From: GEVANS613-AT-aol.com Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:34:32 EDT Subject: Dasein? 'Soul' with added Bells and Whistles Dasein? 'Dasein' = 'Soul' with Bells and Whistles. Faith in any revealed religion or political doctrine is a denial of reason, a clumsy self inflicted lobotomy to stop the rational mind from being truly human and is the opposite of using reason to discuss the philosophy, logic and evidence of religious or political ideas. Examples of not being truly human? Name any religious or political outrage you like modern or historical. The hallmark of not being truly human? Not to empathise with other humans, or to adhere to a doctrine which suppresses that empathetic tendency which sets us apart from the animals. The use of the term 'Dasein' to describe a human is a curious throwback to the times when human beings were described with the appellation 'soul.' 'The poor soul froze to death,' or "The ship went down with the loss of all souls,' or "What else is a poor soul expected to do?", etc. Dasein appears to be a curious mid-nineteenth version of 'soul'. which considering Heidegger's seminary background figures. The semantics of the word 'soul' is interesting too, for it means the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being, or a person's animate existence, the spiritual or emotional part of man. I don't think 'God' or 'religion' has anything to do with the way we appreciate music, art, moving experiences, etc. Atheists are equally moved and maybe even more, being emotionally unrestricted and untrammelled in the breadth of their emotional responses, and not so tightly focussed on one particualr Godhead or or intellectually cluttered with some imagined originating demiurgic cosmic artisan. Cheers, Jud. <A HREF="http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/ ">http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/</A> Jud Evans - ANALYTICAL INDICANT THEORY. <A HREF="http://uncouplingthecopula.freewebspace.com">http://uncouplingthecopula.freewebspace.com</A> --- StripMime Warning -- MIME attachments removed --- This message may have contained attachments which were removed. Sorry, we do not allow attachments on this list. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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