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What is the difference between Derridas Deconstruction and Heideggers Destruktion?
Derridas deconstruction, as far as I understand it is to critically examine values as embodied in binary situations like signifier and signified where there is an implicit hierarchy of value - one ...
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What is the difference between Dasein and consciousness?
In Heideggers Being and Time he probes the question of Being, and not of beings; he probes it by querying that being for which Being is a problem. This being he names Dasein=Das Sein=Being there. How ...
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Whn Badiou asserts that mathematics is Ontology what does he mean by Ontology?
Badious oeuvre can be succintly phrased in his slogan: mathematic is ontology.
Mathematics I understand. So the question really is the other part of his slogan. I take his 'is' to be normal and ...
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Is there a philosophical difference between consciousness and self-consciousness?
I was contemplating Heideggers idea of Being whose Being is a problem. Self-consciousness to me, whilst directly speaks of consciousness that is aware of its own self as a consciousness, also carries ...
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Which works of Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Dewey does Rorty call “therapeutic”?
In the introduction to Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Rorty speaks of later works of Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Dewey as
therapeutic rather than constructive, edifying rather than ...
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Why did Heidegger (postmodernism) ignore Schelling's later thought?
F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) seems to be a seriously overlooked figure of modern philosophy: is there a good reason (beyond the merely historical) for his diminished relative importance compared, for ...
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What are the common responses to Heidegger's critique of aesthetics?
What are some possible problems with Martin Heidegger's critique of aesthetics, and how might one go about arguing against it?
More specifically, what are some of the common arguments that have been ...
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Should a philosopher's bigotry affect the interpretation of their work?
Aristotle is generally considered a genius of towering stature and the depth and breadth of his work are testament to this; however, by most accounts, and despite being progressive in many ways, he ...
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Useful discussion of Heidegger's “Ready-to-hand” and “present-at-hand” concepts?
Heidegger, as a tangent in his discussion of Daesin, talks about objects/tools which can be either ready-to-hand or present-at-hand.
As I find Heidegger painfully unreadable, but his concepts useful, ...
