In-der-Blog-sein

Object-Oriented Philosophy on what makes humans different from other animals.

Even most panpsychists wouldn’t deny that human dealings with the world are of a vastly different kind from all others. That’s not in dispute. The dispute is over whether the human relation is so vastly different in kind from that of other entities that it deserves to be built into a basic ontological rift around which all else revolves.

And in fact, this is Heidegger’s weakest point as a philosopher, the point where he sees least clearly with his own eyes and merely adopts what the tradition of modern philosophy handed down to him. For he is never able to clarify adequately how Dasein’s relation to the world is different.

When I teach a parrot to ask: "Why is there something rather than nothing?", I'll name it Dasein.  ¶ 6:56 PM