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That Pete wrote:
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> */Joseph Polanik /* wrote:
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> 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 fungus and
> reptiles rather than on the category that is characteristically human
> — irregardless of what those categories are called.
>
> Isn’t it even more absurd to expound on Heidegger on a Heidegger mailing
> list, never having bothered to read Heidegger? And even worse, when
> others have taken the time to explain, to just incessantly repeat your
> infelicities?

do you really think that Heidegger and Plato are asking the same
question concerning the structure of the human individual?

I don’t recall anyone even providing a straight answer let alone an
explanation.

what’s your answer?

Joe


Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the
first person. — H-N Castaneda

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