Heidegger

Jud uttered this phrase recently:

reactions to causal objects

Two questions (or are they just one?) Jud:

1) given (for now) the exclusive, ubiquitous and universal happenstance of
what you (as el-mat) call “causal objects”, why do such entities (as such
entities) cause anything? Or, (what amounts to the same thing) what is the
nature of cause-qua-cause? Or, why cause? I’m asking for the because of
cause.

2) given all of 1) above, what causes causal objects to cause (anything)?

(a) If nothing (or no causal object) causes causal objects to cause
anything, then is not this very nothing one more causal object? And thus one
has to admit nothing into the world of causal objects…

(b) If it isn’t nothing that causes causal objects to cause anything, then
it is some thing (and given (for now) the exclusive, ubiquitous and
universal happenstance of what you (as el-mat) call “causal objects”) and
that something must itself be a causal object since nothing else is anything
at all… and now we have an infinite regress.

regards

michaelP

Posted on Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 at 9:40 am
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