The thing is: You're not doing your homework. I'm tired of referring you to suttas for the questions you ask. There are Buddhist answers to the questions you ask about Buddhism. But you ignore them. Forget them. Apparently, don't even think of looking to the suttas for them.
It's as if you actually aspire to keep yourself ignorant of Buddhism, so that you can keep making up your own parallel Buddhism and your own definitions of terms. — baker
No, you're like someone who reads only a few entries from a language dictionary but claims to be proficient in the language.Just as Kierkegaard ignored much in Christian dogma, and was a better Christian than all of them, it could be argued. — Constance
If all paths would lead to the top of the proverbial mountain, then everyone would already be enlightened and all your efforts are redundant.You disagree but do you really know what it is I am talking about? All religions, all cultural
institutions, language, indeed, the entire human endeavor is really describable at the level of phenomenological ontology.
I don't share your confidence in finding a unifying viewpoint amongst these different thinkers regarding the experience of consciousness.
For what it's worth, here is Sartre's statement in the Transcendence of the Ego:
We may therefore formulate our thesis: transcendental consciousness is an impersonal spontaneity. It determines our existence at each instant, without our being able to conceive anything before it. Thus each instant of our conscious life reveals to us a creation ex nihilo. Not a new arrangement, but a new existence. There is something distressing for each of us, to catch in the act this tireless creation of existence of which we are not the creators. At this level man has the impression of ceaselessly escaping from himself, of overflowing himself, of being surprised by riches which are always unexpected. And once more it is an unconscious from which he demands an account of this surpassing of the me by consciousness. Indeed, the me can do nothing to this spontaneity, for will is an object which constitutes itself for and by this spontaneity. The will directs itself upon states, upon emotions, or upon things, but it never turns back upon consciousness.
— Sartre, translated by Forrest Williams and Robert Kirkpatrick — Valentinus
No, you're like someone who reads only a few entries from a language dictionary but claims to be proficient in the language. — baker
If all paths would lead to the top of the proverbial mountain, then everyone would already be enlightened and all your efforts are redundant. — baker
Yeah, a(nother) boon for solipsistic banality. As Olivier5 points out: "The Dasein is Hitler-compatible." :shade:His [Heid's] phenomenology is an extraordinary reinterpretation the world. Powerful and compelling. — Constance
:100:This guy [Heidi] was so naïve, so simplistic sometimes... It really makes one wonder about the lack of street wisdom of some overly theoretical philosophers, who don't have much patience for empirical facts, nor any awareness of their own cultural biases apparently. — Olivier5
Re: der Wille zur Einklammerung ...Also there is this "manifest destiny" of the German volk here, as the "thinking volk"... Ja ja. My grandfather really liked their metaphysics in the camps.
The question is why Stein goes one way, Heidegger another? What makes for the timeless indecision of philosophy is not the issues being so vague, but the vagaries of people's experiences. Some people are simply intuitively wired for existential affirmation of religion. — Constance
. I claim that if you follow Husserl's reduction to its logical end, you end up with what is essentially important about Buddhism: Liberation and enlightenment. — Constance
Heidegger was a very sheltered man, but since he never ordered the murder of any person whatsoever, I don't consider him a Nazi. He was simply swept up in a cultural revolution — Gregory
“ Can we be satisfied simply with the notion that human beings are subjects for the world (the world which for consciousness is their world) and at the same time are objects in this world? — Joshs
I could care less what he said and thought — Gregory
I feel the same way about the craven, miserable, pretentious, obscure, mystical, romantic, jackboot-licking, Hitler-loving, Jew-hating Nazi bastard. — Ciceronianus the White
Sure he was, according to his biographer, Hannah Arendt and many others , Jee and non-Jew, who knew him.Herr Recktorführer was never, in the slightest, anti-nazi (i.e. anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-antisemitic ...) — 180 Proof
Hannah Arendt — Joshs
His student that he seduced, yes. — Ciceronianus the White
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