Sunday, July 28, 2013
New Blog on Beauty and Not Nothing!
Hi! I'm making this post just in case some people end up here. I don't want to drive you away by thinking that this blog is empty or it is a spam of some sort. It's still new so I'm working on the design, look and feel. Definitely soon you'll be seeing more stuff here-- I've already been cooking up a review post! Expect this blog to have musings on beauty, fashion and lifestyle. I will mostly be posting beauty reviews so it'll be very exciting! Hope to see you back here when this blog's been settled. Thank you!
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A student of existentialism might be surprised to find that the concept of "being" occupies a much more prominent position in Being and Nothingness than the concept of "existence". While this prominence fits the overal emphasis of phenomenological ontology on "what is" it is not immediately clear how it could be conducive for the aspired concreteness of existential analysis. Indeed, the word "being" in the sense of "whatever is" represents the most general meaning (like "thing") one can think of. But Sartre uses the term "being" predominantly in the distinctive sense of "what grounds" something (for instance, "the being of consciousness"). This is still a metaphysical usage (it is no coincidence that "being" has had such a long and rich metaphysical career), but Sartre had several good reasons to adopt this metaphysical terminology via German philosophy (Hegel and Heidegger). The most important one is that it was very helpul in avoiding the traditional Cartesian duality of subject and object. Once the ghost of dualism was averted it was possible to regard man as a concrete totality in the sense of "being-in-the-world".
A student of existentialism might be surprised to find that the concept of "being" occupies a much more prominent position in Being and Nothingness than the concept of "existence". While this prominence fits the overal emphasis of phenomenological ontology on "what is" it is not immediately clear how it could be conducive for the aspired concreteness of existential analysis. Indeed, the word "being" in the sense of "whatever is" represents the most general meaning (like "thing") one can think of. But Sartre uses the term "being" predominantly in the distinctive sense of "what grounds" something (for instance, "the being of consciousness"). This is still a metaphysical usage (it is no coincidence that "being" has had such a long and rich metaphysical career), but Sartre had several good reasons to adopt this metaphysical terminology via German philosophy (Hegel and Heidegger). The most important one is that it was very helpul in avoiding the traditional Cartesian duality of subject and object. Once the ghost of dualism was averted it was possible to regard man as a concrete totality in the sense of "being-in-the-world".
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