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Previously: Blog Series Commenting on Chapter 1 of Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” Chapter 2 of 4 The Death of the God of Leibniz: Deconstruction in a Nuthouse Just DOET Thinking! Welcome to Secular Frontier! DOET (Do-It) Thinking Dedication Page for the Intellectually Impatient DOET PHILOSOPHY REVERSAL: I’m ... Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” Chapter 3 of 4

Previously: Blog Series Commenting on Chapter 1 of Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” The Death of the God of Leibniz: Deconstruction in a Nuthouse Just DOET Thinking! Welcome to Secular Frontier! DOET (Do-It) Thinking Dedication Page for the Intellectually Impatient DOET PHILOSOPHY REVERSAL: I’m Not Trying to Prove my Philosophy with Math Appendix: Example of ... Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” Chapter 2 of 4

Previously: Blog Series Commenting on Chapter 1 of Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” The Death of the God of Leibniz: Deconstruction in a Nuthouse Just DOET Thinking! Welcome to Secular Frontier! DOET (Do-It) Thinking Dedication Page for the Intellectually Impatient DOET PHILOSOPHY REVERSAL: I’m Not Trying to Prove my Philosophy with Math Appendix: Example of ... Appendix 2/2: DOET Thinking and Remembering Being

Previously: Blog Series Commenting on Chapter 1 of Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” The Death of the God of Leibniz: Deconstruction in a Nuthouse Just DOET Thinking! Welcome to Secular Frontier! DOET (Do-It) Thinking Dedication Page for the Intellectually Impatient DOET PHILOSOPHY REVERSAL: I’m Not Trying to Prove my Philosophy with Math Celebrating 100 Years ... Appendix: Example of DOET Circular Questioning at the Grade 5 Level

Previously: Blog Series Commenting on Chapter 1 of Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” The Death of the God of Leibniz: Deconstruction in a Nuthouse Just DOET Thinking! Welcome to Secular Frontier! DOET (Do-It) Thinking Dedication Page for the Intellectually Impatient Celebrating 100 Years of Martin Heidegger’s “BEING AND TIME” (Dedicated to Edmund Husserl April 8, ... DOET PHILOSOPHY REVERSAL: I’m Not Trying to Prove my Philosophy with Math

Previously: Blog Series Commenting on Chapter 1 of Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” The Death of the God of Leibniz: Deconstruction in a Nuthouse Just DOET Thinking! Welcome to Secular Frontier! Celebrating 100 Years of Martin Heidegger’s “BEING AND TIME” (Dedicated to Edmund Husserl April 8, 1926) Celebrating New Teachers: Education and Metaphysics with Squaring ... DOET (Do-It) Thinking Dedication Page for the Intellectually Impatient

(Parmenides, wiki) **** This is dedicated to those current few who suspect there is more to thinking than just who is the greatest chess strategist or who can recall the most trivia facts the fastest on the gameshow Jeopardy or the board game Trivial Pursuit. In such a context people usually aspire to the intelligence ... Welcome to Secular Frontier!

Previous DOET Introductory Posts Series: Blog Series Commenting on Chapter 1 of Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” The Death of the God of Leibniz: Deconstruction in a Nuthouse Now, the Celebration: A DOET philosophy (pronounced “do-it” like Nike “Just Do It!”) or something like it did not just arrive ready made from heaven but is ... Just DOET Thinking!

Previously: What is the Difference between God (Infinite Mind) and Person (Finite Mind) in German Philosophical Thought? (2/2) What is the Difference between God (Infinite Mind) and Person (Finite Mind) in German Philosophical Thought? (Conclusion) What is the Difference between God (Infinite Mind) and Person (Finite Mind) in German Philosophical Thought? (Afterword) What is the ... The Death of the God of Leibniz: Deconstruction in a Nuthouse

To close, let’s think one more time of the right-angle triangle “as” it appears to (i) A mentally challenged person who does not encounter triangles as a distinct class of shapes, vs (ii) A child just learning her shapes, vs (iii) A teenager in geometry class learning the Pythagorean theorem, vs (iv) A geometry professor ... (Afterword) What is the Difference between God (Infinite Mind) and Person (Finite Mind) in German Philosophical Thought?

That our thinking proceeds from obscure to clear would be evidence for God for Leibniz, that beings are progressively more rational as our growing reason allows us to encounter them ever more clearly. We have hit on one of the most elegant, underlying moves in Leibniz’s entire metaphysics. For him, the very fact that our ... (Conclusion) What is the Difference between God (Infinite Mind) and Person (Finite Mind) in German Philosophical Thought?

What does Leibniz say about the mind of God? In the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the mind of God is the ultimate, necessary repository of all possibilities, mathematical structures, and eternal truths. Leibniz views God not merely as a creator who acts by whim, but as the supreme, infinite intelligence whose intellect operates with ... (2/2) What is the Difference between God (Infinite Mind) and Person (Finite Mind) in German Philosophical Thought?

What does Kant say about the infinite mind and how is it different from the finite mind? Kant contrasts the finite (human) mind with an infinite (divine or “original”) mind primarily in terms of the nature of their cognitive faculties—especially intuition and understanding—in the Critique of Pure Reason and related works such as the Critique ... What is the Difference between God (Infinite Mind) and Person (Finite Mind) in German Philosophical Thought?

