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There is a way to view Heidegger's Being as the single substance of double-aspect theory. In this case the it is not mathematics or information; it is quite indeterminate and impervious to conditioni …

If you think events could not have happened otherwise, and every choice made by the flip of a coin was nevertheless determined, you are in a world of universal determinism, or predestination. While it …

To elaborate on Kant's view, in the following quote Heidegger develops Thomas Aquinas' ontology through to Kant's. …

In Derrida's The Postcard, To Speculate--on "Freud", he refers to the Life Drive. This is the primal instinct that forms in every life form, and is so basic as to be deeply unconscious. Derrida arri …

Heidegger's existential ontology is concerned with 'the ontological difference', that is the difference between extant being such as that of a table, and existential being as experienced by a living person …

The existence of something is a purely human concept. What does it correspond to outside of human consciousness? The existence 'of something' can be produced, conceived or apprehended by a living, hum …

What you are describing as a class template is essence, and the base class template would be an essence without any predicates: pure nothing. This is, in circuitous fashion, what Heidegger says being …

Instinctive altruism is present, apparently in proportion to kin-relation nearness:- In The Selfish Gene, Dawkins states that kin selection makes sense once you understand that, ultimately, evol …

If we say the essence or concept of nothing is that it is totally without predicates, then we could say nothing exists as the subject of its concept. In conceptual terms that's quite tangible and ima …

The mode of being of a non-living object is referred to as being extant. To be extant means it has been observed (or deduced) by an existing, sentient observer. The difference between extantness and …

Heidegger describes an inversion of meaning of realitas objectiva from Descartes and Scholasticism to Kant and modernism (depending on your subscription), in The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Chapt …

I agree with Rex Kerr that "the issue mostly arises from having an insufficiently rich language". However, Kant went to lengths to resolve the issue by distinguishing the 'real' from the actual. For …

To avoid the infinite regress of things determining things it is necessary that the determining ground be not a thing. So what is a thing? In Kantian phenomenology a thing simply exists in the cogni …

The OP writes: So I can talk about now - in this room, ... But for distant places, which will be moving in some way [relative] to where I am here now, the concept of simultaneity fails? …

The greek word for nature, physis (ϕύσις), was defined by Aristotle as "a kind of being (ούςία). Specifically ... the production of itself, from out of itself, unto itself." So, in this manner of spe …