In-der-Blog-sein

Clark Goble over at Mormon Philosophy & Theology has posted some stimulating bits from The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic:

Originally I was just going to put up a few excerpts. But there's about six pages that are simply fantastic for discussion. Some of the terminology presupposes a bit of familiarity with Heidegger. But he's actually introducing here one of his more important concepts from this era, the for-the-sake-of. I've discussed that notion many times before, as I think it is one of the more valuable contributions Heidegger gives us.

I especially like this emphatic excerpt:

The world does not mean beings, neither individual objects nor the totality of objects standing opposite a subject. Whenever one wishes to express transcendence as a subject-object relation, especially as in the movement of philosophical realism, the claim is frequently made that the subject always already presupposes the “world” and, by this, one means objects that are. We maintain that this claim is far from even seeing the real phenomenon of transcendence and even further from saying anything about it.

Go read them all.  ¶ 8:15 PM