Does Heidegger Deny the Reality of the Physical Universe?
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Anthony Crifasi wrote:
>Joseph Polanik wrote:
>>do you contest the claim that ‘I am’ is true when self-asserted?
>Yes, due to Hume’s critique, using the very same criteria that
>Descartes used in the First Meditation. In other words, Hume simply
>drew out the consequences of what Descartes had begun.
yet, somehow, neither you nor Hume is able to conclude your analysis
with the words, “… and, thus, it is not the case that I am”.
>>do you contest the claim that Heidegger agrees that ‘I am’ is true
>>when self-asserted?
>Yes and no. Yes in that he begins with an analysis of the “being that I
>am,” but no in that he prefaces that analysis (SuZ section 25) by
>questioning whether “I” am “I myself” (as opposed to Them) in the first
>place.
even earlier, in section 9, he writes, “We are ourselves the entities to
be analysed”. this could be translated into the first as ‘I am this
entity which I will analyze’ or, even more simply, as ‘I am *this* which
I will analyze’.
how do you get from ‘I am *this* which I will analyze’ to ‘… and,
therefore, I am not’?
and (just to be clear) would you kindly express your answer in the first
person?
Thanks,
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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