Fri 20 Feb, 2009 05:16 pm - Essence and existence are different ways of thinking about the same things. Existence refers to the being of an object while essence refers to its functions. The 'existence' of the knife... (view)
Tue 10 Feb, 2009 01:13 pm - Existence and essence would have to be simultaneous, since an existence is always "about" something -- at what stage does existence not have an essence?
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Mon 9 Feb, 2009 07:26 pm - Here are some quotes from Heidegger.
[I]Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.[/I]
[I]To dwell is to garden.[/I]
[I]If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face... (view)
Mon 9 Feb, 2009 06:36 pm - The best objection I can make against the Brains in a Vat argument being metaphysically true is that our world lacks the discrepancies you would expect to find in a virtual reality -- that our... (view)
Thu 5 Feb, 2009 06:43 pm - [quote=Mr. Fight the Power]All along I have pointed to rights, like all of morality, being a part of the world of human understanding that supervenes off of the material world. Basically, rights do... (view)
Thu 5 Feb, 2009 06:32 pm - [quote=goethe10]Wow! That is really good! Well put.[/quote]
But you can say it more concisely, like with 'the objective is just a measure within the subjective' or 'for the word... (view)
Thu 5 Feb, 2009 05:47 pm - Existentialism will live whenever a person experiences joy, sadness, pleasure, pain, and attempts to make sense of these things -- which is the same as saying everybody's life is an ongoing... (view)
Thu 5 Feb, 2009 03:04 pm - Something worth noting is that some Ancient Greek philosophers equated 'nothing' with the vaccuum of space. However, although it is not material, the vaccum of space can both be sensed... (view)
Thu 5 Feb, 2009 02:49 pm - [SIZE=85]Consider.[/SIZE]
[I][SIZE=85]Sensations came into being only to inform an organism of the dangers the world poses to its ongoing existence, not to detail its structure, so it is uncertain... (view)
Thu 5 Feb, 2009 01:47 pm - Owing that the world is characterized by the space-time continuum, the most fundamental criterion for determining if something exists is describing what it looks like and where it is at. The ego... (view)
