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My bad. You're right, but focus on what I unpacked on presence/absence. It won't help though because there is too much to unpack here in the forum to get what I'm trying to capture. My fault, not yours. Yeah that sounds like BS, unless he's trying to say that our knowledge of death somehow taints o...

You wrote: 'What makes you think I never read it and merely think it's hogwash!'

My bad again, I didn't realize you had read it.

I'm curious to know why you think its hogwash? What was he trying to get across?

My bad. You're right, but focus on what I unpacked on presence/absence. It won't help though because there is too much to unpack here in the forum to get what I'm trying to capture. My fault, not yours.

Hi Sphere, I wrote: 'Being in the world,' roughly designates 'presence.' But as Heidegger goes on to argue, this presence is conditioned by its absence: death, and, moreover, it is something that we do not encounter, it is always part of our 'being in the world.' And you responded: 'Going to die&quo...

I disagree, how can one know of something and it be hidden from them at the same time? Don't get me wrong, just like the 'fore-structure' - its historicity, wasn't built in a day, neither is its dissolution. All I'm saying is that it's possible if one wants to, and therefore free will can be realiz...

That's exactly what I said, but as we understand this we then have the potential to dissolve it! Sphere, I like your suggestion and agree with it somewhat. Just generally from what I can remember of 'fore-structure,' it is something that is hidden. So you don't necessarily get to know it because it...

Hanuman, I think you are very insightful and thank you for sharing your thoughts. From what you wrote it sounds like Heidegger's hermeneutical horizon, which roughly means we are conditioned by historicity so that when we understand or interpret/choose/react etc. we do so because of our previous 'fo...

It's sad to see you leave this thread, Barbara. Please know I appreciated what you wrote.

Yes, no need to unpack why!