Is Dasein a Reality?
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That Pete wrote:
>Joseph Polanik wrote:
>>which daseins are being targeted by Heidegger? well, ironically
>>enough, you seem to be suggesting that Heidegger would disapprove of
>>any dasein who spouted Heidegger’s own philosophy in the first person.
>>how does Heidegger’s phenomenological destruction of the ‘cogito sum’
>>spare the dasein who agrees with the Heidegger who wrote:
>>”Thinking *is* always an ‘*I* think’, *ego cogito*. therein lies: I
>>am, *sum*. *Cogito, sum* — this is the highest certainty … In ‘I
>>posit’ the ‘I’ as the positer is co- and pre-posited as that which is
>>already present, as the being. The Being of beings is determined out
>>of the ‘I am’ as the certainty of the positing.”
>>[Heidegger, Martin. “Modern Science, Metaphysics and Mathematics” an
>>except from _What is Thinking_ contained in _Martin Heidegger: Basic
>>Writings_ by David F. Krell. 278-9 (emphasis in original)]
>Page 302, to those following along in the second edition.
>The Heidegger who wrote that was paraphrasing Descartes; the
>culmination of what went wrong with metaphysics. He is not describing
>dasein.
how could this be a paraphrase of Descartes’ position?
1. Heidegger speaks about the ‘cogito sum’ which is not Descartes’
position. it is what results after Heidegger takes out the ‘therefore’.
2. a few pages later, Heidegger writes “The ‘I think’ is reason, is its
fundamental act”. Descartes defines ‘I think’ as we would say ‘I
experience’. a more accurate translation of ‘cogito; ergo, sum’ into
today’s idiom would be ‘I experience; therefore, I am’.
3. you are claiming that Heidegger attributes the Being of beings to the
awareness that I am. isn’t this like attributing the discovery of the OD
to Descartes? what other scholars have done that?
>I thought of it a few months back, when you were describing your CPIs,
>axioms, predicates, et al.
CPIs? there is only one CPI: I know that I am; but, not what I am.
how does this essay help you disprove the CPI? does it help you prove
that I do not know that I am? does it help you prove that I do know what
I am? how does this essay help you disprove my claim (in my post of
2/12) that both Descartes and Heidegger would accept the CPI as an
accurate description of someone’s *initial* state of awareness (before
philosophical understanding sets in)?
how does this essay help you prove that Axiom 0 is false?
as you may recall, Michael E declined even to allege that Axiom 0 is
false; and, never stated a case against its translation: there is a
predicate P, such that, for any x that is, x is P. nevertheless, if you
are claiming that Axiom 0 is false; then, you are free to state your
case.
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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