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Classic. Poor Heidegger!

lol, well I was being half facetious. I work for an organisation that supports the work of Catholic missionaries. It's a faith-based NGO. So I do work for the church in some way but not on the evangelical side of things.

I tried reading the Phenomenology of Spirit a couple months ago, 10-15 years after my first attempt. A few days of pain later: "Okay, I'll just rely on what the podcasts say" lmao.

I wonder why every strong protagonist of Nietzche ever has been INTJ :laughing:

Oh, that's a shame. Did he give any reasons?

Oh, right. Then I don't know what it would mean to have an 'objective' relationship with another human. It doesn't sound like something I would want.

Well, there is an argument for direct realism (John Searle would be a proponent) that claims we do see reality objectively. It is true that we have a certain way of seeing reality, i.e. an aspectual way, or reality-under-an-aspect. But aspectualism is compatible with objectivism. And most...

Well well, I now work for the church. ... The Catholic church. :m155:

I tend to gravitate towards phenomenologists that depart from the subject/object distinction. Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty as well (his phenomenology of embodiment is really intriguing). Husserl and Sartre still feel too Cartesian to me, though I'd take Husserl over Sartre any day.

I love Michael Sugrue -- I think I've literally watched all of his lectures and Darren Staloff's as well, lol. That said, I wonder if he's not being uncharitable to Heidegger. To claim that Heidegger's Being is close to the Christian God, when for Heidegger Being is historical, temporal, and...

Lmaooooo where do you even find these videos, Wy :tearsofjoy::laughing:

There are no words for how much I love this meme

The man had a gift for words, that's for sure