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Jun 12, 2023 at 10:39 comment added Chris Degnen Re. "cause for existence of ..." synonymous with "the reason for ..." puts me in mind of The Principle of Reason : "Does not the reason of reasons press forward beyond itself to the reason of reason of reasons? ... If thinking takes this path to reason, then surely it can't help but fall intractably into groundlessness." "Drängt der Grund des Grundes nicht über sich hinaus zum Grund des Grundes des Grundes? ... Ginge das Denken diesen Weg zum Grund, dann müßte es doch unaufhaltsam ins Grundlose fallen." 17-18 heidegger.ru/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Band-10.pdf Best in your language.
Jun 12, 2023 at 10:19 comment added Chris Degnen Re: "Being, the ground ..." Beings (the conditioned = thought) come from Being (the unconditioned = unthought). The unconditioned is Ab-grund void/without-ground or without-reason (literally). From p 14-15 of Absent Foundation (linked above): "The temporal freedom of transcendent Dasein is the origin of the principle of ground or reason ... However, as this ground freedom is the void [Ab-grund] of Dasein. And as Heidegger puts it in the late 1930s, "As void [Ab-grund], Being ‘is’ at once the nothing [das Nichts] as well as the ground." Being is the "void" (Ab-grund), the absent foundation
Jun 12, 2023 at 8:48 comment added Dimer I'm using a translator, so I don't understand the language well. Is there a "cause for the existence of causality" or not?
Jun 12, 2023 at 8:41 comment added Dimer "Being, the ground, does not depend on reason" what is the meaning of this sentence?
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