Blog Posts in this series: (Part 1) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 2) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 3) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 4) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 5) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 6) Blogging Through Martin ... Blog Series Commenting on Chapter 1 of Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”

Blog Posts in this series: (Part 1) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 2) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 3) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 4) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 5) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 6) Blogging Through Martin ... (CONCLUSION) Blogging though chapter 1 of Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics

When asking after beings, the “why” question is of an entirely different kind from the “what” and “how” questions. A table may be “for eating on” and “brown” and “hard” in terms of what it is, and “badly positioned” in the middle of the gym floor during a basketball game in terms of “how” it ... (Part 8) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”

Heidegger comments Roughly speaking, philosophy always aims at the first and last grounds of beings, and it does so in such a way that human beings themselves, with respect to their way of Being, are emphatically interpreted and given an aim (Heidegger, IM, 11) What is, as such and as a whole, the Greeks called ... (Part 7) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”

Academic disciplines do not exist in a vacuum; they are structured frameworks designed to answer fundamental inquiries about such things as our universe, past, and minds. An object of inquiry is any phenomenon, entity, or concept designated as the subject of systematic investigation, characterized by its finitude, intelligibility, and capacity to generate testable or interpretable ... (Part 6) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”

We’ve been looking at the basic question of metaphysics, “Why are there beings at all rather than nothing,” and have found some interesting points.  The question suggests beings have a “why,” and we seem to know what and how beings are and what and how we mean “Nothing” – as the question isn’t incoherent to ... (Part 5) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”

With the basic question of metaphysics “Why are there beings at all rather than nothing,” our question implies beings have a “why,” a ground that is not just a cause in the ordinary sense.  Moreover, we are not just asking after this or that being or the total collection of beings, but rather beings as ... (Part 4) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”

Angelus Silesius (wiki) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (wiki) A famous two-line verse by Angelus Silesius from his work Cherubinischer Wandersmann is titled “Ohne Warum” (“Without Why”).  The literal English translation is: “The rose is without why; it blooms because it blooms, It pays no attention to itself, nor asks if it is seen” Leibniz (1646–1716)—a contemporary ... (Part 3) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”

Heidegger raises the basic question of metaphysics of “why are their beings at all rather than nothing (Introduction to Metaphysics, 1)?”  Negatively, we see “to be a being” apparently excludes nothingness: entities “are” in some way or other: the tree, car, dream, hallucination, etc all “are” in some way or other rather than being nothing.  ... (Part 2) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”

I will be blogging my way through Martin Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics. This is one of the great works by an important 20th century philosopher. Philosophically, metaphysics is the study of ultimate reality—the fundamental nature of existence, being, and the world. While popular culture often treats it as “spooky physics” or quantum mysticism, the word ... (Part 1) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”

People forget Plato talks about parousia (παρουσία) in the relation of the eternal forms to the temporal. (1) Temporal Being is imitation (mimesis / μίμησις) of the extratemporal.(2) The extratemporal is the paradigm (paradeigma / παράδειγμα), and the temporal is the after-copy (eidolon / εἴδωλον).(3) The temporal participates (metexei / μετέχει) in the extratemporal (methexis ... Reflections on My Presentation on History Valley Podcast with Jacob Berman on Parousia and Domitian

The word parousia in the New Testament means the second coming of Christ. What is the etymology of parousia? In Plato’s Phaedo, parousia means presence, Beauty itself is present (parousia) incarnate in the beautiful thing. How do we get from the platonic Greek understanding of parousia as presence to the New Testament Greek usage as ... My Notes for Discussing the Parousia on History Valley Podcast Tomorrow with Jacob Berman

Josephus’s legacy is inherently complicated. To many of his contemporaries and later Jewish generations, he was branded a traitor and an opportunist who abandoned his people for Roman luxury. Paradoxically, his works were entirely ignored by ancient Jewish communities but painstakingly preserved by the Christian Church. This was because his writings offer crucial contextual background ... The New Testament and Josephus

Previously The Life and Times of the Apostle Paul Now, The death of John the Baptist is recorded both in the New Testament Gospels (Matthew and Mark) and by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in his work Antiquities of the Jews (Book 18, Chapter 5). While both sources agree that Herod Antipas executed John, they ... The Life and Death of John the Baptist

It’s the classic story: The Arch persecutor and enemy of the Christians Saul transforming to be their most powerful representative and advocate Paul (showing the power of the religion), indeed the prophesied one who would bring the message to the nations at the end of the age. If you were just making Paul up, this ... The Life and Times of the Apostle Paul

Previously Celebrating New Teachers: Education and Metaphysics with Squaring and Circling Now, The Unit: One of the big trends in differentiating instruction in elementary school education is Philosophy for Kids: This is a philosophy unit for gifted students grades 5-8, both in self-contained gifted classrooms and gifted students in community classrooms. I have taught grades ... It’s a New School Year! Here’s a Junior/Intermediate (gr 5 – 8) Gifted Student Creative/Critical Thinking Unit: Can Kids Do Philosophy?