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Ep 93: The Idea as Actuality

In the section that begins “Hegel’s concept of the idea,” we read about the various determinations of the history of the idea that are encapsulated in Hegel’s absolute self-knowing spirit and told that all post-Hegelian philosophies are mere submissive iterations of this core concept. We then discuss how this idea of the idea plays into…

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Ep 92: Representation as Reality

In subsections 11-14 of section 110 we read about Platonism having been transformed from “idealism” to “realism” via the res becoming essentia. This manifests in the I, via cogito ergo sum, being mathetically linked to thinking, as well as the perceptum being taken for existence. From here we spin off to discuss the identitarian and…

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Ep 91: Objectifying the Subject

Continuing thru section 110, we read of a set of prescriptive relations that the the liberal worldview perpetuates through its valuation-centered reach beyond being: the relation of form to soul, essence to seeing, community to discourse, and good to love. We also analyze how the subject/object dichotomy and the higher valuation of the subject inherent…

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Episode 90: Beyond Beingness

In section 110, subsection 5, we paddle our way through some ancient Greek to discover Heidegger reverse engineering the movement of the liberal mind beyond beingness in search of being’s fulfillment in value, happiness, ideals, meaning, and more. All of this means the guiding question of what beings are is unoriginally addressed. What post-liberalism might…

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Episode 89: The Look of Something

In sections 108, 109, and part of 110, we read about the basic metaphysical interpretations of space and time, the idea or Platonic form as the look of something, and how the individual and the changeable become non-being in the realm of objective constant presence. We then discuss various pivot points from liberalism to post-liberalism…

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Episode 88: Fundamental Ontology

In sections 106 and 107 we read of Heidegger’s insistence on the need for a fundamental ontology that will address the basic questions of being’s essential occurrence and the truth of being. We also read of the difference between, and the collusion of, metaphysica generalis and metaphysica specialis. We spin off from these discussions to…

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Episode 87: Enforcing Representational Certainty

In sections 103 -105 we read a taxonomy of the epistemological fundaments of German Idealism, which spawned the Marxism and Post-Structuralism that overtook American and European universities and cultures beginning in the 1960’s and up to today. As the self is elevated into representational certainty, external enforcement of its formula begins. This can be seen…

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Episode 86: I Think Unity

Completing our reading of section 102, we follow Heidegger through a discussion of how philosophy as science bolsters the position of thought as guideline which, like the absolute self-knowledge of the I, determines the interpretation of beingness as the self-present present. Following further discussions of Nietzsche’s “will to power” as truth deteriorated “into a necessary…

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Episode 85: The Great Simplicity

We start at section 101 of Contributions and read about the great simplicity of our initial look into the truth of beyng via an understanding of thought as anticipatory grasping. In the next section we read a beautiful historiography of the development from Plato’s “yoking of the soul and truth” to the I that thinks…

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Episode 84: Being and Thinking

At section 100 and onward, we look at how “beingness was grasped as constant presence from ancient times.” This leads to a discussion of the entire nexus of perception and experience as constructed by constancy, presence, time, projection, and the collusion of beingness and being that gives rise to the conundrum of needing essences to…

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