a message dated 2/24/2008 11:35:50 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jPolanik at nc.rr.com writes:
Heidegger opens BaT (section 9) with “We are ourselves the entities to
be analysed”. if I translate this into the first person, I get something
like “I am this entity I will analyze’ or “I am *this* which I will
analyze”. so I know that I […]

eupraxis at aol.com wrote:
[all quotes from CSM I, 127]
>[Joe]: “for his own purposes (finding a starting point for
>philosophical inquiry), Descartes only has to defend the certainty of
>that starting point.”
>[Wil]: Not really. A starting point may be (and is in this case)
>phenomenally (phenomenologically?) misleading.
a starting point *may* be phenomenologically misleading? […]

eupraxis at aol.com wrote:
>[Joe]: “Descartes doesn’t actually say ‘cogito ergo sum’ anywhere in
>the meditations. he is dramatizing its use and discovery.”
>[Wil]: No, he said it in the prior Discourse on Method (Part IV) which
>is the model for The Meditations on that question. [end]
in part 4 of the Discourse on Method […]

A quote from Howard Jacobson’s excellent novel (about Jewishness, about
Jewing):
“They sang songs in Buchenwald. Figure that. … True, they were ironic
songs about _Schicksal_, but a song’s still a song.
“_Schicksal_ — meaning fate or destiny.
“Shikse — meaning floozie. From which shikseh — meaning Gentile girl…
“They used to say that character was destiny, but now they […]