person-al being

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Today offers a set of sprouts (brief topics) about ways of which We are “human” and beyond, following July’s first sprout: short “personity.”

My discussion may seem technical, or even tedious, instead of engaging. Sorry. It provides a sense of being which is beyond mystifications by scholars who secretly wish to do theology in a new key: exalted “Being” as some great mystery beyond us.

No. Science, humaniies, and conceptual arts are sufficient windows into Our evolving.

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a note on thinking

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You, too, can be modeled as an A.I. neo-animal

When Heidegger gave his lecture course on thinking in the mid-‘50s, he was far beyond Analytical philosophy's implicit anticipation of A.I.

This discussion offers a short philosophical appreciation of Heidegger’s analysis of existence as prescient philosophy of action. It would probably only interest an elderly academic philosopher.

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sunday school

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A scholar of philosophy, passing his 65th birthday, muses at an online forum about his recent hopes for that forum, his future plans, and expresses a sense of aging: “It is both funny and a bit scary that you are now older than most people you meet.”

When younger, I always expected to find new perspectives (on a given topic) beyond mine, enlightening and inspiring me, because others had been on that important road longer. I’m no leading light in the cosmos.

summer 2025

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“Let’s clear thinking” is another side trek into others’ mistaken senses of Heidegger, today about mistaking his concern for effective teaching as being about himself.

Philosophy values de-congestion of thinking which may importantly (for a life) clear paths toward new insights.

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July 27

“From unconcealment to mysteries of being” offers a sense of engaged being in the real world, echoing Heidegger’s in-the-world-being, which is no mere state of mind, rather one’s fidelity to there being care for there being practical need.

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