Kant vs Heidegger on Existential Predicates
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Cologne 22-Jan-2008
Joseph Polanik schrieb Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:55:24 -0500:
> Kant vs Heidegger on Existential Predicates
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> Michael Eldred wrote:
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> >Joseph Polanik schrieb
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> >>>ME: Kant himself provides an example of a sentence in which ‘is’
> >>>alone is a predicate,
>
> >>JP: Would you provide a cite to the passage in which Kant says that
> >>’is’ alone is a predicate?
>
> >ME: “Gott ist.” in the context of being as the “existential predicate”
> >as distinct from “real predicates” which say WHAT something is in its
> >CONCEPT, or Aristtotle’s _to ti estin_ translated to the environment of
> >subjectivist metaphysics, which Kant consummated..
>
> JP: a while back you made a concerted effort to claim that ‘x is’
> prepredicated ‘being’ so that ‘x is’ -> ‘x is a being’. now you appear
> to be claiming that ‘x is’ -> ‘x is an existent’.
>
> doesn’t that conflict with your acceptance of Heidegger’s claim that
> existence is the name of a characteristically human mode of being?
>
ME: In everyday language, ‘to be’ in its so-called “absolute signification”
is synonymous with ‘to exist’, and ‘a being’ is an ‘existent’ or an ‘entity’.
Philosophical usage usually draws distinctions between everyday usages. That
need not cause confusion, nor should Heidegger’s ontological term ‘Existenz,’
which (as an ontological structure of human being) means something entirely
different from the traditional ‘existentia’. In fact, Heideggerian Existenz
falls on the side the traditional ‘essentia’. The term in SuZ for existentia
would be ‘ontische Faktizität’.
Heideggerian ‘Existenz’, of course, is not an “existential predicate”.
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