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What does Helmuth Plessner mean by : 'the human being is at a distance to her boundary'?
Plessner defines living organims in terms of a boundary between It and the environment.
http://helmuth-plessner.de/en/helmuth-plessner/denken/
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Is existence a feature of life? Can a stone exist without life to recognize it?
First of all I would like to make clear I am not an expert in philosophy.
With the question "Is existence a feature of life?" I mean the following: Could something exist without the presence of an ...
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Is there a philosophical conception of not necessarily biological life?
Biologists usually think of life in terms of the ability of a system to harness energy from the environment to grow and to reproduce. However in Stanislav Lem's book 'Solaris' there is a vivid ...
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Is happiness the coherence of belief and feeling?
I was thinking about addiction; I've enjoyed smoking for far too long. Seems to me that the "pleasure" of smoking actually has two aspects: the feeling; and the belief that you're doing the right ...
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Does Heidegger treat the word "life"?
I would like to know if there are some references in which heidegger treats the word life.
What does Heidegger say about life, and where?
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What are the counterarguments against abortions in rape cases to the Thomson paper?
Came here from Christianity StackExchange
"A Defense of Abortion" (Thomson):
You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with
an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious ...
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Should one prioritize other's life over his own?
Let's consider the following situation:
You are a teacher in a school. A serious fire breaks out in your classroom during your class. All of the students are able to get out except for your ...
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Is there a formal presentation of Maturana's "Autopoiesis"
I have been reading through "Autopoiesis and Cognition" by Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela. One of their goals in defining autopoiesis and the supporting concepts of simple and composite ...
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