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... was used by Marx. It was a dialectic, a thesis-antithesis-synthesis approach. It was rejected by the unsystematic philosophers like Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and others, but it is a recognized approach to forming new philosophies. Another way new philosophies are formed is through evolution. ...

... and whims. And, if something doesn’t exist at all, I can’t really refer to it. I wouldn’t know anything about it. This could go on and on. Heidegger and Sartre wrote thousands of pages each on existence. It’s a major part of metaphysics and epistemology. Perhaps we can get a feel for ...

... of 'what form should a Man's Life take'...for a man to hit a jackpot such as Nirvana or Heaven...was a useless preoccupation...deluded. Martin Heidegger said...Nietschke is the culmination of the entire history of Western Philosophy in that he signals the end of metaphysics.... ....because ...

... “What does it really mean to be alive?” is not for everyone. No! It is only for extremely intelligent and mature human beings who can read Heidegger, Krishnamurti, Rajneesh, Wu Wei Wu or Heraclitus with equal joy of deep stimulation. This inquiry is total, so it is certainly not for stupid ...

... readers of this article. It is a very healthy shock that you will continue to avoid. It goes hand-in-hand with your failure to understand Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, as well as Carlos Castaneda’s Tales of Power. If you are a member of the Krishnamurti Cult, if you believe J. Krishnamurti ...

... the entire of the manifest world, and asked myself, what , amongst every human activity in which a person can work (and I mean this more like Heidegger's sense of human inclination to work; to activity) - what in all this I would do, I chose this, and this way of it exactly. That's it, that's ...

... an omnipotent God." In my warren, burrowing where I go; going before any bunny can. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with continental philosophy: Heidegger: “Nihilation is neither an annihilation of what-is, nor does it spring from negation.” In being, nothing is. Nothing does not nihilate ...

... path is one of inevitable withdrawal; it is easy and - in relative terms - justified to feel quite desolate as yourself in an ocean of «THEY»...Heidegger analyzes very well that process of alienation of the individual, drowned in a sea of faceless «they».It does seem sometimes that there is ...

... By Gabriel Chiron http://www.neosocrates.org To philosophize, we may now say, is an extraordinary inquiry into the extraordinary. —Martin Heidegger, 1935 Martin Heidegger pointed it out over seventy (70) years ago, but it is hard to locate ensuing examples of extraordinary inquiry, nor ...

The very definition of Philosophy, as commonly agreed or “understood”, will never be what Heidegger gives: Extraordinary inquiry into the extraordinary. Perhaps now the reader of this article will see why. You may have heard that there is nothing stranger than the ...

... may be insufficient for certain concepts that a more developed language would deem necessary to critical thouhgt. I don't think I'm alone on this. Heidegger, for instance, virtually slaughtered the German language and remains to this day untranslateable because he felt he couldn't properly convey ...

... David that Nietzsche would have been silenced by the Nazi regime, were he alive to prevent his writings from being altered and misread. He was no Heidegger.

... like Al Qaeda and many similar thinking groups and cells got their ideas about revolution from the intellectual climate around thinkers as Heidegger, Sartre and Fanon, in the 1950's and 1960's. It's easy to follow the spread of ideas to Algerian revolutionaries, Biko, Che Guevara and Pol ...

I just picked up Heidegger*, and I found a note of agreement with him that you may benefit from. Instead of considering Reality and Being to be large abstract concepts, considering them to simply be the most fundamental, basic, and ...

... outdistances in the intelligence department by legions, Harry is the future's humanist children's story . . . . okay, well, I have to go read some Heidegger now for school. Can't tell which way the ridiculous/sublime thingy is going . . . .

... a hard time reconciling Darwinism with the more recent, highly esoteric, metaphysical theories that I simply can't disprove (the existence of Heidegger's Dasein , for instance). Looking for ways to keep Darwin's theories useful, while finding out the exact range of the theory, seems necessary. ...

I always kinda' liked Heidegger, not for what he said, but for how he made me feel (now, that's brilliant). He might of been a Nazi, but "The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking" is...

Always remember, in any argument, it is possible to retreat into silence...

Heidegger? Good grief. Who in the world could possibly understand that guy?

I tried pretty hard to get through "Sein und Zeit". I had a "feeling" there was something there but I couldn't turn that feeling into anything tangible. Heidegger was yet another of those philosophers who tended to write for academics.

... want to measure, for instance, how many women can you put in a 10 foot line? Scientist, prophet, asshole, disciple of pseudo-Dionysius, curious if Heidegger's concept of "care" has anything to do with my own soul? After three days, I can say with certainty, that no one on this board is ...

... which becomes the last one to follow, I guess philosophy). I assume the 2 communicate (Wittgenstein (first person through proper language)<> Heidegger (First person description of the third person perspective) very very well if you'll accept them as communicatable. There is however one I ...

... instead of many. A couple of years ago I tried a book on freud and loved it, now I have some theorems of my own and combine that with Later Heidegger and Later Wittgenstein to pierce through much nonsense. I think I want to develop further and perhaps when I'm +-30 or so start studying at ...

... has a lot to say about this. May I suggest False Prison Volume I and II? (Wittgensteins ouvre) Also the lectures of Dreyfus on the later Heidegger and the first part of Being and Time (through the Dreyfus lectures) are highly recommended! I'll reiterate in my own fashion what they say ...

... a single, solveable, problem. They become great by applying the philosophic method of inquiry to small problems that can be handled. For instance, Heidegger is famous for writing about how the immediate access of consciousness relates to the verb "to be". Sartre studied the operations ...

... meaning "concealedness" or "forgetfulness." Finding the truth would be like lifting a veil, i.e. seeing clearly. Heidegger makes a big deal out of this.