From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com> Subject: Re: Being and Time-section one Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:37:02 -0800 Subject: RE: Being and Time-section one > Might we conflate being with consciousness? I don't believe so, but why not? Well there are other modes of being besides presence or awareness. These being 'retention' and 'protention'. If consciousness is being, there would be no 'anticipation' and how could 'memories' be recovered? Consciousness is solely a phenomenon of living things, specifically zoon <animals> and may be plants. A young child does conflate consciousness with Being. No doubt, but once there is 'symbolic' thought and reflection on causes, inferential wisdom, then it is likely that consciousness cannot exhaust the limits of being. john The to be, in as far as you see, makes seeing possible, by providing the self-showing of beings. But, you can yourself realize that there are vast areas which one never sees, because the to be still hides them from us. Gigantomachia peri tes ousias! Tudor Georgescu http://intellect-club.nl.eu.org Fax +1-775-245-5922 --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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