tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209401637627987227.post940362507258586599..comments2022-10-27T20:53:39.429-07:00Comments on Cosmic Microwave Background: I Think, Therefore I Am Not.The Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209401637627987227.post-18971713904148532092022-10-27T20:53:39.429-07:002022-10-27T20:53:39.429-07:00Perhaps an email will warn you of an impending rea...Perhaps an email will warn you of an impending reading into an old posting on one of your blogs, and perhaps this is a nuisance, yet I may incline to speak my piece.<br /><br />Perhaps Heroditus was beckoning the pre-histories into history. Nietzsche may be the voice beckong history into post-history.Christopher Yenivernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209401637627987227.post-79311061615794486772012-01-29T12:31:30.859-08:002012-01-29T12:31:30.859-08:00I would say you are right.
That doesn't mean ...I would say you are right. <br />That doesn't mean you are :) <br />I make a point of not reading anybody else's philosophy, in case it sabotages my own. <br />Agreement is not very important. <br />Clarity is.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209401637627987227.post-89805430152438673372012-01-29T11:53:01.849-08:002012-01-29T11:53:01.849-08:00If Philosophy encompasses a form of eternal truth,...If Philosophy encompasses a form of eternal truth, my assumption is that it should be discoverable by anybody capable without needing to learn from other philosophers. Different philosophers/mystics who never crossed paths should agree.James Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10032906363036833505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209401637627987227.post-67123077035403356022010-01-17T22:14:22.293-08:002010-01-17T22:14:22.293-08:00Crows can be quite clever, but not that clever.
T...Crows can be quite clever, but not <i>that</i> clever. <br />Thank you Cloudberry for translating into almost-crow-talk. <br />Nice to know my views coincide with some of the greatest philosophers of all time. Seems I didn't need to read any of them, after all :) <br /><br /><i>"I'm just a soul whose intentions are good, <br />Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood".</i><br />Bennie Benjamin / The Animals.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209401637627987227.post-49833597628386399762010-01-17T21:54:30.045-08:002010-01-17T21:54:30.045-08:00I might suggest reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra and...I might suggest reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra and the Fragments of Heraclitus someday, if you've not already. (Heraclitus' work did not survive intact, so they simply collected the fragments that were quoted in various other places and put them together in a volume.)<br /><br />But again, I wouldn't suggest Heidegger. That man is preposterously unreadable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209401637627987227.post-44649295563698370322010-01-17T21:52:03.052-08:002010-01-17T21:52:03.052-08:00If I'm not mistaken, the flaw you see in Occid...If I'm not mistaken, the flaw you see in Occidental thinking is an over-reliance on subject-object dualism. This, together with the here-beyond dualism (this is the phenomenal world, the "real" world is somewhere else), was identified by Heidegger as an error that plagues Western thought from Plato and Aristotle on to the announcement of nihilism by Nietzsche. So the "bookends", if you will, of this error, are Heraclitus and Nietzsche, both of whom are held in great esteem by Heidegger, and I think that in the writings of those two thinkers we see a much closer alignment with some general tendencies of Oriental (Buddhist, Taoist) thought, e.g. overcoming the subject-object dualism and the phenomenal-noumenal dualism.<br /><br />I can't say much about the writings of Heidegger himself, since they were well-nigh impenetrable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209401637627987227.post-78051590109499110672010-01-17T21:22:41.701-08:002010-01-17T21:22:41.701-08:00As Jacques Derrida so suavely referred to:
Could ...As Jacques Derrida so suavely referred to: <br /><i>Could you enlarge</i>? <br />Not being a whatever-it-is-that-I-would-need-to-be, I don't quite understand your comment.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209401637627987227.post-73672604942589405912010-01-17T20:55:13.694-08:002010-01-17T20:55:13.694-08:00"Orientals are part-of.
Occidentals are apart..."Orientals are part-of.<br />Occidentals are apart-from."<br /><br />Arguably Heraclitus was "part-of", as was Nietzsche. Hence the attraction of Heidegger's interpretation of the history of philosophy, which sets off everything between those two as an error.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com