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Re: Sv: Martin Heidegger's Sein und Zeit - a seminar
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Originally Posted by Plethon
Yes, it is indeed. Being is the basic concept of the human mind. I don't agree with the Cartesian postulate: Cogito, ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am") It can be reversed into: I am, therefore I think. Even a small child, not being able yet to think properly, has the feeling of being. It is the foundation of everything.
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That strikes me as a nice down to earth way of thinking about concepts. Here's a locus from the beginning of §15 that I stumbled on today:
But this phenomenological treatise, as an investigation of Being, becomes a separate and explicit fulfillment of that understanding of Being always already included in the Dasein*, "living" in every concern with what is.
*See the glossary of terms linked in post #8 for an explanation.
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Originally Posted by Seekers
a) Is it indeed true that Being is the most common and widest of all concepts?
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Heidegger does think it is.
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While the rest of mankind seeks for the sake of finding and of knowing, the Westerner of today seeks for the sake of seeking; the Gospel saying, 'Seek and ye shall find,' is a dead letter for him, in the full force of this phrase, since he calls 'death' anything and everything that constitutes a definite finality, just as he gives the name 'life' to what is no more than fruitless agitation.
René Guénon, East and West
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