Claim 1
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Heidegger vs Descartes: Being Prioritized: Claim 1
Anthony Crifasi wrote:
>Joseph Polanik wrote:
>>you seem to be making three claims:
>>[1]: that asking ‘what am I?’ requires prioritizing being-inside over
>>being-alongside;
>>claim [1] seems dubious because the connection between asking ‘what am
>>I?’ and prioritizing of one mode of being over another is not obvious.
>>how do you establish that just asking ‘what am I’ requires any
>>prioritization at all let alone the one you postulate?
>It is specifically being-WITH-others that Heidegger prioritizes here.
>That is the equivalent to being-alongside when it comes to *me*. “I” am
>first and foremost with-Others, not an individual first that THEN comes
>into contact with other individuals. That’s what it means to prioritize
>Them over “me”. So treating the question, “What am I” (in the sense you
>mean - a mind, soul, psyche, neurons) as fundamental already
>presupposes that “I” am first and foremost an individual thing, and
>secondarily among others (as individuals too). In other words, you
>would be already presupposing the philosophical priority of “me” over
>”Them,” which is precisely what Heidegger is calling into question.
you understand the sense in which I ask ‘what am I?’.
what then is the purpose of these allegations concerning proper
philosophical prioritization? assume for the moment that you are
correctly describing Heidegger’s claim that being-with-others has
philosophical priority (whatever that means) over being-inside. does
that mean that the question ‘what am I?’ can not be asked within
Heideggerian philosophy?
if the question can be asked (in the sense in which I ask it) within a
Heideggerian perspective; then, what is the relevance of all of this
analysis of priorities?
if not; then, your analysis of priorities is exclusionary (despite your
denial of this allegation a few posts back); and, we have found the
fnord in Heidegger’s philosophy.
Joe
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Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the
first person. — H-N Castaneda
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