Heidegger

Joe implores MichaelE:

> let’s not go down that road. instead why don’t you deal with something
> more concrete, a simple assertion that has previously stumped Professor
> Crifasi:
>
> I am self-aware.
>
> in the total absence of any reality of any reality type; in the total
> absence of any existent of any mode of existence; in the total
> absence of any being of any mode of being; etc., — what asserts ‘I am
> self-aware’?

Well, in a highly intuitive sense, for me, that some being can say (can
assert, can (sup)pose, can throw its self out beyond its self) it is
“self-aware” means that this being’s be-ing is not what it is. How: about
that?

regards

michaelP

Posted on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at 6:00 am
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